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Senate committee approves resolution asking Congress to let Wyoming administer federal mineral leases
Summary
The Senate Minerals Committee voted 5-0 to approve an amended joint resolution urging Congress to authorize cooperative agreements allowing Wyoming to assume administrative primacy for mineral leasing on specified federal lands and to retain the 2% administrative deduction for those lands.
The Wyoming Senate Minerals Committee on an unspecified date voted unanimously to send an amended joint resolution to the next stage of consideration that asks the state's congressional delegation to pursue authority for Wyoming to administer mineral leasing on specified federal lands.
Representative Wharf, who introduced Senate Joint Resolution 1, told the committee the measure "basically goes through asking our congressional delegation to introduce a bill that enacts a law that amends the Federal Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the State of Wyoming to administer and manage the mineral leasing on federal lands." He said the change would allow Wyoming to "flip the script" and retain the 2% administrative deduction currently kept by the federal government.
The resolution as amended asks Congress to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter cooperative agreements under which "the state may, at…
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