PUBLIC LAW 97-451—JAN. 12, 1983
96 STAT. 2449
ans, including the Metlakatla Indian Community of Annette Island Reserve, for which any land or interest in land is held by the United States in trust or which is subject to Federal restriction against alienation; (5) "lease" means any contract, profit-share arrangement, joint venture, or other agreement issued or approved by the United States under a mineral leasing law that authorizes exploration for, extraction of, or removal of oil or gas; (6) "lease site" means any lands or submerged lands, including the surface of a severed mineral estate, on which exploration for, or extraction or removal of, oil or gas is authorized pursuant to a lease; (7) "lessee" means any person to whom the United States, an Indian tribe, or an Indian allottee, issues a lease, or any person who has been assigned an obligation to make royalty or other payments required by the lease; (8) "mineral leasing law" means any Federal law administered by the Secretary authorizing the disposition under lease of oil or gas; (9) "oil or gas" means any oil or gas originating from, or allocated to, the Outer Continental Shelf, Federal, or Indian lands; (10) "Outer Continental Shelf has the same meaning as provided in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (Public Law 95-372);
(11) "operator" means any person, including a lessee, who has control of, or who manages operations on, an oil and gas lease site on Federal or Indian lands or on the Outer Continental Shelf; (12) "person" means any individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, or joint venture; (13) "production" means those activities which take place for the removal of oil or gas, including such removal, field operations, transfer of oil or gas off the lease site, operation monitoring, maintenance, and workover drilling; (14) "royalty" means any payment based on the value or volume of production which is due to the United States or an Indian tribe or an Indian allottee on production of oil or gas from the Outer Continental Shelf, Federal, or Indian lands, or any minimum royalty owed to the United States or an Indian tribe or an Indian allottee under any provision of a lease; (15) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior or his designee; and (16) "State" means the several States of the Union, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the territories and possessions of the United States, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
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TITLE I—FEDERAL ROYALTY MANAGEMENT AND ENFORCEMENT DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY
SEC. 101. (a) The Secretary shall establish a comprehensive inspec- Comprehensive tion, collection and fiscal and production accounting and auditing accounting and system to provide the capability to accurately determine oil and gas |J USC^ITH. royalties, interest, fines, penalties, fees, deposits, and other pay-
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