---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1414"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1414"
heading: "License and permit fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1414"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources"
  - "Subchapter I — Regulation of Exploration and Commercial Recovery by United States Citizens"
---

# §1414. License and permit fees


No application for the issuance or transfer of a license for [exploration](/usc/30/1403.md?p=5) or permit for [commercial recovery](/usc/30/1403.md?p=1) shall be certified unless the applicant pays to the [Administrator](/usc/30/1403.md?p=12) a reasonable administrative fee which shall be deposited into miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. The amount of the administrative fee imposed by the [Administrator](/usc/30/1403.md?p=12) on any applicant shall reflect the reasonable administrative costs incurred in reviewing and processing the application.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–283, title I, § 104, June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 563.)