43 C.F.R. § 2.39
How does your requester category affect the fees you are charged?
Cite as 43 C.F.R. § 2.39 (2026)
You will be charged as shown in the following table:
Requester Category
Search fees
Review fees
Duplication fees
Commercial use requester
Yes
Yes
Yes.
Educational and noncommercial scientific institutions
No
No
Yes (first 100 pages, or equivalent volume, free).
Representative of news media requester
No
No
Yes (first 100 pages, or equivalent volume, free).
All other requesters
Yes (first 2 hours free)
No
Yes (first 100 pages, or equivalent volume, free).
[77 FR 76906, Dec. 31, 2012, as amended at 81 FR 11130, Mar. 3, 2016; 81 FR 92694, Dec. 20, 2016]