---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1722"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1722"
heading: "Injunction and specific enforcement authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1722"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Royalty Management and Enforcement"
---

# §1722. Injunction and specific enforcement authority

- (a) **Civil action by Attorney General—** In addition to any other remedy under this chapter or any [mineral leasing law](/usc/30/1702.md?p=8), the Attorney General of the [United States](/usc/30/1702.md?p=33) or his [designee](/usc/30/1702.md?p=24) may bring a civil action in a district court of the [United States](/usc/30/1702.md?p=33), which shall have jurisdiction over such actions—
  - (1) to restrain any violation of this chapter; or
  - (2) to compel the taking of any action required by or under this chapter or any [mineral leasing law](/usc/30/1702.md?p=8) of the [United States](/usc/30/1702.md?p=33).
- (b) **Venue—** A civil action described in [subsection (a)](#a) may be brought only in the [United States](/usc/30/1702.md?p=33) district court for the judicial district wherein the act, omission, or transaction constituting a violation under this chapter or any other [mineral leasing law](/usc/30/1702.md?p=8) occurred, or wherein the defendant is found or transacts business.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 112, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2456.)