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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="3859" measure-id="id113hr3859" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2014-01-13" update-date="2014-03-14">
<title>Oil and Gas Leasing Inflation Adjustment Act</title>
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<action-date>2014-01-13</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Oil and Gas Leasing Inflation Adjustment Act - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to increase from $2 per acre to $4 per acre the national minimum acceptable bid for oil and gas leases.</p> <p>Increases from $2 per acre to $5 per acre the minimum acceptable bid for a tar sand lease.</p> <p>Increases the annual rental of a lease from $1.50 per acre to $3 per acre for the first through the fifth year of the lease. </p> <p>Increases the annual lease rental from $2 per acre to $4 per acre for each year after such fifth year.</p> <p>Directs the Secretary of the Interior to make a cost-of-living adjustment of such dollar amounts at least once every four years and to publish each one in the Federal Register.<BR> </p>]]></summary-text>
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