[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 546 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 546

   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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 7, 2017

   Mr. Barrasso (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Merkley, Mr. 
 Wicker, Mr. Alexander, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Gardner, Mr. 
Isakson, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Moran, Mr. Casey, Mr. Cornyn, and 
Mrs. Feinstein) 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 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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