Mealey's (September 23, 2019, 1:05 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a California Indian tribe’s challenge to geothermal leases for the production of steam for power plants, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 19 held that the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 allows leases to be renewed for 40-year terms only on a lease-by-lease basis, and not as a unit (Pit River Tribe, et al. v. Bureau of Land Management, et al., No. 17-15616, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 28296)....