[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7293 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7293

   To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to require the Secretary of the 
 Interior to process applications for a permit to drill, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2022

Ms. Herrell (for herself, Mr. Westerman, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Stauber, Mr. 
Carl, Mr. Rosendale, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. McClintock, Mr. Stewart, Ms. Van 
Duyne, Mr. Moore of Utah, Mrs. Boebert, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. 
Graves of Louisiana, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Lamborn, Ms. Stefanik, Mr. Webster 
of Florida, Mr. Gohmert, and Mr. Bentz) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to require the Secretary of the 
 Interior to process applications for a permit to drill, 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 ``Energy Permitting Certainty Act''.

SEC. 2. PROCESSING APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS TO DRILL.

    Section 17(p) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 226(p)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Effect of pending civil action on processing 
        applications for permits to drill.--Pursuant to the 
        requirements of paragraph (2), notwithstanding the existence of 
        any pending civil actions which do not directly affect or 
        involve the application or related lease, the Secretary shall 
        process an application for a permit to drill under a valid 
        existing lease, unless a United States Federal court has 
        determined that the lease was not issued in compliance with the 
        National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 
        seq.).''.
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