Title 30, Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-102

§1424 Monitoring of Activities of Licensees and Permittees

Title 30 › CHAPTER 26 — DEEP SEABED HARD MINERAL RESOURCES › SUBCHAPTER I — REGULATION OF EXPLORATION AND COMMERCIAL RECOVERY BY UNITED STATES CITIZENS › § 1424

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Every license and permit must say the licensee has to let the Administrator put federal officers or employees aboard any vessel used for exploration or commercial recovery. Those observers can watch activities as needed and report if they think the terms of the license or permit are being broken. The licensee must cooperate with those officers and must do environmental monitoring under the Administrator’s guidelines. The licensee must give the Administrator any information needed to assess environmental impacts and ways to reduce harm.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §1424

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Each license and permit issued under this subchapter shall require the licensee or permittee—

(1)to allow the Administrator to place appropriate Federal officers or employees as observers aboard vessels used by the licensee or permittee in exploration or commercial recovery activities (A) to monitor such activities at such time, and to such extent, as the Administrator deems reasonable and necessary to assess the effectiveness of the terms, conditions, and restrictions of the license or permit, and (B) to report to the Administrator whenever such officers or employees have reason to believe there is a failure to comply with such terms, conditions, and restrictions;

(2)to cooperate with such officers and employees in the performance of monitoring functions; and

(3)to monitor the environmental effects of the exploration and commercial recovery activities in accordance with guidelines issued by the Administrator and to submit such information as the Administrator finds to be necessary and appropriate to assess environmental impacts and to develop and evaluate possible methods of mitigating adverse environmental effects.

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Citation

30 U.S.C. § 1424

Title 30, Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102