Fixed Filing Fees

Services that require a fixed filing fee are found in 43 CFR 3000.120. Fixed filing fees must be paid to the appropriate BLM office for the services listed below. These fees are nonrefundable and must be included with documents filed under the appropriate Code of Federal Regulations chapter. BLM adjusts fees annually according to the change in the Implicit Price Deflator for Gross Domestic Product since the previous adjustment. After each adjustment and before October 1 each year, BLM will post those changes on this website. Revised fees will take effect each year on October 1. Please visit BLM’s form webpage if you need a Bureau-approved form for the service you are requesting.

Fixed Filing Fee Rates for Fiscal Year 2025:

Oil & Gas (parts 3100, 3110, 3120, 3130, 3150, 3160, and 3180):
Document/Action:Current Fee:
Competitive lease application$3,100
Leasing and compensatory royalty agreements under right-of-way pursuant to subpart 3109$660
Lease consolidation$575
Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights$115
Overriding royalty transfer, payment out of production$15
Name change, corporate merger, sheriff's deed, dissolution of corporation, partnership, or trust; or transfer to heir/devisee$270
Lease reinstatement, Class I$1,260
Geophysical exploration permit application - all states$1,150
Exploration permit renewal - Alaska$30
Final application for Federal unit agreement approval, Federal unit agreement expansion, and Federal subsurface gas storage application$1,200
Designation of successor operator for Federal agreements, except for contracted unit agreements that contain no Federal lands$120

 

Geothermal (part 3200):
Document/Action:Current Fee:
Noncompetitive lease application$520
Competitive lease application$200
Assignment and transfer of record title or operating rights$115
Name change, corporate merger or transfer to heir/devisee$270
Lease consolidation$575
Lease reinstatement$100
Nomination of lands$145
-Plus per-acre nomination fee$0.14
Site license application$80
Assignment or transfer of site license$80
Coal (parts 3400 and 3470):
Document/Action:Current Fee:
License to mine application$15
Exploration license application$425
Lease or lease interest transfer$85
Leasing of Solid Minerals other than Coal and Oil & Gas:
Document/Action:Current Fee:
Applications other than those listed below$45
Prospecting permit application amendment$85
Extension of prospecting permit$140
Lease modification or fringe acreage lease$40
Lease renewal$670
Assignment, sublease or transfer of operating rights$40
Transfer of overriding royalty$40
Use permit$40
Shasta and Trinity hardrock mineral lease$40
Renewal of existing sand and gravel lease in Nevada$40
Public Law 359, Mining in Powersite Withdrawals (part 3730):
Document/Action:Current Fee:
Notice of protest of placer mining operations$15
Mining Law Administration (parts 3800, 3810, 3830, 3860, 3870):
Document/Action:Current Fee:
Application to open lands to location$15
Notice of location*$25
Amendment of location$15
Transfer of mining claim transfer/site$15
Recording an annual FLPMA file$15
Deferment of assessment work$140
Recording a notice of intent to locate mining claims on Stockraising Homestead Act lands$40
Mineral patent adjudication (more than 10 claims)$3,915
Mineral patent adjudication (10 or fewer claims)$1,955
Adverse claim$140
Protest$85

* 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 43 CFR part 3833 must be paid.

Oil Shale Management (parts 3900, 3910, 3930):
Document/Action:Current Fee:
Exploration License Application$410
Application for assignment or sublease of record title or overriding royalty$85
Onshore Oil & Gas Operations and Production (parts 3160, 3170):
Document/Action:Current Fee:
Application for permit to drill$12,515

 

To access historical fixed filing fees, please reference the following Federal Register notices: