Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Lawmakers ask LSO to draft dormant-minerals bill after industry, landowners raise title and tractability problems
Summary
The committee agreed to ask Legislative Service Office to draft a bill modeled on North Dakota's dormant-minerals process after industry and landowner representatives described a growing problem of severed, fractional mineral interests that are costly to trace and often economically impractical to claim.
Committee members directed the Legislative Service Office to draft a bill modeled on North Dakota’s dormant-minerals statute after testimony from mining industry representatives, the petroleum association and county- and farm-industry advocates.
Industry witnesses said generations-old severances of surface and mineral estates often result in many heirs holding tiny fractional mineral interests that are uneconomic to develop or to…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
