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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1938 

To direct the President to expedite the consideration and approval of the 

construction and operation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 23, 2011 

Mr. TERRY (for himself, Mr. ROSS of Arkansas, Mr. UPTON, Mr. WHITFIELD, 

Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, 

Mr. WALDEN, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. GARDNER, Mr. SCALISE, Mrs. 

MYRICK, Mr. PITTS, and Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania) introduced the 

following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 

and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and 

Commerce and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 

as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To direct the President to expedite the consideration and 

approval of the construction and operation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, 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 ‘‘North American-Made 

5 Energy Security Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress finds and declares the following: 

3 (1) The United States currently imports more 

4 than half of the oil it consumes, often from countries 

5 hostile to United States interests or with political 

6 and economic instability that compromises supply se7 curity. 

8 (2) While a significant portion of imports are 

9 derived from allies such as Canada and Mexico, the 

10 United States remains vulnerable to substantial sup11 ply disruptions created by geopolitical tumult in 

12 major producing nations. 

13 (3) Strong increases in oil consumption in the 

14 developing world outpace growth in conventional oil 

15 supplies, bringing tight market conditions and high16 er oil prices in periods of global economic expansion 

17 or when supplies are threatened. 

18 (4) The development and delivery of oil and gas 

19 from Canada to the United States is in the national 

20 interest of the United States in order to secure oil 

21 supplies to fill needs that are projected to otherwise 

22 be filled by increases in other foreign supplies, nota23 bly from the Middle East. 

24 (5) Continued development of North American 

25 energy resources, including Canadian oil, increases 

26 domestic refiners’ access to stable and reliable 


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1 sources of crude and improves certainty of fuel sup2 ply for the Department of Defense, the largest con3 sumer of petroleum in the United States. 

4 (6) Canada and the United States have the 

5 world’s largest two-way trading relationship. There6 fore, for every United States dollar spent on prod7 ucts from Canada, including oil, 90 cents is returned 

8 to the United States economy. When the same 

9 metrics are applied to trading relationships with 

10 some other major sources of United States crude oil 

11 imports, returns are much lower. 

12 (7) The principal choice for Canadian oil ex13 porters is between moving increasing crude oil vol14 umes to the United States or Asia, led by China. In15 creased Canadian oil exports to China will result in 

16 increased United States crude oil imports from other 

17 foreign sources, especially the Middle East. 

18 (8) Increased Canadian crude oil imports into 

19 the United States correspondingly reduce the scale 

20 of ‘‘wealth transfers’’ to other more distant foreign 

21 sources resulting from the greater cost of importing 

22 crude oil from those sources. 

23 (9) Not only are United States companies 

24 major investors in Canadian oil sands, but many 

25 United States businesses throughout the country 


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1 benefit from supplying goods and services required 

2 for ongoing Canadian oil sands operations and ex3 pansion. 

4 (10) There has been more than 2 years of con5 sideration and a coordinated review by more than a 

6 dozen Federal agencies of the technical aspects and 

7 of the environmental, social, and economic impacts 

8 of the proposed pipeline project known as the Key9 stone XL from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Ne10 braska, and then on to the United States Gulf Coast 

11 through Cushing, Oklahoma. 

12 (11) Keystone XL represents a high capacity 

13 pipeline supply option that could meet early as well 

14 as long-term market demand for crude oil to United 

15 States refineries, and could also potentially bring 

16 over 100,000 barrels per day of United States 

17 Bakken crudes to market. 

18 (12) Completion of the Keystone XL pipeline 

19 would increase total Keystone pipeline capacity by 

20 700,000 barrels per day to 1,290,000 barrels per 

21 day. 

22 (13) The Keystone XL pipeline would provide 

23 short-term and long-term employment opportunities 

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1 ment revenues associated with sales and payroll 

2 taxes. 

3 (14) The earliest possible construction of the 

4 Keystone XL pipeline will make the extensive proven 

5 and potential reserves of Canadian oil available for 

6 United States use and increase United States jobs 

7 and will therefore serve the national interest. 

8 (15) Analysis using the Environmental Protec9 tion Agency models shows that the Keystone XL 

10 pipeline will result in no significant change in total 

11 United States or global greenhouse gas emissions. 

12 (16) The Keystone XL pipeline would be state13 of-the-art and have a degree of safety higher than 

14 any other typically constructed domestic oil pipeline 

15 system. 

16 (17) Because of the extensive governmental 

17 studies already made with respect to the Keystone 

18 XL project and the national interest in early delivery 

19 of Canadian oil to United States markets, a decision 

20 with respect to a Presidential Permit for the Key21 stone XL pipeline should be promptly issued without 

22 further administrative delay or impediment. 

23 SEC. 3. EXPEDITED APPROVAL PROCESS. 

24 (a) IN GENERAL.—The President, acting through the 

25 Secretary of Energy, shall coordinate with each Federal 


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1 agency responsible for coordinating or considering an as2 pect of the President’s National Interest Determination 

3 and Presidential Permit decision regarding construction 

4 and operation of the Keystone XL pipeline, to ensure that 

5 all necessary actions with respect to such decision are 

6 taken on an expedited schedule. 

7 (b) AGENCY COOPERATION WITH SECRETARY OF

8 ENERGY.—Each Federal agency described in subsection 

9 (a) shall comply with any deadline established by the Sec10 retary of Energy pursuant to subsection (a). 

11 (c) FINAL ORDER.—Not later than 30 days after the 

12 issuance of the final environmental impact statement, the 

13 President shall issue a final order granting or denying the 

14 Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, but in 

15 no event shall such decision be made later than November 

16 1, 2011. 

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