Amends the Mineral Lands Leasing Act to provide that the words "oil and gas" shall embrace all hydrocarbons, including native asphalt, solid and semisolid bitumen, and bituminous rock, but excluding gilsonite and those hydrocarbons which the Secretary of the Interior shall determine to lease as coal or oil shale, and the word "gas" also includes all naturally occurring gases, except helium and geothermal steam.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
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