[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10256 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10256

To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and certain mineral leasing laws 
     to reform oil and gas royalty relief, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 3, 2026

  Ms. Dexter (for herself, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Norton, Mr. 
      Thanedar, Mr. Min, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Simon, Ms. Brownley, Mr. 
 Krishnamoorthi, Ms. Randall, Ms. Ansari, Mr. Cohen, Ms. McCollum, Ms. 
  Salinas, Mr. Mullin, Mrs. Grijalva, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Levin, and Mr. 
  Liccardo) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and certain mineral leasing laws 
     to reform oil and gas royalty relief, 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 ``Taxpayer Relief from Big Oil Act''.

SEC. 2. ROYALTY RELIEF REFORM.

    (a) Gulf of Mexico Royalty Relief.--
            (1) Repeal.--Section 344 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 
        (42 U.S.C. 15904) is repealed.
            (2) Regulations.--Any regulations issued under section 344 
        of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 before the date of enactment 
        of this section shall have no force or effect.
    (b) Alaska Royalty Relief.--
            (1) Provisions relating to planning areas offshore 
        alaska.--Section 8(a)(3)(B) of the Outer Continental Shelf 
        Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(a)(3)(B)) is amended by striking 
        ``and in the Planning Areas offshore Alaska'' after ``West 
        longitude''.
            (2) Provisions relating to naval petroleum reserve in 
        alaska.--The Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 is 
        amended--
                    (A) in section 104(a) (42 U.S.C. 6504(a)) by 
                striking ``to the extent consistent with the 
                requirements of this Act for the exploration of the 
                reserve''; and
                    (B) in section 107 (42 U.S.C. 6506a)--
                            (i) in subsection (i)--
                                    (I) by striking ``(1) in general.--
                                ''; and
                                    (II) by striking paragraphs (2) 
                                through (6);
                            (ii) by striking subsection (k); and
                            (iii) by redesignating subsections (l) 
                        through (p) as subsections (k) through (o), 
                        respectively.
    (c) Royalty Relief Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Director of the 
Bureau of Land Management and the Director of the Bureau of Ocean 
Energy Management shall submit to the Committee on Natural Resources of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate a report detailing, with respect to the 
preceding year--
            (1) the number of onshore and offshore oil and gas royalty 
        relief applicants;
            (2) the number of onshore and offshore oil and gas royalty 
        relief applications approved or denied and any reasoning 
        provided by the agency for approvals;
            (3) the number of wells approved and denied for royalty 
        relief;
            (4) the number of wells approved for royalty relief that 
        produced oil or gas during the period of 6 months beginning on 
        the date on which an application for royalty relief for the 
        well was made;
            (5) the average amount of production from wells for which 
        royalty relief was approved;
            (6) the length of royalty relief periods;
            (7) the new royalty rate for approved applications; and
            (8) any estimates of the difference in revenue and 
        production resulting from the approved royalty relief.

SEC. 3. STANDARDIZED OIL AND GAS TRANSPORTATION ALLOWANCE.

    (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, acting through 
the Office of Natural Resources Revenue, shall issue or revise 
regulations to establish standardized transportation allowances for the 
calculation of oil and gas royalties for--
            (1) each Bureau of Land Management oil and gas 
        administrative boundaries; and
            (2) each Outer Continental Shelf planning area in which oil 
        or gas is produced.
    (b) Maximum Transportation Allowance.--Each standardized 
transportation allowance established by regulation under subsection (a) 
shall not exceed the lesser of--
            (1) the amount that is equal to 30 percent of the total 
        value of the oil and gas that is produced; and
            (2) the amount that is equal to actual and reasonable 
        transportation costs.
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