Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 as Ammended

This document is part of the source library for NRGI's 2017 Resource Governance Index, a comprehensive measure of the quality of natural resource governance in oil, gas and mineral-rich countries. To access the full dataset and all other index resources, visit https://resourcegovernanceindex.org.

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Field Value
Sector Oil and Gas
Country United States
Year 2007
RGI Edition Year 2017
Topic Legislation and regulation, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data
Document Type Statute
RGI Sub-component Local impact
RGI Questions 1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?,
1.3.3b: Is there a requirement for environmental mitigation management plans to be publicly disclosed?,
1.3.5a: Do rules require the government to set penalties (i.e. fines, license suspension or license revocation) for non-compliance with environmental mitigation management plans?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring? Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice Law
Publisher Bureau of Land Management
Author Bureau of Land Management
Source or API link http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/wo/Communications_Directorate/legislation.Par.23212.File.dat/mla_1920_amendments1.pdf
Maintainer Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email Natural Resource Governance Institute