; or (2) the amount of royalties due to the Federal Government from the production of the Federal minerals within the oil and gas drilling or spacing unit. 1204. Fee-fee-fed permitting compliance (a) In general Notwithstanding the Mineral Leasing Act ( 30 U.S.C. 181 et seq. ), the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 ( 30 U.S.C. 1701 et seq. ), or subpart 3162 of title 43, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), the Secretary of the Interior shall issue a categorical exclusion pursuant to section 390 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 15942 ) for an application for permit to drill into and produce Federal minerals from a well pad constructed on entirely non-Federal lands. (b) Application for permit To drill Section 17(g) of the Mineral Leasing Act ( 30 U.S.C. 226(g) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: For an application for a permit to drill into and produce Federal minerals from a well pad constructed on entirely non-Federal lands, the Secretary shall limit review pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. ), section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1536 ), and section 306108 of title 54, United States Code, only to the approval of the permit. The Secretary shall have no authority to require a bond to protect non-Federal lands, to enter non-Federal lands without the consent of the applicable landowner, or to require mitigation of surface disturbances on non-Federal lands. . 1205. State and Tribal authority for hydraulic fracturing regulation The Mineral Leasing Act ( 30 U.S.C. 181 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 44 (as added by section 1202(a)(2)) the following: 45. State and Tribal authority for hydraulic fracturing regulation (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Hydraulic fracturing The term hydraulic fracturing means the process of creating small cracks or fractures in underground geological formations for well stimulation purposes of bringing hydrocarbons into the wellbore and to