---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 226–2"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "226–2"
heading: "Limitations for filing oil and gas contests"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/226-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 3A — Leases and Prospecting Permits"
  - "Subchapter IV — Oil and Gas"
---

# §226–2. Limitations for filing oil and gas contests


No action contesting a decision of the [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) involving any oil and gas lease shall be maintained unless such action is commenced or taken within ninety days after the final decision of the [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) relating to such matter. No such action contesting such a decision of the [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) rendered prior to September 2, 1960 shall be maintained unless the same be commenced or taken within ninety days after September 2, 1960.


## Source credit

(Feb. 25, 1920, ch. 85, § 42, as added Pub. L. 86–705, § 5, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 790.)