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43 CFR §3503.10

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No. The Secretary of the Interior may not lease lands on any of the following Federal areas:
  1. (a)Land recommended for wilderness allocation by the surface managing agency;
  2. (b)Lands within BLM wilderness study areas;
  3. (c)Lands designated by Congress as wilderness areas; and
  4. (d)Lands within areas allocated for wilderness or further planning in Executive Communication 1504, Ninety-Sixth Congress (House Document Number 96-119), unless such lands are allocated to uses other than wilderness by a land and resource management plan or have been released to uses other than wilderness by an act of Congress.