duce or limit the enforcement authority vested 
in the Secretary of the Interior or the Attorney 
General on covered land under any other Fed-
eral law. 
(b) TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF PILOT PROGRAM.— 
Until final regulations are issued under subsection (c)(4), 
the Secretary of the Interior shall continue to carry out 
the pilot program under subsection (a) on the sites offered 
for lease under such subsection. The Secretary may extend 
any lease issued for such sites under subsection (a) under 
the same terms and conditions applicable to such lease on 
the date of the lease sale as necessary until final regula-
tions are issued under subsection (c)(4) with respect to 
such sites. 
(c) EXPANSION OF PILOT PROGRAM TO ALL COV-
ERED LAND.— 
(1) JOINT
DETERMINATION
REQUIRED.—Not 
later than 5 years after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall jointly determine 
whether to expand the pilot program established 
under subsection (a) to apply to all covered land, in-
cluding sites with respect to which leases were issued 
under subsection (a). In making such determination, 
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the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall— 
(A) take into consideration the results of 
the pilot program; 
(B) consult with— 
(i) the heads of Federal agencies and 
relevant State agencies (including State 
fish and wildlife agencies); 
(ii) interested States, Indian tribes, 
and local governments; 
(iii) representatives of the renewable 
energy industries; 
(iv) representatives of the environ-
ment, conservation, and outdoor sporting 
communities; and 
(v) the public; and 
(C) consider whether such expansion— 
(i) provides an effective means of de-
veloping renewable energy; and 
(ii) is in the public interest. 
(2) EXPANSION AUTHORIZED.—The pilot pro-
gram shall be expanded only if the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture determined 
to expand the pilot program under paragraph (1). 
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(3) REPORT ON JOINT DETERMINATION.—Not 
later than 60 days after making the determination 
under paragraph (1) to expand the pilot program, 
the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall jointly submit to the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and 
the Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives a report describing the basis and 
findings for the determination. 
(4) REGULATIONS
TO
IMPLEMENT
EXPAN-
SION.—Not later than one year after making a de-
termination to expand the pilot program under para-
graph (1), the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall jointly issue final regula-
tions to implement such expansion on covered land. 
(5) APPLICABILITY OF PROVISIONS OF PILOT 
PROGRAM TO EXPANDED PROGRAM.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), paragraphs (3), (7), and (8) 
of subsection (a) shall apply to covered land of-
fered for lease under this subsection in the 
same manner as such paragraphs apply to sites 
offered for lease under subsection (a), except 
that such paragraphs shall apply as if the terms 
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‘‘Secretary of the Interior’’ and ‘‘Secretary’’ 
read ‘‘Secretary concerned’’. 
(B) COMPETITIVE LEASING NOT REQUIRED 
UNDER
CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES.—The re-
quirement under subsection (a)(3) that a lease 
be sold on a competitive basis shall not apply 
to a lease issued under this subsection if the 
Secretary concerned determines that— 
(i) no competitive interest exists for 
the covered land offered for lease; 
(ii) the public interest would not be 
served by the competitive issuance of a 
lease with respect to such covered land; or 
(iii) the lease is for a purpose de-
scribed in paragraph (7)(A)(ii). 
(6) PAYMENTS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to section 5, 
the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall jointly establish fees, bo-
nuses, or other payments (except rental pay-
ments) to ensure a fair return to the United 
States for any lease issued under this sub-
section. 
(B) BONUS
BIDS.—The Secretary con-
cerned may grant credit toward any bonus bid 
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for a qualified expenditure by the holder of a 
lease described in paragraph (7)(A)(ii) in any 
competitive lease sale held for a long-term lease 
of the covered land that is the subject of the 
lease described in such paragraph. 
(C) READJUSTMENT.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—Royalties and other 
terms and conditions of a lease issued 
under this subsection shall be subject to 
readjustment— 
(I) on the date that is 15 years 
after the date on which the lease is 
issued; and 
(II) every 10 years thereafter. 
(ii) INDEXING.—Effective on the first 
day of the first month beginning after the 
date of enactment of this Act and each 
year thereafter, the amount of royalties or 
other terms and conditions subject to read-
justment under clause (i) shall be adjusted 
to reflect changes for the 12-month period 
ending on the most recent date for which 
data are available in the Consumer Price 
Index for All Urban Consumers published 
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by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the 
Department of Labor. 
(7) LEASE DURATION, ADMINISTRATION, AND 
READJUSTMENT.— 
(A) DURATION.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided 
in clause (ii), a lease issued under this sub-
section shall be for— 
(I) an initial term of 25 years; 
and 
(II) any additional period after 
the initial 25-year term during which 
electricity is being produced annually 
in commercial quantities from the 
lease. 
(ii) DATA
COLLECTION
LEASES.—In 
the case of a lease issued under this sub-
section for the placement and operation of 
a meteorological or data collection facility 
or for the development or demonstration of 
a new renewable energy technology, such 
lease shall have a term of not more than 
5 years. 
(B) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary of 
the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 
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