[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1399 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1399

   To reduce temporarily the royalty required to be paid for sodium 
           produced on Federal lands, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2017

  Mr. Cook (for himself, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Schrader, Mr. Knight, Mr. 
Cramer, Mr. Tipton, Mr. Himes, Mr. Valadao, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Yoder, Mr. 
  Ruppersberger, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. McKinley, Mr. 
  Costa, Mrs. Mimi Walters of California, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Duncan of 
South Carolina, and Mr. Kelly of Mississippi) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To reduce temporarily the royalty required to be paid for sodium 
           produced on Federal lands, and for other purposes.

    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 ``American Soda Ash Competitiveness 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN ROYALTY RATE ON SODA ASH.

    Notwithstanding section 102(a)(9) of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701(a)(9)), section 24 of the 
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 262), and the terms of any lease under 
that Act, the royalty rate on the quantity or gross value of the output 
of sodium compounds and related products at the point of shipment to 
market from Federal land in the 5-year period beginning on the date of 
enactment of this Act shall be 2 percent.
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