CHAPTER 3 PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES IN STATUS DETERMINATION AND LEASING OF MINERALS OTHER THAN OIL AND GAS ON FEDERAL LANDS
| Jurisdiction | United States |
(May 1971)
PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES IN STATUS DETERMINATION AND LEASING OF MINERALS OTHER THAN OIL AND GAS ON FEDERAL LANDS
POULSON, ODELL & PETERSON
SUITE 1520, 1700 BROADWAY
DENVER, COLORADO 80202
I. PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES IN STATUS DETERMINATION
* Purpose of the particular status determination
* Limit Status Report to materials examined
* Ordering copies of Records
* Deposit accounts
* Security problems
* Order of search
STATUS REPORT — Check List
General
Date of Search
By
Serial Number
File Number
Description
County
Township
Range
Meridian
Case Files
Lease of Permit Applicant
Address
Lease or Permit Application Form
Mineral applied for
Filing Fee
Act under which offer filed
Date and Time filed
Acreage requested
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Description
Amount
Acreage rejected
Acreage in Lease or Permit
Qualifications of Applicant
Evidence of Authority
Sole Party in interest
Isolated
Six Square Mile Rule
Acreage Limitations
Conflicting Applications
Drawing
Date
Priority Number and Disposition of Conflicting Offers
Date Lease or Permit issued
Clear listed by U.S.G.S.
Environmental clearance
Effective Date of Lease or Permit
Administrative agency consent
Stipulations
Consent to Stipulations
Bonds
Rentals (On leases issued prior to July 29, 1954, is lease subject to PL 555?)
Year
Amount
When Paid
Paid by
Lease or Permit extensions
Application date
Filed
By
Approved
Extended to
Per Regulation
Additional Stipulations
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Assignments
New Serial Number assigned
Assignor
Assignee
Date of Assignment
Date Assignment filed
Date Assignment approved
Effective Date of Assignment
Lands Assigned
ORRI reserved
Reassignment clause
Terms of Assignment
Form Number
Qualifications of Assignee
Sole Party in interest
Options
Date of Option
Date filed
Other transfers of interests
Unitization or Communitization Agreements
Lands relinquished
Date of relinquishment
Date filed
Date accepted
Other Case File comments
Competitive Oil and Gas Lease (See KGS Sale File)
Historical Index
Withdrawals
Restorations
Classifications
Indemnity or Selection Lists
Prior Entries
Patents
Railroad Grants
Exchanges
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Homestead and Stockraising Designations
Contests
Other matters
Master Title Plat
Notations on Plat (cross-check with Historical Index)
Current Applications
Range Improvement projects
Other matters
Rights-of-Way
Ap...
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