# Administration of Mining Claims and Sites
> **US Department of the Interior** · Interim final rule. · Published 2012-07-27 · Effective 2012-07-27 · 77 FR 44155
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-18352
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of the Interior
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 44155
- **CFR reference:** 43 CFR 3830
- **Publication date:** 2012-07-27
- **Effective date:** 2012-07-27
- **Interior docket:** WO-620-1990-00-24 1A
## Abstract

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is issuing this rule to amend regulations on locating, recording, and maintaining mining claims or sites. In this rule, the BLM amends its regulations to respond to a recent law that changes the way the maintenance fee is calculated for unpatented placer mining claims. The law specifies that the holder of an unpatented placer mining claim must pay the initial and annual maintenance fee for each 20 acres or portion thereof contained in the claim; and reiterates that an initial maintenance fee payment is due at the time of recording the claim with the BLM and that the annual maintenance fee is due on or before September 1 of each year.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/07/27/2012-18352/administration-of-mining-claims-and-sites)
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