---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 2621.3"
title: "43"
number: "2621.3"
heading: "Certifications; mineral leases and permits."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/2621.3"
---

# §2621.3. Certifications; mineral leases and permits.

- (a) Certifications will be issued for all selections approved under the law by the authorized officer of the Bureau of Land Management.
- (b) Where all the lands subject to a mineral lease or permit are certified to a State, or if, where the State has previously acquired title to a portion of the lands subject to a mineral lease or permit, the remaining lands in the lease or permit are certified to the State, the State shall succeed to the position of the United States thereunder. Where a portion of the lands subject to any mineral lease or permit are certified to a State, the United States shall retain for the duration of the lease or permit the mineral or minerals for which the lease or permit was issued.

## Notes

### Amendments

[35 FR 9607, June 13, 1970. Redesignated at 46 FR 24135, Apr. 29, 1981]

### Authority

Authority: R.S. 2478; 43 U.S.C. 1201.

### Amendments

[35 FR 9607, June 13, 1970. Redesignated at 46 FR 24135, Apr. 29, 1981]