S. 600: Use It or Lose It Act of 2011
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S. 600: Use It or Lose It Act of 2011
112th Congress · introduced 2011-03-16 · Energy · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2011-03-16 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Use It or Lose It Act of 2011
Plain summary
Use It or Lose It Act of 2011 - Requires holders of leases authorizing exploration and production of oil or natural gas to develop them diligently in order to ensure timely production from the lease. Amends the Mineral Leasing Act and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to require a lessee, as a condition of such a lease, to pay an annual fee of $4 per acre on the acres covered by a non-producing lease. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations that: (1) prescribe requirements and benchmarks for diligent oil and gas development to produce oil and gas from each lease to the maximum extent practicable during the primary term of the lease, and (2) require each leaseholder to submit a diligent development plan describing how the lessee will meet such benchmarks.
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Official text
Use It or Lose It Act of 2011
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] · 10 cosponsors
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Cosponsors on this site
Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Patty Murray (D-WA)
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Words on this page, explained (1)
- Rulemaking
- The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112s600.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/s>
Record fed-us-cong112-s600 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112