---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 1218.52"
title: "30"
number: "1218.52"
heading: "How does a lessee designate a Designee?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/1218.52"
---

# §1218.52. How does a lessee designate a Designee?

- (a) If you are a lessee under [30 U.S.C. 1702(7)](/usc/30/1702.md?p=7), and you want to designate a person to make all or part of the payments due under a lease on your behalf under [30 U.S.C. 1712(a)](/usc/30/1712.md?p=a), you must notify ONRR or the applicable delegated state in writing of such designation by submitting Form ONRR-4425, Designation Form for Royalty Payment Responsibility. Your notification for each lease must include the following:
  - (1) The lease number for the lease;
  - (2) The type of products you make payments for e.g., oil, gas.
  - (3) The type of payments you are responsible for e.g., royalty, minimum royalty, rental.
  - (4) **Whether you are—**
    - (i) A lessee of record (record title owner) in the lease; or
    - (ii) An operating rights owner (working interest owner) in the lease, and the percentage of your operating rights ownership in the lease;
  - (5) The name, address, Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN), and phone number of your Designee;
  - (6) The name, address, and phone number of the individual to contact for the person you named in [paragraph (a)(5)](#a-5) of this section;
  - (7) Your TIN;
  - (8) The date the designation is effective;
  - (9) The date the designation terminates, if applicable, and
  - (10) A copy of the written designation;
- (b) The person you designate under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section is your Designee under 30 U.S.C. [1701(24)](/usc/30/1701.md?p=24) and [30](/usc/30/30.md) U.S.C. 1712(a).
- (c) If you want to terminate a designation you made under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, you must submit a revised Form ONRR-4425 before the termination stating:
  - (1) The date the designation is due to terminate; and
  - (2) If you are not reporting and paying royalties and making other payments to ONRR, a new designation under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section.
- (d) ONRR may require you to provide notice when there is a change in the percentage of your record title or operating rights ownership.

## Notes

### Amendments

[62 FR 42066, Aug. 5, 1997, as amended at 73 FR 15898, Mar. 26, 2008]

### Source

Source: 49 FR 37346, Sept. 21, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

### 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. 3335, 3711, 3716-18, 3720A, 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

[62 FR 42066, Aug. 5, 1997, as amended at 73 FR 15898, Mar. 26, 2008]