Interior Seeks Comments on Oil and Gas Royalty Forms
Published Date: 7/6/2026
Notice
Summary
The Office of Natural Resources Revenue wants to keep collecting info from oil and gas companies to make sure they pay the right royalties to the U.S. government. This renewal affects companies with federal oil and gas leases and includes a form for special requests about costs. Comments on this plan are open until August 5, 2026, but there’s no new cost or big change—just keeping things running smoothly.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
Renewed Royalty Reporting Burden
If your company holds a Federal oil or gas lease, ONRR is renewing an information collection that requires you to submit data used to verify royalty payments. ONRR estimates 100 Federal lessees/designees and 7 States will produce 110 annual responses totaling 7,788 burden hours (an average of 70.8 hours per response) under OMB Control No. 1012-0005.
Form ONRR-4393 Filing Option
ONRR continues to use Form ONRR-4393 (Request to Exceed Regulatory Allowance Limitation) for lessees wishing to request to exceed transportation and processing allowance caps. A lessee may file this form to request exceeding caps for oil and gas produced prior to January 1, 2017, and ONRR revised the form's general instructions and updated the mailstop number.
Information Required To Obtain Relief
To obtain prepayment, accounting, or auditing relief for qualifying Federal marginal properties, lessees must submit required information under 30 CFR part 1204. ONRR says this information is mandatory to receive or retain those relief benefits under OMB Control No. 1012-0005.
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