---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1025"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1025"
heading: "Federal reservation of certain mineral rights"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1025"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Geothermal Resources"
---

# §1025. Federal reservation of certain mineral rights


The United States reserves the ownership of and the right to extract under such rules and regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/30/1001.md?p=a) may prescribe oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium from all [geothermal resources](/usc/30/1001.md?p=c) produced from lands leased under this chapter in accordance with presently applicable laws: Provided, That whenever the right to extract oil, hydrocarbon gas, and helium from [geothermal resources](/usc/30/1001.md?p=c) produced from such lands is exercised pursuant to this section, it shall be exercised so as to cause no substantial interference with the production of [geothermal resources](/usc/30/1001.md?p=c) from such lands.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–581, § 27, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1574; Pub. L. 109–58, title II, § 236(1), (25), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 671, 673.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2005—Pub. L. 109–58 inserted section catchline and substituted “geothermal resources” for “geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources” wherever appearing in text.