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 PUBLIC LAW 97-451—JAN. 12, 1983

96 STAT. 2461

REPORTS

SEC. 302. (a) The Secretary shall submit to the Congress an annual report on the implementation of this Act. The information to be included in the report and the format of the report shall be developed by the Secretary after consulting with the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives and on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. The Secretary shall also report on the progress of the Department in reconciling account balances. (b) Commencing with fiscal year 1984, the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior shall conduct a biennial audit of the Federal royalty management system. The Inspector General shall submit the results of such audit to the Secretary and to the Congress.

Submittal to Congress. 30 USC 1752.

Biennial audit, submittal to Secretary and Congress.

STUDY OF OTHER MINERALS

SEC. 303. (a) The Secretary shall study the question of the adequacy of royalty management for coal, uranium and other energy and nonenergy minerals on Federal and Indian lands. The study shall include proposed legislation if the Secretary determines that such legislation is necessary to ensure prompt and proper collection of revenues owed to the United States, the States and Indian tribes or Indian allottees from the sale, lease or other disposal of such minerals. (b) The study required by subsection (a) of this section shall be submitted to Congress not later than one year from the date of the enactment of this Act.

30 USC 1752 note.

Submittal to Congress.

RELATION TO OTHER LAWS

SEC. 304. (a) The penalties and authorities provided in this Act are supplemental to, and not in derogation of, any penalties or authorities contained in any other provision of law. (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to reduce the responsibilities of the Secretary to ensure prompt and proper collection of revenues from coal, uranium and other energy and nonenergy minerals on Federal and Indian lands, or to restrain the Secretary from entering into cooperative agreements or other appropriate arrangements with States and Indian tribes to share royalty management responsibilities and activities for such minerals under existing authorities. (c) Except as expressly provided in subsection 302(b), nothing in this Act shall be construed to enlarge, diminish, or otherwise affect the authority or responsibility of the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior or of the Comptroller General of the United States. (d) No provision of this Act impairs or affects lands and interests in land entrusted to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

30 USC 1753.

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EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 305. The provisions of this Act shall apply to oil and gas leases issued before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act, except that in the case of a lease issued before such date, no

30 USC 1701 note.

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