43 CFR 3000.12 - What is the fee schedule for fixed fees?

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§ 3000.12 - What is the fee schedule for fixed fees?

(a) The table in this section shows the fixed fees that must be paid to the BLM for the services listed for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. These fees are nonrefundable and must be included with documents filed under this chapter. Fees will be adjusted annually according to the change in the Implicit Price Deflator for Gross Domestic Product (IPD-GDP) and the change in the Consumer Price Index for all goods and all urban consumers (CPI-U) by way of publication of a final rule in the Federal Register and will subsequently be posted on the BLM website (https://www.blm.gov) before October 1 each year. Revised fees are effective each year on October 1.

Table 1 to Paragraph (a)—FY 2024 Processing and Filing Fee Table

Document/action	FY 2024 fee	Oil & Gas (parts 3100, 3110, 3120, 3130, 3150):		Competitive lease application	$195.	Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights	115.	Overriding royalty transfer, payment out of production	15.	Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee	265.	Lease consolidation	560.	Lease renewal or exchange	505.	Lease reinstatement, Class I	100.	Leasing under right-of-way	505.	Geophysical exploration permit application—Alaska	30.	Renewal of exploration permit—Alaska	30.	Geothermal (part 3200):		Noncompetitive lease application	505.	Competitive lease application	195.	Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights	115.	Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee	265.	Lease consolidation	560.	Lease reinstatement	100.	Nomination of lands	140.	plus per acre nomination fee	0.14.	Site license application	75.	Assignment or transfer of site license	75.	Coal (parts 3400, 3470):		License to mine application	15.	Exploration license application	415.	Lease or lease interest transfer	85.	Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale (parts 3500, 3580):		Applications other than those listed below	45.	Prospecting permit application amendment	85.	Extension of prospecting permit	135.	Lease modification or fringe acreage lease	40.	Lease renewal	650.	Assignment, sublease, or transfer of operating rights	40.	Transfer of overriding royalty	40.	Use permit	40.	Shasta and Trinity hardrock mineral lease	40.	Renewal of existing sand and gravel lease in Nevada	40.	Public Law 359; Mining in Powersite Withdrawals: General (part 3730):		Notice of protest of placer mining operations	15.	Mining Law Administration (parts 3800, 3810, 3830, 3860, 3870):		Application to open lands to location	15.	Notice of location *	25.	Amendment of location	15.	Transfer of mining claim/site	15.	Recording an annual FLPMA filing	15.	Deferment of assessment work	135.	Recording a notice of intent to locate mining claims on Stockraising Homestead Act lands	40.	Mineral patent adjudication	3,815 (more than 10 claims).		1,905 (10 or fewer claims).	Adverse claim	135.	Protest	85.	Oil Shale Management (parts 3900, 3910, 3930):		Exploration license application	400.	Application for assignment or sublease of record title or overriding royalty	80.	Onshore Oil and Gas Operations and Production (parts 3160, 3170):		Application for Permit to Drill	12,155.

* To record a mining claim or site location, this processing fee along with the initial maintenance fee and the one-time location fee required by statute (43 CFR part 3833) must be paid.

(b) The amount of a fixed fee is not subject to appeal to the Interior Board of Land Appeals pursuant to part 4, subpart E, of this title.

[70 FR 58873, Oct. 7, 2005, as amended at 72 FR 24400, May 2, 2007; 72 FR 50886, Sept. 5, 2007, 73 FR 54720, Sept. 23, 2008; 74 FR 7193, Feb. 13, 2009; 74 FR 49334, Sept. 28, 2009; 75 FR 55682, Sept. 14, 2010; 76 FR 59062, Sept. 23, 2011; 77 FR 55424, Sept. 10, 2012; 78 FR 49949, Aug. 16, 2013; 79 FR 57480, Sept. 25, 2014; 80 FR 58629, Sept. 30, 2015; 81 FR 65561, Sept. 23, 2016; 83 FR 48960, Sept. 28, 2018; 84 FR 59733, Nov. 6, 2019; 85 FR 64060, Oct. 9, 2020; 86 FR 56440, Oct. 4, 2021; 87 FR 57641, Sept. 21, 2022; 88 FR 66699, Sept. 28, 2023]