3000.12—What is the fee schedule for fixed fees?

(a) The table in this section shows the fixed fees that you must pay to the BLM for the services listed for Fiscal Year 2012. These fees are nonrefundable and must be included with documents you file under this chapter. Fees will be adjusted annually according to the change in the Implicit Price Deflator for Gross Domestic Product (IPD-GDP) by way of publication of a final rule in the Federal Register and will subsequently be posted on the BLM Web site (http://www.blm.gov) before October 1 each year. Revised fees are effective each year on October 1.
FY 2012 Processing and Filing Fee Table
Document/action FY 2012 Fee
Oil & Gas (parts 3100, 3110, 3120, 3130, 3150 )
Noncompetitive lease application $380
Competitive lease application 150
Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights 85
Overriding royalty transfer, payment out of production 10
Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee 200
Lease consolidation 420
Lease renewal or exchange 380
Lease reinstatement, Class I 75
Leasing under right-of-way 380
Geophysical exploration permit application—Alaska 25
Renewal of exploration permit—Alaska 25
Geothermal (part 3200 )
Noncompetitive lease application 380
Competitive lease application 150
Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights 85
Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee 200
Lease consolidation 420
Lease reinstatement 75
Nomination of lands 105
plus per acre nomination fee 0.11
Site license application 55
Assignment or transfer of site license 55
Coal (parts 3400, 3470 )
Code of Federal Regulations 332
License to mine application 10
Exploration license application 315
Lease or lease interest transfer 65
Leasing of Solid Minerals Other Than Coal and Oil Shale (parts 3500, 3580 )
Applications other than those listed below 35
Prospecting permit application amendment 65
Extension of prospecting permit 105
Lease modification or fringe acreage lease 30
Lease renewal 490
Assignment, sublease, or transfer of operating rights 30
Transfer of overriding royalty 30
Use permit 30
Shasta and Trinity hardrock mineral lease 30
Renewal of existing sand and gravel lease in Nevada 30
Multiple Use; Mining (part 3730 )
Notice of protest of placer mining operations 10
Mining Law Administration (parts 3800, 3810, 3830, 3850, 3860, 3870 )
Application to open lands to location 10
Notice of location* 15
Amendment of location 10
Transfer of mining claim/site 10
Recording an annual FLPMA filing 10
Deferment of assessment work 105
Recording a notice of intent to locate mining claims on Stockraising Homestead Act lands 30
Mineral patent adjudication 2,875 (more than 10 claims)
1,440 (10 or fewer claims)
Adverse claim 105
Protest 65
Oil Shale Management (parts 3900, 3910, 3930 )
Exploration license application 300
Application for assignment or sublease of record title or overriding royalty 60
* To record a mining claim or site location, you must pay this processing fee along with the initial maintenance fee and the one-time location fee required by statute. 43 CFR part 3833 .
(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.

Code of Federal Regulations

[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]