30 CFR § 203.72 - Can my lease receive more than one suspension volume?

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t30/s203.72"
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title: "30 CFR § 203.72 - Can my lease receive more than one suspension volume?"
title_number: 30
title_name: "Mineral Resources"
section_number: "203.72"
section_name: "Can my lease receive more than one suspension volume?"
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "MINERALS REVENUE MANAGEMENT"
part_number: "203"
part_name: "RELIEF OR REDUCTION IN ROYALTY RATES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "25 U.S.C. 396  25 U.S.C. 396a  25 U.S.C. 2101  30 U.S.C. 181  30 U.S.C. 351  30 U.S.C. 1001  30 U.S.C. 1701  31 U.S.C. 9701; 42 U.S.C. 15903-15906; 43 U.S.C. 1301  43 U.S.C. 1331  and 43 U.S.C. 1801"
regulatory_source: "76 FR 64462, Oct. 18, 2011, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "203"
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# 203.72 Can my lease receive more than one suspension volume?

Yes. You may apply for royalty relief that involves more than one suspension volume under § 203.62 in two circumstances.

(a) Each field that includes your lease may receive a separate royalty-suspension volume, if it meets the evaluation criteria of § 203.67.

(b) An expansion project on your lease may receive a separate royalty-suspension volume, even if we have already granted a royalty-suspension volume to the field that encompasses the project. But the reserves associated with the project must not have been part of our original determination, and the project must meet the evaluation criteria of § 203.67.