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§1720a Applicability of Civil and Criminal Penalties to Various Uses of Federal or Indian Lands and Outer Continental Shelf

Title 30 › Chapter 29— OIL AND GAS ROYALTY MANAGEMENT › Subchapter I— FEDERAL ROYALTY MANAGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT › § 1720a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Starting in fiscal year 2010 and every year after, certain civil and criminal penalty rules in the law must apply to leases that allow exploration or development of coal, other solid minerals, or geothermal energy on Federal or Indian lands. The same rules must also apply to any lease, easement, right-of-way, or other agreement for using the Outer Continental Shelf under 43 U.S.C. 1337(k) and 1337(p), and those agreements will be treated the same as oil and gas leases. When the rules refer to "royalty payment," that phrase also includes any payment the lease, agreement, or applicable regulation requires.

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Title 30, §1720a

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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, section 11 So in original. Probably should not be capitalized. 1719 and 1720 22 See References in Text note below. of this title shall, for fiscal year 2010 and each fiscal year thereafter, apply to any lease authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or any geothermal resource on any Federal or Indian lands and any lease, easement, right of way, or other agreement, regardless of form, for use of the Outer Continental Shelf or any of its resources under section 1337(k) and 1337(p) of title 43 to the same extent as if such lease, easement, right of way, or other agreement, regardless of form, were an oil and gas lease, except that in such cases the term “royalty payment” shall include any payment required by such lease, easement, right of way or other agreement, regardless of form, or by applicable regulation.

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section 1719 and 1720 of this title, referred to in text, was in the original “section 109 and 110 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act” and was translated as meaning section 109 and 110 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010, and not as part of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 which comprises this chapter.

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30 U.S.C. § 1720a

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60