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\n\nIf you do not work in oil and gas, you will notice no change in daily life. This law affects companies that drill on federal public land and the agency that reviews their permits.\n\nCompanies pay a fee with each new application to drill a well on federal land. That fee was set to end after September 2026. It now runs through 2037. All of the fee money goes to a fund at the Bureau of Land Management, the agency that manages federal public land. The fund pays for the work of reviewing drilling permits. The agency also still may not raise the fee by rule to cover extra review costs. That limit now lasts through 2037 as well. The fee is set at $9,500 per application, rising with inflation since 2015. It costs more than that today.
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