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- 43 CFR 3833.32 · How do I transfer a mining claim or site?
- 43 CFR 3833.33 · How may I transfer, sell, or otherwise convey an association placer mining claim?
- 43 CFR 3833.90 · Defects in recordings or filings for mining claims and sites.
- 43 CFR 3833.91 · What defects cannot be cured under this part?
- 43 CFR 3833.92 · What happens if I do not file a transfer of interest?
- 43 CFR 3834.10 · Paying maintenance, location, and oil shale fees.
- 43 CFR 3834.11 · Which fees must I pay to maintain a mining claim or site and when do I pay them?
- 43 CFR 3834.12 · How will BLM know for which mining claims or sites I am paying the fees?
- 43 CFR 3834.13 · Will BLM prorate annual maintenance or oil shale fees?
- 43 CFR 3834.14 · May I obtain a waiver from these fees?
- 43 CFR 3834.20 · Adjusting location and maintenance fees.
- 43 CFR 3834.21 · How will BLM adjust the location and maintenance fees?
- 43 CFR 3834.22 · How will I know that BLM has adjusted location and maintenance fees?
- 43 CFR 3834.23 · When do I start paying the adjusted fees?
- 43 CFR 3835.1 · How do I qualify for a waiver?
- 43 CFR 3835.10 · How do I request a waiver?
- 43 CFR 3835.11 · What special filing and reporting requirements pertain to the different types of waivers?
- 43 CFR 3835.12 · What are my obligations once I receive a waiver?
- 43 CFR 3835.13 · How long do the waivers last and how do I renew them?
- 43 CFR 3835.14 · How do I submit a small miner waiver request for newly-recorded mining claims?
- 43 CFR 3835.15 · If I qualify as a small miner, how do I apply for a waiver if I paid the maintenance fee in the last assessment year?
- 43 CFR 3835.16 · If I am a qualified small miner, and I obtained a waiver in one assessment year, what must I do if I want to pay the maintenance fee for the following assessment year?
- 43 CFR 3835.17 · What additional requirements must I fulfill to obtain a small miner waiver for my mining claims or sites on National Park System lands?
- 43 CFR 3835.20 · Transferring, selling, inheriting, or otherwise conveying mining claims or sites already subject to a waiver.
- 43 CFR 3835.30 · Annual FLPMA documents.
- 43 CFR 3835.31 · When do I file an annual FLPMA document?
- 43 CFR 3835.32 · What should I include when I submit an affidavit of assessment work?
- 43 CFR 3835.33 · What should I include when I submit a notice of intent to hold?
- 43 CFR 3835.90 · Failure to comply with this part.
- 43 CFR 3835.91 · What if I fail to file annual FLPMA documents?
- 43 CFR 3835.92 · What if I fail to submit a timely waiver request?
- 43 CFR 3835.93 · What happens if BLM finds a defect in my waiver request?
- 43 CFR 3836.10 · Performing assessment work.
- 43 CFR 3836.11 · What are the general requirements for performing assessment work?
- 43 CFR 3836.12 · What work qualifies as assessment work?
- 43 CFR 3836.13 · What are geological, geochemical, or geophysical surveys?
- 43 CFR 3836.14 · What other requirements must geological, geochemical, or geophysical surveys meet to qualify as assessment work?
- 43 CFR 3836.15 · What happens if I fail to perform required assessment work?
- 43 CFR 3836.20 · Deferring assessment work.
- 43 CFR 3836.21 · How do I qualify for a deferment of assessment work on my mining claims?
- 43 CFR 3836.22 · How do I qualify for a deferment of assessment work on my mining claims that are on National Park System (NPS) lands?
- 43 CFR 3836.23 · How do I petition for deferment of assessment work?
- 43 CFR 3836.24 · If BLM approves my petition, what else must I do to obtain a deferment of assessment work?
- 43 CFR 3836.25 · What if BLM denies my petition for deferment of assessment work?
- 43 CFR 3836.26 · How long may a deferment of assessment work last?
- 43 CFR 3836.27 · When must I complete my deferred assessment work?
- 43 CFR 3837.10 · Conditions for acquiring a delinquent co-claimant's interests.
- 43 CFR 3837.11 · When may I acquire a delinquent co-claimant's interests in a mining claim or site?
- 43 CFR 3837.20 · Acquisition.
- 43 CFR 3837.21 · How do I notify the delinquent co-claimant that I want to acquire his or her interests?
- 43 CFR 3837.22 · How long does a delinquent co-claimant have after notification to contribute a proportionate share of the assessment work, expenditures, or maintenance fees?
- 43 CFR 3837.23 · How do I notify BLM that I have acquired a delinquent co-claimant's interests in a mining claim or site?
- 43 CFR 3837.24 · What kind of evidence must I submit to BLM to show I have properly notified the delinquent co-claimant?
- 43 CFR 3837.30 · Disputes about acquiring a delinquent co-claimant's interests.
- 43 CFR 3838.1 · What are SRHA lands?
- 43 CFR 3838.2 · How are SRHA lands different from other Federal lands?
- 43 CFR 3838.3 · What rules must I follow to explore for minerals and locate mining claims on SRHA lands?
- 43 CFR 3838.10 · Procedures for locating and recording a mining claim or tunnel site on SRHA lands.
- 43 CFR 3838.11 · How do I locate and record mining claims or tunnel sites on SRHA lands?
- 43 CFR 3838.12 · What must I include in a NOITL on SRHA lands?
- 43 CFR 3838.13 · What restrictions are there on submitting a NOITL on SRHA lands?
- 43 CFR 3838.14 · What will BLM do when I submit a NOITL for SRHA lands?
- 43 CFR 3838.15 · How do I benefit from properly submitting a NOITL on SRHA lands?
- 43 CFR 3838.16 · What happens if the surface owner of the SRHA lands changes?
- 43 CFR 3838.90 · Failure to comply with this part.
- 43 CFR 3838.91 · What if I fail to comply with this part?
- 43 CFR 3860.1 · Fees.
- 43 CFR 3861.1 · Surveys of mining claims.
- 43 CFR 3861.1-1 · -1 Application for survey.
- 43 CFR 3861.1-2 · -2 Survey must be made subsequent to recording notice of location.
- 43 CFR 3861.1-3 · -3 Plats and field notes of mineral surveys.
- 43 CFR 3861.2 · Surveys: Specific.
- 43 CFR 3861.2-1 · -1 Particulars to be observed in mineral surveys.
- 43 CFR 3861.2-2 · -2 Certificate of expenditures and improvements.
- 43 CFR 3861.2-3 · -3 Mineral surveyor's report of expenditures and improvements.
- 43 CFR 3861.2-4 · -4 Supplemental proof of expenditures and improvements.
- 43 CFR 3861.2-5 · -5 Amended mineral surveys.
- 43 CFR 3861.3 · Mineral surveyors.
- 43 CFR 3861.3-1 · -1 Extent of duties.
- 43 CFR 3861.3-2 · -2 Assistants.
- 43 CFR 3861.4 · Contract for surveys.
- 43 CFR 3861.4-1 · -1 Payment.
- 43 CFR 3861.5 · Appointment and employment of mineral surveyors.
- 43 CFR 3861.5-1 · -1 Appointment.
- 43 CFR 3861.5-2 · -2 Employment.
- 43 CFR 3861.6 · Plats and notices.
- 43 CFR 3861.6-1 · -1 Payment of charges of the public survey office.
- 43 CFR 3861.7 · Posting.
- 43 CFR 3861.7-1 · -1 Plat and notice to be posted on claim.
- 43 CFR 3861.7-2 · -2 Proof of posting on the claim.
- 43 CFR 3862.1 · Lode claim patent applications: General.
- 43 CFR 3862.1-1 · -1 Application for patent.
- 43 CFR 3862.1-2 · -2 Fees.
- 43 CFR 3862.1-3 · -3 Evidence of title.
- 43 CFR 3862.1-4 · -4 Evidence relating to destroyed or lost records.
- 43 CFR 3862.1-5 · -5 Statement required that land is unreserved, unoccupied, unimproved, and unappropriated.
- 43 CFR 3862.2 · Citizenship.
- 43 CFR 3862.2-1 · -1 Citizenship of corporations and of associations acting through agents.
- 43 CFR 3862.2-2 · -2 Citizenship of individuals.
- 43 CFR 3862.2-3 · -3 Trustee to disclose nature of trust.