---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1753"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1753"
heading: "Relation to other laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1753"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management"
  - "Subchapter III — General Provisions"
---

# §1753. Relation to other laws

- (a) **Supplemental nature of chapter—** The [penalties](/usc/30/1702.md?p=29) and authorities provided in this chapter are supplemental to, and not in derogation of, any [penalties](/usc/30/1702.md?p=29) or authorities contained in any other provision of law.
- (b) **Responsibilities of Secretary related to minerals on Federal and Indian lands—** Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to reduce the responsibilities of the [Secretary](/usc/30/1702.md?p=15) to ensure prompt and proper collection of revenues from coal, uranium and other energy and nonenergy minerals on Federal and [Indian lands](/usc/30/1702.md?p=3), or to restrain the [Secretary](/usc/30/1702.md?p=15) from entering into cooperative agreements or other appropriate arrangements with [States](/usc/30/1702.md?p=16) and [Indian tribes](/usc/30/1702.md?p=4) to share [royalty](/usc/30/1702.md?p=14) management responsibilities and activities for such minerals under existing authorities.
- (c) **Authority and responsibilities of Inspector General and Comptroller General unaffected—** Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to enlarge, diminish, or otherwise affect the authority or responsibility of the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior or of the Comptroller General of the [United States](/usc/30/1702.md?p=33).
- (d) **Lands and land interests entrusted to Tennessee Valley Authority unaffected—** No provision of this chapter impairs or affects lands and interests in land entrusted to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–451, title III, § 304, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2461; Pub. L. 105–362, title IX, § 901(j)(2), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3290.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1998—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–362 substituted “Nothing” for “Except as expressly provided in section 1752(b) of this title, nothing”.