[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 183 (Friday, September 20, 2024)] [Notices] [Pages 77170-77171] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2024-21605] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, [email protected]; Matthew Marsh, Acting Chief, Division of Solid Minerals, 307-347-5243, [email protected]. Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services. Individuals outside the United States should use the relay services offered within their country to make international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States. 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 (www.blm.gov) 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Document/action FY 2025 fee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [[Page 77171]] 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 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] BILLING CODE 4331-29-P