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

Summary

Leases acquired before August 7, 1947 keep the rights they had under the law in effect when they were obtained. Applicants who on that date had pending oil-and-gas lease filings for land not then in a known producing field get priority without competitive bidding. Those leaseholders may exchange their old leases for new ones before they expire.

Title 30, §358

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Nothing in this chapter shall affect any rights acquired by any lessee of lands subject to this chapter under the law as it existed prior to August 7, 1947, and such rights shall be governed by the law in effect at the time of their acquisition; but any person qualified to hold a lease who, on August 7, 1947, had pending an application for an oil and gas lease for any lands subject to this chapter which on the date the application was filed was not situated within the known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field, shall have a preference right over others to a lease of such lands without competitive bidding. Any person holding a lease on lands subject hereto, which lease was issued prior to August 7, 1947, shall be entitled to exchange such lease for a new lease issued under the provisions of this chapter, at any time prior to the expiration of such existing lease.

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Outer Continental Shelf; Jurisdiction of United States; Validation of Prior LeasesJurisdiction of United States over outer Continental Shelf, grant of leases on submerged lands thereof, and validation of prior leases, see section 1331 et seq. of Title 43, Public Lands.

§358 Rights Under Prior Leases; Priority of Pending Applications; Exchange of Leases

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Title 30, §358

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