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Notice to Lessees and Operators (NTL) of Federal Oil and Gas Leases on the Outer Continental Shelf

Payment Method for New and Certain Existing Cost Recovery Fees

NOTE: NTL 2005-N03 is available for download in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).

Pursuant to 30 CFR 250.143, 250.171, 250.1015, 250.1101, 250.1106, 250.1303 and 256.64 you must pay specific service fees to MMS.

A final rule was published on August 25, 2005 and implemented new and adjusted fees for certain MMS services. The rule stated that an NTL would be published prior to the effective date of the rule (extended to January 1, 2006) that would prescribe the payment method to be used for the new and adjusted fees.

MMS is developing a new, online payment system that is well underway, and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of the 2006 calendar year. Until then, lessees must continue to use the previously existing payment methods of checks and/or credit cards for payment of the new and adjusted fees. Payments must accompany the applications.

When the online payment system is available, a new NTL will be issued and this NTL will be rescinded.

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 Statement

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3504 et seq.) requires us to inform you that the MMS collects the information and the associated fees to carry out its responsibilities under the OCS Lands Act, as amended. MMS is collecting fees to offset MMS’s costs of performing certain services relating to its minerals programs. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. The OMB has approved the collection of information for the affected regulations and assigned OMB control numbers 1010-0114, 1010-0050, 1010-0041, 1010-0068, and 1010-0006. Direct any comments regarding the burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information to the Information Collection Clearance Officer, Mail Stop 4230, Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior,
1849 C Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20240.

Contacts:

Please address any questions regarding this NTL to Gabe Durand by telephone at
(703) 787-1682 or by e-mail at gabe.durand@mms.gov.

___________________                                    _________________________________
Dated                                                             Thomas A. Readinger
                                                                     Associate Director for
                                                                     Offshore Energy and Minerals Management

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