[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: 43CFR3110.5-2]



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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.  3110.5-2  Public domain.



    (a) If the lands have been surveyed under the public land 

rectangular survey system, each offer shall describe the lands by legal 

subdivision, section, township, range, and, if needed, meridian.

    (b) If the lands have not been surveyed under the public land 

rectangular system, each offer shall describe the lands by metes and 

bounds, giving courses and distances between the successive angle points 

on the boundary of the tract, and connected by courses and distances to 

an official corner of the public land surveys.

    (c) When protracted surveys have been approved and the effective 

date thereof published in the Federal Register, all offers to lease 

lands shown on such protracted surveys, filed on or after such effective 

date, shall describe the lands in the same manner as provided in 

paragraph (a) of this section for officially surveyed lands.

    (d)(1) Where offers are pending for unsurveyed lands that are 

subsequently surveyed or protracted before the lease issuance, the 

description in the lease shall be conformed to the subdivisions of the 

approved protracted survey or the public land survey, whichever is 

appropriate.

    (2) The description of lands in an existing lease shall be conformed 

to a subsequent resurvey or amended protraction survey, whichever is 

appropriate.

    (e) The requirements of this section shall apply to applications for 

conversion of abandoned unpatented oil placer mining claims made under 

Sec.  3108.2-4 of this title, except that deficiencies shall be curable.