---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1720a"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1720a"
heading: "Applicability of civil and criminal penalties to various uses of Federal or Indian lands and Outer Continental Shelf"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1720a"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Royalty Management and Enforcement"
---

# §1720a. Applicability of civil and criminal penalties to various uses of Federal or Indian lands and Outer Continental Shelf


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Sections[^1] 1719 and 1720[^2] of this title shall, for fiscal year 2010 and each fiscal year thereafter, apply to any [lease](/usc/30/1702.md?p=5) authorizing exploration for or development of coal, any other solid mineral, or any geothermal resource on any Federal or [Indian lands](/usc/30/1702.md?p=3) and any [lease](/usc/30/1702.md?p=5), easement, right of way, or other agreement, regardless of form, for use of the Outer Continental Shelf or any of its resources under sections [1337(k)](/usc/43/1337.md?p=k) and [1337(p)](/usc/43/1337.md?p=p) of title 43 to the same extent as if such [lease](/usc/30/1702.md?p=5), easement, right of way, or other agreement, regardless of form, were an oil and gas [lease](/usc/30/1702.md?p=5), except that in such cases the term “[royalty](/usc/30/1702.md?p=14) [payment](/usc/30/1702.md?p=28)” shall include any [payment](/usc/30/1702.md?p=28) required by such [lease](/usc/30/1702.md?p=5), easement, right of way or other agreement, regardless of form, or by applicable regulation.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should not be capitalized.
[^2]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–88, div. A, title I, § 114, Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2928.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Sections 1719 and 1720 of this title, referred to in text, was in the original “Sections 109 and 110 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act” and was translated as meaning sections 109 and 110 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010, and not as part of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 which comprises this chapter.