---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3207.10"
title: "43"
number: "3207.10"
heading: "What is the primary term of my lease?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3207.10"
---

# §3207.10. What is the primary term of my lease?

- (a) **Leases have a primary term of 10 years.**
- (b) BLM will extend the primary term for 5 years if:
  - (1) By the end of the 10th year of the primary term in [paragraph (a)](#a), you have satisfied the requirements in [§ 3207.11](/cfr/43/3207.11.md); and
  - (2) At the end of each year after the 10th year of the lease, you have satisfied the requirements in § [3207.12(a)](/cfr/43/3207.12.md?p=a) or [(d)](/cfr/43/3207.12.md?p=d) for that year.
- (c) BLM will extend the primary term for 5 additional years if:
  - (1) You satisfied the requirements of § [3207.12(b)](/cfr/43/3207.12.md?p=b) or [(d)](/cfr/43/3207.12.md?p=d); and
  - (2) At the end of each year of the second 5-year extension you satisfy the requirements in § [3207.12(c)](/cfr/43/3207.12.md?p=c) or [(d)](/cfr/43/3207.12.md?p=d) for that year.
- (d) If you do not satisfy the annual requirements during the initial or additional extension of your primary term, your lease terminates or expires.

## 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.