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[CITE: 10USC7428]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                  CHAPTER 641--NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES
 
Sec. 7428. Agreements and leases: provision for change

    Every unit or cooperative plan of development and operation and 
every lease affecting lands owned by the United States within Naval 
Petroleum Reserve Numbered 2 and the oil shale reserves shall contain a 
provision authorizing the Secretary, subject to approval by the 
President and to any limitation in the plan or lease, to change from 
time to time the rate of prospecting and development on, and the 
quantity and rate of production from, lands of the United States under 
the plan or lease, notwithstanding any other provision of law.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 460; Pub. L. 87-796, Sec. 1(5), Oct. 
11, 1962, 76 Stat. 905; Pub. L. 94-258, title II, Sec. 201(9), Apr. 5, 
1976, 90 Stat. 309; Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [div. C, title XXXIV, 
Sec. 3402(b)(2)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-484.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7428..................................  34 U.S.C. 524 (proviso of 6th        Ju
ne 4, 1920, ch. 228 (6th par.,
                                         par.).                               p
roviso, of amended 3d and 4th
                                                                              p
rovisos), 41 Stat. 813; June 30,
                                                                              1
938, ch. 851, Sec.  1, 52 Stat.
                                                                              1
252; June 17, 1944, ch. 262, 58
                                                                              S
tat. 282.
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    The words ``entered into after July 1, 1937'' and ``entered into 
subsequent to July 1, 1937'' are omitted as surplusage. The words ``in 
his discretion'' are omitted as surplusage.


                               Amendments

    2000--Pub. L. 106-398 struck out ``, except a plan authorized by 
section 7426 of this title,'' after ``development and operation''.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-258 substituted ``within Naval Petroleum Reserve 
Numbered 2 and the oil shale reserves shall contain a provision 
authorizing the Secretary'' for ``within the naval petroleum and oil 
shale reserves shall contain a provision authorizing the Secretary of 
the Navy''.
    1962--Pub. L. 87-796 included leases affecting lands within oil 
shale reserves.

                         Delegation of Functions

    Functions of the President under this section were delegated to the 
Secretary of Energy by Ex. Ord. No. 12929, Sept. 29, 1994, 59 F.R. 
50473, set out as a note under section 7427 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 43 section 1601.
