Regulations last checked for updates: May 04, 2025

Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior last revised: Apr 16, 2025
§ 3216.12 - When does a transferee take responsibility for lease obligations?

After BLM approves your transfer, the transferee is responsible for performing all lease obligations accruing after the date of the transfer, and for plugging and abandoning wells which exist and are not plugged and abandoned at the time of the transfer.

source: 72 FR 24400, May 2, 2007, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 43 CFR 3216.12