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S 2440 113th Congress Senate Public Lands and Natural Resources Congressional oversight Department of the Interior Government trust funds Licensing and registrations Oil and gas User charges and fees

BLM Permit Processing Improvement Act of 2014

Introduced: June 5, 2014 See on congress.gov
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 17, 2014
Held at the desk.
Sep 17, 2014
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Sep 17, 2014
Received in the House.
Sep 16, 2014
Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S5649)
Sep 16, 2014
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent.(text: CR S5649)
Sep 16, 2014
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S5649)
Sep 16, 2014
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Jul 29, 2014
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-491.
Jun 5, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Jun 5, 2014
Introduced in Senate
 Amendments to this bill 1

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1 agreed to

AmendmentSponsorPurposeStatusLatest action
SAMDT 3,822 To clarify the uses of the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund. Agreed to Sep 16, 2014
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

BLM Permit Processing Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to make the Federal Permit Streamlining Project program permanent.

Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to collect for each of FY2016-FY2026 a fee of $9,500 for each new application for a drilling permit. Allocates specified percentages of such fees to: (1) the field offices that collected the fees used to process protests, leases, and permits; and (2) the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund, now divided into a Rental Account and a Fee Account.

Prohibits the Secretary, during FY2016-FY2026, from implementing a rulemaking that would enable an increase in fees to recover additional costs related to processing applications for drilling permits.

Makes the Fund available to the Secretary for expenditure for the coordination and processing of oil and gas use authorizations on Indian trust mineral estate land (as well as onshore federal land, as under current law).

Directs the Secretary to use: (1) the Rental Account and the Fee Account for this coordination and processing of oil and gas use authorizations, and (2) the Rental Account also for training for development of expertise related to coordinating and processing these authorizations.

Amends the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 to make the rate of interest allowed and paid or credited for any royalty overpayment equal to the sum of the federal short-term rate plus one percentage point.

What's happening now September 17, 2014

Held at the desk.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2440: BLM Permit Processing Improvement Act of 2014. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-S-2440/
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