[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: 43CFR3141.0-5]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

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

 

PART 3140_LEASING IN SPECIAL TAR SAND AREAS--Table of Contents

 

             Subpart 3141_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) For purposes of this subpart, ``oil and gas lease'' means a 

lease issued in a Special Tar Sand Area for the exploration and 

development of oil and gas resources other than tar sand.

    (c) Tar sand lease means a lease issued in a Special Tar Sand area 

exclusively for the exploration for and extraction of tar sand.

    (d) 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.

    (e) 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.



[47 FR 22478, May 24, 1982, as amended at 70 FR 58615, Oct. 7, 2005; 71 

FR 28779, May 18, 2006]