[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1572 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1572

 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 18, 2017

   Mr. Hatch 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 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 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''.
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