Payment of Filing Fees

(a) CM/ECF Filing Users shall pay all applicable filing fees through the CM/ECF System. Fees shall be paid at the time of filing of the document or, in the case of multiple filings on a single day, fees incurred during that day may be accumulated and paid at one time but no later than midnight prevailing Eastern Time of the day following the day of the multiple filings. (b) A Chapter 11 Debtor in possession acting on behalf of the bankruptcy estate may apply for a deferral of the filing fee obligation imposed by the Bankruptcy Court Miscellaneous Fee Schedule on the filing of an adversary proceeding filed under Chapter 5 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise that is brought to recover property for the benefit of the bankruptcy estate. If granted, payment of the filing fee shall be -47- deferred until such time as the estate recovers sufficient property in the affected adversary proceeding to pay the filing fee.

Applications for a deferral shall be accompanied by a certification attesting to the reasons why the financial condition of the estate at the time that the adversary proceeding is filed justifies the requested deferral and shall be filed contemporaneously with the filing of the adversary proceeding for which the deferral is sought.