[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1196 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1196

  To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
            Interior to grant rights-of-way on Federal land.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 5, 2015

 Mr. Cassidy (for himself, Mr. Inhofe, and Mrs. Capito) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
            Interior to grant rights-of-way on Federal land.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal Land Access Act''.

SEC. 2. RIGHTS-OF-WAY THROUGH NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM LAND AUTHORIZED.

    Section 28(b)(1) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 185(b)(1)) 
is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``(b)'' and all that 
        follows through ``the purposes of this section'' and inserting 
        the following:
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Federal lands.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The term''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(2) Inclusion.--For purposes of granting an application 
        for a natural gas pipeline right-of-way, the term `Federal 
        lands' means all lands owned by the United States, except those 
        lands held in trust for an Indian or Indian tribe and lands on 
        the outer Continental Shelf.''.
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