Instructs the Secretary to consider enhanced domestic oil and gas production by means of: (1) exchange of the nonproducing leases for oil and gas lease tracts of comparable value in Montana or in the Western and Central Planning Areas of the Gulf of Mexico on the outer Continental Shelf (Planning Areas); (2) issuing bidding, royalty, or rental credits for Federal onshore oil and gas leases in Montana or in the Planning Areas in exchange for the cancellation of the nonproducing leases; and (3) alternative ways to exchange or compensate for cancellation of nonproducing leases.
Prescribes a formula for the evaluation of the nonproducing leases.
Suspends the terms of nonproducing leases in the Badger-Two Medicine Area for a three-year period in order to facilitate the Secretary's evaluation.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6028)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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