[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: 43CFR3500]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

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

 

PART 3500_LEASING OF SOLID MINERALS OTHER THAN COAL AND OIL SHALE

--Table of Contents

 

                Subpart 3503_Areas Available for Leasing

 

Sec.  3503.13  For what areas may I receive a hardrock mineral permit or lease?



    Subject to the consent of the surface managing agency, you may 

obtain hardrock mineral permits and leases only in the following areas:

    (a) Lands identified in Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1946, for which 

jurisdiction for mineral leasing was transferred to the Secretary of the 

Interior. These include lands originally acquired under the following 

acts:

    (1) 16 U.S.C. 520 (Weeks Act);

    (2) Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act (40 U.S.C. 401, 

403a and 408);

    (3) The 1935 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act (48 Stat. 115 and 

118);

    (4) Section 55 of Title I of the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 

750 and 781); and

    (5) The Act of July 22, 1937 (7 U.S.C. 1011 (c) and 1018 (repealed), 

Bankhead-Jones Act).

    (b) Lands added to the Shasta National Forest by Act of March 19, 

1948 (62 Stat. 83);

    (c) Public Domain Lands within the National Forests in Minnesota (16 

U.S.C. 508 (b));

    (d) Lands in New Mexico that are portions of Juan Jose Lobato Grant 

(North Lobato) and Anton Chica Grant (El Pueblo) as described in section 

1 of the Act of June 28, 1952 (66 Stat. 285);



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    (e) Lands in the Shasta and Trinity Units of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-

Trinity National Recreation Areas;

    (f) The following National Park Lands:

    (1) Lake Mead National Recreation Area;

    (2) Glen Canyon National Recreation Area; and

    (3) Lands in the Whiskeytown Unit of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity 

National Recreation Area;

    (g) Lands patented to the State of California for park or other 

purposes where minerals were reserved to the United States; and

    (h) White Mountains National Recreation Area, Alaska.