License to Drill Act

Mike Kennedy

Republican · UT · Representative

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• Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2)· 2026-03-24
• Harriet M. Hageman (R-WY)· 2026-03-27
• Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5)· 2026-04-23

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

2026-07-29

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License to Drill Act This bill extends through FY2037 the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) authority to collect oil and gas permit processing fees. For each new permit application, BLM collects a fee that is transferred to the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund. (Under current law, the fees are authorized through FY2026.)

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7831 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7831 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. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 5, 2026 Mr. Kennedy of Utah introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ 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''. <all>

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