---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 28l"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "28l"
heading: "Collection of mining law administration fees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/28l"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General"
---

# §28l. Collection of mining law administration fees


In fiscal year 2009 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Bureau of Land Management shall collect from mining claim holders the mining claim maintenance fees and location fees; such fees shall be collected in the same manner as authorized by sections [28f](/usc/30/28f.md) and [28g](/usc/30/28g.md) of this title only to the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–8, div. E, title I, Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 704; Pub. L. 111–88, div. A, title I, Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2907.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2009—Pub. L. 111–88 substituted “from mining claim holders the mining claim maintenance fees and location” for “mining law administration” and struck out “those” before “authorized”.