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[H.R. 7831 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.7831

                     One Hundred Nineteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Saturday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-six


                                 An Act


 
  To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to extend the period of time during 
  which the Secretary of the Interior is required to collect a fee for 
   each new application for a permit to drill, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``License to Drill Act''.
SEC. 2. BLM OIL AND GAS PERMIT PROCESSING FEE.
    Section 35(d) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191(d)) is 
amended--
        (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``2026'' and inserting 
    ``2037'';
        (2) in paragraph (3)--
            (A) by striking ``Of the fees collected under this 
        subsection for a fiscal year, the'' and inserting ``The''; and
            (B) by striking ``transfer--'' and all that follows through 
        ``the Fund'' and inserting ``transfer, for each of fiscal years 
        2027 through 2037, all of the fees collected under this 
        subsection for each such fiscal year to the BLM Permit 
        Processing Improvement Fund''; and
        (3) in paragraph (4), by striking ``2026'' and inserting 
    ``2037''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.