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[CITE: 30USC359]

 
                   TITLE 30--MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
 
       CHAPTER 7--LEASE OF MINERAL DEPOSITS WITHIN ACQUIRED LANDS
 
Sec. 359. Rules and regulations

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe such rules 
and regulations as are necessary and appropriate to carry out the 
purposes of this chapter, which rules and regulations shall be the same 
as those prescribed under the mineral leasing laws to the extent that 
they are applicable.

(Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, Sec. 10, 61 Stat. 915.)

                       References in Text

    For definition of ``mineral leasing laws'', see section 351 of this 
title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations 
under this chapter relating to fostering of competition for Federal 
leases, implementation of alternative bidding systems authorized for 
award of Federal leases, establishment of diligence requirements for 
operations conducted on Federal leases, setting of rates for production 
of Federal leases, and specifying of procedures, terms, and conditions 
for acquisition and disposition of Federal royalty interests taken in 
kind, transferred to Secretary of Energy by section 7152(b) of Title 42, 
The Public Health and Welfare. Section 7152(b) of Title 42 was repealed 
by Pub. L. 97-100, title II, Sec. 201, Dec. 23, 1981, 95 Stat. 1407, and 
functions of Secretary of Energy returned to Secretary of the Interior. 
See House Report No. 97-315, pp. 25, 26, Nov. 5, 1981.
