43 C.F.R. Subpart 1822—Filing a Document with BLM
Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior
Your legal name and current address should appear on your application and other required documents. You must file your application and any other required documents during regular office hours at the appropriate BLM office having jurisdiction over the lands or records involved. You must file any document with BLM through personal delivery or by mailing via the United States Postal Service or other delivery service, except for those applications that may be filed electronically under §1822.13, unless a more specific regulation or law specifies the mode of delivery. The date of mailing is not the date of filing. You should file your application or other required documents at the BLM office having jurisdiction over the lands or records involved. The specific BLM office where you are to file your application is usually referenced in the BLM regulations which pertain to the filing you are making. If the regulations do not name the specific office, or if you have questions as to where you should file your application or other required documents, contact your local BLM office for information and we will tell you which BLM office to file your application. For certain types of applications, BLM will accept your electronic filing if an original signature is not required. If BLM requires your signature, you must file your application or document by delivery or by mailing. If you have any questions regarding which types of applications can be electronically filed, you should check with the BLM office where you intend to file your application. When you file an application electronically, it will not be considered filed until BLM receives it. BLM considers the document timely filed if we receive it in the office on the next day it is officially open. BLM may consider it timely filed if: (a) The law does not prohibit BLM from doing so; (b) No other BLM regulation prohibits doing so; and (c) No intervening third party interests or rights have been created or established during the intervening period. You may file your application with any BLM State Office having jurisdiction over the subject lands. You should consult the regulations of the particular BLM resource program involved for more specific information. (a) BLM considers two or more documents simultaneously filed when: (1) They are received at the appropriate BLM office on the same day and time; or (2) They are filed in conjunction with an order that specifies that documents received by the appropriate office during a specified period of time will be considered as simultaneously filed. (b) An application or document that arrives at the BLM office where it is to be filed when the office is closed for the entire day will be considered as filed on the day and hour the office next officially opens. (c) Nothing in this provision will deny any preference right granted by applicable law or regulation or validate a document which is invalid under applicable law or regulation. BLM makes this decision by a drawing open to the public.
Title 43: Public Lands: Interior
PART 1820—APPLICATION PROCEDURES
Subpart 1822—Filing a Document with BLM
§ 1822.10 How should my name appear on applications and other required documents that I submit to BLM?
§ 1822.11 What must I do to make an official filing with BLM?
§ 1822.12 Where do I file my application or other required documents?
§ 1822.13 May I file electronically?
§ 1822.14 What if I try to file a required document on the last day of the stated period for filing, but the BLM office where it is to be filed is officially closed all day?
§ 1822.15 If I miss filing a required document or payment within the specified period, can BLM consider it timely filed anyway?
§ 1822.16 Where do I file an application that involves lands under the jurisdiction of more than one BLM State Office?
§ 1822.17 When are documents considered filed simultaneously?
§ 1822.18 How does BLM decide in which order to accept documents that are simultaneously filed?
