§ 3000.120 - Fee schedule for fixed fees.

§ 3000.120 Fee schedule for fixed fees.

(a) The table in this section lists the services that require payment of fixed fees to the BLM. The fixed fee amounts are posted on the BLM website (https://www.blm.gov) and published in a Federal Register notice. 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 since the previous adjustment and will subsequently be posted on the BLM website (https://www.blm.gov) and announced annually in the Federal Register before October 1 each year. Revised fees are effective each year on October 1.

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

Document/action

Oil & Gas (parts 3100, 3110, 3120, 3130, 3150, 3160, and 3180):

Competitive lease application

Leasing and compensatory royalty agreements under right-of-way pursuant to subpart 3109.

Lease consolidation

Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights

Overriding royalty transfer, payment out of production

Name change; corporate merger; sheriff's deed; dissolution of corporation, partnership, or trust; or transfer to heir/devisee

Lease reinstatement, Class I

Geophysical exploration permit application—all states

Renewal of exploration permit—Alaska

Final application for Federal unit agreement approval, Federal unit agreement expansion, and Federal subsurface gas storage application

Designation of successor operator for all Federal agreements, except for contracted unit agreements that contain no Federal lands.

Geothermal (part 3200):

Noncompetitive lease application

Competitive lease application

Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights

Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee

Lease consolidation

Lease reinstatement

Nomination of lands

plus per acre nomination fee

Site license application

Assignment or transfer of site license

Coal (parts 3400, 3470):

License to mine application

Exploration license application

Lease or lease interest transfer

Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale (parts 3500, 3580):

Applications other than those listed below

Prospecting permit application amendment

Extension of prospecting permit

Lease modification or fringe acreage lease

Lease renewal

Assignment, sublease, or transfer of operating rights

Transfer of overriding royalty

Use permit

Shasta and Trinity hardrock mineral lease

Renewal of existing sand and gravel lease in Nevada

Public Law 359; Mining in Powersite Withdrawals: General (part 3730):

Notice of protest of placer mining operations

Mining Law Administration (parts 3800, 3810, 3830, 3860, 3870):

Application to open lands to location

Notice of location *

Amendment of location

Transfer of mining claim/site

Recording an annual FLPMA filing

Deferment of assessment work

Recording a notice of intent to locate mining claims on Stockraising Homestead Act lands

Mineral patent adjudication

Adverse claim

Protest

Oil Shale Management (parts 3900, 3910, 3930):

Exploration license application

Application for assignment or sublease of record title or overriding royalty

Onshore Oil and Gas Operations and Production (parts 3160, 3170):

Application for Permit to Drill

* 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 43 CFR part 4, subpart E.