---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1751"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1751"
heading: "Secretarial authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1751"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management"
  - "Subchapter III — General Provisions"
---

# §1751. Secretarial authority

- (a) **Prescription of rules and regulations—** The [Secretary](/usc/30/1702.md?p=15) shall prescribe such rules and regulations as he deems reasonably necessary to carry out this chapter.
- (b) **Conformity with rulemaking provisions—** Rules and regulations issued to implement this chapter shall be issued in conformity with [section 553 of title 5](/usc/5/553.md), notwithstanding [section 553(a)(2)](/usc/30/553.md) of that title.
- (c) **Contracts with non-Federal Government inspectors, auditors, etc.; coordination of auditing and enforcement functions—** In addition to entering into cooperative agreements or delegation of authority authorized under this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/30/1702.md?p=15) may contract with such non-Federal Government inspectors, auditors, and other [persons](/usc/30/1702.md?p=12) as he deems necessary to aid in carrying out his functions under this chapter and its implementation. With respect to his auditing and enforcement functions under this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/30/1702.md?p=15) shall coordinate such functions so as to avoid to the maximum extent practicable, subjecting [lessees](/usc/30/1702.md?p=7), [operators](/usc/30/1702.md?p=11), or other [persons](/usc/30/1702.md?p=12) to audits or investigations of the same subject matter by more than one auditing or investigating entity at the same time.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 301, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2460.)