Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part I - Office of the Secretary › Subpart 1 - General › Chapter 9 - Mineral Resources › Subchapter A - Mineral Leasing Policy › Section I-901 - Nomination

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. All parties
					 desiring to nominate state owned land and waterbottom acreage or land owned by
					 a state agency for which the State Mineral Board is being requested to issue a
					 mineral lease must be registered with the Office of Mineral Resources on a
					 one-time basis and have received an applicant ID number prior to submitting
					 application for nomination.
B. The
					 State Mineral Board has the authority to lease state owned lands and
					 waterbottoms (see
					 R.S.
					 30:124) and state agency owned land when
					 requested to do so (see
					 R.S.
					 30:153).
C. Application for nomination generally must
					 include a diskette or CD-ROM containing a .dxf format of the proposed nominated
					 tract polygon and a word.doc legal description of the same proposed nominated
					 tract which must exactly match the tract polygon exploded from the .dxf as to
					 X,Y coordinates along the polygon outline based on the Lambert Coordinate
					 System; a paper copy of the plat and the legal description which each must
					 match the .dxf exploded polygon and the word.doc; an electronic .pdf file of
					 the plat; a letter of application completely and accurately filled out and a
					 non-refundable check in the amount of the nomination fee as set forth in
					 R.S.
					 9:301(2) (presently $400).
					 More detailed requirements and certain exceptions are contained in the Leasing
					 Manual available on the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) website at
					 http://dnr.louisiana.gov/min/petlan/leasing.asp.
D. Nominated acreage for one nomination
					 cannot exceed 2,500 acres of state owned lands and waterbottoms, in the
					 aggregate, nor can the polygon outline of the nominated tract exceed 3 1/2
					 miles on a side, generally speaking, and must be given, where possible, in
					 Lambert (X,Y) Coordinates at critical points along the boundary of the
					 nomination polygon together with meets and bounds. Certain exceptions to this
					 rule may be found in the leasing manual available on the DNR website as
					 hereinabove set forth.
E.
					 Advertising of nominations cannot occur more than 60 days prior to the date on
					 which sealed bids are to be opened and must be done in the official state
					 journal and the official parish journal wherein the nomination lies. The
					 advertisement must contain a description of the land nominated, the time and
					 place where the sealed bids shall be received and opened (which must be a state
					 owned building in the state capital), a statement that the bid may be for the
					 whole or any particularly described portion of the advertised land and may
					 contain any other information deemed necessary by the mineral board
					 [R.S.
					 30:126(A)]. The Office of
					 Mineral Resources also publishes a notice book each month of tracts available
					 for bidding at the next month's mineral lease sale which is available to the
					 public for a yearly subscription price of $120. A copy of the notice book is
					 available for viewing on the DNR website.
F. A nomination may be withdrawn at the
					 request of the applicant prior to its being advertised for lease; thereafter,
					 the request for withdrawal must be reviewed by the State Mineral Board and
					 approved for withdrawal at the regularly scheduled monthly State Mineral Board
					 meeting.
G. For more detailed
					 information on nominations abutting or enclosing existing, active state mineral
					 leases, abutting the 3 mile boundary between state and federal waters, abutting
					 neighboring states, nominations of particular tract kinds-such as wildlife
					 management areas under the jurisdiction of the Department of Wildlife and
					 Fisheries, Sixteenth Section lands, vacant state lands, school indemnity lands,
					 state agency lands, tax adjudicated lands and other specialized types of
					 acreage requiring type specific handling, see the leasing manual available on
					 the DNR website as set forth hereinabove.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
						Promulgated in accordance with
						R.S.
						36:354(A).