43 CFR § 3503.10 - Are all Federal lands available for leasing under this part?

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title: "43 CFR § 3503.10 - Are all Federal lands available for leasing under this part?"
title_number: 43
title_name: "Public Lands: Interior"
section_number: "3503.10"
section_name: "Are all Federal lands available for leasing under this part?"
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "MINERALS MANAGEMENT (3000)"
part_number: "3500"
part_name: "LEASING OF SOLID MINERALS OTHER THAN COAL AND OIL SHALE"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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authority: "5 U.S.C. 552; 30 U.S.C. 189, 192c, and 209; 43 U.S.C. 1701  and sec. 402, Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1946 (5 U.S.C. appendix)."
regulatory_source: "64 FR 53536, Oct. 1, 1999, unless otherwise noted."
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# 3503.10 Are all Federal lands available for leasing under this part?

No. The Secretary of the Interior may not lease lands on any of the following Federal areas:

(a) Land recommended for wilderness allocation by the surface managing agency;

(b) Lands within BLM wilderness study areas;

(c) Lands designated by Congress as wilderness areas; and

(d) Lands within areas allocated for wilderness or further planning in Executive Communication 1504, Ninety-Sixth Congress (House Document Number 96-119), unless such lands are allocated to uses other than wilderness by a land and resource management plan or have been released to uses other than wilderness by an act of Congress.