§ 2885.24 - If I hold a grant or TUP, what cost recovery fees must I pay?

§ 2885.24 If I hold a grant or TUP, what monitoring cost recovery fees must I pay?

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Link to an amendment published at 89 FR 25975, Apr. 12, 2024.

(a) Monitoring fees. Subject to § 2886.11, you must pay a fee to the BLM for any costs the Federal Government incurs in processing, inspecting, and monitoring the construction, operation, maintenance, and termination of the pipeline and protection and rehabilitation of the affected public Federal lands your grant or TUP covers. We update the monitoring fees for The BLM categorizes the cost recovery fees based on the estimated number of work hours necessary to manage your grant or TUP. Categories 1 through 4 in the schedule fees are not refundable. The description of each Category and the associated work hours is found at § 2884.12(b).

(b) The BLM will update the cost recovery fee schedule for Categories 1 through 4 each calendar year, based on the previous year's change in the IPD-GDP, as measured second quarter to second quarter

. We will round these changes

rounded to the nearest dollar.

We

The BLM will update Category 5

monitoring

cost recovery fees as specified in the applicable Master Agreement.

We categorize the monitoring fees based on the estimated number of work hours necessary to monitor your grant or TUP. Monitoring fees for Categories 1 through 4 are one-time fees and are not refundable. These monitoring categories and the estimated range of Federal work hours for each category are:

Monitoring Categories

Monitoring category Federal work hours involved (1) Inspecting and monitoring of new grants and TUPs, assignments, renewals, and amendments to existing grants and TUPsEstimated Federal work hours are >1 ≤8. (2) Inspecting and monitoring of new grants and TUPs, assignments, renewals, and amendments to existing grants and TUPsEstimated Federal work hours are >8 ≤24. (3) Inspecting and monitoring of new grants and TUPs, assignments, renewals, and amendments to existing grants and TUPsEstimated Federal work hours are >24 ≤36. (4) Inspecting and monitoring of new grants and TUPs, assignments, renewals, and amendments to existing grants and TUPSEstimated Federal work hours are >36 ≤50. (5) Master AgreementsVaries. (6) Inspecting and monitoring of new grants and TUPs, assignments, renewals, and amendments to existing grants and TUPsEstimated Federal work hours >50.(b) The current monitoring cost schedule is available from any BLM State

(c) You may obtain a copy of the current cost recovery fee schedule at https://www.blm.gov, by contacting your local BLM state, district, or field office, or by writing: Attention to the Division of Lands, Realty and Cadastral Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management,

20 M Street SE., Room

1849 C Street NW, Mail Stop 2134LM, Washington, DC

20003. The BLM also posts the current schedule at http://www.blm.gov.[81 FR 92228, Dec. 19, 2016

20240.

[89 FR 25975, Apr. 12, 2024]