Home/All Topics/Impact 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 of the 250th anniversary…

Home/All Topics/Impact 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 restoration, and National…

Home/All Topics/Impact 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 deposited in the general…

Home/All Topics/Impact 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 production begins and…

Home/All Topics/Impact 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 Forest Service, it requires annual…

Home/All Topics/Impact 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 of the Interior…

Home/All Topics/Impact 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 applies to federal coal…

Home/All Topics/Impact 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 more than 7…

Home/All Topics/Impact 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 coal lease application that…

Home/All Topics/Impact 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 and December 2020 Record of Decision…

Home/All Topics/Impact 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 Refuge by July 4,…

Home/All Topics/Impact Legislative and Policy Analysis Section 50103: Royalties on extracted methane Executive Summary Section 50103 repeals Section 50263 of Public Law 117-169, the Inflation Reduction Act provision codified at 30 U.S.C. 1727, which required royalties on certain methane or natural gas produced from federal onshore and offshore oil and gas leases, including gas consumed…