§ 188a. — Surrender of leases.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC188a]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3A--LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 188a. Surrender of leases
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept the surrender
of any lease issued pursuant to any of the provisions of this chapter,
or any amendment thereof, where the surrender is filed in the Bureau of
Land Management subsequent to the accrual but prior to the payment of
the yearly rental due under the lease, upon payment of the accrued
rental on a pro rata monthly basis for the portion of the lease year
prior to the filing of the surrender. The authority granted to the
Secretary of the Interior by this section shall extend only to cases in
which he finds that the failure of the lessee to file a timely surrender
of the lease prior to the accrual of the rental was not due to a lack of
reasonable diligence, but it shall not extend to claims or cases which
have been referred to the Department of Justice for purposes of suit.
(Nov. 28, 1943, ch. 329, 57 Stat. 593; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403,
eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41
Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this
chapter.
Transfer of Functions
``Bureau of Land Management'' substituted in text for ``General Land
Office'' on authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, Sec. 403, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
