US Congress Senate Bill 2440 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on September 17 2014 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2014-09-17 - Held at the desk.
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

BLM Permit Processing Improvement Act of 2014 - Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to make the Federal Permit Streamlining Project program permanent. Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to collect for each of FY2016-FY2026 a fee of $9,500 for each new application for a drilling permit. Allocates specified percentages of such fees to: (1) the field offices that collected the fees used to process protests, leases, and permits; and (2) the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund, now divided into a Rental Account and a Fee Account. Prohibits the Secretary, during FY2016-FY2026, from implementing a rulemaking that would enable an increase in fees to recover additional costs related to processing applications for drilling permits. Makes the Fund available to the Secretary for expenditure for the coordination and processing of oil and gas use authorizations on Indian trust mineral estate land (as well as onshore federal land, as under current law). Directs the Secretary to use: (1) the Rental Account and the Fee Account for this coordination and processing of oil and gas use authorizations, and (2) the Rental Account also for training for development of expertise related to coordinating and processing these authorizations. Amends the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 to make the rate of interest allowed and paid or credited for any royalty overpayment equal to the sum of the federal short-term rate plus one percentage point.

BLM Permit Processing Improvement Act of 2014

Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]	Sen. John Barrasso [R-WY]	Sen. Michael Bennet [D-CO]	Sen. Michael Enzi [R-WY]
Sen. Orrin Hatch [R-UT]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Heidi Heitkamp [D-ND]	Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]
Sen. John Hoeven [R-ND]	Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]	Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT]	Sen. Jon Tester [D-MT]
Sen. Mark Udall [D-CO]	Sen. John Walsh [D-MT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-09-17	House	Held at the desk.
2014-09-17	House	Message on Senate action sent to the House.
2014-09-17	House	Received in the House.
2014-09-16	Senate	Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (text: CR S5649)
2014-09-16	Senate	S.AMDT.3822 Amendment SA 3822 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.
2014-09-16	Senate	S.AMDT.3822 Amendment SA 3822 proposed by Senator Heitkamp for Senator Udall NM. (consideration: CR S5649; text: CR S5649)To clarify the uses of the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund.
2014-09-16	Senate	Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S5649)
2014-09-16	Senate	Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
2014-07-29	Senate	Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
2014-06-05	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

HB3979 (Related) 2014-12-19 - Became Public Law No: 113-291.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2440/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2440/BILLS-113s2440is.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s2440/BILLS-113s2440es.pdf