43 CFR 3585.5-1 - Exploration license.

Regulations last checked for updates: Feb 16, 2025

Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior last revised: Feb 10, 2025

View all text of Subpart 3585 [§ 3585.0-3 - § 3585.5-9]

§ 3585.5-1 - Exploration license.

Private parties, jointly or severally, may apply for exploration licenses to explore known hardrock mineral deposits which are not under lease or within an area subject to application and lease under § 3585.3 of this title to obtain geologic, environmental and other pertinent data concerning such deposits. Exploration licenses do not grant the licensee any preference right to a lease.

authority: 16 U.S.C. 90c-1,460n,460q,460dd,460mm; 30 U.S.C. 189,293,359; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 43 U.S.C. 1201,1732,1733,1740; 47 Stat. 1487

source: 51 FR 15256, Apr. 22, 1986, unless otherwise noted.

cite as: 43 CFR 3585.5-1