---
kind: "unit"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands: Interior"
key: "subtB/chII/subchC/part3170/subpart3173"
level: "subpart"
label: "Subpart 3173"
heading: "Requirements for Site Security and Production Handling"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/subtB-chII-subchC-part3170-subpart3173"
sections_count: 29
---

# Subpart 3173 — Requirements for Site Security and Production Handling

Title 43 C.F.R. — Public Lands: Interior › Subtitle B — Regulations Relating to Public Lands › Chapter II — Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior › Subchapter C — Minerals Management (3000) › Part 3170 — Onshore Oil and Gas Production

## Sections

- [§3173.1. Definitions and acronyms.](/cfr/43/3173.1.md)
- [§3173.2. Storage and sales facilities—seals.](/cfr/43/3173.2.md)
- [§3173.3. Oil measurement system components—seals.](/cfr/43/3173.3.md)
- [§3173.4. Federal seals.](/cfr/43/3173.4.md)
- [§3173.5. Removing production from tanks for sale and transportation by truck.](/cfr/43/3173.5.md)
- [§3173.6. Water-draining operations.](/cfr/43/3173.6.md)
- [§3173.7. Hot oiling, clean-up, and completion operations.](/cfr/43/3173.7.md)
- [§3173.8. Report of theft or mishandling of production.](/cfr/43/3173.8.md)
- [§3173.9. Required recordkeeping for inventory and seal records.](/cfr/43/3173.9.md)
- [§3173.10. Form 3160-5, Sundry Notices and Reports on Wells.](/cfr/43/3173.10.md)
- [§3173.11. Site facility diagram.](/cfr/43/3173.11.md)
- [§3173.12. Applying for a facility measurement point.](/cfr/43/3173.12.md)
- [§3173.13. Requirements for approved facility measurement points.](/cfr/43/3173.13.md)
- [§3173.14. Conditions for commingling and allocation approval (surface and downhole).](/cfr/43/3173.14.md)
- [§3173.15. Applying for a commingling and allocation approval.](/cfr/43/3173.15.md)
- [§3173.16. Existing commingling and allocation approvals.](/cfr/43/3173.16.md)
- [§3173.17. Relationship of a commingling and allocation approval to royalty-free use of production.](/cfr/43/3173.17.md)
- [§3173.18. Modification of a commingling and allocation approval.](/cfr/43/3173.18.md)
- [§3173.19. Effective date of a commingling and allocation approval.](/cfr/43/3173.19.md)
- [§3173.20. Terminating a commingling and allocation approval.](/cfr/43/3173.20.md)
- [§3173.21. Combining production downhole in certain circumstances.](/cfr/43/3173.21.md)
- [§3173.22. Requirements for off-lease measurement.](/cfr/43/3173.22.md)
- [§3173.23. Applying for off-lease measurement.](/cfr/43/3173.23.md)
- [§3173.24. Effective date of an off-lease measurement approval.](/cfr/43/3173.24.md)
- [§3173.25. Existing approved off-lease measurement.](/cfr/43/3173.25.md)
- [§3173.26. Relationship of off-lease measurement approval to royalty-free use of production.](/cfr/43/3173.26.md)
- [§3173.27. Termination of off-lease measurement approval.](/cfr/43/3173.27.md)
- [§3173.28. Instances not constituting off-lease measurement, for which no approval is required.](/cfr/43/3173.28.md)
- [§3173.29. Immediate assessments for certain violations.](/cfr/43/3173.29.md)