Natural Resources Conservation Act

Summary

National Resources Conservation Act - Stipulates that the laws of the several States providing for the conservation of natural resources and all valid regulations issued pursuant to such laws shall apply, without discrimination, to all lands of the United States situated within the boundaries of each State, as well as the subsoil and seabed of the Outer Continental Shelf contiguous to the boundaries of each State. Authorizes the United States district courts to have original jurisdiction of cases and controversies arising out of or in connection with any operations conducted on the Outer Continental Shelf. States that, with respect to the enforcement of applicable State laws relating to conservation of natural resources, the State courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the United States district courts. Provides for a distribution of the rentals and royalties paid to the Secretary of the Navy under any lease on the Outer Continental Shelf. States that 37 1/2 percent of such sums shall be paid to the State adjacent to the Outer Continental Shelf lands on account of which said moneys were received and that the remaining 62 1/2 percent shall be distributed to the fifty States in the proportion that the population of each State bears to the aggregrate population of all the States. Provides, under the Mineral Leasing Act, that 60 percent of all money received from sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals of public lands under the provisions of the Act shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the State or territory within the boundaries of which the leased lands or deposits were located.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 11 January 1973

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