[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: 43CFR3101.1-2]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 3100_OIL AND GAS LEASING--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart 3101_Issuance of Leases
 
Sec. 3101.1-2  Surface use rights.

    A lessee shall have the right to use so much of the leased lands as 
is necessary to explore for, drill for, mine, extract, remove and 
dispose of all the leased resource in a leasehold subject to: 
Stipulations attached to the lease; restrictions deriving from specific, 
nondiscretionary statutes; and such reasonable measures as may be 
required by the authorized officer to minimize adverse impacts to other 
resource values, land uses or users not addressed in the lease 
stipulations at the time operations are proposed. To the extent 
consistent with lease rights granted, such reasonable measures may 
include, but are not limited to, modification to siting or design of 
facilities, timing of operations, and specification of interim and final 
reclamation measures. At a minimum, measures shall be deemed consistent 
with lease rights granted provided that they do not: require relocation 
of proposed operations by more than 200 meters; require that operations 
be sited off the leasehold; or

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prohibit new surface disturbing operations for a period in excess of 60 
days in any lease year.

[53 FR 17352, May 16, 1988]