Regulations last checked for updates: Jun 02, 2024

Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior last revised: May 13, 2024
§ 3130.6-2 - Land descriptions.

(a) All tracts shall be composed of entire sections either surveyed or protracted, whichever is applicable, except that if the tracts are adjacent to upland navigable water areas, they may be adjusted on the basis of subdivisional parts of the sections.

(b) Leased lands shall be described according to section, township and range in accordance with the official survey or protraction diagrams.

authority: 42 U.S.C. 6508,43.S.C. 1733 and 1740
source: 46 FR 55497, Nov. 9, 1981, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 43 CFR 3130.6-2