Oil Shale Leasing Act of 1981

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Oil Shale Leasing Act of 1981 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to revise the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to lease lands containing oil shale deposits. Permits such leases to exceed 5,120 acres if necessary to permit long-term commercial operations. Permits a person, association, or corporation to be granted additional leases with respect to oil shale (presently only one lease per person, association, or corporation may be granted) if such additional leases are of small acreages of public lands where the oil shale will be extracted and reduced in conjunction with the extraction and reduction of oil shale from adjacent non-federal lands and if such additional leases do not exceed 2,560 acres. Authorizes the Secretary to issue a lease for the extraction and reduction of oil shale if, in addition to other requirements: (1) the Secretary determines that the lease is in the public interest; (2) the Secretary has consulted with the appropriate State officials in any State likely to be significantly affected by the lease; and (3) the Governor of the State in which the lands are located has recommended that the lease not be issued, unless the Secretary finds that despite the …