---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 2809.10"
title: "43"
number: "2809.10"
heading: "Competitive process for energy development grants and leases."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/2809.10"
---

# §2809.10. Competitive process for energy development grants and leases.

- (a) The BLM may conduct a competitive process for solar and wind energy development grants or leases on its own initiative; or
- (b) The BLM may solicit nominations for public lands to be included in a competitive process by publishing a call for nominations under [§ 2809.11(a)](/cfr/43/2809.11.md?p=a); or
- (c) You may request that the BLM conduct a competitive process by submitting a request in writing that complies with [§ 2809.11(b)](/cfr/43/2809.11.md?p=b); or
- (d) The BLM may conduct a competitive process if it receives two or more competing applications.
- (e) Except where an applicant has failed to timely provide information requested by the BLM under [§ 2804.25(c)](/cfr/43/2804.25.md?p=c), the BLM will not offer lands in a competitive process for which the BLM has accepted a complete application, received a Plan of Development, and entered into a cost recovery agreement.

## Notes

### Amendments

[89 FR 35682, May 1, 2024]

### Source

Source: 81 FR 92224, Dec. 19, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1733, 1740, 1763, 1764, and 3003.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 21058, Apr. 22, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[89 FR 35682, May 1, 2024]