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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 115-1005
REMOVING BARRIERS TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE 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. 6087]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6087) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to recover
the cost of processing administrative protests for oil and gas lease
sales, applications for permits to drill, and right of way applica-
tions, 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 Removing Barriers to Energy Independence Act.
SEC. 2. ADMINISTRATIVE PROTEST PROCESS REFORM.
Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 226) is amended by adding at
the end the following:
(q) PROTEST FILING FEE.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-Before processing any protest filed under this section, the
Secretary shall collect a filing fee from the protestor to recover the cost for proc-
essing documents filed for each administrative protest.
(2) AMOUNT.-The filing fee shall be calculated as follows:
(A) For each protest filed in a submission not exceeding 10 pages in
length, the base filing fee shall be $150.
(B) For each submission exceeding 10 pages in length, an addition to the
base filing fee, an assessment of $5 per page in excess of 10 pages shall
apply.
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