Keep filing those rock and steam royalty forms
Published Date: 4/14/2025
Notice
Summary
The Office of Natural Resources Revenue wants to keep collecting info on solid minerals and geothermal resources from Federal and Indian lands. This helps track production and royalties using specific forms. If you’re involved, you can comment on this plan by June 13, 2025, but no big changes or costs are expected.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Mandatory reporting continues for lessees
If you lease or produce solid minerals or geothermal resources on Federal or Indian lands, ONRR is renewing authority to require you to report production and royalties using forms ONRR-4292, ONRR-4293, ONRR-4430, and ONRR-4440. Filing ONRR-4430 and ONRR-4440 and maintaining related records is mandatory; filing ONRR-4292 and ONRR-4293 (and submitting other required solid minerals/geothermal information) is required to obtain or retain a benefit. The OMB Control Number is 1012-0010 and comments on the renewal are due June 13, 2025.
Estimated reporting time and scale
ONRR estimates 100 annual reporters, 9,716 annual responses, and a total of 4,385 annual burden hours, which averages 27.07 minutes per response. ONRR states the burden hours increased because it received 1,375 more annual responses than expected since the last renewal.
No identified monetary cost burden
ONRR states it has identified no "non-hour" (monetary) cost burden associated with this information collection, meaning ONRR did not identify additional fees or out-of-pocket costs tied to these reporting requirements.
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