Geothermal Steam Leasing: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Minerals, Materials, and Fuels of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session on S. 883 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - Geysers |
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acreage acres amended American Metal Climax application appropriate August 25 authority BERNFELD BOLEY brine byproducts Chairman Congress Desert Land Act development of geothermal drilled ERNEST GRUENING fair market value Federal lands Federal Power Commission field filed fish hatcheries FISHMAN fumaroles geothermal energy geothermal lease geothermal power geothermal resources geothermal steam leases geothermal water Grazing hearings heat hereunder hot springs industry Insular Affairs Interior and Insular Interior Department July lands administered lease or permit leases issued legislation lessee Magma magmatic water ment Mineral Leasing Act mining laws Nevada noncompetitive nonnavigable waters O'CALLAGHAN oil and gas operation percent placer mining potash produced proposal provides public domain public lands purposes pursuant reasonable regulations rentals rocks royalty Salton Sea Secretary Senator BIBLE Senator GRUENING Stat statement steam deposits subcommittee substitute bill surface tion U.S. Senate unappropriated United utilization Western Geothermal wildlife refuges withdrawn
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Page 27 - That the right to the use of water by the person so conducting the same on or to any tract of desert land of six hundred and forty acres shall depend upon bona fide prior appropriation; and such right shall not exceed the amount of water actually appropriated and necessarily used for the purpose of irrigation and reclamation...
Page 27 - That the President may, at any time in his discretion, temporarily withdraw from settlement, location, sale, or entry any of the public lands of the United States including the District of Alaska and reserve the same for waterpower sites, irrigation, classification of lands, or other public purposes to be specified in the orders of withdrawals, and such withdrawals or reservations shall remain in force until revoked by him or by an Act of Congress.
Page 79 - Whatever is recognized as a mineral by the standard authorities, whether metallic or other substance, when found in public lands in quantity and quality sufficient to render the lands valuable on account thereof, is treated as coming within the purview of the mining laws. Deposits of coal, oil, gas, oil shale, sodium, phosphate, potash, and in Louisiana and New Mexico sulphur, belonging to the United States, can be acquired under the mineral leasing laws, and are not subject to location and purchase...
Page 110 - The Secretary may waive, suspend, or reduce the rental or royalty for any lease or portion thereof in the interests of conservation and to encourage the greatest ultimate recovery of geothermal resources...
Page 70 - Lands withdrawn for powersite reserves under the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 847) as amended by the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 497...
Page 108 - That the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the Secretary...
Page 28 - ... of a mile of every spring or water hole located on unsurveyed public land be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, or entry, and reserved for public use in accordance with the provisions of section 10 of the act of December 29, 1916 (39 Stat. 865; 43 USC 300), and in aid of pending legislation.
Page 109 - Where the lands have been withdrawn in aid of a function of a Federal department or agency other than the department...
Page 110 - Upon its acceptance it shall be effective as of the date it is filed, subject to the continued obligation of the lessee and his surety to make payment of all accrued rentals and royalties, and to...
Page 164 - Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of water-power development, and for other beneficial public uses, including recreational purposes...