[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: 43CFR3141.0-5]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 3140_COMBINED HYDROCARBON LEASING--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart 3141_Competitive Leasing in Special Tar Sand Areas
 
Sec. 3141.0-5  Definitions.

    As used in this subpart, the term:
    (a) Combined hydrocarbon lease means a lease issued in a Special Tar 
Sand Area for the removal of any gas and nongaseous hydrocarbon 
substance other than coal, oil shale or gilsonite.
    (b) Special Tar Sand Area means an area designated by the Department 
of the Interior's Orders of November 20, 1980 (45 FR 76800), and January 
21, 1981 (46 FR 6077), and referred to in those orders as Designated Tar 
Sand Areas, as containing substantial deposits of tar and sand.
    (c) Tar sand means any consolidated or unconsolidated rock (other 
than coal, oil shale or gilsonite) that either: (1) Contains a 
hydrocarbonaceous material with a gas-free viscosity, at original 
reservoir temperature greater than 10,000 centipoise, or (2) contains a 
hydrocarbonaceous material and is produced by mining or quarrying.
    (d) Oil means all nongaseous hydrocarbon substances other than those 
substances leasable as coal, oil shale or gilsonite (including all vein-
type solid hydrocarbons).