47-1601 GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES -- LAND LEASES -- AUTHORIZATION. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 47

MINES AND MINING

CHAPTER 16

GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES

47-1601. Geothermal resources -- Land leases -- Authorization. The state board of land commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to lease for a term of ten (10) years, and as long thereafter as geothermal resources are produced in paying quantities, or as much longer thereafter as the lessee in good faith shall conduct geothermal resource well drilling or construction operations, thereon, or for such lesser term as it finds to be in the public interest, any state or school lands which may contain geothermal resources, together with the right to use and occupy so much of the surface of said land as may be required for all purposes reasonably incident to the prospecting for, exploration for, drilling or other well construction for, and production of geothermal resources.