Title: Restoring State Mineral Revenues Act
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Restoring State Mineral Revenues Act
This bill eliminates the 2% fee that the federal government currently deducts from a state's entitled share to cover administrative or other costs under the Mineral Leasing Act.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4311 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4311

 To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to eliminate an administrative fee, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 23, 2020

 Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. Cramer) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to eliminate an administrative fee, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Restoring State Mineral Revenues 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF AN ADMINISTRATIVE FEE UNDER THE MINERAL LEASING 
              ACT.

    (a) In General.--Section 35 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
191) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), in the first sentence, by striking 
        ``, subject to the provisions of subsection (b),'';
            (2) by striking subsection (b);
            (3) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections 
        (b) and (c), respectively;
            (4) in subsection (b)(3)(B)(ii) (as so redesignated), by 
        striking ``subsection (d)'' and inserting ``subsection (c)''; 
        and
            (5) in subsection (c)(3)(A)(ii) (as so redesignated), by 
        striking ``subsection (c)(2)(B)'' and inserting ``subsection 
        (b)(2)(B)''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 6(a) of the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired 
        Lands (30 U.S.C. 355(a)) is amended--
                    (A) in the first sentence, by striking ``Subject to 
                the provisions of section 35(b) of the Mineral Leasing 
                Act (30 U.S.C. 191(b)), all'' and inserting ``All''; 
                and
                    (B) in the second sentence, by striking ``of the 
                Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 450; 30 U.S.C. 
                191)'' and inserting ``of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
                U.S.C. 191)''.
            (2) Section 20(a) of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 
        U.S.C. 1019(a)) is amended in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), in the second sentence, by striking ``the provisions of 
        subsection (b) of section 35 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
        U.S.C. 191(b)) and''.
            (3) Section 205(f) of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty 
        Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1735(f)) is amended by 
        striking the fourth, fifth, and sixth sentences.
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