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BLM official tells House panel APD fees critical after agency processed 6,000 permits in FY2025
Summary
The Bureau of Land Management said reauthorizing application-for-permit-to-drill fees (H.R. 7831) funded staff that helped process about 6,000 APDs in fiscal 2025, and that losing the fee authority would force the agency to rely on uncertain appropriations and likely reduce permitting capacity.
Chairman Stauber and other members of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources pressed Bureau of Land Management officials Wednesday on the importance of reauthorizing fees that pay for oil and gas permit processing. Mitchell Leverett, the BLM’s Eastern States director, told the committee the agency used APD fees to process roughly 6,000 applications for permits to drill in fiscal year 2025 and to hire staff that have reduced average processing times to about 100 days.
“The reauthorization of these fees is critical for us to continue to have permit efficiencies and expedited permitting,” said Mitchell Leverett, the BLM…
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