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Calendar No. 52 

112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1231 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 16, 2011 

Received; read the first time 

MAY 17, 2011 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 

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. 

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’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LEASING PROGRAM. 

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

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

4 the following: 

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

6 under this section, the Secretary shall make avail7 able for leasing and conduct lease sales including— 

8 ‘‘(i) at least 50 percent of the available un9 leased acreage within each outer Continental 

10 Shelf planning area considered to have the larg11 est undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and 

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

13 the most recent national geologic assessment of 

14 the outer Continental Shelf, with an emphasis 

15 on offering the most geologically prospective 

16 parts of the planning area; and 

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

18 Continental Shelf planning area that the Gov19 ernor of the State that represents that subdivi20 sion requests be made available for leasing. 

21 ‘‘(B) In this paragraph the term ‘available un22 leased acreage’ means that portion of the outer Con23 tinental Shelf that is not under lease at the time of 

24 a proposed lease sale, and that has not otherwise 

25 been made unavailable for leasing by law. 


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

2 leasing program, the Secretary shall make available 

3 for leasing any outer Continental Shelf planning 

4 areas that— 

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

6 2,500,000,000 barrels of oil; or 

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

8 7,500,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas. 

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

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

11 document entitled ‘Minerals Management Service 

12 Assessment of Undiscovered Technically Recoverable 

13 Oil and Gas Resources of the Nation’s Outer Conti14 nental Shelf, 2006’.’’. 

15 SEC. 3. DOMESTIC OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION 

16 GOAL. 

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

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

19 ‘‘(b) DOMESTIC OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUC20 TION GOAL.—– 

21 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In developing a 5-year oil 

22 and gas leasing program, and subject to paragraph 

23 (2), the Secretary shall determine a domestic stra24 tegic production goal for the development of oil and 


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

2 shall be— 

3 ‘‘(A) the best estimate of the possible in4 crease in domestic production of oil and natural 

5 gas from the outer Continental Shelf; 

6 ‘‘(B) focused on meeting domestic demand 

7 for oil and natural gas and reducing the de8 pendence of the United States on foreign en9 ergy; and 

10 ‘‘(C) focused on the production increases 

11 achieved by the leasing program at the end of 

12 the 15-year period beginning on the effective 

13 date of the program. 

14 ‘‘(2) 2012–2017 PROGRAM GOAL.—For pur15 poses of the 2012–2017 5-year oil and gas leasing 

16 program, the production goal referred to in para17 graph (1) shall be an increase by 2027 of— 

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

19 amount of oil produced per day; and 

20 ‘‘(B) no less than 10,000,000,000 cubic 

21 feet in the amount of natural gas produced per 

22 day. 

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

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

25 for which the program applies, to the Committee on 


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1 Natural Resources of the House of Representatives 

2 and the Committee on Energy and Natural Re3 sources of the Senate on the progress of the pro4 gram in meeting the production goal. The Secretary 

5 shall identify in the report projections for production 

6 and any problems with leasing, permitting, or pro7 duction that will prevent meeting the goal.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives May 12, 2011. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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Calendar No. 52 

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 

MAY 17, 2011 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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