(a) For acquisition fees or the initial 12-months' rent paid for the preliminary term of your lease, you must make your electronic payments through the Fees for Services page on the BOEM Web site at http://www.boem.gov, and you must include one copy of the Pay.gov confirmation receipt page with your unsolicited request.
(b) For all other required rent payments and for operating fee payments, you must make your payments as required in 30 CFR 1218.51.
(c) This table summarizes payments you must make for leases and grants, unless otherwise specified in the Final Sale Notice: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Payment Amount Due date Payment mechanism Section reference--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) If your lease is issued Bid Deposit........... As set in Final Sale With bid............. Pay.Gov.............. Sec. 585.501.
competitively, Notice/depends on bid.
Bonus Balance......... ...................... Lease issuance....... 30 CFR 1218.51.......(2) If your lease is issued non- Acquisition Fee....... $0.25 per acre, unless With application..... Pay.gov.............. Sec. 585.502.
competitively. otherwise set by the
Director.(3) All leases..................... Initial Rent.......... $3 per acre per year.. 45 days after lease Pay.gov.............. Sec. 585.503.
issuance.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subsequent payments for leases and project easements--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(4) All leases..................... Subsequent Rent....... $3 per acre per year.. Annually............. 30 CFR 1218.51....... Sec. Sec. 585.503
and 585.504.
(5) If you have a project easement. Rent.................. Greater of $5 per acre When operations term 30 CFR 1218.51....... Sec. 585.507.
per year or $450 per for associated lease
year. starts, then
annually.(7) If your commercial lease is Operating Fee......... Determined by the Annually............. 30 CFR 1218.51....... Sec. 585.506.
producing, formula in Sec.
585.506.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Payments for ROW grants and RUE grants*--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(8) All ROW grants and RUE grants.. Initial Rent.......... $70 per statute mile, Grant Issuance....... Pay.gov.............. Sec. 585.508.
and the greater of $5
per acre per year or
$450 per year.
Subsequent Rent....... ...................... Annually or in 5-year 30 CFR 1218.51.......
batches.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* There is no acquisition fee for ROW grants or RUE grants. [76 FR 64623, Oct. 18, 2011, as amended at 79 FR 21623, Apr. 17, 2014]