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[CITE: 10USC7431]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                  CHAPTER 641--NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES
 
Sec. 7431. Requirements as to consultation and approval

    (a) The Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee 
on Armed Services of the House of Representatives must be consulted and 
the President's approval must be obtained before any condemnation 
proceedings may be started under this chapter and before any of the 
following transactions authorized by this chapter may be effective:
        (1) A lease of any part of the naval petroleum reserves.
        (2) A contract to alienate from the United States the use, 
    control, or possession of any part of the naval petroleum reserves 
    (except that consultation and Presidential approval are not required 
    in connection with the issuance of permits, licenses, easements, 
    grazing and agricultural leases, rights-of-way, and similar 
    contracts pertaining to use of the surface area of the naval 
    petroleum reserves).
        (3) A contract to sell the petroleum (other than royalty oil and 
    gas) produced from any part of the naval petroleum reserves.
        (4) A contract for conservation or for compensation for 
    estimated drainage.
        (5) An agreement to exchange land, the right to royalty 
    production, or the right to any money due the United States.

    (b)(1) During the period of production authorized by section 7422(c) 
of this title, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Armed 
Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House 
of Representatives any new plans or substantial amendments to ongoing 
plans for the exploration, development, and production of the naval 
petroleum reserves.
    (2) All plans or substantial amendments submitted to the Congress 
pursuant to this section shall contain a report by the Attorney General 
of the United States with respect to the anticipated effects of such 
plans or amendments on competition. Such plans or amendments shall not 
be implemented until sixty days after such plans or amendments have been 
submitted to such committees.
    (c) During the period of production authorized by section 7422(c) of 
this title, the Secretary shall submit annual reports as of the first 
day of the fiscal year to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate 
and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, and 
such committees shall cause such reports to be printed as a Senate or 
House document, as appropriate. The Secretary shall include in such 
reports, with respect to each naval petroleum reserve, an explanation in 
detail of the following:
        (1) The status of the exploration, development, and production 
    programs.
        (2) The production that has been achieved, including the 
    disposition of such production and the proceeds realized therefrom.
        (3) The status of pipeline construction and procurement and 
    problems related to the availability of transportation facilities.
        (4) A summary of future plans for exploration, development, 
    production, disposal, and transportation of the production from the 
    naval petroleum reserves.
        (5) Such other information regarding the reserve as the 
    Secretary deems appropriate.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 460; Pub. L. 87-796, Sec. 1(7), Oct. 
11, 1962, 76 Stat. 905; Pub. L. 94-258, title II, Sec. 201(12), Apr. 5, 
1976, 90 Stat. 311; Pub. L. 98-525, title XIV, Sec. 1405(52), Oct. 19, 
1984, 98 Stat. 2625; Pub. L. 99-145, title XIII, Sec. 1303(a)(25), Nov. 
8, 1985, 99 Stat. 740; Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title XV, 
Sec. 1502(a)(2), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 502; Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, 
title X, Sec. 1067(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 774.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7431..................................  34 U.S.C. 524 (1st proviso of 4th    Ju
ne 4, 1920, ch. 228 (4th par.,
                                         par.).                               1
st proviso, 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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                               Amendments

    1999--Subsecs. (a), (b)(1), (c). Pub. L. 106-65 substituted ``and 
the Committee on Armed Services'' for ``and the Committee on National 
Security''.
    1996--Subsecs. (a), (b)(1), (c). Pub. L. 104-106 substituted 
``Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on 
National Security of the House of Representatives'' for ``Committees on 
Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives''.
    1985--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 99-145 in pars. (1) to (3) substituted 
``The'' for ``the'' at beginning and periods for the semicolons at end, 
in par. (4) substituted ``A summary'' for ``a summary'' and a period for 
``; and'', and in par. (5) substituted ``Such'' for ``such''.
    1984--Subsecs. (b)(1), (c). Pub. L. 98-525 inserted ``of this 
title'' after ``section 7422(c)''.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-258 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), 
struck out ``or oil shale'' in pars. (1) and (2) before ``reserves'', 
struck out ``and oil shale'' in pars. (2) and (3), before ``reserves'' 
substituted ``petroleum (other than royalty oil and gas)'' for ``oil and 
gas (other than royalty oil and gas), oil shale, and products 
therefrom'' in par. (3), and added subsecs. (b) and (c).
    1962--Pub. L. 87-796 included oil shale reserves in cls. (1) and 
(2), inserted provisions in cl. (2) excepting consultation and 
Presidential approval in connection with issuance of permits, licenses, 
easements, grazing and agricultural leases, rights-of-way, and similar 
contracts pertaining to use of surface area of naval petroleum and oil 
shale reserves, and included oil shale, and products therefrom produced 
from any part of oil shale reserves.


  Contract for Studies of Potential Transfer Out of Federal Control of 
   Facilities and Functions at Elk Hills and Teapot Dome; Restrictions

    Pub. L. 101-45, title I, Sec. 501, June 30, 1989, 103 Stat. 103, 
provided that no funds appropriated or made available under Pub. L. 101-
45 or any other Act were to be used by the executive branch to contract 
with organizations outside Department of Energy to perform studies of 
potential transfer out of Federal ownership, management or control by 
sale, lease, or other disposition, in whole or in part, of facilities 
and functions of Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 (Elk Hills) and 
Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 3 (Teapot Dome), and prohibited 
negotiation of changes to unit plan contract with Chevron which governed 
operation of Elk Hills, where purpose of changes was to prepare for 
divestiture of the Reserve, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104-134, title I, 
Sec. 101(c) [title II], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321-156, 1321-187; 
renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104-140, Sec. 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 
1327.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7430 of this title; title 43 
section 1601.
