License to Drill Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5039 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5039

 To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to extend the period of time during
 which the Secretary of the Interior is required to collect a fee for
  each new application for a permit to drill, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 21, 2026

    Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL

 To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to extend the period of time during
 which the Secretary of the Interior is required to collect a fee for
  each new application for a permit to drill, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``License to Drill Act''.

SEC. 2. BLM OIL AND GAS PERMIT PROCESSING FEE.

    Section 35(d) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191(d)) is
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``2026'' and inserting
        ``2037'';
            (2) in paragraph (3)--
                    (A) by striking ``Of the fees collected under this
                subsection for a fiscal year, the'' and inserting
                ``The''; and
                    (B) by striking ``transfer--'' and all that follows
                through ``the Fund'' and inserting ``transfer, for each
                of fiscal years 2027 through 2037, all of the fees
                collected under this subsection for each such fiscal
                year to the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund'';
                and
            (3) in paragraph (4), by striking ``2026'' and inserting
        ``2037''.
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