3.0.0 490 2023-01-11T13:28:20Z 2023-01-11T13:28:20Z Senate S 2015-02-12 114 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-02-12T19:04:29Z Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015 114 866 HR 2016-11-15 Subcommittee Hearings Held. Related bill CRS 2015-02-12 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2015-02-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress I000024 Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] Jim Inhofe R OK N C001047 Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] Shelley Capito R WV Moore 2015-02-12 True C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID 2015-02-12 True C001098 Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX] Ted Cruz R TX 2015-02-12 True L000575 Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] James Lankford R OK 2015-02-12 True L000577 Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] Mike Lee R UT 2015-02-12 True S001141 Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] Jeff Sessions R AL 2015-02-12 True V000127 Sen. Vitter, David [R-LA] David Vitter R LA 2015-02-12 True C001095 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] Tom Cotton R AR 2015-02-12 True R000584 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] James Risch R ID E. 2015-02-24 False R000595 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] Marco Rubio R FL 2015-09-15 False Energy Administrative law and regulatory procedures Endangered and threatened species Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Historic sites and heritage areas Intergovernmental relations Licensing and registrations Oil and gas State and local government operations Energy 00 2015-02-12 Introduced in Senate 2015-03-06T20:49:04Z Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015

This bill permits a state that has an established leasing, permitting, and regulatory program to: (1) declare to the Secretaries of the Interior, of Agriculture, and of Energy that it has either established or amended the program; and (2) seek to transfer to itself, and to implement, existing federal responsibilities for leasing, permitting, and regulating oil, natural gas, and other forms of energy development.

Any state action to lease, permit, or regulate oil and gas exploration and development shall not be subject to, or considered, a federal action, a federal permit, or a federal license with respect to specified administrative and environmental laws and is therefore exempt from them.

State-issued leases or permits must provide for: (1) the collection of royalties or other revenues in an amount equal to what would have been collected if the lease or permit had been federally issued, and (2) their deposit into the same federal account in which they would have been deposited if the lease or permit had been federally issued.

A state may collect and retain lease or permit application processing fees.

]]> Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015 Display Title Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to achieve domestic energy independence by empowering States to control the development and production of all forms of energy on all available Federal land. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Federal Land Freedom Act of 2015 Introduced in Senate 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s490is/xml/BILLS-114s490is.xml 2015-02-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.