§1753 — Title 30 Mineral Lands and Mining | U.S. Code

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The penalties and powers in this chapter are extra and do not cancel or weaken penalties or powers in other laws. They do not reduce the Secretary’s duty to collect money from coal, uranium, and other minerals taken from Federal and Indian lands, and they do not stop the Secretary from making agreements with States or Indian tribes to share royalty work. They do not change the powers or duties of the Interior Department’s Inspector General or the Comptroller General. Nothing here affects land held by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Title 30, §1753

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(a)The penalties and authorities provided in this chapter are supplemental to, and not in derogation of, any penalties or authorities contained in any other provision of law.

(b)Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to reduce the responsibilities of the Secretary to ensure prompt and proper collection of revenues from coal, uranium and other energy and nonenergy minerals on Federal and Indian lands, or to restrain the Secretary from entering into cooperative agreements or other appropriate arrangements with States and Indian tribes to share royalty management responsibilities and activities for such minerals under existing authorities.

(c)Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to enlarge, diminish, or otherwise affect the authority or responsibility of the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior or of the Comptroller General of the United States.

(d)No provision of this chapter impairs or affects lands and interests in land entrusted to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

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1998—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–362 substituted “Nothing” for “Except as expressly provided in section 1752(b) of this title, nothing”.

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