[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR2621.3]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2620_STATE GRANTS--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart 2621_Indemnity Selections
 
Sec. 2621.3  Certifications; mineral leases and permits.

    (a) Certifications will be issued for all selections approved under 
the law by the authorized officer of the Bureau of Land Management.
    (b) Where all the lands subject to a mineral lease or permit are 
certified to a State, or if, where the State has previously acquired 
title to a portion of the lands subject to a mineral lease or permit, 
the remaining lands in the lease or permit are certified to the State, 
the State shall succeed to the position of the United States thereunder. 
Where a portion of the lands subject to any mineral lease or permit are 
certified to a State, the United States shall retain for the duration of 
the lease or permit the mineral or minerals for which the lease or 
permit was issued.

[35 FR 9607, June 13, 1970. Redesignated at 46 FR 24135, Apr. 29, 1981]

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