---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 398a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "398a"
heading: "Leases of unallotted lands for oil and gas mining purposes within Executive order Indian reservations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/398a"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Lease, Sale, or Surrender of Allotted or Unallotted Lands"
---

# §398a. Leases of unallotted lands for oil and gas mining purposes within Executive order Indian reservations


Unallotted lands within the limits of any [reservation](/usc/25/2902.md?p=8) or withdrawal created by Executive order for [Indian](/usc/25/1934.md) purposes or for the use or occupancy of any [Indians](/usc/25/1934.md) or [tribe](/usc/25/3402.md?p=2-A) may be leased for oil and gas mining purposes in accordance with the provisions contained in [section 398 of this title](/usc/25/398.md).


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 299, § 1, 44 Stat. 1347.)