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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1926 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for commingling. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 7 | 7 | | MARCH6, 2025 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Mr. H |
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| 9 | 9 | | UNTintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 10 | 10 | | on Natural Resources |
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| 11 | 11 | | A BILL |
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| 12 | 12 | | To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for |
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| 13 | 13 | | commingling. |
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| 14 | 14 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 15 | 15 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | SECTION 1. COMMINGLING UNDER MINERAL LEASING ACT. 3 |
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| 17 | 17 | | Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 4 |
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| 18 | 18 | | 226) is amended— 5 |
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| 19 | 19 | | (1) by redesignating subsections (h) through (q) 6 |
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| 20 | 20 | | as subsections (i) through (r), respectively; and 7 |
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| 21 | 21 | | (2) by inserting after subsection (g) the fol-8 |
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| 22 | 22 | | lowing: 9 |
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| 23 | 23 | | ‘‘(h) C |
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| 24 | 24 | | OMMINGLING.—To promote and allow for the 10 |
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| 25 | 25 | | minimization of surface disturbing activities, the Secretary 11 |
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| 29 | 29 | | of the Interior shall approve applications allowing for the 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | commingling of production from two or more sources (in-2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | cluding oil and gas leases, unit participating areas, 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | communitized areas, or non-Federal or non-Indian prop-4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | erties) before production reaches the point of royalty 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | measurement regardless of ownership, the royalty rates or 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | the number or percentage of acres for each such source. 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | Provided that the applicant agrees to either install meas-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | urement devices for each source or utilize an allocation 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | meter or method that achieves volume measurement un-10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | certainly levels within plus or minus 2 percent during the 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | production phase reported on a monthly basis.’’. 12 |
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