---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 211.42"
title: "25"
number: "211.42"
heading: "Annual rentals and expenditures for development on leases other than oil and gas, and geothermal resources."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/211.42"
---

# §211.42. Annual rentals and expenditures for development on leases other than oil and gas, and geothermal resources.

- (a) Unless otherwise authorized by the Secretary, a lease for minerals other than oil, gas and geothermal resources shall provide for a yearly development expenditure of not less than $20 per acre. All such leases shall provide for a rental payment of not less than $2.00 for each acre or fraction of an acre payable on or before the first day of each lease year.
- (b) Within twenty (20) days after the lease year, an itemized statement, in duplicate, of the expenditure for development under a lease for minerals other than oil and gas shall be filed with the superintendent or area director. The lessee must certify the statement under oath.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 4, Act of May 11, 1938 (52 Stat. 347); Act of August 1, 1956 (70 Stat. 744); 25 U.S.C. 396a-g; 25 U.S.C. 2 and 9; and Sec. 701, Pub. L. 114-74, 129 Stat. 599, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 35653, July 8, 1996, unless otherwise noted.