[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR9.32]

[Page 171-172]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 9_MINERALS MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart B_Non-Federal Oil and Gas Rights
 
Sec.  9.32  Access.

    (a) No access on, across or through lands or waters owned or 
controlled by the United States to a site for operations will be granted 
except for operations covered by Sec.  9.33 and, except as provided by 
Sec.  9.38, until the operator has filed a plan of operations pursuant 
to Sec.  9.36 and has had the plan of operations approved in accordance 
with

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Sec.  9.37. An approved plan of operations serves as the operator's 
access permit.
    (b) No operations shall be conducted on a site within a unit, access 
to which is on, across or through federally-owned or controlled lands or 
waters except in accordance with an approved plan of operations, the 
terms of Sec.  9.33 or approval under Sec.  9.38.
    (c) Any operator intending to use aircraft of any kind for access to 
a federally-owned or controlled site must comply with these regulations. 
Failure of an operator to receive the proper approval under these 
regulations prior to using aircraft in this manner is a violation of 
both these regulations and 36 CFR 2.17.
    (d) No access to a site outside a unit will be permitted across unit 
lands unless such access is by foot, pack animal, or designated road. 
Persons using designated roads for access to such a site must comply 
with the terms of Sec.  9.50 where applicable.
    (e) Any operator on a site outside the boundaries of a unit must 
comply with these regulations if he is using directional drilling 
techniques which result in the drill hole crossing into the unit and 
passing under any land or water the surface of which is owned by the 
United States. Except, that the operator need not comply in those areas 
where, upon application of the operator or upon his own action, the 
Regional Director is able to determine from available data, that such 
operations pose no significant threat of damage to park resources, both 
surface and subsurface, resulting from surface subsidence, fracture of 
geological formations with resultant fresh water acquifer contamination, 
or natural gas escape, or the like.