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Cancellation. 



Report to 

 Congress. 



War. 



National 

 defense areas. 



(i) The Secretary may cancel any lease obtained by fraud or 

 misrepresentation. 



(j) Any person complaining of a cancellation of a lease by the 

 Secretary may have the Secretary's action reviewed in the United 

 States District Court for the District of Columbia by filing a 

 petition for review within sixty days after the Secretary takes 

 such action. 



Sec. 9. Disposition of Revenues. — All rentals, royalties, and 

 other sums paid to the Secretary or the Secretary of the Navy 

 under any lease on the outer Continental Shelf for the period from 

 June 5, 1950, to date, and thereafter shall be deposited in the 

 Treasury of the United States and credited to miscellaneous 

 receipts. 



Sec. 10. Refunds. — (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection 

 (b) hereof, when it appears to the satisfaction of the Secretary 

 that any person has made a payment to the United States in 

 connection with any lease under this Act in excess of the amount 

 he was lawfully required to pay, such excess shall be repaid 

 without interest to such person or his legal representative, if a 

 request for repayment of such excess is filed with the Secretary 

 witihn two years after the making of the payment, or within ninety 

 days after the effective date of this Act. The Secretary shall 

 certify the amounts of all such repayments to the Secretary 

 of the Treasury, who is authorized and directed to make such 

 repayments out of any money in the special account established 

 under section 9 of this Act and to issue his warrant in settlement 

 thereof. 



(b) No refund of or credit for such excess payment shall be 

 made until after the expiration of thirty days from the date upon 

 which a report giving the name of the person to whom the refund 

 or credit is to be made, the amount of such refund or credit, and 

 a summary of the facts upon which the determination of the Secre- 

 tary was made is submitted to the President of the Senate and 

 the Speaker of the House of Representatives for transmittal to 

 the appropriate legislative committee of each body, respectively : 

 Provided, That if the Congress shall not be in session on the date 

 of such submission or shall adjourn prior to the expiration of 

 thirty days from the date of such submission, then such payment 

 or credit shall not be made until thirty days after the opening day 

 of the next succeeding session of Congress 



Sec. 11. Geological and Geophysical Explorations. — Any 

 agency of the United States and any person authorized by the 

 Secretary may conduct geological and geophysical explorations in 

 the outer Continental Shelf, which do not interfere with or 

 endanger actual operations under any lease maintained or 

 granted pursuant to this Act, and which are not unduly harmful to 

 aquatic life in such area. 



Sec. 12. Reseevations.— (a) The President of the United States 

 may, from time to time, withdraw from disposition any of the un- 

 leased lands of the outer Continental Shelf. 



(b) In time of war, or when the President shall so prescribe, the 

 United States shall have the right of first refusal to purchase at 

 the market price all or any portion of any mineral produced from 

 the outer Continental Shelf. 



(c) All leases issued under this Act, and leases, the mainte- 

 nance and operation of which are authorized under this Act, 

 shall contain or be construed to contain a provision whereby au- 

 thority is vested in the Secretary, upon a recommendation of the 



Secretary of Defense, during a state of war or national emergency 

 declared by the Congress or the President of the United States 

 after the effective date of this Act, to suspend operations under 

 any lease; and all such leases shall contain or be construed to 

 contain provisions for the payment of just compensation to the 

 lessee whose operations are thus suspended. 



(d) The United States reserves and retains the right to desig- 

 nate by and through the Secretary of Defense, with the approval 



