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[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
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[CITE: 30USC304]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
CHAPTER 5--LEASE OF OIL AND GAS DEPOSITS IN OR UNDER RAILROADS AND OTHER 
                              RIGHTS-OF-WAY
 
Sec. 304. Provisions authorized in lease

    Any lease granted by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to this 
chapter may, in the discretion of said Secretary, contain a provision 
giving the lessee the right, with the approval of said Secretary, to 
shut down the operation of any well or wells the operation of which has 
become unprofitable, to resume operations when such resumption may 
result in profit, and to abandon any well or wells that cease to produce 
oil and/or gas in paying quantities.

(May 21, 1930, ch. 307, Sec. 4, 46 Stat. 374.)
