---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 3507.17"
title: "43"
number: "3507.17"
heading: "What information must my preference right lease application include?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/3507.17"
---

# §3507.17. What information must my preference right lease application include?


Your application must contain:

- (a) A statement of your qualifications and holdings as specified in [subpart 3503](/cfr/43/subpart3503.md) of this chapter;
- (b) **Three maps showing—**
  - (1) Utility systems;
  - (2) The location of any proposed development or mining operations and incidental facilities;
  - (3) The approximate locations and the extent of the areas you will use for pits, overburden and tailings; and
  - (4) The location of water sources or other resources which you may use in the proposed operations or incidental facilities;
- (c) **A narrative statement addressing—**
  - (1) The anticipated scope, method and schedule of development operations, including the type of equipment you will use;
  - (2) The method of mining anticipated, including the best available estimate of the mining sequence and production rate; and
  - (3) The relationship, if any, between the planned mining operations and existing or planned mining operations and facilities on adjacent Federal or non-Federal lands;
- (d) Financial information which will enable us to determine if you have found a valuable deposit. Include at least an estimate of projected mining and processing costs, saleable products and markets, and projected selling prices;
- (e) A complete and accurate description of the lands as found in your prospecting permit, if your application is for less than the lands covered by your prospecting permit; and
- (f) Other data, as we may require.

## 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.