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TITLE 
VII—NATURAL 
RE-
SOURCES COMMITTEE PROVI-
SIONS 
SEC. 7001. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Energy Policy Reform 
and Revitalization Act of 2007’’. 
Subtitle A—Energy Policy Act of 
2005 Reforms 
SEC. 7101. FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE ENERGY AMENDMENTS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT TO ESTABLISH COST RECOVERY 
FEE.—Section 365(i) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 
(Public Law 109–58; 42 U.S.C. 15924(i)) is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(i) FEE
FOR APPLICATIONS
FOR PERMITS
TO 
DRILL.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIREMENT TO ESTABLISH COST RE-
COVERY FEE.—The Secretary of the Interior shall 
promulgate regulations to establish a cost recovery 
fee for applications for a permit to drill for oil and 
gas on Federal lands administered by the Secretary. 
‘‘(2) TEMPORARY FEE.—Until such time as a 
fee is established by such regulations, the Secretary 
shall charge a cost recovery fee of $1,700 for each 
such application received on or after October 1, 
2007. 
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‘‘(3) DEPOSIT AND USE.—Amounts received by 
the United States in the form of the fee established 
under this subsection— 
‘‘(A) shall be available to the Secretary of 
the Interior to administer permit processing; 
and 
‘‘(B) shall be treated as offsetting re-
ceipts.’’. 
(b) REPEAL
OF BLM PERMIT PROCESSING IM-
PROVEMENT FUND.— 
(1) REPEAL.—Section 35 of the Mineral Leas-
ing Act (30 U.S.C. 191) is amended by striking sub-
section (c). 
(2) TREATMENT OF BALANCE.—Any balances 
remaining in the BLM Permit Processing Improve-
ment Fund on the effective date of this subsection 
shall be transferred to the general fund of the 
Treasury of the United States. 
(3) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—This subsection shall 
take effect on October 1, 2007. 
SEC. 7102. EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR CONSIDERATION 
OF APPLICATIONS FOR PERMITS. 
Subsection (p)(2) of section 17 of the Mineral Leas-
ing Act (30 U.S.C. 226) is amended by striking ‘‘30’’ and 
inserting ‘‘45’’. 
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SEC. 7103. OIL SHALE AND TAR SANDS LEASING. 
Section 369 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 15927) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘not later than 
180 days after the date of enactment of this Act,’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘shall make’’ 
and inserting ‘‘may make’’; 
(3) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘Not later 
than 18 months after the date of enactment of this 
Act, in’’ and inserting ‘‘In’’; 
(4) in subsection (d)(2)— 
(A) in the heading by striking ‘‘FINAL’’ 
and inserting ‘‘PROPOSED’’; and 
(B) in the text by striking ‘‘final’’ and in-
serting ‘‘proposed’’; 
(5) in subsection (d)(2), by striking ‘‘6’’ and in-
serting ‘‘12’’; 
(6) in subsection (d)(2) by inserting after the 
period ‘‘The proposed regulations developed under 
this paragraph are to be open for public comment 
for no less than 120 days.’’; 
(7) by redesignating subsections (e) through (s) 
as subsections (g) through (u), and by inserting 
after subsection (d) the following: 
‘‘(e) OIL SHALE AND TAR SANDS LEASING AND DE-
VELOPMENT STRATEGY.— 
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‘‘(1) GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after 
the completion of the programmatic environmental 
impact statement under subsection (d), the Sec-
retary shall prepare an oil shale and tar sands leas-
ing and development strategy, in cooperation with 
the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency. 
‘‘(2) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the strategy 
developed under this subsection is to provide a 
framework for regulations that will allow for the sus-
tainable and publicly acceptable large-scale develop-
ment of oil shale within the Green River Formation 
and to provide a basis for decisions regarding Fed-
eral support for research and other activities to 
achieve that result. 
‘‘(3) CONTENTS.—The strategy shall include 
plans and programs for obtaining information re-
quired for determining the optimal methods, loca-
tions, amount, and timeframe for potential develop-
ment on Federal lands within the Green River For-
mation. The strategy shall also include plans for 
conducting critical environmental and ecological re-
search, high-payoff process improvement research, 
an assessment of carbon management options, and a 
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large-scale demonstration of carbon dioxide seques-
tration in the general vicinity of the Piceance Basin. 
‘‘(f) ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES.—In developing the 
strategy under subsection (e), the Secretary shall, in co-
operation with the Secretary of Energy and the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency, consult 
with industry and other interested persons regarding al-
ternative approaches to providing access to Federal lands 
for early first-of-a-kind commercial facilities for extracting 
and processing oil shale and tar sands.’’; 
(8) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘of the final regulation required by sub-
section (d)’’ and inserting ‘‘of final regulations 
issued under this section’’; 
(9) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by 
adding at the end the following: ‘‘Compliance with 
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is 
required on a site-by-site basis for all lands proposed 
to be leased under the commercial leasing program 
established in this subsection.’’; and 
(10) in subsection (i)(1)(B), as so redesignated, 
by striking ‘‘subsection (e)’’ and inserting ‘‘sub-
section (g)’’. 
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