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pipeline rights- 

 of-way. 



Forfeiture of 

 grant. 



Filing of 

 lease, etc. 



Sums payable. 



(c) Rights-of-way through the submerged lands of the outer 

 Continental Shelf, whether or not such lands are included in a 

 lease maintained or issued pursuant to this Act, may be granted 

 by the Secretary for pipeline purposes for the transportation of 

 oil, natural gas, sulphur, or other mineral under such regulations 

 and upon such conditions as to the application therefor and the 

 survey, location and width thereof as may be prescribed by the 

 Secretary, and upon the express condition that such oil or gas 

 pipelines shall transport or purchase without discrimination, oil 

 or natural gas produced from said submerged lands in the vicinity 

 of the pipeline in such proportionate amounts as the Federal 

 Power GommiSiSion, in the case of gas, and the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission, in the case of oil, may, after a full hearing 

 with due notice thereof to the interested parties, determine to be 

 reasonable, taking into account, among other things, conservation 

 and the prevention of waste. Failure to comply with the provi- 

 sions of this section or the regulations and conditions prescribed 

 thereunder shall be ground for forfeiture of the grant in an 

 appropriate judicial proceeding instituted by the United States in 

 any United States district court having jurisdiction under the 

 provisions of section 4 (b) of this Act. 



Sec. 6. Maintenance of Leases on Outer Continental 

 Shelf. — (a) The provisions of this section shall apply to any 

 mineral lease covering submerged lands of the outer Continental 

 Shelf issued by any State (including any extension, renewal, or 

 replacement thereof heretofore granted pursuant to such lease or 

 under the laws of such State) if — 



(1) such lease, or a true copy thereof, is filed with the 

 Secretary by the lessee or his duly authorized agent within 

 ninety days from the effective date of this Act, or within 

 such period or periods as provided in section 7 hereof or as 

 may be fixed from time to time by the Secretary ; 



(2) such lease was issued prior to December 21, 1948, and 

 would have been on June 5, 1950, in force and effect in ac- 

 cordance with its terms and provisions and the law of the 

 State issuing it had the State had authority to issue such 

 lease; 



(3) there is filed with the Secretary, within the period 

 or periods specified in paragraph (1) of this subsection, (A) 

 a certificate issued by the State ofiicial or agency having 

 jurisdiction over such lease stating that it would have been 

 in force and effect as required by the provisions of paragraph 

 (2) of this subsection, or (B) in the absence of such certifi- 

 cate, evidence in the form of affidavits, receipts, canceled 

 checks, or other documents that may be required by the 

 Secretary, sufficient to prove that such lease would have been 

 so in force and effect ; 



(4), except as otherwise provided in section 7 hereof, all 

 rents, royalties, and other sums payable under such lease 

 between June 5, 1950, and the effective date of this Act, which 

 have not been paid in accordance with the provisions thereof, 

 or to the Secretary or to the Secretary of the Navy, are paid 

 to the Secretary within the i)eriod or i)eriods specified in 

 paragraph (1) of this subsection and all rents, royalties, and 

 other sums payable under such lease after the effective date 

 of this Act, are paid to the Secretary, who shall deposit such 

 payments in the Treasury in accordance with section 9 of this 

 Act; 



(5) the holder of such lease certifies that such lease shall 

 continue to be subject to the overriding royalty obligations 

 existing on the effective date of this Act ; 



(6) such lease was not obtained by fraud or misrepresenta- 

 tion ; 



(7) such lease, if issued on or after June 23, 1947, was 

 issued upon the basis of competitive bidding ; 



