---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3203.10"
title: "43"
number: "3203.10"
heading: "How are lands included in a competitive sale?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3203.10"
---

# §3203.10. How are lands included in a competitive sale?

- (a) A qualified company or individual may nominate lands for competitive sale by submitting an applicable BLM nomination form.
- (b) **A nomination is a description of lands that you seek to be included in one lease.** Each nomination may not exceed 5,120 acres, unless the area to be leased includes an irregular subdivision. Your nomination must provide a description of the lands nominated by legal land description.
  - (1) For lands surveyed under the public land rectangular survey system, describe the lands to the nearest aliquot part within the legal subdivision, section, township, and range;
  - (2) For unsurveyed lands, describe the lands by metes and bounds, giving courses and distances, and tie this information to an official corner of the public land surveys, or to a prominent topographic feature;
  - (3) **For approved protracted surveys, include an entire section, township, and range.** Do not divide protracted sections into aliquot parts;
  - (4) For unsurveyed lands in Louisiana and Alaska that have water boundaries, discuss the description with BLM before submission; and
  - (5) **For fractional interest lands, identify the United States mineral ownership by percentage.**
- (c) You may submit more than one nomination, as long as each nomination separately satisfies the requirements of [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section and includes the filing fee specified in [§ 3203.12](/cfr/43/3203.12.md).
- (d) BLM may reconfigure lands to be included in each parcel offered for sale.
- (e) BLM may include land in a lease sale on its own initiative.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1001-1028; 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.; and Pub. L. 109-58.

### Source

Source: 72 FR 24400, May 2, 2007, unless otherwise noted.