Notice2024-21605
Minerals Management: Annual Adjustment of Cost Recovery Fees
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Published
September 20, 2024
Effective
October 1, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentLand Management Bureau
Abstract
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is adjusting the fixed fees set forth in the Department of the Interior's onshore mineral resources regulations for the processing of certain minerals program- related documents and actions.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 183 (Friday, September 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77170-77171]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-21605]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[BLM_HQ_FRN_MO4500181308]
Minerals Management: Annual Adjustment of Cost Recovery Fees
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of fee adjustments.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is adjusting the fixed
fees set forth in the Department of the Interior's onshore mineral
resources regulations for the processing of certain minerals program-
related documents and actions.
DATES: The adjusted fees take effect on October 1, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yvette M. Fields, Chief, Division of
Fluid Minerals, 240-712-8358, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#bbc2ddd2ded7dfc8fbd9d7d695dcd4cd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="29504f404c454d5a694b4544074e465f">[email protected]</span></a>; Matthew Marsh, Acting
Chief, Division of Solid Minerals, 307-347-5243, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#7a17171b0809123a181617541d150c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cda0a0acbfbea58dafa1a0e3aaa2bb">[email protected]</span></a>.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Independent Offices Appropriations Act
of 1953, 31 U.S.C. 9701, and section 304 of the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1734, authorize the BLM to charge
fees for processing applications and other documents related to public
lands. In 2005, the BLM published a final cost recovery rule (70 FR
58854) that established new fees or revised existing fees and service
charges for processing documents related to its minerals program and
established the method that the BLM uses to adjust those fees and
services charges for inflation on an annual basis. BLM regulations at
43 CFR 3000.120 provide that the BLM Director will post the fixed
filing fees on the BLM's web page (<a href="http://www.blm.gov">www.blm.gov</a>) and publish a notice in
the Federal Register announcing the fee adjustments by October 1 of
each year to provide additional public notice. The new fees take effect
each year on October 1.
The fee adjustments are based on mathematical formulas that were
established in the 2005 final cost recovery rule and, in the case of
the Application for Permit to Drill fee, section 3021(b) of the
National Defense Authorization Act of 2015. For more details on how the
BLM calculates the fee increases, please refer to the BLM website.
Processing and Filing Fee Table
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Document/action FY 2025 fee
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Oil & Gas (parts 3100, 3110, 3120, 3130,
3150, 3160, and 3180):
Competitive lease application.......... $3,100
Leasing and compensatory royalty 660
agreements under right-of-way pursuant
to subpart 3109..
Lease consolidation.................... 575
Assignment and transfer of record title 115
or operating rights.
Overriding royalty transfer, payment 15
out of production.
Name change; corporate merger; 270
sheriff's deed; dissolution of
corporation, partnership, or trust; or
transfer to heir/devisee.
Lease reinstatement, Class I........... 1,260
Geophysical exploration permit 1,150
application--all states *.
Renewal of exploration permit--Alaska.. 30
Final application for Federal unit 1,200
agreement approval, Federal unit
agreement expansion, and Federal
subsurface gas storage application *.
Designation of successor operator for 120
all Federal agreements, except for
contracted unit agreements that
contain no Federal lands *.
Geothermal (part 3200):
Noncompetitive lease application....... 520
Competitive lease application.......... 200
Assignment and transfer of record title 115
or operating rights.
Name change, corporate merger or 270
transfer to heir/devisee.
Lease consolidation.................... 575
Lease reinstatement.................... 100
Nomination of lands.................... 145
plus per acre nomination fee........... 0.14
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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 45
below.
Prospecting permit application 85
amendment.
Extension of prospecting permit........ 140
Lease modification or fringe acreage 40
lease.
Lease renewal.......................... 670
Assignment, sublease, or transfer of 40
operating rights.
Transfer of overriding royalty......... 40
Use permit............................. 40
Shasta and Trinity hardrock mineral 40
lease.
Renewal of existing sand and gravel 40
lease in Nevada.
Public Law 359; Mining in Powersite
Withdrawals: General (part 3730):
Notice of protest of placer mining 15
operations.
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 40
mining claims on Stockraising
Homestead Act lands.
Mineral patent adjudication (more than 3,915
10 claims).
(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 85
of record title or overriding royalty.
Onshore Oil and Gas Operations and
Production (parts 3160, 3170):
Application for Permit to Drill........ 12,515
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* 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.
David Rosenkrance,
Assistant Director, Office of Energy, Minerals, and Realty Management.
[FR Doc. 2024-21605 Filed 9-19-24; 8:45 am]
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