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(3) is owned by, directly or indirectly controlled 
by, or otherwise subject to the influence of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China. 
Subtitle D—Federal Land Use 
Planning 
SEC. 20401. FEDERAL LAND USE PLANNING AND WITH-
DRAWALS. 
(a) RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED.—Federal 
lands and waters may not be withdrawn from entry under 
the mining laws or operation of the mineral leasing and 
mineral materials laws unless— 
(1) a quantitative and qualitative geophysical 
and geological mineral resource assessment of the 
impacted area has been completed during the 10- 
year period ending on the date of such withdrawal; 
(2) the Secretary, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Commerce, the Secretary of Energy, and 
the Secretary of Defense, conducts an assessment of 
the economic, energy, strategic, and national secu-
rity value of mineral deposits identified in such min-
eral resource assessment; 
(3) the Secretary conducts an assessment of the 
reduction in future Federal revenues to the Treas-
ury, States, the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund, the Historic Preservation Fund, and the Na-
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tional Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration 
Fund resulting from the proposed mineral with-
drawal; 
(4) the Secretary, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Defense, conducts an assessment of mili-
tary readiness and training activities in the proposed 
withdrawal area; and 
(5) the Secretary submits a report to the Com-
mittees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, Energy 
and Commerce, and Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives and the Committees on Energy and 
Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Foreign Affairs 
of the Senate, that includes the results of the assess-
ments completed pursuant to this subsection. 
(b) LAND USE PLANS.—Before a resource manage-
ment plan under the Federal Land Policy and Manage-
ment Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) or a forest 
management plan under the National Forest Management 
Act is updated or completed, the Secretary or Secretary 
of Agriculture, as applicable, in consultation with the Di-
rector of the United States Geological Survey, shall— 
(1) review any quantitative and qualitative min-
eral resource assessment that was completed or up-
dated during the 10-year period ending on the date 
that the applicable land management agency pub-
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lishes a notice to prepare, revise, or amend a land 
use plan by the Director of the United States Geo-
logical Survey for the geographic area affected by 
the applicable management plan; 
(2) the Secretary, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Commerce, the Secretary of Energy, and 
the Secretary of Defense, conducts an assessment of 
the economic, energy, strategic, and national secu-
rity value of mineral deposits identified in such min-
eral resource assessment; and 
(3) submit a report to the Committees on Nat-
ural Resources, Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, 
and Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives 
and the Committees on Energy and Natural Re-
sources, Agriculture, and Foreign Affairs of the Sen-
ate, that includes the results of the assessment com-
pleted pursuant to this subsection. 
(c) NEW INFORMATION.—The Secretary shall provide 
recommendations to the President on appropriate meas-
ures to reduce unnecessary impacts that a withdrawal of 
Federal lands or waters from entry under the mining laws 
or operation of the mineral leasing and mineral materials 
laws may have on mineral exploration, development, and 
other mineral activities (including authorizing exploration 
and development of such mineral deposits) not later than 
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180 days after the Secretary has notice that a resource 
assessment completed by the Director of the United States 
Geological Survey, in coordination with the State geologi-
cal surveys, determines that a previously undiscovered 
mineral deposit may be present in an area that has been 
withdrawn from entry under the mining laws or operation 
of the mineral leasing and mineral materials laws pursu-
ant to— 
(1) section 204 of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1714); or 
(2) chapter 3203 of title 54, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 20402. PROHIBITIONS ON DELAY OF MINERAL DEVEL-
OPMENT OF CERTAIN FEDERAL LAND. 
(a) PROHIBITIONS.—Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, the President shall not carry out any action 
that would pause, restrict, or delay the process for or 
issuance of any of the following on Federal land, unless 
such lands are withdrawn from disposition under the min-
eral leasing laws, including by administrative withdrawal: 
(1) New oil and gas lease sales, oil and gas 
leases, drill permits, or associated approvals or au-
thorizations of any kind associated with oil and gas 
leases. 
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(2) New coal leases (including leases by applica-
tion in process, renewals, modifications, or expan-
sions of existing leases), permits, approvals, or au-
thorizations. 
(3) New leases, claims, permits, approvals, or 
authorizations for development or exploration of 
minerals. 
(b) PROHIBITION ON RESCISSION OF LEASES, PER-
MITS, OR CLAIMS.—The President, the Secretary, or Sec-
retary of Agriculture as applicable, may not rescind any 
existing lease, permit, or claim for the extraction and pro-
duction of any mineral under the mining laws or mineral 
leasing and mineral materials laws on National Forest 
System land or land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau 
of Land Management, unless specifically authorized by 
Federal statute, or upon the lessee, permittee, or claim-
ant’s failure to comply with any of the provisions of the 
applicable lease, permit, or claim. 
(c) MINERAL DEFINED.—In subsection (a)(3), the 
term ‘‘mineral’’ means any mineral of a kind that is 
locatable (including such minerals located on ‘‘lands ac-
quired by the United States’’, as such term is defined in 
section 2 of the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands) 
under the Act of May 10, 1872 (Chapter 152; 17 Stat. 
91). 
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(A) a mineral deposit that has been pre-
viously evaluated by the United States Geologi-
cal Survey and found to be of low mineral po-
tential, but upon subsequent evaluation is de-
termined by the United States Geological Sur-
vey to have significant mineral potential; or 
(B) a mineral deposit that has not pre-
viously been evaluated by the United States Ge-
ological Survey. 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
Subtitle E—Ensuring 
Competitiveness on Federal Lands 
SEC. 20501. INCENTIVIZING DOMESTIC PRODUCTION. 
(a) OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS ROYALTY RATE.—Sec-
tion 8(a)(1) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 
U.S.C. 1337(a)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘not less 
than 162⁄3 percent, but not more than 183⁄4 percent, 
during the 10-year period beginning on the date of 
enactment of the Act titled ‘An Act to provide for 
reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 
14’, and not less than 162⁄3 percent thereafter,’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘not less than 
12.5 percent’’; 
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(2) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘not less 
than 162⁄3 percent, but not more than 183⁄4 percent, 
during the 10-year period beginning on the date of 
enactment of the Act titled ‘An Act to provide for 
reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 
14’, and not less than 162⁄3 percent thereafter,’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘not less than 
12.5 percent’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (F), by striking ‘‘not less 
than 162⁄3 percent, but not more than 183⁄4 percent, 
during the 10-year period beginning on the date of 
enactment of the Act titled ‘An Act to provide for 
reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 
14’, and not less than 162⁄3 percent thereafter,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘not less than 12.5 percent’’; and 
(4) in subparagraph (H), by striking ‘‘not less 
than 162⁄3 percent, but not more than 183⁄4 percent, 
during the 10-year period beginning on the date of 
enactment of the Act titled ‘An Act to provide for 
reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 
14’, and not less than 162⁄3 percent thereafter,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘not less than 12.5 percent’’. 
(b) MINERAL LEASING ACT.— 
(1) ONSHORE OIL AND GAS ROYALTY RATES.— 
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(A) LEASE OF OIL AND GAS LAND.—Sec-
tion 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
226) is amended— 
(i) in subsection (b)(1)(A)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘not less than 
162⁄3’’ and inserting ‘‘not less than 
12.5’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘or, in the case 
of a lease issued during the 10-year 
period beginning on the date of enact-
ment of the Act titled ‘An Act to pro-
vide for reconciliation pursuant to 
title II of S. Con. Res. 14’, 162⁄3 per-
cent in amount or value of the pro-
duction removed or sold from the 
lease’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘162⁄3 percent’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘12.5 per-
cent’’. 
(B) CONDITIONS FOR REINSTATEMENT.— 
Section 31(e)(3) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
U.S.C. 188(e)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘20’’ 
inserting ‘‘162⁄3’’. 
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(2) OIL AND GAS MINIMUM BID.—Section 17(b) 
of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 226(b)) is 
amended— 
(A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘$10 
per acre during the 10-year period beginning on 
the date of enactment of the Act titled ‘An Act 
to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II 
of S. Con. Res. 14’.’’ and inserting ‘‘$2 per 
acre for a period of 2 years from the date of 
the enactment of the Federal Onshore Oil and 
Gas Leasing Reform Act of 1987.’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking ‘‘$10 
per acre’’ and inserting ‘‘$2 per acre’’. 
(3) FOSSIL
FUEL
RENTAL
RATES.—Section 
17(d) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
226(d)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) All leases issued under this section, as amended 
by the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act 
of 1987, shall be conditioned upon payment by the lessee 
of a rental of not less than $1.50 per acre per year for 
the first through fifth years of the lease and not less than 
$2 per acre per year for each year thereafter. A minimum 
royalty in lieu of rental of not less than the rental which 
otherwise would be required for that lease year shall be 
payable at the expiration of each lease year beginning on 
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or after a discovery of oil or gas in paying quantities on 
the lands leased.’’. 
(4) EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FEE.—Section 
17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 226) is 
further amended by repealing subsection (q). 
(5) ELIMINATION OF NONCOMPETITIVE LEAS-
ING.—Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
U.S.C. 226) is further amended— 
(A) in subsection (b)— 
(i) in paragraph (1)(A)— 
(I) in the first sentence, by strik-
ing ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and inserting 
‘‘paragraphs (2) and (3)’’; and 
(II) by adding at the end ‘‘Lands 
for which no bids are received or for 
which the highest bid is less than the 
national minimum acceptable bid shall 
be offered promptly within 30 days 
for leasing under subsection (c) of this 
section and shall remain available for 
leasing for a period of 2 years after 
the competitive lease sale.’’; and 
(ii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
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