2024-21605. Minerals Management: Annual Adjustment of Cost Recovery Fees

Processing and Filing Fee Table

Document/action	FY 2025 fee
Oil & Gas (parts 3100, 3110, 3120, 3130, 3150, 3160, and 3180):
Competitive lease application	$3,100
Leasing and compensatory royalty agreements under right-of-way pursuant to subpart 3109.	660
Lease consolidation	575
Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights	115
Overriding royalty transfer, payment out of production	15
Name change; corporate merger; sheriff's deed; dissolution of corporation, partnership, or trust; or transfer to heir/devisee	270
Lease reinstatement, Class I	1,260
Geophysical exploration permit application—all states *	1,150
Renewal of exploration permit—Alaska	30
Final application for Federal unit agreement approval, Federal unit agreement expansion, and Federal subsurface gas storage application *	1,200
Designation of successor operator for all Federal agreements, except for contracted unit agreements that contain no Federal lands *	120
Geothermal (part 3200):
Noncompetitive lease application	520
Competitive lease application	200
Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights	115
Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee	270
Lease consolidation	575
Lease reinstatement	100
Nomination of lands	145
plus per acre nomination fee	0.14
( print page 77171)
Site license application	80
Assignment or transfer of site license	80
Coal (parts 3400, 3470):
License to mine application	15
Exploration license application	425
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	140
Lease modification or fringe acreage lease	40
Lease renewal	670
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	140
Recording a notice of intent to locate mining claims on Stockraising Homestead Act lands	40
Mineral patent adjudication (more than 10 claims)	3,915
(10 or fewer claims)	1,955
Adverse claim	140
Protest	85
Oil Shale Management (parts 3900, 3910, 3930):
Exploration license application	410
Application for assignment or sublease of record title or overriding royalty	85
Onshore Oil and Gas Operations and Production (parts 3160, 3170):
Application for Permit to Drill	12,515
* These fees are new for FY 2025. The BLM adopted them in the final rule titled “Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process,” published on April 23, 2024 (89 FR 30916).
** 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 and at 43 CFR part 3833 must be paid.