43 C.F.R. § 3137.80 What are participating areas and how do they relate to the unit agreement?
Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior
(a) Participating areas are those committed tracts or portions of those committed tracts within the unit area that contain a well meeting the productivity criteria specified in the unit agreement. (b) You must include the proposed participating area size in the unit agreement for planning purposes and to aid in the mitigation of reasonably foreseeable and significantly adverse effects on NPR-A surface resources. The unit agreement must define the proposed participating areas. Your proposed participating area may be limited to separate producible intervals or areas. (c) At the time you meet the productivity criteria discussed in §3137.82 of this subpart, you must delineate those participating areas.
Title 43: Public Lands: Interior
PART 3130—OIL AND GAS LEASING: NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE, ALASKA
Subpart 3137—Unitization Agreements—National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
Participating Areas
§ 3137.80 What are participating areas and how do they relate to the unit agreement?