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Calendar No. 116 

112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1938 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JULY 27, 2011 

Received; read the first time 

JULY 28, 2011 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 

AN ACT 

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’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds and declares the following: 

8 (1) The United States currently imports more 

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


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1 hostile to United States interests or with political 

2 and economic instability that compromises supply se3 curity. 

4 (2) While a significant portion of imports are 

5 derived from allies such as Canada and Mexico, the 

6 United States remains vulnerable to substantial sup7 ply disruptions created by geopolitical tumult in 

8 major producing nations. 

9 (3) Strong increases in oil consumption in the 

10 developing world outpace growth in conventional oil 

11 supplies, bringing tight market conditions and high12 er oil prices in periods of global economic expansion 

13 or when supplies are threatened. 

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

15 from Canada to the United States is in the national 

16 interest of the United States in order to secure oil 

17 supplies to fill needs that are projected to otherwise 

18 be filled by increases in other foreign supplies, nota19 bly from the Middle East. 

20 (5) Continued development of North American 

21 energy resources, including Canadian oil, increases 

22 domestic refiners’ access to stable and reliable 

23 sources of crude and improves certainty of fuel sup24 ply for the Department of Defense, the largest con25 sumer of petroleum in the United States. 


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1 (6) Canada and the United States have the 

2 world’s largest two-way trading relationship. There3 fore, for every United States dollar spent on prod4 ucts from Canada, including oil, 90 cents is returned 

5 to the United States economy. When the same 

6 metrics are applied to trading relationships with 

7 some other major sources of United States crude oil 

8 imports, returns are much lower. 

9 (7) The principal choice for Canadian oil ex10 porters is between moving increasing crude oil vol11 umes to the United States or Asia, led by China. In12 creased Canadian oil exports to China will result in 

13 increased United States crude oil imports from other 

14 foreign sources, especially the Middle East. 

15 (8) Increased Canadian crude oil imports into 

16 the United States correspondingly reduce the scale 

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

18 sources resulting from the greater cost of importing 

19 crude oil from those sources. 

20 (9) Not only are United States companies 

21 major investors in Canadian oil sands, but many 

22 United States businesses throughout the country 

23 benefit from supplying goods and services required 

24 for ongoing Canadian oil sands operations and ex25 pansion. 


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1 (10) There has been more than 2 years of con2 sideration and a coordinated review by more than a 

3 dozen Federal agencies of the technical aspects and 

4 of the environmental, social, and economic impacts 

5 of the proposed pipeline project known as the Key6 stone XL from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Ne7 braska, and then on to the United States Gulf Coast 

8 through Cushing, Oklahoma. 

9 (11) Keystone XL represents a high capacity 

10 pipeline supply option that could meet early as well 

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

12 States refineries, and could also potentially bring 

13 over 100,000 barrels per day of United States 

14 Bakken crudes to market. 

15 (12) Completion of the Keystone XL pipeline 

16 would increase total Keystone pipeline capacity by 

17 700,000 barrels per day to 1,290,000 barrels per 

18 day. 

19 (13) The Keystone XL pipeline would provide 

20 short-term and long-term employment opportunities 

21 and related labor income benefits, as well as govern22 ment revenues associated with sales and payroll 

23 taxes. 

24 (14) The earliest possible construction of the 

25 Keystone XL pipeline will make the extensive proven 


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1 and potential reserves of Canadian oil available for 

2 United States use and increase United States jobs 

3 and will therefore serve the national interest. 

4 (15) Analysis using the Environmental Protec5 tion Agency models shows that the Keystone XL 

6 pipeline will result in no significant change in total 

7 United States or global greenhouse gas emissions. 

8 (16) The Keystone XL pipeline would be state9 of-the-art and have a degree of safety higher than 

10 any other typically constructed domestic oil pipeline 

11 system. 

12 (17) Because of the extensive governmental 

13 studies already made with respect to the Keystone 

14 XL project and the national interest in early delivery 

15 of Canadian oil to United States markets, a decision 

16 with respect to a Presidential Permit for the Key17 stone XL pipeline should be promptly issued without 

18 further administrative delay or impediment. 

19 SEC. 3. EXPEDITED APPROVAL PROCESS. 

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

21 Secretary of Energy, shall coordinate with each Federal 

22 agency responsible for coordinating or considering an as23 pect of the President’s National Interest Determination 

24 and Presidential Permit decision regarding construction 

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


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1 all necessary actions with respect to such decision are 

2 taken on an expedited schedule. 

3 (b) AGENCY COOPERATION WITH SECRETARY OF

4 ENERGY.—Each Federal agency described in subsection 

5 (a) shall comply with any deadline established by the Sec6 retary of Energy pursuant to subsection (a). 

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

8 issuance of the final environmental impact statement, the 

9 President shall issue a final order granting or denying the 

10 Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, but in 

11 no event shall such decision be made later than November 

12 1, 2011. 

13 (d) ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.—No action by the 

14 Secretary of Energy pursuant to this section shall affect 

15 any duty or responsibility to comply with any requirement 

16 to conduct environmental review. 

17 (e) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con18 gress that the United States must decrease its dependence 

19 on oil from countries which are hostile to the interests of 

20 the United States. Canada has long been a strong trading 

21 partner, and increased access to their energy resources will 

22 create jobs in the United States. 

Passed the House of Representatives July 26, 2011. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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