To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for commingling.

This bill proposes an amendment to the Mineral Leasing Act , specifically Section 17, to introduce new provisions for the commingling of oil and gas production. Its primary goal is to minimize surface disturbing activities by allowing the combination of production streams from various sources before they reach the point of royalty measurement. The amendment mandates that the Secretary of the Interior approve applications for commingling production from federal leases, unit areas, or even non-federal properties, irrespective of ownership, royalty rates, or acreage percentages. A crucial condition for approval is that applicants must either install individual measurement devices for each source or employ an allocation method. This method must maintain volume measurement uncertainty within plus or minus 2 percent on a monthly basis to ensure accurate reporting.