---
kind: "unit"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands: Interior"
key: "subtB/chII/subchC/part3460/subpart3461"
level: "subpart"
label: "Subpart 3461"
heading: "Federal Lands Review: Unsuitability for Mining"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/subtB-chII-subchC-part3460-subpart3461"
sections_count: 12
---

# Subpart 3461 — Federal Lands Review: Unsuitability for Mining

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 3460 — Environment

## Sections

- [§3461.0-3. Authority.](/cfr/43/3461.0-3.md)
- [§3461.0-6. Policy.](/cfr/43/3461.0-6.md)
- [§3461.0-7. Scope.](/cfr/43/3461.0-7.md)
- [§3461.1. Underground mining exemption from criteria.](/cfr/43/3461.1.md)
- [§3461.2. Unsuitability assessment procedures.](/cfr/43/3461.2.md)
- [§3461.2-1. Assessment and land use planning.](/cfr/43/3461.2-1.md)
- [§3461.2-2. Consultation on unsuitability assessments.](/cfr/43/3461.2-2.md)
- [§3461.3. Relationship of leasing to unsuitability assessment.](/cfr/43/3461.3.md)
- [§3461.3-1. Application of criteria on unleased lands.](/cfr/43/3461.3-1.md)
- [§3461.3-2. Application of criteria on leased lands.](/cfr/43/3461.3-2.md)
- [§3461.4. Exploration.](/cfr/43/3461.4.md)
- [§3461.5. Criteria for assessing lands unsuitable for all or certain stipulated methods of coal mining.](/cfr/43/3461.5.md)