---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3163.6"
title: "43"
number: "3163.6"
heading: "Injunction and specific performance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3163.6"
---

# §3163.6. Injunction and specific performance.

- (a) In addition to any other remedy under this part or any mineral leasing law, the Attorney General of the United States or his designee may bring a civil action in a district court of the United States to:
  - (1) Restrain any violation of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty and Management Act or any mineral leasing law of the United States; or
  - (2) Compel the taking of any action required by or under the Act or any mineral leasing law of the United States.
- (b) A civil action described in [paragraph (a)](#a) may be brought only in the United States district court of the judicial district wherein the act, omission or transaction constituting a violation under the Act or any other mineral leasing law occurred, or wherein the defendant is found or transacts business.

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 37368, Sept. 21, 1984]

### Authority

Authority: 25 U.S.C. 396d and 2107; 30 U.S.C. 189, 306, 359, and 1751; 43 U.S.C. 1732(b), 1733, 1740; and Sec. 107, Pub. L. 114-74, 129 Stat. 599, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 47 FR 47765, Oct. 27, 1982, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 48 FR 36583, Aug. 12, 1983.

### Amendments

[49 FR 37368, Sept. 21, 1984]