112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1231 

AN ACT 

To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require 

that each 5-year offshore oil and gas leasing program 

offer leasing in the areas with the most prospective oil 

and gas resources, to establish a domestic oil and natural 

gas production goal, and for other purposes. 
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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reversing President 

5 Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LEASING PROGRAM. 

7 Section 18(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 

8 Act (43 U.S.C. 1344(a)) is amended by adding at the end 

9 the following: 

10 ‘‘(5)(A) In each oil and gas leasing program 

11 under this section, the Secretary shall make avail12 able for leasing and conduct lease sales including— 

13 ‘‘(i) at least 50 percent of the available un14 leased acreage within each outer Continental 

15 Shelf planning area considered to have the larg16 est undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and 

17 gas resources (on a total btu basis) based upon 

18 the most recent national geologic assessment of 

19 the outer Continental Shelf, with an emphasis 

20 on offering the most geologically prospective 

21 parts of the planning area; and 

22 ‘‘(ii) any State subdivision of an outer 

23 Continental Shelf planning area that the Gov24 ernor of the State that represents that subdivi25 sion requests be made available for leasing. 
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1 ‘‘(B) In this paragraph the term ‘available un2 leased acreage’ means that portion of the outer Con3 tinental Shelf that is not under lease at the time of 

4 a proposed lease sale, and that has not otherwise 

5 been made unavailable for leasing by law. 

6 ‘‘(6)(A) In the 2012–2017 5-year oil and gas 

7 leasing program, the Secretary shall make available 

8 for leasing any outer Continental Shelf planning 

9 areas that— 

10 ‘‘(i) are estimated to contain more than 

11 2,500,000,000 barrels of oil; or 

12 ‘‘(ii) are estimated to contain more than 

13 7,500,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas. 

14 ‘‘(B) To determine the planning areas described 

15 in subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall use the 

16 document entitled ‘Minerals Management Service 

17 Assessment of Undiscovered Technically Recoverable 

18 Oil and Gas Resources of the Nation’s Outer Conti19 nental Shelf, 2006’.’’. 

20 SEC. 3. DOMESTIC OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION 

21 GOAL. 

22 Section 18(b) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 

23 Act (43 U.S.C. 1344(b)) is amended to read as follows: 

24 ‘‘(b) DOMESTIC OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUC25 TION GOAL.—– 
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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In developing a 5-year oil 

2 and gas leasing program, and subject to paragraph 

3 (2), the Secretary shall determine a domestic stra4 tegic production goal for the development of oil and 

5 natural gas as a result of that program. Such goal 

6 shall be— 

7 ‘‘(A) the best estimate of the possible in8 crease in domestic production of oil and natural 

9 gas from the outer Continental Shelf; 

10 ‘‘(B) focused on meeting domestic demand 

11 for oil and natural gas and reducing the de12 pendence of the United States on foreign en13 ergy; and 

14 ‘‘(C) focused on the production increases 

15 achieved by the leasing program at the end of 

16 the 15-year period beginning on the effective 

17 date of the program. 

18 ‘‘(2) 2012–2017 PROGRAM GOAL.—For pur19 poses of the 2012–2017 5-year oil and gas leasing 

20 program, the production goal referred to in para21 graph (1) shall be an increase by 2027 of— 

22 ‘‘(A) no less than 3,000,000 barrels in the 

23 amount of oil produced per day; and 
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1 ‘‘(B) no less than 10,000,000,000 cubic 

2 feet in the amount of natural gas produced per 

3 day. 

4 ‘‘(3) REPORTING.—The Secretary shall report 

5 annually, beginning at the end of the 5-year period 

6 for which the program applies, to the Committee on 

7 Natural Resources of the House of Representatives 

8 and the Committee on Energy and Natural Re9 sources of the Senate on the progress of the pro10 gram in meeting the production goal. The Secretary 

11 shall identify in the report projections for production 

12 and any problems with leasing, permitting, or pro13 duction that will prevent meeting the goal.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives May 12, 2011. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 
112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1231 

AN ACT 

To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 

goal, and for other purposes. tablish a domestic oil and natural gas production the most prospective oil and gas resources, to esleasing program offer leasing in the areas with to require that each 5-year offshore oil and gas