[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3245]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1791. Ms. LUMMIS (for herself, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Barrasso) 
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1502 
proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new 
Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science 
Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require 
a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, 
innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical 
supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
        At the end of title III of division F, add the following:

     SEC. 63__. ROYALTY RATE ON SODIUM PRODUCED ON FEDERAL LAND.

       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, beginning on the date 
     of enactment of this 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 
     shall be 2 percent.
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