SEC Filing Fee Payment

NEW - EFFECTIVE FEB 4, 2008

Fee Payment Options

When filing fees are required for a specific form type, they must be paid in accordance with the provisions of the Lockbox Rule (Rule 3a of the Commission's Rules of Practice) as effective April 26, 1993. You can use our fee calculator to determine the amount you will owe.

Each Filer should use its CIK number as its account number to provide for electronic transfer of funds. The CIK number must be supplied with the payment to permit proper assignment of funds.

Expected fee payment methods for electronic filings are listed in the table below. Domestic registrants must pay fees via the lockbox, either by check or wire transfer.


Table of Fee Payment Methods
OPTION PROCEDURE
Delivery to Lockbox

To remit your SEC filing fee payment by check or money order, you must make them payable to the Securities and Exchange Commission, omitting the name or title of any official of the Commission. On the front of the check or money order, you must include the SEC’s account number (152307768324) and CIK number of the account to which the fee is to be applied.

You must mail checks (certified or cashier’s check) or money orders to the following U.S. Bank addresses. U.S. Bank does not support walk-in deliveries by individuals.

For USPS remittances, they MUST be sent to the following PO Box address.

Securities & Exchange Commission
P.O. Box 979081
St. Louis, MO 63197-9000

The following address can be used for common carriers such as FedEx, Airborne, DHL, and UPS.

U.S. Bank
Government Lockbox 979081
1005 Convention Plaza
SL-MO-C2-GL
St. Louis, MO 63101
FEDWIRE Contact your bank about specifics of wire transfers.
Send fee to the SEC Account number at US BANK 152307768324,
ABA number 081000210

Bank hours of operation are 8:30am to 6:00pm eastern time

http://sec.gov/info/edgar/fedwire-new.htm

NOTE:

  • Filing fees with respect to domestic registrants must be paid in accordance with the provisions of the Lockbox Rule (either by check or wire transfer) whether the filing is made electronically or in paper pursuant to a hardship exemption.

  • Include the Payor's CIK (Corporate Account Number) on all fee payments. When paying fees, one payment can be used to pay for several filings provided that the <PAYOR> tag is used to indicate from which account the funds are coming. Law firms acting as filing agents, for instance, use this method: they pay for the fees for all their clients, then bill the individual clients. The law firm in this case would be the <PAYOR>.

For time-sensitive Securities Act filings, registrants are advised to use wire transfer since the EDGAR system will be able to detect the fee promptly after it arrives at the lockbox. Fees that are mailed or delivered to the lockbox will not be relayed to the EDGAR system until 2 p.m. Eastern time each business day.