---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 306"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "306"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/306"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Lease of Oil and Gas Deposits in or under Railroads and Other Rights-Of-Way"
---

# §306. Rules and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/30/661.md?p=b-2) of the Interior is authorized and directed to adopt rules and regulations governing the exercise of the discretion and authority conferred by this chapter, which rules and regulations shall constitute a part of any application or lease hereunder.


## Source credit

(May 21, 1930, ch. 307, § 6, 46 Stat. 374.)