[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: 43CFR3800]



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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

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

 

PART 3800_MINING CLAIMS UNDER THE GENERAL MINING LAWS--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart 3809_Surface Management

 

Sec.  3809.116  As a mining claimant or operator, what are my responsibilities under this subpart for my project area?



    (a) Mining claimants and operators (if other than the mining 

claimant) are liable for obligations under this subpart that accrue 

while they hold their interests.

    (b) Relinquishment, forfeiture, or abandonment of a mining claim 

does not relieve a mining claimant's or operator's responsibility under 

this subpart for obligations that accrued or conditions that were 

created while the mining claimant or operator was responsible for 

operations conducted on that mining claim or in the project area.

    (c) Transfer of a mining claim or operation does not relieve a 

mining claimant's or operator's responsibility under this subpart for 

obligations that accrued or conditions that were created while the 

mining claimant or operator was responsible for operations conducted on 

that mining claim or in the project area until--

    (1) BLM receives documentation that a transferee accepts 

responsibility for the transferor's previously accrued obligations, and

    (2) BLM accepts an adequate replacement financial guarantee adequate 

to cover such previously accrued obligations and the transferee's new 

obligations.



[65 FR 70112, Nov. 21, 2000, as amended at 66 FR 54860, Oct. 30, 2001]



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