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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-921
STREAMLINING PERMITTING EFFICIENCIES IN ENERGY
DEVELOPMENT ACT
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 6088]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6088) to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize no-
tifications of permit to drill, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and
recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Streamlining Permitting Efficiencies in Energy De-
velopment Act or the SPEED Act.
SEC. 2. NOTIFICATIONS OF PERMIT TO DRILL.
The Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) is amended by-
(1) redesignating section 44 as section 45; and
(2) inserting after section 43 the following:
SEC. 44. NOTIFICATIONS OF PERMIT TO DRILL.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this
section, the Secretary shall establish procedures by which an operator may conduct
drilling and production activities on available Federal land and non-Federal land
after sending to the Secretary a notification of permit to drill under this section in
lieu of obtaining an APD.
(b) CONTENT OF NOTIFICATION.-To be considered a complete notification of per-
mit to drill under this section, an operator shall include in the notification of permit
to drill submitted under this section-
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