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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 181. Lands subject to disposition; persons entitled to benefits; reciprocal privileges; helium rights reserved
Deposits of coal, phosphate, sodium, potassium, oil, oil shale,
gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons), or gas, and
lands containing such deposits owned by the United States,
including those in national forests, but excluding lands acquired
under the Appalachian Forest Act, approved March 1, 1911 (36 Stat.
961), and those in incorporated cities, towns, and villages and in
national parks and monuments, those acquired under other Acts
subsequent to February 25, 1920, and lands within the naval
petroleum and oil-shale reserves, except as hereinafter provided,
shall be subject to disposition in the form and manner provided by
this chapter to citizens of the United States, or to associations
of such citizens, or to any corporation organized under the laws of
the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, or in the
case of coal, oil, oil shale, or gas, to municipalities. Citizens
of another country, the laws, customs, or regulations of which deny
similar or like privileges to citizens or corporations of this
country, shall not by stock ownership, stock holding, or stock
control, own any interest in any lease acquired under the
provisions of this chapter.
The term "oil" shall embrace all nongaseous hydrocarbon
substances other than those substances leasable as coal, oil shale,
or gilsonite (including all vein-type solid hydrocarbons).
The term "combined hydrocarbon lease" shall refer to a lease
issued in a special tar sand area pursuant to section 226 of this
title after November 16, 1981.
The term "special tar sand area" means (1) an area designated by
the Secretary of the Interior's orders of November 20, 1980 (45 FR
76800-76801) and January 21, 1981 (46 FR 6077-6078) as containing
substantial deposits of tar sand.
The United States reserves the ownership of and the right to
extract helium from all gas produced from lands leased or otherwise
granted under the provisions of this chapter, under such rules and
regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the
Interior: Provided further, That in the extraction of helium from
gas produced from such lands it shall be so extracted as to cause
no substantial delay in the delivery of gas produced from the well
to the purchaser thereof.
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