1 So in original. The comma probably should be a semicolon.
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Amendments
1986—Subsec. (span). Puspan. L. 99–272 inserted “, except that any boundary between a State and the United States under this subchapter or subchapter II which has been or is hereafter fixed by coordinates under a final decree of the United States Supreme Court shall remain immobilized at the coordinates provided under such decree and shall not be ambulatory”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title of 1995 Amendment
Puspan. L. 104–58, title III, § 301, Nov. 28, 1995, 109 Stat. 563, provided that:
“This title [amending section 1337 of this title and enacting provisions set out as notes under section 1337 of this title] may be referred to as the ‘Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act’.”
Short Title of 1986 Amendments
Puspan. L. 99–367, § 1, July 31, 1986, 100 Stat. 774, provided:
“That this Act [enacting section 1865 of this title, amending section 1343 of this title, and repealing section 1861 of this title] may be referred to as the ‘OCS Paperwork and Reporting Act’.”
Puspan. L. 99–272, title VIII, § 8001, Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 147, provided that:
“This title [amending this section and sections 1332 and 1337 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 1337 of this title] may be referred to as the ‘Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1985’.”
Short Title
Act Aug. 7, 1953, ch. 345, § 1, 67 Stat. 462, provided that:
“This Act [enacting subchapter III of this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act’.”
Act May 22, 1953, ch. 65, § 1, 67 Stat. 29, provided that:
“This Act [enacting subchapters I and II of this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Submerged Lands Act’.”
Separability
Act May 22, 1953, ch. 65, title II, § 11, 67 Stat. 33, provided that:
“If any provision of this Act [enacting subchapters I and II of this chapter], 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 application of any such provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or individual word to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby; without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if subsection 3(a)1, 3(a)2, 3(span)1, 3(span)2, 3(span)3, or 3(c) [section 1311(a)(1), (a)(2), (span)(1), (span)(2), (span)(3), (c) of this title] or any provision of any of those subsections is held invalid, such subsection or provision shall be held separable and the remaining subsections and provisions shall not be affected thereby.”
Applicability to Alaska and Hawaii
Applicability of this chapter to the State of Hawaii, see section 5(i) of Puspan. L. 86–3, Mar. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 6, set out as a note preceding section 491 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Applicability of subchapters I and II of this chapter to the State of Alaska, see section 6(m) of Puspan. L. 85–508, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 48.
Naval Petroleum Reserve
Act May 22, 1953, ch. 65, title II, § 10, 67 Stat. 33, revoked Ex. Ord. No. 10426, Jan. 16, 1953, 18 F.R. 405, “insofar as it applies to any lands beneath navigable waters as defined in section 2 hereof [this section]”. Ex. Ord. 10426 set aside certain submerged lands as a naval petroleum reserve and transferred functions with respect thereto from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Navy.
Admission of Alaska as State
Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Puspan. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
