Pub. Resources Code, § 6301.5

The commission may act in behalf of the State of California pursuant to Section 7 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, an Act of Congress approved by the President on August 7, 1953 (67 Stat. 462, 43 U.S.C. Section 1336), and negotiate, with the concurrence of the Attorney General of California, with the Secretary of the Interior and with the Attorney General of the United States respecting operations under existing mineral leases, if any there be in lands in controversy, and the payment and impounding of rents and other sums payable thereunder, and respecting the issuance or nonissuance of new mineral leases pending the settlement or adjudication of any controversy, which now exists or may arise, between the United States and the State of California as to whether or not lands are subject to the provisions of said act. With the concurrence of the Attorney General of California, the commission also may enter into and execute agreements respecting the said subjects for, in behalf of, and in the name of the State, with the Secretary of the Interior, who, with the concurrence of the Attorney General of the United States, is authorized by the said act to enter into such agreements in behalf of the United States. With the concurrence of the Attorney General of California, the authority vested in the commission by this section extends to and includes all tidelands and submerged lands, or any interest therein, along the coast of the State of California, whether they be within or beyond the boundaries of the State as established by law, which have been or may be acquired by the State in any of the manners enumerated in Section 6301.

No agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall become effective unless and until it is approved by the Governor.