Lease Fees

Fixed Cost Recovery Fees FY 2008

FIXED COST RECOVERY FEES FY08

Document/Action
Existing Fee[1]
New Fee[2]
Oil & Gas (Parts 3100, 3110, 3120, 3130, 3150)

Noncompetitive lease application
$335
$360
Competitive lease application

$130
$140
Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights

$75
$80
Overriding royalty transfer, payment out of production

$10
$10
Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee

$175
$185
Lease consolidation

$370
$395
Lease renewal or exchange

$335
$360
Lease reinstatement, Class I

$65
$70
Leasing under right-of-way

$335
$360
Geophysical exploration permit application – Alaska

$25
$25[3]
Renewal of exploration permit – Alaska
$25
$25[4]

Geothermal (Part 3200)

Noncompetitive lease application

$335
$360
Competitive lease application

$130
$140
Assignment and transfer of record title or operating right

$75
$80
Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee

$175
$185
Lease consolidation

$370
$395
Lease reinstatement

$65
$70

Nomination of lands

$100 plus $0.10 per acre nominated
$100 plus $0.10 per acre nominated[5]
Site license application
$50
$55

Assignment or transfer of site license
$50
$55

Coal (Parts 3400, 3470)

License to mine application

$10
$10
Exploration license application

$275
$295
Lease or lease interest transfer

$55
$60

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

Applications other than those listed below

$30
$30
Prospecting permit application amendment

$55
$60
Extension of prospecting permit

$90
$95

Lease modification or fringe acreage lease
$25
$25

Lease renewal
$430
$460

Assignment, sublease, or transfer of operating rights
$25
$25

Transfer of overriding royalty
$25
$25

Use permit
$25
$25

Shasta and Trinity hardrock mineral lease
$25
$25

Renewal of existing sand and gravel lease in Nevada
$25
$25

Multiple Use; Mining (Group 3700)

Notice of protest of placer mining operations
$10
$10

Mining Law Administration (Parts 3800, 3810, 3830, 3850, 3860, 3870)

Application to open lands to location
$10
$10
Notice of location

$15
$15
Amendment of location

$10
$10

Transfer of mining claim/site
$10
$10
Recording an annual FLPMA filing

$10
$10

Deferment of assessment work
$90
$95

Recording a notice of intent to locate mining claims on Stockraising Homestead Act lands
$25
$25

Mineral patent adjudication

$2,520 (more than 10 claims)
$2,690

$1,260
(10 or fewer claims)
$1,345
Adverse claim

$90
$95
Protest

$55
$60

Source for Implicit Price Deflator for Gross Domestic Product data: http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/TableView.asp#Mid

[1] The Existing Fee was established by the 2005 cost recovery rulemaking, published October 7, 2005 (70 FR 58854), effective November 7, 2005.

[2] The New Fee for 2008 is the New Value rounded to the nearest $5.00 effective October 1, 2007.

[3] The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109-58) prohibited certain fee increases that the BLM interpreted to apply to geophysical exploration permit applications. The $25 fee for geophysical exploration permit applications for Alaska pre-dated the 2005 cost recovery rule and was not affected by the Energy Policy Act prohibition. However, we interpret the provision quoted as prohibiting us from increasing this $25 fee.

[4] We interpret the Energy Policy Act prohibition discussed in footnote 3, above, as prohibiting us from increasing this $25 fee, as well.

[5] The fee for nomination of lands under Part 3200 was added to the table by the final rule published on May 2, 2007 (72 FR 24400). Because the fee has been in effect for less than one year, we did not update it in this rulemaking.