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of the President, as areas restricted from exploration and opera- 

 tion that part of the outer Continental Shelf needed for national 

 defense; and so long as such designation remains in effect no 

 exploration or operations may be conducted on any part of the 

 surface of such area except with the concurrence of the Secretary 

 of Defense ; and if operations or production under any lease there- 

 tofore issued on lands within any such restricted area shall be 

 suspended, any payment of rentals, minimum royalty, and royalty 

 prescribed by such lease likewise shall be suspended during such 

 period of suspension of operation and production, and the term of 

 such lease shall be extended by adding thereto any such suspen- 

 sion period, and the United States shall be liable to the leasee for 

 such compensation as is required to be paid under the Constitu- 

 tion of the United States. 



(e) All uranium, thorium, and all other materials determined 

 pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection (b) of section 5 of the 

 Atomic Energy Act of 1946, as amended, to be peculiarly essential 

 to the production of fissionable material, contained, in whatever 

 concentration, in deposits in the subsoil or seabed of the outer 

 Continental Shelf are hereby reserved for the use of the United 

 States. 



(f) The United States reserves and retains the ownership of 

 and the right to extract all helium, under such rules and regula- 

 tions as shall be prescribed by the Secretary, contained in gas 

 produced from any portion of the outer Continental Shelf which 

 may be subject to any lease maintained or granted pursuant to 

 this Act, but the helium shall be extracted from such gas as to 

 cause no substantial delay in the delivery of gas produced to the 

 purchaser of such gas. 



Sec. 13. Naval Petroleum Reserve Executive Order Re- 

 pealed. — Executive Order Numbered 10426, dated January 16, 

 1953, entitled "Setting Aside Submerged Lands of the Continental 

 Shelf as a Naval Petroleum Reserve", is hereby revoked. 



Sec. 14. Prior Claims Not Affected. — Nothing herein contained 

 shall affect such rights, if any, as may have been acquired under 

 any law of the United States by any person in lands subject to 

 this Act and such rights, if any, shall be governed by the law in 

 effect at the time they may have been acquired : Provided, Jiow- 

 ever, That nothing herein contained is intended or shall be con- 

 strued as a finding, interpretation, or construction by the Congress 

 that the law under which such rights may be claimed in fact 

 applies to the lands subject to this Act or authorizes or compels 

 the granting of such rights in such lands, and that the determina- 

 tion of the applicability or effect of such law shall be unaffected by 

 anything herein contained. 



Sec. 15. Report by Secretary. — As soon as practicable after the 

 end of each fiscal year, the Secre'tary shall sut)mit to the President 

 of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a 

 report detailing the amounts of all moneys received and expended 

 in connection with the administration of this Act during the pre- 

 ceding fiscal year. 



Sec. 16. Appropriations. — There is hereby authorized to be ap- 

 propriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provi- 

 sions of this Act. 



Sec. 17. Separability. — If any provision of this Act, or any 

 section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or individual word, 

 or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held 

 invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and of the appli- 

 cation of any such provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, 

 phrase or individual word to other persons and circumstances 

 shall not be affected thereby. 



Approved August 7. 1953. 



Uranium, 

 thorium, etc. 

 60 Stat. 760 

 -i2 use 1805. 



Helium. 



18 F. R. 405. 



