43 CFR Part 3000.12

43 CFR 3000.12 (up to date as of 7/07/2023)
What is the fee schedule for fixed fees?

43 CFR 3000.12 (July 7, 2023)

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Title 43 —Public Lands: Interior
Subtitle B —Regulations Relating to Public Lands
Chapter II —Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior
Subchapter C —Minerals Management (3000)
Part 3000 —Minerals Management: General
Subpart 3000 —General
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.; 30 U.S.C. 181 et seq., 301–306, 351–359, and 601 et seq.; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 40 U.S.C. 471 et
seq.; 42 U.S.C. 6508; 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.; and Pub. L. 97–35, 95 Stat. 357.
Source: 48 FR 33659, July 22, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

§ 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) 2023. 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 (http://www.blm.gov) before October 1 each year. Revised fees are effective
each year on October 1.

Table 1 to Paragraph (a)—FY 2023 Processing and Filing Fee Table
Document/action

FY 2023 fee

Oil & Gas (parts 3100, 3110, 3120, 3130, 3150):
Competitive lease application

$185.

Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights

105.

Overriding royalty transfer, payment out of production

15.

Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee

250.

Lease consolidation

525.

Lease renewal or exchange

475.

Lease reinstatement, Class I

90.

Leasing under right-of-way

475.

Geophysical exploration permit application—Alaska

30.

Renewal of exploration permit—Alaska

30.

Geothermal (part 3200):
Noncompetitive lease application

475.

Competitive lease application

185.

Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights

105.

Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee

250.

Lease consolidation

525.

Lease reinstatement

90.

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43 CFR 3000.12(a)

Document/action

FY 2023 fee

Nomination of lands

135.

plus per acre nomination fee

0.13.

Site license application

70.

Assignment or transfer of site license

70.

Coal (parts 3400, 3470):
License to mine application

15.

Exploration license application

390.

Lease or lease interest transfer

80.

Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale (parts 3500, 3580):
Applications other than those listed below

45.

Prospecting permit application amendment

80.

Extension of prospecting permit

130.

Lease modification or fringe acreage lease

35.

Lease renewal

610.

Assignment, sublease, or transfer of operating rights

35.

Transfer of overriding royalty

35.

Use permit

35.

Shasta and Trinity hardrock mineral lease

35.

Renewal of existing sand and gravel lease in Nevada

35.

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 *

20.

Amendment of location

15.

Transfer of mining claim/site

15.

Recording an annual FLPMA filing

15.

Deferment of assessment work

130.

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

35.

Mineral patent adjudication

3,585 (more than 10
claims).
1,790 (10 or fewer
claims).

Adverse claim

130.

Protest

80.

Oil Shale Management (parts 3900, 3910, 3930):
Exploration license application

375.

Application for assignment or sublease of record title or overriding royalty

75.

Onshore Oil and Gas Operations and Production (parts 3160, 3170):
Application for Permit to Drill
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11,805.
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43 CFR 3000.12(b)

* 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]

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