Title 30, Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-102
§1025 Federal Reservation of Certain Mineral Rights
Title 30 › CHAPTER 23 — GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES › § 1025
Summary
The United States keeps ownership of any oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium that come out of geothermal resources on lands leased under this chapter. The Secretary can make rules for taking those substances under current law, and any taking must not seriously interfere with producing the geothermal resources.
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Title 30, §1025
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The United States reserves the ownership of and the right to extract under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium from all geothermal resources produced from lands leased under this chapter in accordance with presently applicable laws: Provided, That whenever the right to extract oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium from geothermal resources produced from such lands is exercised pursuant to this section, it shall be exercised so as to cause no substantial interference with the production of geothermal resources from such lands.
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Amendments
2005—Pub. L. 109–58 inserted section catchline and substituted “geothermal resources” for “geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources” wherever appearing in text.
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30 U.S.C. § 1025
Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102