H.R. 2265, Bill Introduced
would direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue an oil and gas leasing program under section 18 of OCSLA for 2016 through 2020.
would direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue an oil and gas leasing program under section 18 of OCSLA for 2016 through 2020.
would amend OCSLA to increase energy exploration and production on the Outer Continental Shelf, provide for equitable revenue sharing for all coastal states, and reorganize the functions of the former Minerals Management Service into distinct and separate agencies.
would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to provide for the properf ederal management and oversight of transboundary hydrocarbon reservoirs.
would amend OCSLA to require that oil produced from federal leases in certain Arctic waters be transported by pipeline to onshore facilities and provide for the sharing of certain outer Continental Shelf revenues from areas in the Alaska Adjacent Zone.
would reject and replace the final five-year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for fiscal years 2013 through 2018.
would amend OCSLA to permanently prohibit the conduct of offshore drilling on the outer Continental Shelf off the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington.
would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to extend the Constitution, laws, and jurisdiction of the United States to installations and devices attached to the seabed of the outer continental shelf for the production and support of production of energy from sources other than oil and gas.
In a recent article reviewing the U.S. Supreme Court's environmental decisions over the last 30 years (1969-1999), Professor Richard Lazarus argues that "the Justices have never fully appreciated environmental law as a distinct area of law."1
They perceive environmental law instead as merely an incidental factual context, in which environmental protection concerns are at stake, but there is nothing uniquely environmental about the legal issues being raised. The Justices, accordingly, fail to appreciate how the nature of the environmental concerns being addressed can sometimes be relevant to their resolution of those legal issues.2
The statute is available from the U.S. Government Publishing Office: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2017-title43/html/USCODE-2017-title43-chap29-subchapIII.htm
would amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently prohibit the conduct of offshore drilling on the outer continental shelf off the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington.
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