---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3503.13"
title: "43"
number: "3503.13"
heading: "For what areas may I receive a hardrock mineral permit or lease?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3503.13"
---

# §3503.13. For what areas may I receive a hardrock mineral permit or lease?


Subject to the consent of the surface managing agency, you may obtain hardrock mineral permits and leases only in the following areas:

- (a) **Lands identified in Reorganization Plan No.** 3 of 1946, for which jurisdiction for mineral leasing was transferred to the Secretary of the Interior. These include lands originally acquired under the following acts:
  - (1) [16 U.S.C. 520](/usc/16/520.md) (Weeks Act);
  - (2) Title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act (40 U.S.C. [401](/usc/40/401.md), [403a](/usc/40/403a.md) and [408](/usc/40/408.md));
  - (3) **The 1935 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act (48 Stat.** 115 and 118);
  - (4) **Section 55 of Title I of the Act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat.** 750 and 781); and
  - (5) The Act of July 22, 1937 (7 U.S.C. [1011 (c)](/usc/7/1011.md?p=c) and [1018 (repealed)](/usc/7/1018.md?p=repealed), Bankhead-Jones Act).
- (b) **Lands added to the Shasta National Forest by Act of March 19, 1948 (62 Stat.** 83);
- (c) Public Domain Lands within the National Forests in Minnesota ([16 U.S.C. 508 (b)](/usc/16/508.md?p=b));
- (d) Lands in New Mexico that are portions of Juan Jose Lobato Grant (North Lobato) and Anton Chica Grant (El Pueblo) as described in section 1 of the Act of June 28, 1952 (66 Stat. 285);
- (e) Lands in the Shasta and Trinity Units of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Areas;
- (f) **The following National Park Lands—**
  - (1) Lake Mead National Recreation Area;
  - (2) Glen Canyon National Recreation Area; and
  - (3) Lands in the Whiskeytown Unit of the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area;
- (g) Lands patented to the State of California for park or other purposes where minerals were reserved to the United States; and
- (h) **White Mountains National Recreation Area, Alaska.**

## 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.