Oil and gas companies would keep paying drilling permit fees for 11 more years.
Oil and gas companies would continue to pay fees for new drilling permits on federal lands until 2037, instead of the current deadline of 2026. These fees would all go to a special fund that helps the government process permits. This would ensure continued funding for improving how the Bureau of Land Management handles drilling applications.
Today, companies must pay a fee for new drilling permits on federal lands, and this requirement is set to expire after 2026. Only a portion of these fees goes to the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Fund. If this bill passes, companies would continue to pay these fees until 2037, and all of the collected fees from 2027 through 2037 would go to the BLM fund.
S 5039 · 119th Congress · July 21, 2026 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 10/10
Sign in to see your representatives' phone numbers