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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 115-1004
ENDING DUPLICATIVE PERMITTING ACT
NOVEMBER 2, 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. 6107]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6107) to clarify that Bureau of Land Management shall
not require permits for oil and gas activities conducted on non-Fed-
eral surface estate to access subsurface mineral estate that is less
than 50 percent Federally owned, and for other purposes, having
considered 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 Ending Duplicative Permitting Act.
SEC. 2. ACCESS TO FEDERAL OIL AND GAS FROM NON-FEDERAL SURFACE ESTATE.
Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 226) is amended by adding at
the end the following:
(q) No FEDERAL PERMIT REQUIRED FOR OIL AND GAS ACTIVITIES ON CERTAIN
LAND.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-The Secretary shall not require an operator to obtain a
Federal drilling permit for oil and gas exploration and production activities con-
ducted on non-Federal surface estate, provided that-
(A) the United States holds an ownership interest of less than 50 percent
of the subsurface mineral estate to be accessed by the proposed action; and
(B) the operator submits to the Secretary a State permit to conduct oil
and gas exploration and production activities on the non-Federal surface es-
tate.
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