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Version 79 · Reported to House without amendment · Dec 22, 2014
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Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to retire any coal preference right lease application for which an affirmative commercial quantities determination has been made, by issuing bidding rights in exchange for relinquishment of the application, including payment to the relevant state of 50% of the dollar amount of any bidding right subsequently used in lieu of any monetary payment of a bonus in a coal lease sale or of rental or royalty under a federal coal lease.
Requires the Secretary to make such payments from revenues received under federal mineral leases.
Declares such bidding rights to be fully transferable to any other person.
Terminates a bidding right five years from its date of issue, not counting any period in which exercise of the bidding right is precluded by temporary injunctive relief granted under, or administrative, legislative, or judicial suspension of, the federal coal leasing program.
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Rep. Luján, Ben Ray [D-NM-3] · D–NM
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 535.
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-704.
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 113-704.
Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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