[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5039 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5039

 To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to extend the period of time during 
 which the Secretary of the Interior is required to collect a fee for 
  each new application for a permit to drill, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 21, 2026

    Mr. Lee 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 extend the period of time during 
 which the Secretary of the Interior is required to collect a fee for 
  each new application 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 ``License to Drill Act''.

SEC. 2. BLM OIL AND GAS PERMIT PROCESSING FEE.

    Section 35(d) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191(d)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``2026'' and inserting 
        ``2037'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) by striking ``Of the fees collected under this 
                subsection for a fiscal year, the'' and inserting 
                ``The''; and
                    (B) by striking ``transfer--'' and all that follows 
                through ``the Fund'' and inserting ``transfer, for each 
                of fiscal years 2027 through 2037, all of the fees 
                collected under this subsection for each such fiscal 
                year to the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund''; 
                and
            (3) in paragraph (4), by striking ``2026'' and inserting 
        ``2037''.
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