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117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1117-672 Part 1
METHANE WASTE PREVENTION ACT OF 2021
DECEMBER 30, 2022.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 1492]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1492) to prevent methane waste and pollution from oil
and gas operations, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1492 is to prevent methane waste and pollu-
tion from oil and gas operations.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 authorizes the Department of
the Interior (DOI) to lease the rights to develop oil and gas re-
sources on federal land.1 The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
within DOI is the federal agency primarily responsible for man-
aging oil and gas resources on U.S. public land. BLM administers
more than 247 million acres of land and 700 million acres of sub-
surface mineral estate. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) cooperates
with BLM in coordinating access to federal oil and gas resources
on approximately one-third of the over 150 national forests and
grasslands. The majority of onshore public oil and gas resources
130 U.S.C. 181, et seq.
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