BRIDGE Production Act of 2025
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 4
- Latest action
- Apr 29, 2025
What it does
The BRIDGE Production Act of 2025 requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct at least 26 offshore oil and gas lease sales over a 10-year period—20 in the Gulf of America and 6 in the Cook Inlet Planning Area—with specific timing and acreage minimums for each sale. It waives certain Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act requirements to expedite lease approvals, lowers minimum royalty rates from 16⅔% to 12.5%, and establishes a pilot program allowing royalty reductions to 10% for up to 25 leases if first production occurs within three years of lease issuance. The bill also deems compliance with certain existing environmental documents sufficient to meet federal legal requirements and…
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