[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4227 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4227

 To streamline the oil and gas permitting process and to recognize fee 
 ownership for certain oil and gas drilling or spacing units, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 16, 2022

Mr. Hoeven (for himself and Mr. Cramer) 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 streamline the oil and gas permitting process and to recognize fee 
 ownership for certain oil and gas drilling or spacing units, 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. COMPLIANCE WITH BLM PERMITTING.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law but 
subject to any State requirements, a Bureau of Land Management drilling 
permit shall not be required under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty 
Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) or section 3164.1 of 
title 43, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation), for 
an action occurring within an oil and gas drilling or spacing unit if--
            (1) less than 50 percent of the minerals within the oil and 
        gas drilling or spacing unit are minerals owned by the Federal 
        Government; and
            (2) the Federal Government does not own or lease the 
        surface estate within the area directly impacted by the action.
    (b) Notification.--Each State with an approved permit to drill or 
drilling plan that would impact or extract oil and gas owned by the 
Federal Government shall notify the Secretary of the Interior of the 
approved permit to drill or drilling plan not later than 45 days after 
the date on which the permit or plan is approved.
    (c) Royalties.--Nothing in this section affects the amount of 
royalties due to the Federal Government from the production of the 
Federal minerals within the oil and gas drilling or spacing unit.
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