Mining Law Administration

What this funds

The Omnibus Budget Establishes an annual $100 per claim maintenance fee for Reconciliation Act of 1993 unpatented mining claims and sites through 1998 and requires that (P.L. 103-66) the fee be adjusted for inflation. The law allows a waiver from the fee for those claimants who hold 10 or fewer claims. It also establishes a $25 per claim location fee for new claims, to be paid when they are recorded with the BLM. The Act also broadened the BLM's authority to collect recreation use fees. The General Mining Law Provides for locating and patenting mining claims where a of 1872, as amended (30 discovery has been made for locatable minerals on public lands in U.S.C. 22, et seq.), as specified States, mostly in the western United States. The Act of March 3, 1879, Provides for the inventory and classification of the public lands, and as amended, (43 U.S.C. examination of the mineral resources and products of the national The Mining and Minerals Sets out the policy of fostering development of economically stable Policy Act of 1970, (30 mining and mineral industries and studying methods for waste The Department of the Provides that receipts for 1989 and thereafter from administrative Interior and Related fees (service charges) established by the Secretary for processing Agencies Appropriations actions relating to the administration of the General Mining Laws Chapter III - Management of Lands and Resources Page - III - 32 Bureau of Land Management 2027 Budget Justification Act for 1989 (43 U.S.C. shall be immediately available to the BLM for mining law The 1994 Interior and Provides that funds shall be available to the BLM for mining law Related Agencies administration program operations, to be reduced by amounts Reauthorizes the collection of annual mining claim maintenance The 1999 Interior and fees through 2001. Extends the recreation fee demonstration Related Agencies program through fiscal year 2001, with collected funds remaining Reauthorizes the collection of annual mining claim maintenance The 2002 Interior and fees through 2003. Extends the recreation fee demonstration Related Agencies program through fiscal year 2004, with collected funds remaining The Food Security Act of Provides for the transfer of funds to the Secretary of Agriculture for 1985 (7 U.S.C. 148f) Mormon cricket and grasshopper control. Indian Self Determination Provides for non-competitive contracts, grants, or cooperative And Education Assistance agreements entered into between a Tribal organization and the Act (P.L. 93-638) Federal government for the planning, conduct, and administration of programs which enhance Indian educational achievement or provide other Federal services more responsive to the needs and desires of Oregon Land Exchange Act Authorizes exchange of specified parcels of public and national of 2000 (P.L. 106-257) forest lands in Oregon for specified parcels of private lands. P.L. 109-127 Revokes a Public Land Order with respect to certain lands erroneously included in the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, Carl Levin and Howard P. Authorizes processing fee for applications for permit to drill (APD) "Buck" McKeon National for 2016 through 2026, with collections deposited into and Defense Authorization Act permanently appropriated from the BLM Permit Processing Fund Chapter III - Management of Lands and Resources Page - III - 33 Bureau of Land Management 2027 Budget Justification APD fee revenues are permanently appropriated. The NDAA also Forest Ecosystem Health & permanently extends the BLM access to the mineral lease rent Recovery Fund (P.L. 102-381) revenues deposited in the PPIF. Prior to enactment of the NDAA, the BLM access to the PPIF would have expired at the end of 2015, in accordance with Section 365 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which created the PPIF. Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to provide authority for establish and implement internet leasing for onshore oil and gas leases. The budget proposes to extend this fee authority The initial purpose of this fund was to allow quick response to fire and reforestation of forests damaged by insects, disease, and fire. Expanded authorization in the 1998 Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act allows activities designed to reduce the risk of catastrophic damage to forests in addition to responding to damage events. Funds in this account are derived from the Federal share (defined as the portion of receipts not paid to the counties under 43 receipts from all the BLM timber salvage sales and all BLM forest health restoration treatments funded by this account. The Fund was established as a permanent appropriation in the FY 1993 Interior Appropriations Act (Public Law 102-381). This authority was subsequently amended to temporarily expand the use of the FEHRF to cover additional forest health and recovery activities. This temporary expansion also included the authority for receipts from the expanded activities to be deposited in the FEHRF and expended without having to be appropriated. The temporary, expanded authority of the FEHRF was extended for five years in the 2010 scheduled to expire at the end of fiscal year 2015. The 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Act (Section 117) extended this authority again through 2020. Subsequent appropriations bills extended the authority for one year. Most recently, it was extended for another year in the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions extend the FEHRF authority through 2027 by amending the related Chapter III - Management of Lands and Resources Page - III - 34

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