---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3503.10"
title: "43"
number: "3503.10"
heading: "Are all Federal lands available for leasing under this part?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3503.10"
---

# §3503.10. Are all Federal lands available for leasing under this part?


No. The Secretary of the Interior may not lease lands on any of the following Federal areas:

- (a) Land recommended for wilderness allocation by the surface managing agency;
- (b) Lands within BLM wilderness study areas;
- (c) Lands designated by Congress as wilderness areas; and
- (d) Lands within areas allocated for wilderness or further planning in Executive Communication 1504, Ninety-Sixth Congress (House Document Number 96-119), unless such lands are allocated to uses other than wilderness by a land and resource management plan or have been released to uses other than wilderness by an act of Congress.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552; 30 U.S.C. 189, 192c, and 209; 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.; and sec. 402, Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1946 (5 U.S.C. appendix).

### Source

Source: 64 FR 53536, Oct. 1, 1999, unless otherwise noted.