Bill > S1196

Introduced Session

Federal Land Access Act This bill amends the Mineral Leasing Act, with respect to rights-of-way for pipelines through federal lands, to redefine federal lands, for purposes of granting an application for a natural gas pipeline right-of-way, to mean all lands owned by the United States, except only those lands held in trust for an Indian or Indian tribe and lands on the outer Continental Shelf. The exception for the National Park System is repealed, thereby authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant natural gas pipeline rights-of-way on National Park System land.

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Bill Cassidy (R)*,  Shelley Moore Capito (R),  James Inhofe (R), 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. (on 05/14/2015)

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