[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR3110.5-2]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 3110--NONCOMPETITIVE LEASES--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart 3110--Noncompetitive Leases
 
Sec. 3110.5-2  Public domain.

    (a) If the lands have been surveyed under the public land 
rectangular survey system, each offer shall describe the lands by legal 
subdivision, section, township, range, and, if needed, meridian.
    (b) If the lands have not been surveyed under the public land 
rectangular system, each offer shall describe the lands by metes and 
bounds, giving courses and distances between the successive angle points 
on the boundary of the tract, and connected by courses and distances to 
an official corner of the public land surveys.
    (c) When protracted surveys have been approved and the effective 
date thereof published in the Federal Register, all offers to lease 
lands shown on such protracted surveys, filed on or after such effective 
date, shall describe the lands in the same manner as provided in 
paragraph (a) of this section for officially surveyed lands.
    (d)(1) Where offers are pending for unsurveyed lands that are 
subsequently surveyed or protracted before the lease issuance, the 
description in the lease shall be conformed to the subdivisions of the 
approved protracted survey or the public land survey, whichever is 
appropriate.
    (2) The description of lands in an existing lease shall be conformed 
to a subsequent resurvey or amended protraction survey, whichever is 
appropriate.
    (e) The requirements of this section shall apply to applications for 
conversion of abandoned unpatented oil placer mining claims made under 
Sec. 3108.2-4 of this title, except that deficiencies shall be curable.

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