Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part V - Office of Mineral Resources › Chapter 5 - Mineral Resources › Subchapter A - Mineral Leasing Policy › Section V-501 - Nomination [Formerly LAC 43:I.901]

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).