Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50401: Strategic Petroleum Reserve Executive Summary Section 50401 provides a total of $389 million in fiscal year 2025 funding for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, available through September 30, 2029. It directs $218 million to maintenance and repair of SPR storage facilities and related facilities, and
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50305: Celebrating America’s 250th anniversary Executive Summary Section 50305 appropriates $150 million to the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, for fiscal year 2025. The money is for events, celebrations, and activities surrounding the observance and commemoration
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50304: Rescission of National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management funds Executive Summary Section 50304 rescinds unobligated Inflation Reduction Act balances for three Department of the Interior funding streams that supported National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management conservation, resilience, ecosystem restoration, habitat
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50303: Renewable energy revenue sharing Executive Summary Section 50303 creates a federal revenue-sharing rule for wind and solar projects on covered federal public lands. Beginning January 1, 2026, bonus bids, rentals, fees, and other payments collected from covered renewable energy projects must first be
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50302: Renewable energy fees on Federal land Executive Summary Section 50302 creates a statutory fee regime for wind and solar energy projects on federal land. It requires the Secretary of the Interior or Secretary of Agriculture, depending on land jurisdiction, to collect acreage rent before
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50301: Timber sales and long-term contracting for the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management Executive Summary Section 50301 creates a mandatory federal timber-sale expansion program for the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management through fiscal year 2034. For the
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50204: Authorization to mine Federal coal Executive Summary Section 50204 authorizes mining of certain Federal coal reserves when those reserves are located on Federal land, are adjacent to State or private coal reserves, and were already subject to a mining plan approved by the Secretary
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50203: Leases for known recoverable coal resources Executive Summary Section 50203 requires the Secretary of the Interior to make at least 4 million additional acres of federal mineral estate containing known recoverable coal resources available for leasing within 90 days of enactment.[1] The section
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50202: Coal royalty Executive Summary Section 50202 temporarily lowers the royalty charged for coal mined from federal leases. It amends the Mineral Leasing Act so that, during the period beginning July 4, 2025, and ending September 30, 2034, the federal coal royalty “shall be not
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50201: Coal leasing Executive Summary Section 50201 accelerates federal coal leasing by requiring the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management, to complete a set of lease-processing actions within 90 days for each “qualified application.” A qualified application is a
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50105: National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska Executive Summary Section 50105 requires the Secretary of the Interior to restore and resume oil and gas leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska under the Bureau of Land Management’s June 2020 Integrated Activity Plan Final Environmental Impact Statement
Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50104: Alaska oil and gas leasing Executive Summary Section 50104 requires the Department of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management, to conduct at least four additional area-wide oil and gas lease sales in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife