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U.S. Department of the InteriorBureau of Land Management |
COMMERCIAL USES AND REVENUES GENERATED
The demands being placed on the public lands are growing in tandem with the number and diversity of the people the BLM serves. Our ability to meet these new demands will depend on improving the Bureau's accountability to users of the public lands, while emphasizing the responsibility of these users to adhere to an ethic that is sensitive to the land's health and responsive to the public's right to receive fair value in return.
The BLM historically has made land available for authorized private sector activities, such as recreation, energy and mineral commodity extraction, livestock forage use, sawtimber harvest, and other related land use authorizations and land dispositions, and we will continue to do so. Taxpayers should expect to receive a fair return from such transactions, consistent with existing laws. The BLM will also ensure that adverse impacts on the land, other users, and on the American public are minimized so as to prevent long-term environmental impairment or the creation of unfunded taxpayer liabilities.
The BLM administers an onshore surface and mineral estate of over 264 million acres of public land, plus another 370 million acres of mineral estate underlying other lands. The BLM also provides technical supervision of mineral development on 56 million acres of American Indian trust lands.
The following tables of statistics show the essential outputs of various interrelated programs that provide commercial uses as shown in Tables 3-1 through 3-23. Beginning with this edition of the Public Land Statistics, new and continuing geothermal activities on Federal lands have been added to Tables 3-16 and 3-17.
Tables 3-24 through 3-32 display outcome-oriented information in terms of receipts or payments and the allocation of funds generated from commercial use activities on public lands. Table 3-32 is a new table that lists receipts from mining fees, consistent with the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (PL 105-277, October 21, 1998).
Please note that only receipts and payments collected by the BLM are listed. For revenues derived from BLM energy and mineral activities, refer to Mineral Revenues in the Annual Report of the Minerals Management Service, a Department of the Interior agency. The total onshore mineral revenues, including royalties, rents, and bonus bids, were $1,073 million for Fiscal Year 1999.
| 3-1 | Applications, Entries, Selections, and Patents | 99pl3-1.pdf |
| 3-2 | Patents Issued with Minerals Reserved to the United States | 99pl3-2.pdf |
| 3-3 | Rights-of-Way Workload for the Lower 48 States | 99pl3-3.pdf |
| 3-4 | Number of Existing Rights-of-Way | 99pl3-4.pdf |
| 3-5 | Nonspecific Land Use Authorizations | 99pl3-5.pdf |
| 3-6 | Miscellaneous Land Use Authorizations | 99pl3-6.pdf |
| 3-7 | Summary of Authorized Use of Grazing District Lands (Section 3) | 99pl3-7.pdf |
| 3-8 | Summary of Authorized Use of Grazing Lease Lands (Section 15) | 99pl3-8.pdf |
| 3-9 | Grazing Permits in Force on Grazing District Lands (Section 3) | 99pl3-9.pdf |
| 3-10 | Grazing Leases in Force on Grazing Lease Lands (Section 15) | 99pl3-10.pdf |
| 3-11 | Timber, Wood Products, and Non-Timber Forest Product Sales | 99pl3-11.pdf |
| 3-12 | Forest Products Offered by State | 99pl3-12.pdf |
| 3-13 | Competitive Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Leasing | 99pl3-13.pdf |
| 3-14 | Noncompetitive Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Leases | 99pl3-14.pdf |
| 3-15 | Other Oil and Gas Leasing Actions | 99pl3-15.pdf |
| 3-16 | New Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Activities on Federal Lands | 99pl3-16.pdf |
| 3-17 | Continuing Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Activities on Federal Lands | 99pl3-17.pdf |
| 3-18 | Federal Coal Leases, Licenses, Permits, Preference Right Lease Applications, and Logical Mining Units | 99pl3-18.pdf |
| 3-19 | Other Solid Mineral Leases, Licenses, Permits, and Preference Right Lease Applications | 99pl3-19.pdf |
| 3-20 | Disposition of Mineral Materials | 99pl3-20.pdf |
| 3-21 | Mineral Patents Issued | 99pl3-21.pdf |
| 3-22 | Recordation of Mining Claims, Public Law 94-579, From October 21, 1976 through Fiscal Year 1999 | 99pl3-22.pdf |
| 3-23 | Notices and Plans of Mining Operations Filed with the BLM, Fiscal Years 1992 through 1999 | 99pl3-23.pdf |
| 3-24 | Helium Operations and Revenues | 99pl3-24.pdf |
| 3-25 | Receipts From the Disposition of Public Lands and Resources, May 20, 1785 through Fiscal Year 1999 | 99pl3-25.pdf |
| 3-26 | Statement of Receipts by Source | 99pl3-26.pdf |
| 3-27 | Receipts from Oil and Gas Right-of-Way Rentals, Rents, Bonuses, and Royalties | 99pl3-27.pdf |
| 3-28 | Allocation of Receipts to States and Local Governments by Program | 99pl3-28.pdf |
| 3-29 | Allocation of Receipts by Source and Fund | 99pl3-29.pdf |
| 3-30 | Payments to States (Including Local Governments) and Territories | 99pl3-30.pdf |
| 3-31 | Legal Allocation of BLM Receipts | 99pl3-31.pdf |
| 3-32 | Receipts from Mining Fees | 99pl3-32.pdf |