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PUBLIC LAW 8 5 - 5 0 5 - J U L Y 3, 1958
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(b) The term "Mineral Leasing Act" means the Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437; 30 U.S.C. 181, et seq.), and all Acts heretofore or hereafter enacted which are amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto; (c) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 2. All deposits of oil and gas owned or hereafter acquired by if/°b/e**°"" °^' the United States in lands beneath nontidal navigable waters in the Territory of Alaska, together with the lands containing those deposits, may be leased and otherwise administered, treated and dealt with by the Secretary under and pursuant to the provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act which are applicable to oil and gas deposits generally and the lands containing such deposits owned by the United States in the Territory of Alaska and all such provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act shall be applicable to deposits of oil and gas owned or hereafter acquired by the United States in lands beneath nontidal navigable waters in the Territory of Alaska, except as otherwise provided in this Act. SEC. 3. All moneys received from the sale of, or as bonus, royalty, use of moneys, and rental under, any lease issued pursuant to this Act shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States. As soon as practicable after December 31 and June 30 of each year the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay 90 per centum of such moneys to the Territory of Alaska, 371/^ per centum to be used for the construction and maintenance of public roads or for the support of public schools or other public educational institutions in such manner as the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska may direct, and 521^ per centum to be used for such purposes as the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska may direct. SEC. 4. Upon written application from any lessee or applicant or ^t^dlTii'^t'iTbfi offeror for lease hereunder the Secretary, unless a final determination waiter. "®^^^® has been previously made by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall determine whether any body of water, or any part of any body of water, is nontidal navigable waters in the Territory of Alaska as referred to in this Act, and shall determine and designate the line marking the mouth or mouths of any navigable stream. SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting existing ri^hts^.^'"^' **"' rights, or rights acquired in the future, under existing laws, executive withdrawals, or reservations, to take natural resources, including fish and wild game, from the waters above lands beneath nontidal navigable waters in the Territory of Alaska, nor shall anything in this Act interfere with the free and unimpeded navigation of those waters or navigational servitudes therein, but the existence of such rights, withdrawals, or reservations shall not preclude simultaneous and unimpeded operations under any lease issued pursuant to this Act. All operations under leases issued pursuant to this Act shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe for the prevention of injury to fish and game. SEC. 6. If any oil and gas lease issued for public land pursuant to Jplflf"43 7'^^** the Mineral Leasing Act (or any application or offer for such a lease 30 USC isi et of such land, which is pending on the date of this Act and subsequently ^^'^' becomes effective), embraces within the boundaries described in the lease (or application or offer) any lands beneath nontidal navigable waters in the Territory of Alaska not within any known geological structure of a producing oil or gas field on the date the application or offer for any such lease was filed with the Bureau of Land Management, the lessee (or applicant or offeror) shall, upon application filed while such lease (or application or offer) is still in effect but not more than one year after the date of approval of this Act and under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary, have a preference right to have included within such lease (or application or offer) such lands
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