Bill Details
S.451 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-12-02 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 119-237.
Introduced Date
2025-02-06
Policy Area
Energy
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This bill would change how the federal government handles money from certain mineral leases on public lands. Its main purpose is to remove an old administrative fee rule from the Mineral Leasing Act and update related laws so they match the change. In simple terms, it would likely leave more of the lease revenue available for the states and other purposes already covered by law, while cleaning up outdated wording in several federal energy and mineral statutes.
- It removes a specific administrative fee provision from the Mineral Leasing Act.
- It makes related changes to other laws that refer to that fee rule, so the statutes still work together correctly.
- It updates language in laws dealing with acquired lands, geothermal leasing, and federal oil and gas royalty management.
- The bill’s short title is the “Restoring State Mineral Revenues Act.”
Official Summaries
Restoring State Mineral Revenues Act
This bill increases payments states receive for specified revenue generated from oil, gas, geothermal steam, coal, and certain other natural resources on onshore federal land. Specifically, the bill eliminates the 2% administrative fee that the Bureau of Land Management currently deducts from a state's payment for such natural resources developed within the state.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 451 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 451
To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to eliminate an administrative fee,
and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 6 (legislative day, February 5), 2025
Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Cramer, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Curtis, Mr.
Barrasso, Mr. Hoeven, and Mr. Sheehy) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to eliminate an administrative fee,
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 ``Restoring State Mineral Revenues
Act''.
SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF AN ADMINISTRATIVE FEE UNDER THE MINERAL LEASING
ACT.
(a) In General.--Section 35 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C.
191) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), in the first sentence, by striking
``and, subject to the provisions of subsection (b),'';
(2) by striking subsection (b);
(3) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections
(b) and (c), respectively;
(4) in paragraph (3)(B)(ii) of subsection (b) (as so
redesignated), by striking ``subsection (d)'' and inserting
``subsection (c)''; and
(5) in paragraph (3)(A)(ii) of subsection (c) (as so
redesignated), by striking ``subsection (c)(2)(B)'' and
inserting ``subsection (b)(2)(B)''.
(b) Conforming Amendments.--
(1) Section 6(a) of the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired
Lands (30 U.S.C. 355(a)) is amended--
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ``Subject to
the provisions of section 35(b) of the Mineral Leasing
Act (30 U.S.C. 191(b)), all'' and inserting ``All'';
and
(B) in the second sentence, by striking ``of the
Act of February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 450; 30 U.S.C.
191),'' and inserting ``of the Mineral Leasing Act (30
U.S.C. 191)''.
(2) Section 20(a) of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30
U.S.C. 1019(a)) is amended, in the second sentence of the
matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ``the provisions of
subsection (b) of section 35 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30
U.S.C. 191(b)) and section 5(a)(2) of this Act'' and inserting
``section 5(a)(2)''.
(3) Section 205(f) of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty
Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1735(f)) is amended--
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ``this
Section'' and inserting ``this section''; and
(B) by striking the fourth, fifth, and sixth
sentences.
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