[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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[CITE: 43CFR3110.4]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 3110_NONCOMPETITIVE LEASES--Table of Contents

 

                   Subpart 3110_Noncompetitive Leases

 

Sec.  3110.4  Requirements for offer.



    (a) An offer to lease shall be made on a current form approved by 

the Director, or on unofficial copies of that form in current use. For 

noncompetitive leases processed under Sec.  3108.2-4 of this title, the 

current lease form shall be used. Copies shall be exact reproductions on 

1 page of both sides of the official approved form, without additions, 

omissions, or other changes, or advertising. The original copy of each 

offer must be typed or printed plainly in ink, signed in ink and dated 

by the offeror or an authorized agent, and must include payment of the 

first year's rental and the processing fee for noncompetitive lease 

applications found in the fee schedule in Sec.  3000.12 of this chapter. 

The original and 2 copies of each offer to lease, with each copy showing 

that the original has been signed, shall be filed in the proper BLM 

office. A noncompetitive offer to lease a future interest applied for 

under Sec.  3110.9 must include the processing fee for noncompetitive 

lease applications found in the fee schedule in Sec.  3000.12 of this 

chapter. Where remittances for offers are returned for insufficient 

funds, the offer shall not obtain priority of filing until the date the 

remittance is properly made.

    (b) Where a correction to an offer is made, whether at the option of 

the offeror or at the request of the authorized officer, it shall gain 

priority as of the date the filing is correct and complete. The priority 

that existed before the date the corrected offer is filed, may be 

defeated by an intervening offer to the extent of any conflict in such 

offers, except as provided under Sec.  Sec.  3103.2-1(a) and 3110.3-3(c) 

of this title.

    (c) An offer shall be limited to either public domain minerals or 

acquired lands minerals, subject to the provisions for corrections under 

paragraph (b) of this section.

    (d) Compliance with subpart 3102 shall be required.

    (e) All offers for leases should name the United States agency from 

which consent to the issuance of a lease shall be obtained, or the 

agency that may have title records covering the ownership for the 

mineral interest involved, and identify the project, if any, of which 

the lands covered by the offer are a part.



[53 FR 22840, June 17, 1988; 53 FR 31958, Aug. 22, 1988; 70 FR 58874, 

Oct. 7, 2005]