The Interior Department would be required to hold lease sales every year in states with land areas nominated for geothermal development under
Under current law, the Interior Department is required to hold a competitive lease sale once every two years for land in a state that has pending nominations. The measure would require the department to hold a replacement sale in the same year a sale is canceled or delayed.
The department would have to offer all nominated land eligible for geothermal development using a state’s existing resource ...