---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3135.8"
title: "43"
number: "3135.8"
heading: "If BLM requires a suspension or grants my request for a suspension of operations and production for my lease, when must I next pay advance annual rental, royalty, or minimum royalty?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3135.8"
---

# §3135.8. If BLM requires a suspension or grants my request for a suspension of operations and production for my lease, when must I next pay advance annual rental, royalty, or minimum royalty?

- (a) You are not required to submit your next rental or minimum royalty payment until the date the suspension terminates. Therefore, if your suspension begins in month 3 of lease year A and ends in month 2 of lease year B, you must submit your rental payment for lease year B when your suspension ends. BLM will send a written notice to the lessee and operator stating that the suspension is terminated and the date your rental payment for lease year B is due to MMS. BLM's notice also will state when you must pay any minimum royalty due for lease year A. Your minimum royalty for lease year B will be due at the end of that year.
- (b) If you remove or sell any production from the lease during the term of the suspension, you must pay royalty on that production.

## Notes

### Amendments

[67 FR 17886, Apr. 11, 2002]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 6508, 43 U.S.C. 1733 and 1740.

### Source

Source: 46 FR 55497, Nov. 9, 1981, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[67 FR 17886, Apr. 11, 2002]