---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 C.F.R. § 550.1477"
title: "30"
number: "550.1477"
heading: "How may BOEM collect the penalty?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/30/550.1477"
---

# §550.1477. How may BOEM collect the penalty?

- (a) BOEM may use all available means to collect the penalty including, but not limited to:
  - (1) Requiring the lease surety, for amounts owed by lessees, to pay the penalty;
  - (2) Deducting the amount of the penalty from any sums the United States owes to you; and
  - (3) Using judicial process to compel your payment under [30 U.S.C. 1719(k)](/usc/30/1719.md?p=k).
- (b) If the Department uses judicial process, or if you seek judicial review under [§ 550.1474](/cfr/30/550.1474.md) and the court upholds assessment of a penalty, the court shall have jurisdiction to award the amount assessed plus interest assessed from the date of the expiration of the 90-day period referred to in [§ 550.1474](/cfr/30/550.1474.md). The amount of any penalty, as finally determined, may be deducted from any sum owing to you by the United States.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1751; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 43 U.S.C. 1334.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 64623, Oct. 18, 2011, unless otherwise noted.