[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: 43CFR3140.7]

[Page 399-400]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 3140_COMBINED HYDROCARBON LEASING--Table of Contents
 
Subpart 3140_Conversion of Existing Oil and Gas Leases and Valid Claims 
                       Based on Mineral Locations
 
Sec. 3140.7  Lands within the National Park System.

    Conversions of existing oil and gas leases and valid claims based on 
mineral locations to combined hydrocarbon leases within units of the 
National Park System shall be allowed only where mineral leasing is 
permitted by law and where the lands covered by the lease or claim 
proposed for conversion are open to mineral resource disposition in 
accordance with any applicable minerals management plan. (See 43 CFR 
3100.0-3 (g)(4)). In order to consent to any conversion or any 
subsequent development under a combined hydrocarbon lease requiring 
further approval, the Regional Director

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of the National Park Service shall find that there will be no resulting 
significant adverse impacts on the resources and administration of such 
areas or on other contiguous units of the National Park System in 
accordance with Sec. 3109.2(b) of this title.

[47 FR 22478, May 24, 1982, as amended at 48 FR 33682, July 22, 1983; 55 
FR 12351, Apr. 3, 1990]