---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 302"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "302"
heading: "Assignment of lease; subletting"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/302"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Lease of Oil and Gas Deposits in or under Railroads and Other Rights-Of-Way"
---

# §302. Assignment of lease; subletting


The right conferred by this chapter may, subject to the approval of the [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) of the Interior, be assigned or sublet by the owner thereof to any corporation, firm, association, or individual.


## Source credit

(May 21, 1930, ch. 307, § 2, 46 Stat. 373.)