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U.S. Department of the InteriorBureau of Land Management |
COMMERCIAL USES AND REVENUES GENERATED
The demands being placed on the public lands are growing in tandem with the number and diversity of the people the BLM serves. Our ability to meet these new demands will depend on improving the Bureau's accountability to users of the public lands, while emphasizing the responsibility of these users to adhere to an ethic that is sensitive to the land's health and responsive to the public's right to receive fair value in return.
The BLM historically has made land available for authorized private sector activities, such as recreation, energy and mineral commodity extraction, livestock forage use and sawtimber harvest, and other related land use authorizations and land dispositions, and we will continue to do so. Taxpayers should expect to receive a fair return from such transactions, consistent with existing laws. The BLM will also ensure that environmental impacts on the land and on other users are minimized so as to prevent long-term impairment or the creation of unfunded taxpayer liabilities.
The BLM administers an onshore surface and mineral estate of about 264 million acres of public land, plus another 300 million acres of mineral estate underlying other lands. The BLM also provides technical supervision of mineral development on American Indian lands.
The following tables of statistics show the essential outputs of various interrelated programs that provide commercial uses as shown in Tables 3-1 through 23. Tables 3-24 through 31 display outcome-oriented information in terms of receipts or payments and the allocation of funds generated from commercial use activities on public lands. It must be noted that only receipts and payments collected by the BLM are listed. For revenues derived from BLM energy and mineral activities, refer to Mineral Revenues in the Annual Report of the Minerals Management Service, a Department of the Interior agency. The total onshore mineral revenues, including royalties, rents, and bonus bids, were $1,176 million for FY 1998.
| 3-1 | Applications, Entries, Selections, and Patents | |
| 3-2 | Patents Issued with Minerals Reserved to the United States | |
| 3-3 | Rights-of-Way Workload for the Lower 48 States | |
| 3-4 | Number of Existing Rights-of-Way | |
| 3-5 | Nonspecific Land Use Authorizations | |
| 3-6 | Miscellaneous Land Use Authorizations | |
| 3-7 | Summary of Authorized Use of Grazing District (Section 3) Lands | |
| 3-8 | Summary of Authorized Use of Grazing Lease (Section 15) Lands | |
| 3-9 | Grazing Permits in Force on Grazing District (Section 3) Lands | |
| 3-10 | Grazing Leases in Force on Grazing Lease (Section 15) Lands | |
| 3-11 | Timber, Wood Products, and Non-Timber Forest Product Sales | |
| 3-12 | Forest Product Sales by State | |
| 3-13 | Competitive Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Leasing | |
| 3-14 | Noncompetitive Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Leases | |
| 3-15 | Other Oil and Gas Leasing Actions | |
| 3-16 | New Oil and Gas Activities on Federal Lands | |
| 3-17 | Continuing Oil and Gas Activities on Federal Lands | |
| 3-18 | Federal Coal Leases, Licenses, Permits, Preference Right Lease Applications, and Logical Mining Units | |
| 3-19 | Other Solid Mineral Leases, Licenses, Permits, and Preference Right Lease Applications | |
| 3-20 | Disposition of Mineral Materials | |
| 3-21 | Mineral Patents Issued | |
| 3-22 | Recordation of Mining Claims, Public Law 94-579 | |
| 3-23 | Notices and Plans of Mining Operations Filed with the BLM | |
| 3-24 | Helium Operations and Revenues | |
| 3-25 | Receipts From the Disposition of Public Lands and Resources, May 20, 1785 through FY 1998 | |
| 3-26 | Statement of Receipts by Source | |
| 3-27 | Receipts from Oil and Gas Right-of-Way Rentals, Mineral Leases, Licenses, and Permits | |
| 3-28 | Allocation of Receipts to States and Local Governments by Program | |
| 3-29 | Allocation of Receipts by Source and Fund | |
| 3-30 | Payments to States (Including Local Governments) and Territories | |
| 3-31 | Legal Allocation of BLM Receipts |