generated: '2026-09-05'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live unauthenticated calls to https://gbp-blm-egis.hub.arcgis.com/api/search/v1 and
  https://gis.blm.gov/arcgis on 2026-09-05, plus a search of blm.gov and the GBP Hub for a
  published limits page.
provider: Bureau of Land Management
providerId: bureau-of-land-management
note: |
  SUPERSEDES a scaffold. This file previously carried invented tiers (free 10 req/min, pro 100
  req/min, enterprise 1000 req/min, X-RateLimit-* headers) written by a 2026-05-04 bulk sweep.
  None of it was real. BLM publishes no rate limits and returns no rate-limit headers.

  limit_count is 0 on purpose. An honest zero is the finding: an agent calling this API has no
  runtime signal telling it how hard it may push, and no documented ceiling to design against.
  The only real capacity signals BLM emits are per-request result caps, recorded under
  result_caps below — those are not rate limits, but they are what actually bounds a call.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers:
  limit: null
  remaining: null
  reset: null
  retryAfter: null
  policy: null
headers_observed: []
headers_note: >-
  No X-RateLimit-*, no RateLimit-*, no Retry-After on any response from either surface, probed
  2026-09-05.
responseCodes:
  throttled: null
  quotaExceeded: null
result_caps:
  - surface: GBP Hub Search API
    param: limit
    max: 20000
    evidence: 'limit=99999 -> HTTP 400 ["searchOptions.limit must not be greater than 20000"]'
  - surface: ArcGIS FeatureServer/MapServer query
    param: resultRecordCount
    max: 2000
    field: maxRecordCount
    evidence: >-
      lands/BLM_Natl_NLCS_Generalized/FeatureServer/0 reports maxRecordCount 2000,
      standardMaxRecordCount 4000. Per-layer — read it from the layer document; it varies across
      the 785 services.
policies:
  - name: No published fair-use policy
    description: >-
      BLM states no fair-use or acceptable-use terms for its API surfaces. The DOI disclaimer
      (https://www.doi.gov/disclaimer) is the only applicable published text and it addresses
      liability and endorsement, not request volume.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com