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[H.R. 356 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.356

                     One Hundred Thirteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen


                                 An Act


 
 To clarify authority granted under the Act entitled ``An Act to define 
the exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the 
                State of Utah, and for other purposes''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Hill Creek Cultural Preservation and 
Energy Development Act''.
SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY.
    The Act entitled ``An Act to define the exterior boundary of the 
Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah, and for other 
purposes'', approved March 11, 1948 (62 Stat. 72), as amended by the 
Act entitled ``An Act to amend the Act extending the exterior boundary 
of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah so as 
to authorize such State to exchange certain mineral lands for other 
lands mineral in character'' approved August 9, 1955, (69 Stat. 544), 
is further amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``Sec. 5.  In order to further clarify authorizations under this 
Act, the State of Utah is hereby authorized to relinquish to the United 
States, for the benefit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray 
Reservation, State school trust or other State-owned subsurface mineral 
lands located beneath the surface estate delineated in Public Law 440 
(approved March 11, 1948) and south of the border between Grand County, 
Utah, and Uintah County, Utah, and select in lieu of such relinquished 
lands, on an acre-for-acre basis, any subsurface mineral lands of the 
United States located beneath the surface estate delineated in Public 
Law 440 (approved March 11, 1948) and north of the border between Grand 
County, Utah, and Uintah County, Utah, subject to the following 
conditions:
        ``(1) Reservation by united states.--The Secretary of the 
    Interior shall reserve an overriding interest in that portion of 
    the mineral estate comprised of minerals subject to leasing under 
    the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 171 et seq.) in any mineral 
    lands conveyed to the State.
        ``(2) Extent of overriding interest.--The overriding interest 
    reserved by the United States under paragraph (1) shall consist 
    of--
            ``(A) 50 percent of any bonus bid or other payment received 
        by the State as consideration for securing any lease or 
        authorization to develop such mineral resources;
            ``(B) 50 percent of any rental or other payments received 
        by the State as consideration for the lease or authorization to 
        develop such mineral resources;
            ``(C) a 6.25 percent overriding royalty on the gross 
        proceeds of oil and gas production under any lease or 
        authorization to develop such oil and gas resources; and
            ``(D) an overriding royalty on the gross proceeds of 
        production of such minerals other than oil and gas, equal to 50 
        percent of the royalty rate established by the Secretary of the 
        Interior by regulation as of October 1, 2011.
        ``(3) Reservation by state of utah.--The State of Utah shall 
    reserve, for the benefit of its State school trust, an overriding 
    interest in that portion of the mineral estate comprised of 
    minerals subject to leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
    U.S.C. 181 et seq.) in any mineral lands relinquished by the State 
    to the United States.
        ``(4) Extent of overriding interest.--The overriding interest 
    reserved by the State under paragraph (3) shall consist of--
            ``(A) 50 percent of any bonus bid or other payment received 
        by the United States as consideration for securing any lease or 
        authorization to develop such mineral resources on the 
        relinquished lands;
            ``(B) 50 percent of any rental or other payments received 
        by the United States as consideration for the lease or 
        authorization to develop such mineral resources;
            ``(C) a 6.25 percent overriding royalty on the gross 
        proceeds of oil and gas production under any lease or 
        authorization to develop such oil and gas resources; and
            ``(D) an overriding royalty on the gross proceeds of 
        production of such minerals other than oil and gas, equal to 50 
        percent of the royalty rate established by the Secretary of the 
        Interior by regulation as of October 1, 2011.
        ``(5) No obligation to lease.--Neither the United States nor 
    the State shall be obligated to lease or otherwise develop oil and 
    gas resources in which the other party retains an overriding 
    interest under this section.
        ``(6) Cooperative agreements.--The Secretary of the Interior is 
    authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the State and 
    the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation to 
    facilitate the relinquishment and selection of lands to be conveyed 
    under this section, and the administration of the overriding 
    interests reserved hereunder.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.