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title: "30 U.S.C. § 191a"
description: "Late payment charges under Federal mineral leases"
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title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
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chapter_name: "LEASES AND PROSPECTING PERMITS"
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# 30 U.S.C. § 191a - Late payment charges under Federal mineral leases
## Text
(a) Distribution of late payment charges Any interest or other charges paid to the United States by reason of the late payment of any royalty, rent, bonus, or other amount due to the United States under any lease issued by the United States for the extraction of oil, gas, coal, or any other mineral, or for geothermal steam, shall be deposited in the same account and distributed to the same recipients, in the same manner, as such royalty, rent, bonus, or other amount.
(b) Effective date Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to any interest, or other charge referred to in subsection (a), which is paid to the United States on or after July 1, 1988.
(c) Prohibition against recoupment Any interest, or other charge referred to in subsection (a), which was paid to the United States before July 1, 1988, and distributed to any State or other recipient is hereby deemed to be authorized and approved as of the date of payment or distribution, and no part of any such payment or distribution shall be recouped from the State or other recipient. This subsection shall not apply to interest or other charges paid in connection with any royalty, rent, bonus, or other amount determined not to be owing to the United States.
(Pub. L. 100524, § 7, Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2607.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was enacted as part of the Congaree Swamp National Monument Expansion and Wilderness Act, and not as part of act Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, 41 Stat. 437, known as the Mineral Leasing Act, which com­prises this chapter.