§ 191a. — Late payment charges under Federal mineral leases.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 30USC191a]
TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 3A--LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 191a. Late payment charges under Federal mineral leases
(a) Distribution of late payment charges
Any interest or other charges paid to the United States by reason of
the late payment of any royalty, rent, bonus, or other amount due to the
United States under any lease issued by the United States for the
extraction of oil, gas, coal, or any other mineral, or for geothermal
steam, shall be deposited in the same account and distributed to the
same recipients, in the same manner, as such royalty, rent, bonus, or
other amount.
(b) Effective date
Subsection (a) of this section shall apply with respect to any
interest, or other charge referred to in subsection (a) of this section,
which is paid to the United States on or after July 1, 1988.
(c) Prohibition against recoupment
Any interest, or other charge referred to in subsection (a) of this
section, which was paid to the United States before July 1, 1988, and
distributed to any State or other recipient is hereby deemed to be
authorized and approved as of the date of payment or distribution, and
no part of any such payment or distribution shall be recouped from the
State or other recipient. This subsection shall not apply to interest or
other charges paid in connection with any royalty, rent, bonus, or other
amount determined not to be owing to the United States.
(Pub. L. 100-524, Sec. 7, Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2607.)
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Congaree Swamp National Monument
Expansion and Wilderness Act, and not as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch.
85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which comprises this
chapter.
