Bureau of Land Management LANDS & REALTY

RIGHTS-OF-WAY

Each year hundreds of individuals and companies apply to the BLM for rights-of-way (ROW) on or across public lands. A ROW grant is an authorization to use a specific piece of public land for specific facilities for a specific period of time. Currently the vast majority of the ROWs granted are authorized by Title V of FLPMA (43 U.S.C. 1761-1771) and the Mineral Leasing Act (Section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended , 43 U.S.C. 185). It is the policy of the BLM to authorize all ROW applications at the discretion of the authorized officer in the most efficient and economical manner possible.

FLPMA Rights-of-Way: As authorized by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), BLM will issue ROW grants for electrical power generation, transmission and distribution systems, systems for the transmission and reception of electronic signals and other means of communications, highways, railroads, pipelines (other than oil and gas pipelines) and other facilities or systems which are in the public interest.

Mineral Leasing Act Rights-of-Way: As authorized by the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA), BLM will issue ROW grants for oil and natural gas gathering, and distribution pipelines and related facilities (not authorized by appropriate leases) and oil and natural gas transmission pipeline and related facilities.

• West-Wide Energy Corridor Programmatic EIS Information
• New Right-of-Way Regulations - Published April 22, 2005 (650KB PDF)
  • New Right-of-Way Regulations Information Site
  • Right-of-Way Rent Payment Option Information letter (17KB PDF)
  • Realty and Right-Of-Way Program Contacts page
• Calendar Year 2007 Processing Fee Schedule for FLPMA and MLA Rights-of-Way (30KB PDF)
• Calendar Year 2007 Monitoring Fee Schedule for FLPMA and MLA Rights-of-Way (30KB PDF)
• Calendar Year 2007 Communication Uses Rental Schedule
  • Rental Fee Schedule For Communications Uses (45KB PDF)
  • Listing of Cities by Population Strata (78KB PDF)
• Calendar Year 2007 Linear Right-of-Way Rental Rates
  • Rental Rates by State and County (320KB PDF)
  • Determining Rent for All Roads, Ditches and Canals, Oil, Gas; Other Energy Pipelines (15KB PDF)
  • Determining Rent for Electric Lines, Telephone Lines, Non-Energy Pipelines and other Linear ROW (15KB PDF)
• "Obtaining a Right-of-Way on Public Lands" (100KB PDF)
• Realty & Rights-of-Way State Contact List
• NEW! SF 299: Application for Right-of-Way (563KB PDF) - mail or fax form to the appropriate office
• BLM Administrative Jurisdiction Map
• Best Management Practices Web Site
• Avian Power Line Interaction Committee

Last updated: 12/14/06

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