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The bill modernizes and clarifies how mineral leasing fees are transferred—reducing administrative friction for federal land managers and recipients—while creating allocation uncertainty that could disrupt budgets and potentially reduce funding for some programs and beneficiaries.
Federal land managers (Interior/BLM staff) will have clearer statutory authority and streamlined language for carrying out mineral leasing fee transfers, making transfers more predictable and easier to administer.
States and other recipients of transferred mineral leasing fees will likely face fewer administrative disputes and legal challenges because the statute's language is modernized and streamlined.
Federal programs, beneficiaries, or recipient agencies could receive less funding if the new wording reduces protections or redirects transfers, and the text provides no explicit safeguards or effective-date clarity.
Companies and budgets that rely on current transfer formulas (for example utilities, energy companies, and state budget planners) could face uncertainty because the changes alter allocation rules without specifying amounts.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Revises specific wording in 30 U.S.C. 191(d) governing fees from mineral leases and transfers to the Fund, using textual substitutions without specifying new amounts.
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191(d)) by replacing and revising specific wording about how fees from mineral leases are described and how transfers to a fund are referenced. The excerpt makes only textual substitutions and does not set any new fee amounts, transfer amounts, or effective dates in the provided text. The change is narrowly focused on statutory language: it replaces the text of certain paragraphs to alter phrasing about fee collection and transfers to "the Fund." Because no dollar figures or new fee rates are included in the excerpt, immediate fiscal effects are unclear and would depend on how agencies interpret the revised wording.
Introduced March 5, 2026 by Mike Kennedy · Last progress March 5, 2026