§ 189. — Rules and regulations; boundary lines; State rights unaffected; taxation.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 30USC189]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3A--LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 189. Rules and regulations; boundary lines; State rights
unaffected; taxation
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe necessary
and proper rules and regulations and to do any and all things necessary
to carry out and accomplish the purposes of this chapter, also to fix
and determine the boundary lines of any structure, or oil or gas field,
for the purposes of this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall be
construed or held to affect the rights of the States or other local
authority to exercise any rights which they may have, including the
right to levy and collect taxes upon improvements, output of mines, or
other rights, property, or assets of any lessee of the United States.
(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, Sec. 32, 41 Stat. 450.)
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations
under this chapter relating to fostering of competition for Federal
leases, implementation of alternative bidding systems authorized for
award of Federal leases, establishment of diligence requirements for
operations conducted on Federal leases, setting of rates for production
of Federal leases, and specifying of procedures, terms, and conditions
for acquisition and disposition of Federal royalty interests taken in
kind, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42,
The Public Health and Welfare. Section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed
by Pub. L. 97-100, title II, Sec. 201, Dec. 23, 1981, 95 Stat. 1407, and
functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior.
See House Report No. 97-315, pp. 25, 26, Nov. 5, 1981.
Outer Continental Shelf; Rules and Regulations With Respect to Leases
Rules and regulations with respect to mineral leases on submerged
lands of outer Continental Shelf to be prescribed by Secretary of the
Interior, see section 1334 of Title 43, Public Lands.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 275, 285 of this title;
title 10 sections 7421, 7435.
