Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 10, 2026

Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior last revised: Dec 18, 2025
§ 3901.10 - Land descriptions.

(a) All lands in an oil shale lease must be described by the legal subdivisions of the public land survey system or if the lands are unsurveyed, the legal description by metes and bounds.

(b) Unsurveyed lands will be surveyed, at the cost of the lease applicant, by a surveyor approved or employed by the BLM.

authority: 30 U.S.C. 189,359,and,42.S.C. 15927, 43 U.S.C. 1732(b) and 1740
source: 73 FR 69469, Nov. 18, 2008, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 43 CFR 3901.10