---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3211.11"
title: "43"
number: "3211.11"
heading: "What are the annual lease rental rates?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3211.11"
---

# §3211.11. What are the annual lease rental rates?

- (a) **BLM calculates annual rent based on the amount of acreage covered by your lease.** To determine lease acreage for this section, round up any partial acreage up to the next whole acre. For example, the annual rent on a 2,456.39 acre lease is calculated based on 2,457 acres.
- (b) For leases issued on or after August 8, 2005 (other than leases issued in response to applications that were pending on that date for which no election is made under [§ 3200.8(b)(1)](/cfr/43/3200.8.md?p=b-1)), and for leases issued before August 8, 2005, for which an election is made under [§ 3200.7(a)(2)](/cfr/43/3200.7.md?p=a-2), the rental rate is as follows:
  - (1) If you obtained your lease through a competitive lease sale, then your annual rent is $2 per acre for the first year, and $3 per acre for the second through tenth year;
  - (2) If you obtained your lease noncompetitively, then your annual rent is $1 per acre for the first 10 years; and
  - (3) After the tenth year, your annual rent will be $5 per acre, regardless of whether you obtained your lease through a competitive lease sale or noncompetitively.
- (c) For leases issued before August 8, 2005, for which no election is made under [§ 3200.7(a)(2)](/cfr/43/3200.7.md?p=a-2), and for leases issued in response to applications pending on that date for which no election is made under [§ 3200.8(b)(1)](/cfr/43/3200.8.md?p=b-1), the rental rate is the rate prescribed in the regulations in effect on August 8, 2005 ([43 CFR 3211.10 (2004)](/cfr/43/3211.10.md?p=2004)).
- (d) For leases in which the United States owns only a fractional interest in the geothermal resources, BLM will prorate the rents established in paragraphs [(a)](#a), [(b)](#b), and [(c)](#c) of this section, based on the fractional interest owned by the United States. For example, if the United States owns 50 percent of the geothermal resources in a 640 acre lease, you pay rent based on 320 acres.

## 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.