3.0.0 822 2023-01-11T13:27:49Z 2023-01-11T13:27:49Z Senate S 2015-03-19 114 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Hearings by 2015-05-19T21:05:32Z Referred to 2015-03-19T20:25:57Z Geothermal Energy Opportunities Act 114 1057 S 2015-05-19 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Related bill CRS Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2015 114 1719 HR 2015-04-20 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. Identical bill CRS North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2016 114 2012 S 2016-09-08 Conference held. 14:37:58 Related bill CRS American Energy Innovation Act 114 2089 S 2015-09-29 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 241. Related bill CRS 2015-05-19 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Committee 2015-03-19 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1667; text of measure as introduced: CR S1668) IntroReferral 2015-03-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR N R000584 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] James Risch R ID E. 2015-03-19 True M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2015-03-19 True M001153 Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] Lisa Murkowski R AK 2015-03-19 True C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID 2015-03-19 True Energy Administrative remedies Alternative and renewable resources Department of the Interior Government information and archives Land use and conservation Energy 00 2015-03-19 Introduced in Senate 2016-04-06T22:03:19Z Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2015

This bill amends the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to allow the Department of the Interior to award noncompetitive leases on up to 640 acres of federal land for geothermal development if: (1) the land is available for leasing and not already leased or nominated to be leased, (2) the lessee has a legal right to develop geothermal resources on land adjacent to the federal land that will be leased, (3) sufficient data was submitted to Interior to show there is a valid discovery of geothermal resources on the adjacent land and that the thermal feature extends into the adjoining federal land, and (4) the lessee has not previously received a noncompetitive lease for the discovery.

Interior must lease the land at fair market value, publish a notice of any lease requests, and provide review of the final determination of fair market value.

Lessees must make annual rental payments equal to those required for lands that are leased competitively.

]]> Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2015 Display Title Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to expand geothermal production, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Geothermal Production Expansion Act of 2015 Introduced in Senate 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s822is/xml/BILLS-114s822is.xml 2015-05-19 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. 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.