This bill establishes requirements about conducting lease sales of onshore federal land for the development of oil and gas.
The Department of the Interior must immediately resume quarterly lease sales as specified by the bill. Each fiscal year, Interior must conduct a minimum of four oil and gas lease sales in each state with land available for oil and gas leasing under mineral leasing law. If a lease sale is canceled, delayed, or deferred, then Interior must conduct a replacement sale. Interior must also conduct a replacement sale if during the original lease sale, no more than 25% of the area offered for leasing receives a bid.
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 1.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 18.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee on the Budget. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 118-76.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 509.
Received in the Senate. Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 239.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
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