US Congress House Bill 3140 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: Introduced on July 21 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-08-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

AMPLE Oil and Gas Royalties Act Accounting for Methane in Production through Loophole Elimination with Oil and Gas Royalties This bill amends the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 to require, with respect to federal oil and gas leases, a lessee or its designee of a lease in a unit or communitization agreement that contains only federal leases with the same royalty rate and funds distribution, or a lessee or its designee of a lease that is not contained in a unit or communitization agreement, to report and pay royalties on oil and gas production each month based on the actual volume of oil and gas withdrawn from the reservoir by or on behalf of that lessee, including all oil and gas not sold by or on behalf of that lessee. (Currently, such lessees pay royalties on oil and gas production based on only the actual volume of production sold by or on behalf of that lessee.) "Oil and gas withdrawn from the reservoir" is defined as any oil and gas that is produced, sold, vented, flared, used for beneficial purposes, leaked, or otherwise emitted during production.

AMPLE Oil and Gas Royalties Act Accounting for Methane in Production through Loophole Elimination with Oil and Gas Royalties

Rep. Daniel Lipinski [D-IL]

Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-08-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
2015-07-21	House	Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2015-07-21	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/3140/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr3140/BILLS-114hr3140ih.pdf