---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 1243.3"
title: "30"
number: "1243.3"
heading: "What definitions apply to this part?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/1243.3"
---

# §1243.3. What definitions apply to this part?


Assessment means any fee or charge levied or imposed by the Secretary or a delegated State other than:

- (1) The principal amount of any royalty, minimum royalty, rental, bonus, net profit share or proceed of sale;
- (2) Any interest; or
- (3) **Any civil or criminal penalty.** Designee means the person designated by a lessee under [§ 1218.52](/cfr/30/1218.52.md) of this title to make all or part of the royalty or other payments due on a lease on the lessee's behalf.

  Lessee means any person to whom the United States, or the United States on behalf of an Indian tribe or individual Indian mineral owner, issues a lease, or any person to whom all or part of the lessee's interest or operating rights in a lease has been assigned.

  ONRR bond-approving officer means the Deputy Director for Office of Natural Resources Revenue or an official to whom the Deputy Director delegates that responsibility.

  ONRR-specified surety instrument means an ONRR-specified administrative appeal bond, an ONRR-specified irrevocable letter of credit, a Treasury book-entry bond or note, or a financial institution book-entry certificate of deposit.

  Notice of order means the notice that ONRR or a delegated State issues to a lessee that informs the lessee that ONRR or the delegated State has issued an order to the lessee's designee.

  Order means an order appealable under [30 CFR part 290](/cfr/30/part290.md) in effect prior to May 13, 1999 and contained in the [30 CFR](/cfr/30.md), parts [200](/cfr/30/part200.md) to [699](/cfr/30/part699.md), edition revised as of July 1, 1998, under [30 CFR part 290](/cfr/30/part290.md) [subpart B](/cfr/30/subpartB.md), or under [30 CFR part 1208](/cfr/30/part1208.md).

  Person means any individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, or joint venture.


## Notes

### Amendments

[64 FR 26254, May 13, 1999, as amended at 67 FR 19113, Apr. 18, 2002]

### 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: 64 FR 26254, May 13, 1999, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 75 FR 61087, Oct. 4, 2010.

### Amendments

[64 FR 26254, May 13, 1999, as amended at 67 FR 19113, Apr. 18, 2002]