[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3279 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3279


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 2, 2017

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide that extraction of helium 
  from gas produced under a Federal mineral lease shall maintain the 
                lease as if the helium were oil and gas.

    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 ``Helium Extraction Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. MAINTENANCE OF FEDERAL MINERAL LEASES BASED ON EXTRACTION OF 
              HELIUM.

    The first section of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181) is 
amended in the fifth paragraph by inserting after ``purchaser thereof'' 
the following: ``, and that extraction of helium from gas produced from 
such lands shall maintain the lease as if the extracted helium were oil 
and gas''.

            Passed the House of Representatives November 1, 2017.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.