PUBLIC LAW 109–58—AUG. 8, 2005
119 STAT. 671
SEC. 234. DEPOSIT AND USE OF GEOTHERMAL LEASE REVENUES FOR 5 FISCAL YEARS.
42 USC 15873.
(a) DEPOSIT OF GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES LEASES.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts received by the United States in the first 5 fiscal years beginning after the date of enactment of this Act as rentals, royalties, and other payments required under leases under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970, excluding funds required to be paid to State and county governments, shall be deposited into a separate account in the Treasury. (b) USE OF DEPOSITS.—Amounts deposited under subsection (a) shall be available to the Secretary of the Interior for expenditure, without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, to implement the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 and this Act. (c) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—For the purposes of coordination and processing of geothermal leases and geothermal use authorizations on Federal land the Secretary of the Interior may authorize the expenditure or transfer of such funds as are necessary to the Forest Service. SEC. 235. ACREAGE LIMITATIONS.
Section 7 of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1006) is amended— (1) by striking ‘‘SEC. 7.’’, and by inserting immediately before and above the first paragraph the following: ‘‘SEC. 7. ACREAGE LIMITATIONS.’’;
(2) in the first paragraph— (A) by striking ‘‘two thousand five hundred and sixty acres’’ and inserting ‘‘5,120 acres’’; and (B) by striking ‘‘twenty thousand four hundred and eighty acres’’ and inserting ‘‘51,200 acres’’; and (3) by striking the second paragraph. SEC. 236. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.
The Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) is further amended as follows: (1) By striking ‘‘geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘geothermal resources’’. (2) Section 2 (30 U.S.C. 1001) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(g) ‘direct use’ means utilization of geothermal resources for commercial, residential, agricultural, public facilities, or other energy needs other than the commercial production of electricity; and’’. (3) Section 21 (30 U.S.C. 1020) is amended by striking ‘‘(a) Within one hundred’’ and all that follows through ‘‘(b) Geothermal’’ and inserting ‘‘Geothermal’’. (4) The first section (30 U.S.C. 1001 note) is amended by striking ‘‘That this’’ and inserting the following:
30 USC 1001, 1002, 1005, 1020, 1022, 1024–1026.
‘‘SEC. 1. SHORT TITLE.
‘‘This’’. (5) Section 2 (30 U.S.C. 1001) is amended by striking ‘‘SEC. 2. As’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘As’’.
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