IDI-38711, Parcel A

All bidding and lease sale on BLM parcels listed on this website shall be subject to the statutes, administrative rules and regulations of the BLM per the authority of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 as amended and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947, as amended.

A lease issued as a result of this sale will have a primary term of 10 years. It will continue beyond its primary term as long as oil or gas in paying quantities is produced on or for the benefit of the lease. Advance rental at $1.50 per acre for the first 5 years ($2 per acre after that) is due on or before the anniversary date each year until production begins. Once a lease is producing, you must pay a royalty of 12.5 percent of the value or the amount of production removed or sold from the lease. You will find other lease terms on our standard lease form (Form 3100-11, October 2008).

Stipulations are part of the lease and supersede any inconsistent provisions of the lease form. Some parcels are subject to surface use stipulations. They are requirements or restrictions on how you conduct operations. They become part of the lease and supersede any inconsistent provisions in the lease form.

1. For the purpose of preventing watershed damage no occupancy or other surface disturbance will be allowed within 500 feet of perennial streams, riparian areas, wetlands, springs, and irrigation ditches/canals. This distance may be modified when specifically approved in writing by the Authorized Officer of the Bureau of Land Management. This stipulation applies to the following areas: Sec 7 - N½SE¼; Sec 9 - E½; Sec 17 - E½E½; Sec 18 - SE¼SE¼.

2. No occupancy or other surface disturbance will be allowed on slopes in excess of 30 percent or in excess of 20 percent on extremely erodible or slumping soils, without written approval of the Authorized Officer of the BLM. This stipulation applies to the following areas: Sec 7 - lot 3, NE¼SW¼, and N½SE¼; Sec 8 - NE¼; Sec 9 - E½; Sec 17 - E½NE¼ and NE¼SE¼.

3. In order to protect migratory bird nesting within the lease area, surface disturbance and land clearing of vegetated habitat capable of supporting migratory bird nesting is restricted during avian breeding season (March 15 through August 15). Exceptions to the limitation in any year may be specifically authorized in writing by the Authorized Officer.

4. CULTURAL RESOURCE PROTECTION STIPULATION
This lease may be found to contain historic properties and/or resources protected under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Executive Order 13007, or other statutes and executive orders. The BLM will not approve any ground-disturbing activities that may affect any such properties or resources until it completes its obligations (e.g., State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) and tribal consultation) under applicable requirements of the NHPA and other authorities. The BLM may require modification to exploration or development proposals to protect such properties, or disapprove any activity that is likely to result in adverse effects that cannot be successfully avoided, minimized, or mitigated.

5. ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT SECTION 7 CONSULTATION STIPULATION
The lease area may now or hereafter contain plants, animals or their habitats determined to be threatened, endangered, or other special status species. The BLM may recommend modifications to exploration and development proposals to further its conservation and management objective to avoid BLM-approved activity that will contribute to a need to list such a species or their habitat. The BLM may require modifications to or disapprove proposed activity that is likely to result in jeopardy to the continued existence of a proposed or listed threatened or endangered species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of a designated or proposed critical habitat. The BLM will not approve any ground-disturbing activity that may affect any such species or critical habitat until it completes its obligations under applicable requirements of the Endangered Species Act as amended, 16 U .S.C. 1531 et seg., including completion of any required procedure for conference or consultation.

An Information Notice (lease notice) conveys certain requirements relative to lease management within the terms and conditions of the standard lease form. Information Notices shall not be a basis for denial of lease operations.

1. Provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) of 1920, as amended by the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976, affect an entity's qualifications to obtain an oil and gas lease. Section 2(a)(2)(A) of the MLA, 30 U.S.C. 201 (a)(2)(A), requires that any entity that holds and has held a Federal coal lease for I 0 years beginning on or after August 4, 1976, and which is not producing coal in commercial quantities from each such lease, cannot qualify for the issuance of any other lease granted under the MLA. Compliance by coal lessees with Section 2(a)(2)(A) is explained in 43 CFR 3472.

In accordance with the terms of this oil and gas lease with respect to compliance by the initial lessee with qualifications concerning Federal coal lease holdings, all assignees and transferees are hereby notified that this oil and gas lease is subject to cancellation if: (1) the initial lessee as assignor or as transferor has falsely certified compliance with Section 2(a)(2)(A), or (2) because of a denial or disapproval by a State Office of a pending coal action, i.e., arms-length assignment, relinquishment, or logical mining unit, the initial lessee as assignor or as transferor is no longer in compliance with Section 2(a)(2)(A). The assignee, sublessee or transferee does not qualify as a bona fide purchaser and, thus, has no rights to bona fide purchaser protection in the event of cancellation of this lease due to noncompliance with Section 2(a)(2)(A).

The lease case file, as well as other Bureau of Land Management (BLM) records available through the state office issuing this lease, contains information regarding assignor or transferor compliance with Section 2(a)(2)(A).

2. Sage Grouse General Habitat Management Areas (entire lease area). To meet the objectives of the "Idaho and Southwestern Montana Greater Sage-Grouse Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment, September 2015 (2015 GRSG ARMPA)," conditions of approval would be imposed on exploration and other development activities within the entire lease area on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the ARMPA management decisions, buffers, seasonal restrictions, and required design features (RDFs).

3. Buffer Distances. There are no recorded sage grouse leks within the lease area however, if discovered, activities will be avoided within the following distances from sage grouse leks:

• linear features (roads) within 3.1 miles of leks
• infrastructure related to energy development within 3.1 miles of leks.
• tall structures (e.g., communication or transmission towers, transmission lines) within 2 miles of leks.
• low structures (e.g., fences, rangeland structures) within 1.2 miles of leks.
• surface disturbance ( continuing human activities that alter or remove the natural vegetation) within 3.1 miles of leks.
• noise and related disruptive activities including those that do not result in habitat loss (e.g., motorized recreational events) at least 0.25 miles from leks.

The BLM may approve actions in GHMA that are within the applicable lek buffer distance identified above only if-

• It is not possible to relocate the project outside of the applicable lek buffer distance(s) identified above;
• The BLM determines that a lek buffer-distance other than the applicable distance identified above offers the same or a greater level of protection to GRSG and its habitat, including conservation of seasonal habitat outside the analyzed buffer area, based on vest available science, landscape features, and other exiting protections, (e.g., land us allocations, state regulations): or
• The BLM determines that impacts to GRSG and its habitat are minimized such that the project will cause minor or no new disturbance (ex. Co-location with existing authorizations); and
• Any residual impacts within the lek buffer-distances are addressed through compensatory mitigation measures sufficient to ensure a net conservation gain, as outlined in the Mitigation Strategy (Appendix X of the 2015 GRSG ARMPA).

4. To reduce noise disturbance impacts to surrounding wildlife habitat during the migratory bird nesting season and the Greater Sage-grouse early brood-rearing through late brood-rearing seasons [April - September] noise abatement mitigation will be required for exploration and development activities within the entire lease area.

5. Reclamation standards for exploration and development activities will be formally negotiated/addressed through the surface use agreement between the operator and the land owner (forthcoming), at which point BLM will attempt conformity to the 2015 GRSG ARMPA, and require applicable COA's in any forthcoming NEPA analysis.

After all auctions have closed, the successful bidder will be notified via email with closing instructions, including total amount due.

On the day of the sale, you must pay at least the minimum bonus bid of $2 per acre or fraction of an acre; the first year's advance rental of $1.50 per acre or fraction of an acre; and a non-refundable administrative fee of $160, to the BLM State Office by the close of business.

A 1.5% Buyer Premium, calculated as 1.5% of the total bonus, will be added to the cost of this lease.