---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 1212.50"
title: "30"
number: "1212.50"
heading: "Required recordkeeping and reports."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/1212.50"
---

# §1212.50. Required recordkeeping and reports.


All records pertaining to offshore and onshore Federal and Indian oil and gas leases shall be maintained by a lessee, operator, revenue payor, or other person for 6 years after the records are generated unless the recordholder is notified, in writing, that records must be maintained for a longer period. When an audit or investigation is underway, records shall be maintained until the recordholder is released by written notice of the obligation to maintain records.


## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 37345, Sept. 21, 1984]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301 et seq.; 25 U.S.C. 396 et seq., 396a et seq., 2101 et seq.; 30 U.S.C. 181 et seq., 351 et seq., 1001 et seq., 1701 et seq.; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 43 U.S.C. 1301 et seq., 1331 et seq., and 1801 et seq.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 35641, Aug. 5, 1983, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 75 FR 61084, Oct. 4, 2010.

### Amendments

[49 FR 37345, Sept. 21, 1984]