---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3503.11"
title: "43"
number: "3503.11"
heading: "Are there any other areas in which I cannot get a permit or lease for the minerals covered by this part?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3503.11"
---

# §3503.11. Are there any other areas in which I cannot get a permit or lease for the minerals covered by this part?


Prospecting permits and leases for solid leasable and hardrock minerals are not available under this part for:

- (a) Lands within the boundaries of any unit of the National Park System, except as expressly authorized by law;
- (b) Lands within Indian Reservations, except the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation, Hillcreek Extension, State of Utah;
- (c) Lands within incorporated cities, towns and villages;
- (d) Lands within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, oil shale reserves and national petroleum reserves;
- (e) Lands acquired by the United States for development of helium, fissionable material deposits or other minerals essential to the defense of the country, except leasable minerals;
- (f) Lands acquired by foreclosure or otherwise for resale;
- (g) Acquired lands reported as surplus under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 ([40 U.S.C. 471](/usc/40/471.md) et seq.);
- (h) Any tidelands or submerged coastal lands within the continental shelf adjacent or littoral to any part of lands within the jurisdiction of the United States;
- (i) Lands within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument;
- (j) Lands adjacent to or within Searles Lake, California, which are not available for potassium prospecting permits (BLM will lease potassium in this area by competitive bidding); and
- (k) **Any other lands withdrawn from mineral leasing.**

## 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.