Chapter 25. To grant extensions of time on oil and gas prospecting permits
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CHAP. 25.— An Act To grant extensions of time on oil and gas prospecting permits. January 23, 1930.[[S. 1752](/us/bill/71/s/1752).][[Public, No. 35](/us/pl/71/35).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Public lands.Oil and gas permittees granted further time for drilling, etc.Vol. 41, p. 437; Vol. 42, p. 356; Vol. 44, p. 236; Vol. 45, p. 252. That any oil or gas prospecting permit issued under the Act of February 25, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes, page 437), or extended under the Act of January 11, 1922 (Forty-second Statutes, page 356), or as further extended under the Acts of April 5, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes, page 236), and March 9, 1928 (Forty-fifth Statutes, page 252), may be extended by the Secretary of the Interior for an additional period of three years in his discretion on such conditions as he may prescribe. 59 Sec. 2.
Upon, application to the Secretary of the Interior, andExtension of expired permits. subject to valid intervening rights and to the provisions of section 1 of this Act, any permit which has already expired because of lack of authority under existing law to make further extensions, may be extended for a period of three years from the date of this Act. Approved, January 23, 1930.