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[CITE: 30USC1025]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
    CHAPTER 23--GEOTHERMAL STEAM AND ASSOCIATED GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES
 
Sec. 1025. Federal reservation of certain mineral rights; 
        extraction of minerals without substantial interference with 
        geothermal production
        
    The United States reserves the ownership of and the right to extract 
under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe oil, 
hydrocarbon gas, and helium from all geothermal steam and associated 
geothermal resources produced from lands leased under this chapter in 
accordance with presently applicable laws: Provided, That whenever the 
right to extract oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium from geothermal steam 
and associated geothermal resources produced from such lands is 
exercised pursuant to this section, it shall be exercised so as to cause 
no substantial interference with the production of geothermal steam and 
associated geothermal resources from such lands.

(Pub. L. 91-581, Sec. 27, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1574.)
