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§1732 Cooperative Agreements

Title 30 › Chapter 29— OIL AND GAS ROYALTY MANAGEMENT › Subchapter II— STATES AND INDIAN TRIBES › § 1732

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may make cooperative agreements with a State or an Indian tribe to share oil and gas royalty records and to help with inspections, audits, investigations, and enforcement work. This does not include collecting royalties, civil or criminal penalties, or other payments. The Secretary must not make an agreement with a State for work on Indian lands unless the Indian tribe agrees. Except as provided in section 1733, under a cooperative agreement a State can ask for all royalty accounting records the Secretary has for federal leases in that State, and an Indian tribe can ask for all such records for its Indian lands. Agreements must follow chapter 63 of title 31 and include terms the Secretary finds proper, including limiting federal funds to costs directly needed for the agreed work.

Full Legal Text

Title 30, §1732

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(a)The Secretary is authorized to enter into a cooperative agreement or agreements with any State or Indian tribe to share oil or gas royalty management information, to carry out inspection, auditing, investigation or enforcement (not including the collection of royalties, civil or criminal penalties or other payments) activities under this chapter in cooperation with the Secretary, and to carry out any other activity described in section 1718 of this title. The Secretary shall not enter into any such cooperative agreement with a State with respect to any such activities on Indian lands, except with the permission of the Indian tribe involved.
(b)Except as provided in section 1733 of this title, and pursuant to a cooperative agreement—
(1)each State shall, upon request, have access to all royalty accounting information in the possession of the Secretary respecting the production, removal, or sale of oil or gas from leases on Federal lands within the State; and
(2)each Indian tribe shall, upon request, have access to all royalty accounting information in the possession of the Secretary respecting the production, removal, or sale of oil or gas from leases on Indian lands under the jurisdiction of such tribe.
(c)Any cooperative agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall be in accordance with the provisions of chapter 63 of title 31, and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Secretary deems appropriate and consistent with the purposes of this chapter, including, but not limited to, a limitation on the use of Federal assistance to those costs which are directly required to carry out the agreed upon activities.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification In subsec. (c), “chapter 63 of title 31” substituted for “the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which Act enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Applicability Pub. L. 104–185, § 8(a), Aug. 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1717, provided that: “With respect to Federal lands, section 202 and 307 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1732 and 1755), are no longer applicable. The applicability of those sections to Indian leases is not affected.”

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Citation

30 U.S.C. § 1732

Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60