[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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]