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30 U.S.C. § 226c — Reduction of royalties under existing leases
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From and after August 8, 1946, the royalty obligation to the United States under all leases requiring payment of royalty in excess of 12½ per centum, except leases issued or to be issued upon competitive bidding, is reduced to 12½ per centum in amount or value of production removed or sold from said leases as to (1) such leases, or such part of the lands subject thereto, and the deposits underlying the same, as are not believed to be within the productive limits of any oil or gas deposit, as such productive limits are found by the Secretary to exist on August 8, 1946, and (2) any production on a lease from an oil or gas deposit which was discovered after May 27, 1941, by a well or wells drilled within the boundaries of the lease, and which is determined by the Secretary to be a new deposit; and (3) any production on or allocated to a lease pursuant to an approved unit or cooperative agreement from an oil or gas deposit which was discovered after May 27, 1941, on land committed to such agreement, and which is determined by the Secretary to be a new deposit, where such lease was included in such agreement at the time of discovery, or was included in a duly executed and filed application for the approval of such agreement at the time of discovery.
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From and after August 8, 1946, the royalty obligation to the United States under all leases requiring payment of royalty in excess of 12½ per centum, except leases issued or to be issued upon competitive bidding, is reduced to 12½ per centum in amount or value of production removed or sold from said leases as to (1) such leases, or such part of the lands subject thereto, and the deposits underlying the same, as are not believed to be within the productive limits of any oil or gas deposit, as such productive limits are found by the Secretary to exist on August 8, 1946, and (2) any production on a lease from an oil or gas deposit which was discovered after May 27, 1941, by a well or wells drilled within the boundaries of the lease, and which is determined by the Secretary to be a new deposit; and (3) any production on or allocated to a lease pursuant to an approved unit or cooperative agreement from an oil or gas deposit which was discovered after May 27, 1941, on land committed to such agreement, and which is determined by the Secretary to be a new deposit, where such lease was included in such agreement at the time of discovery, or was included in a duly executed and filed application for the approval of such agreement at the time of discovery.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Aug. 7, 1953, ch. 345, § 10, 67 Stat. 469, related to requirements for refund of excess payments.
#### Effective Date of Repeal
Pub. L. 104–185, § 8(b), Aug. 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 1717, provided in part that the repeal of this section is effective Aug. 13, 1996.
#### Applicability of Repeal
Repeal of section not applicable to any privately owned minerals or with respect to Indian lands, see sections 9 and 10 of Pub. L. 104–185, set out as an Applicability of 1996 Amendment note under [section 1701 of Title 30](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title30-section1701&num=0&edition=prelim), Mineral Lands and Mining.
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Deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, potassium, oil, oil shale, gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), or gas, and lands containing such deposits owned by the United States, including those in national forests, but excluding lands acquired under the Appalachian Forest Act, approved March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961), and those in incorporated cities, towns, and villages and in national parks and monuments, those acquired under other Acts subsequent to February 25, 1920, and lands within the naval petroleum and oil-shale reserves, except as hereinafter provided, shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by this chapter to citizens of the United States, or to associations of such citizens, or to any corporation organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, or in the case of coal, oil, oil shale, or gas, to municipalities. Citizens of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations of which deny similar or like privileges to citizens or corporations of this country, shall not by stock ownership, stock holding, or stock control, own any interest in any lease acquired under the provisions of this chapter.
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§§ 226a, 226b
1 See References in Text note below.
seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this
Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under sec-
tion 1001 of this title and Tables.
AMENDMENTS
1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–443, § 5(c)(1), inserted ‘‘or
under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970’’ after ‘‘under
this chapter’’ and directed that ‘‘oil and gas’’ be strick-
en which was executed by striking those words where
they appeared after ‘‘not issue any’’ in introductory
provisions, but not where they appeared in par. (3) as
the probable intent of Congress.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–443, § 5(c)(2), inserted ‘‘, coal,
oil shale, phosphate, potassium, sulphur, gilsonite or
geothermal resources’’ after ‘‘oil and gas’’.
§§ 226a, 226b. Repealed. Aug. 8, 1946, ch. 916, § 14,
60 Stat. 958
Section 226a, act July 8, 1940, ch. 548, 54 Stat. 742, re-
lated to lease of lands not within known productive
field. See section 226 of this title.
Section 226b, acts July 29, 1942, ch. 534, § 1, 56 Stat.
726; Dec. 22, 1943, ch. 376, 57 Stat. 608; Sept. 27, 1944, ch.
429, 58 Stat. 755; Nov. 30, 1945, ch. 495, 59 Stat. 587, re-
lated to preference right to new oil and gas lease upon
expiration of five-year non-competitive oil and gas
lease. See section 226 of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
SAVINGS PROVISION
See note set out under section 181 of this title.
§ 226c. Reduction of royalties under existing
leases
From and after August 8, 1946, the royalty ob-
ligation to the United States under all leases re-
quiring payment of royalty in excess of 121⁄2 per
centum, except leases issued or to be issued
upon competitive bidding, is reduced to 121⁄2 per
centum in amount or value of production
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