H.R. 6107: Ending Duplicative Permitting Act

115th Congress

To clarify that Bureau of Land Management shall not require permits for oil and gas activities conducted on non-Federal surface estate to access subsurface mineral estate that is less than 50 percent Federally owned, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Rep. Stevan Pearce — R — NM

H.R. 6107 would prohibit the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from requiring businesses to obtain an approved application for a permit to drill (APD) for operations on lands where the surface estate is owned by a nonfederal entity and the federal interest in the mineral estate is less than 50 percent. In 2017, the Department of the Interior collected a total of $31 million in fees from APDs. (Those fees are recorded as reductions in direct spending.)

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