Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5 of the United States Code of a rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to standards for measurement and reporting of gas removed or sold from Federal and Indian lands and areas subject to communitization agreements.

Bill: 115-hjres-68
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-02-07
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Congressional oversight

Department of the Interior

Energy revenues and royalties

Indian lands and resources rights

Oil and gas
Latest action: action_date: 2017-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-02-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This joint resolution nullifies the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management titled &quot;Onshore Oil and Gas Operations; Federal and Indian Oil and Gas Leases; Measurement of Gas.&quot;The rule published in the Federal Register on November 17, 2016, addresses onshore oil and gas operations and production.</p>

tv_txt: IA 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 68 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 7, 2017 Mr. Cramer (for himself and Mr. Gosar ) submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5 of the United States Code of a rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to standards for measurement and reporting of gas removed or sold from Federal and Indian lands and areas subject to communitization agreements.

That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Onshore Oil and Gas Operations; Federal and Indian Oil and Gas Leases; Measurement of Gas (81 Fed. Reg. 81516 (November 17, 2016)), and such rule shall have no force or effect.