Sec. 50101. Onshore oil and gas leasing

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(a)of section 50262 of Public Law 117–169 (136 Stat. 2056) is repealed, and any provision of law amended or repealed by that subsection is restored or revived as if that subsection had not been enacted into law. Subsection

(e)of section 50262 of Public Law 117–169 (136 Stat. 2057) is repealed, and any provision of law amended or repealed by that subsection is restored or revived as if that subsection had not been enacted into law. The Secretary of the Interior shall immediately resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales in compliance with the Mineral Leasing Act ( 30 U.S.C. 181 et seq. ). The Secretary of the Interior shall ensure— that any oil and gas lease sale required under paragraph

(1)is conducted immediately on completion of all applicable scoping, public comment, and environmental analysis requirements under the Mineral Leasing Act ( 30 U.S.C. 181 et seq. ) and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. ); and that the processes described in subparagraph

(A)are conducted in a timely manner to ensure compliance with subsection (b)(1). Section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Mineral Leasing Act ( 30 U.S.C. 226(b)(1)(A) ), as amended by subsection (a), is amended by inserting For purposes of the previous sentence, the term after eligible lands means all lands that are subject to leasing under this Act and are not excluded from leasing by a statutory prohibition, and the term available , with respect to eligible lands, means those lands that have been designated as open for leasing under a land use plan developed under section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ( 43 U.S.C. 1712 ) and that have been nominated for leasing through the submission of an expression of interest, are subject to drainage in the absence of leasing, or are otherwise designated as available pursuant to regulations adopted by the Secretary. sales are necessary. . In accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act ( 30 U.S.C. 181 et seq. ), each fiscal year, the Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a minimum of 4 oil and gas lease sales of available land in each of the following States: Wyoming. New Mexico. Colorado. Utah. Montana. North Dakota. Oklahoma. Nevada. Alaska. In conducting a lease sale under paragraph

(1)in a State described in that paragraph, the Secretary of the Interior— shall offer not less than 50 percent of available parcels nominated for oil and gas development under the applicable resource management plan in effect for relevant Bureau of Land Management resource management areas within the applicable State; and shall not restrict the parcels offered to 1 Bureau of Land Management field office within the applicable State unless all nominated parcels are located within the same Bureau of Land Management field office. The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a replacement sale during the same fiscal year if— a lease sale under paragraph

(1)is canceled, delayed, or deferred, including for a lack of eligible parcels; or during a lease sale under paragraph

(1)the percentage of acreage that does not receive a bid is equal to or greater than 25 percent of the acreage offered. Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act ( 30 U.S.C. 226 ), as amended by subsection (a), is amended— by striking the section designation and all that follows through the end of subsection

(a)and inserting the following: Any parcel of land subject to disposition under this Act that is known or believed to contain oil or gas deposits shall be made available for leasing, subject to paragraph (2), by the Secretary of the Interior, not later than 18 months after the date of receipt by the Secretary of an expression of interest in leasing the applicable parcel of land available for disposition under this section, if the Secretary determines that the parcel of land is open to oil or gas leasing under the approved resource management plan applicable to the planning area in which the parcel of land is located that is in effect on the date on which the expression of interest was submitted to the Secretary (referred to in this subsection as the approved resource management plan ). A lease issued by the Secretary under this section with respect to an applicable parcel of land made available for leasing under paragraph (1)— shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the approved resource management plan; and may not require any stipulations or mitigation requirements not included in the approved resource management plan. The initiation of an amendment to an approved resource management plan shall not prevent or delay the Secretary from making the applicable parcel of land available for leasing in accordance with that approved resource management plan if the other requirements of this section have been met, as determined by the Secretary. ; in subsection (p), by adding at the end the following: A permit to drill approved under this subsection shall be valid for a single, non-renewable 4-year period beginning on the date that the permit to drill is approved. ; and by striking subsection

(q)and inserting the following: The Secretary of the Interior shall approve applications allowing for the commingling of production from 2 or more sources (including the area of an oil and gas lease, the area included in a drilling spacing unit, a unit participating area, a communitized area, or non-Federal property) before production reaches the point of royalty measurement regardless of ownership, the royalty rates, and the number or percentage of acres for each source if the applicant agrees to install measurement devices for each source, utilize an allocation method that achieves volume measurement uncertainty levels within plus or minus 2 percent during the production phase reported on a monthly basis, or utilize an approved periodic well testing methodology. Production from multiple oil and gas leases, drilling spacing units, communitized areas, or participating areas from a single wellbore shall be considered a single source. Nothing in this subsection shall prevent the Secretary of the Interior from continuing the current practice of exercising discretion to authorize higher percentage volume measurement uncertainty levels if appropriate technical and economic justifications have been provided. .

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