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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. 2214

To establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program that

will result in an environmentally sound and job creating program for

the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources

of the Coastal Plain, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

MARCH 8, 2000

Mr. MURKOWSKI (for himself, Mr. AKAKA, Mr. BENNETT, Mr. BOND, Mr.

BUNNING, Mr. BREAUX, Mr. BURNS, Mr. CAMPBELL, Mr. COVERDELL,

Mr. CRAIG, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. DOMENICI, Mr. ENZI, Mr. GRAMM, Mr.

GRASSLEY, Mr. HATCH, Mr. HELMS, Mr. HUTCHINSON, Mrs.

HUTCHISON, Mr. INOUYE, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. KYL, Mr. LOTT, Mr.

MCCONNELL, Mr. NICKLES, Mr. SESSIONS, Mr. SHELBY, Mr. STEVENS,

Mr. THOMAS, Mr. THURMOND, Mr. VOINOVICH, Mr. WARNER, Mr. ABRAHAM, and Mr. HAGEL) introduced the following bill; which was read twice

and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

A BILL

To establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing

program that will result in an environmentally sound

and job creating program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of

the Coastal Plain, 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,
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Arctic Coastal Plain

3 Domestic Energy Security Act of 2000’’.

4 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

5 When used in this Act the term—

6 (1) ‘‘Coastal Plain’’ means that area identified

7 as such in the map entitled ‘‘Arctic National Wildlife

8 Refuge’’, dated August 1980, as referenced in sec9 tion 1002(b) of the Alaska National Interest Lands

10 Conservation Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 3142(b)(1))

11 comprising approximately 1,549,000 acres; and

12 (2) ‘‘Secretary’’, except as otherwise provided,

13 means the Secretary of the Interior or the Sec14 retary’s designee.

15 SEC. 3. LEASING PROGRAM FOR LANDS WITHIN THE

16 COASTAL PLAIN.

17 (a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Congress hereby author18 izes and directs the Secretary, acting through the Bureau

19 of Land Management in consultation with the Fish and

20 Wildlife Service and other appropriate Federal offices and

21 agencies, to take such actions as are necessary to establish

22 and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program

23 that will result in an environmentally sound program for

24 the exploration, development, and production of the oil

25 and gas resources of the Coastal Plain and to administer

26 the provisions of this Act through regulations, lease terms,
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1 conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, stipulations and

2 other provisions that ensure the oil and gas exploration,

3 development, and production activities on the Coastal

4 Plain will result in no significant adverse effect on fish

5 and wildlife, their habitat, subsistence resources, and the

6 environment, and shall require the application of the best

7 commercially available technology for oil and gas explo8 ration, development, and production, on all new explo9 ration, development, and production operations, and when10 ever practicable, on existing operations, and in a manner

11 to ensure the receipt of fair market value by the public

12 for the mineral resources to be leased.

13 (b) REPEAL.—The prohibitions and limitations con14 tained in section 1003 of the Alaska National Interest

15 Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 3143) are

16 hereby repealed.

17 (c) COMPATIBILITY.—Congress hereby determines

18 that the oil and gas leasing program and activities author19 ized by this section in the Coastal Plain are compatible

20 with the purposes for which the Arctic National Wildlife

21 Refuge was established, and that no further findings or

22 decisions are required to implement this determination.

23 (d) SOLE AUTHORITY.—This Act shall be the sole au24 thority for leasing on the Coastal Plain: Provided, That
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1 nothing in this Act shall be deemed to expand or limit

2 State and local regulatory authority.

3 (e) FEDERAL LAND.—The Coastal Plain shall be

4 considered ‘‘Federal land’’ for the purposes of the Federal

5 Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982.

6 (f) SPECIAL AREAS.—The Secretary, after consulta7 tion with the State of Alaska, City of Kaktovik, and the

8 North Slope Borough, is authorized to designate up to a

9 total of 45,000 acres of the Coastal Plain as Special Areas

10 and close such areas to leasing if the Secretary determines

11 that these Special Areas are of such unique character and

12 interest so as to require special management and regu13 latory protection. The Secretary may, however, permit

14 leasing of all or portions of any Special Areas within the

15 Coastal Plain by setting lease terms that limit or condition

16 surface use and occupancy by lessees of such lands but

17 permit the use of horizontal drilling technology from sites

18 on leases located outside the designated Special Areas.

19 (g) LIMITATION ON CLOSED AREAS.—The Sec20 retary’s sole authority to close lands within the Coastal

21 Plain to oil and gas leasing and to exploration, develop22 ment, and production is that set forth in this Act.

23 (h) CONVEYANCE.—In order to maximize Federal

24 revenues by removing clouds on title of lands and clari25 fying land ownership patterns within the Coastal Plain,
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1 the Secretary, notwithstanding the provisions of section

2 1302(h)(2) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Con3 servation Act (16 U.S.C. 3192(h)(2)), is authorized and

4 directed to convey (1) to the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation

5 the surface estate of the lands described in paragraph 2

6 of Public Land Order 6959, to the extent necessary to

7 fulfill the Corporation’s entitlement under section 12 of

8 the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C.

9 1611), and (2) to the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation

10 the subsurface estate beneath such surface estate pursu11 ant to the August 9, 1983, agreement between the Arctic

12 Slope Regional Corporation and the United States of

13 America.

14 SEC. 4. RULES AND REGULATIONS.

15 (a) PROMULGATION.—The Secretary shall prescribe

16 such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry

17 out the purposes and provisions of this Act, including rules

18 and regulations relating to protection of the fish and wild19 life, their habitat, subsistence resources, and the environ20 ment of the Coastal Plain. Such rules and regulations

21 shall be promulgated no later than fourteen months after

22 the date of enactment of this Act and shall, as of their

23 effective date, apply to all operations conducted under a

24 lease issued or maintained under the provisions of this Act

25 and all operations on the Coastal Plain related to the leas-
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1 ing, exploration, development and production of oil and

2 gas.

3 (b) REVISION OF REGULATIONS.—The Secretary

4 shall periodically review and, if appropriate, revise the

5 rules and regulations issued under subsection (a) of this

6 section to reflect any significant biological, environmental,

7 or engineering data which come to the Secretary’s atten8 tion.

9 SEC. 5. ADEQUACY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTE10 RIOR’S LEGISLATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IM11 PACT STATEMENT.

12 The ‘‘Final Legislative Environmental Impact State13 ment’’ (April 1987) on the Coastal Plain prepared pursu14 ant to section 1002 of the Alaska National Interest Lands

15 Conservation Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 3142) and section

16 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of

17 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)) is hereby found by the Con18 gress to be adequate to satisfy the legal and procedural

19 requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of

20 1969 with respect to actions authorized to be taken by

21 the Secretary to develop and promulgate the regulations

22 for the establishment of the leasing program authorized

23 by this Act, to conduct the first lease sale and any subse24 quent lease sale authorized by this Act, and to grant
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1 rights-of-way and easements to carry out the purposes of

2 this Act.

3 SEC. 6. LEASE SALES.

4 (a) LEASE SALES.—Lands may be leased pursuant

5 to the provisions of this Act to any person qualified to

6 obtain a lease for deposits of oil and gas under the Mineral

7 Leasing Act, as amended (30 U.S.C. 181).

8 (b) PROCEDURES.—The Secretary shall, by regula9 tion, establish procedures for—

10 (1) receipt and consideration of sealed nomina11 tions for any area in the Coastal Plain for inclusion

12 in, or exclusion (as provided in subsection (c)) from,

13 a lease sale; and

14 (2) public notice of and comment on designa15 tion of areas to be included in, or excluded from, a

16 lease sale.

17 (c) LEASE SALES ON COASTAL PLAIN.—The Sec18 retary shall, by regulation, provide for lease sales of lands

19 on the Coastal Plain. When lease sales are to be held, they

20 shall occur after the nomination process provided for in

21 subsection (b) of this section. For the first lease sale, the

22 Secretary shall offer for lease those acres receiving the

23 greatest number of nominations, but no less than two hun24 dred thousand acres and no more than three hundred

25 thousand acres shall be offered. If the total acreage nomi-
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1 nated is less than two hundred thousand acres, the Sec2 retary shall include in such sale any other acreage which

3 he believes has the highest resource potential, but in no

4 event shall more than three hundred thousand acres of

5 the Coastal Plain be offered in such sale. With respect

6 to subsequent lease sales, the Secretary shall offer for

7 lease no less than two hundred thousand acres of the

8 Coastal Plain. The initial lease sale shall be held within

9 twenty months of the date of enactment of this Act. The

10 second lease sale shall be held no later than twenty-four

11 months after the initial sale, with additional sales con12 ducted no later then twelve months thereafter so long as

13 sufficient interest in development exists to warrant, in the

14 Secretary’s judgment, the conduct of such sales.

15 SEC. 7. GRANT OF LEASES BY THE SECRETARY.

16 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized to

17 grant to the highest responsible qualified bidder by sealed

18 competitive cash bonus bid any lands to be leased on the

19 Coastal Plain upon payment by the lessee of such bonus

20 as may be accepted by the Secretary and of such royalty

21 as may be fixed in the lease, which shall be not less than

121 22 ⁄2 per centum in amount or value of the production

23 removed or sold from the lease.

24 (b) ANTITRUST REVIEW.—Following each notice of

25 a proposed lease sale and before the acceptance of bids
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1 and the issuance of leases based on such bids, the Sec2 retary shall allow the Attorney General, in consultation

3 with the Federal Trade Commission, thirty days to per4 form an antitrust review of the results of such lease sale

5 on the likely effects the issuance of such leases would have

6 on competition and the Attorney General shall advise the

7 Secretary with respect to such review, including any rec8 ommendation for the nonacceptance of any bid or the im9 position of terms or conditions on any lease, as may be

10 appropriate to prevent any situation inconsistent with the

11 antitrust laws.

12 (c) SUBSEQUENT TRANSFERS.—No lease issued

13 under this Act may be sold, exchanged, assigned, sublet,

14 or otherwise transferred except with the approval of the

15 Secretary. Prior to any such approval the Secretary shall

16 consult with, and give due consideration to the views of,

17 the Attorney General.

18 (d) IMMUNITY.—Nothing in this Act shall be deemed

19 to convey to any person, association, corporation, or other

20 business organization immunity from civil or criminal li21 ability, or to create defenses to actions, under any anti22 trust law.

23 (e) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the

24 term—
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1 (1) ‘‘antitrust review’’ shall be deemed

2 an‘‘antitrust investigation’’ for the purposes of the

3 Antitrust Civil Process Act (15 U.S.C. 1311); and

4 (2) ‘‘antitrust laws’’ means those Acts set forth

5 in section 1 of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. 12) as

6 amended.

7 SEC. 8. LEASE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

8 An oil or gas lease issued pursuant to this Act shall—

9 (1) be for a tract consisting of a compact area

10 not to exceed five thousand seven hundred sixty

11 acres, or nine surveyed or protracted sections which

12 shall be as compact in form as possible;

13 (2) be for an initial period of ten years and

14 shall be extended for so long thereafter as oil or gas

15 is produced in paying quantities from the lease or

16 unit area to which the lease is committed or for so

17 long as drilling or reworking operations, as approved

18 by the Secretary, are conducted on the lease or unit

19 area;

20 (3) require the payment of royalty as provided

21 for in section 7 of this Act;

22 (4) require that exploration activities pursuant

23 to any lease issued or maintained under this Act

24 shall be conducted in accordance with an exploration
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1 plan or a revision of such plan approved by the Sec2 retary;

3 (5) require that all development and production

4 pursuant to a lease issued or maintained pursuant

5 to this Act shall be conducted in accordance with de6 velopment and production plans approved by the

7 Secretary;

8 (6) require posting of bond as required by sec9 tion 9 of this Act;

10 (7) provide that the Secretary may close, on a

11 seasonal basis, portions of the Coastal Plain to ex12 ploratory drilling activities as necessary to protect

13 caribou calving areas and other species of fish and

14 wildlife;

15 (8) contain such provisions relating to rental

16 and other fees as the Secretary may prescribe at the

17 time of offering the area for lease;

18 (9) provide that the Secretary may direct or as19 sent to the suspension of operations and production

20 under any lease granted under the terms of this Act

21 in the interest of conservation of the resource or

22 where there is no available system to transport the

23 resource. If such a suspension is directed or as24 sented to by the Secretary, any payment of rental

25 prescribed by such lease shall be suspended during
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1 such period of suspension of operations and produc2 tion, and the term of the lease shall be extended by

3 adding any such suspension period thereto;

4 (10) provide that whenever the owner of a non5 producing lease fails to comply with any of the pro6 visions of this Act, or of any applicable provision of

7 Federal or State environmental law, or of the lease,

8 or of any regulation issued under this Act, such

9 lease may be canceled by the Secretary if such de10 fault continues for more than thirty days after mail11 ing of notice by registered letter to the lease owner

12 at the lease owner’s post office address of record;

13 (11) provide that whenever the owner of any

14 producing lease fails to comply with any of the pro15 visions of this Act, or of any applicable provision of

16 Federal or State environmental law, or of the lease,

17 or of any regulation issued under this Act, such

18 lease may be forfeited and canceled by any appro19 priate proceeding brought by the Secretary in any

20 United States district court having jurisdiction

21 under the provisions of this Act;

22 (12) provide that cancellation of a lease under

23 this Act shall in no way release the owner of the

24 lease from the obligation to provide for reclamation

25 of the lease site;
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1 (13) allow the lessee, at the discretion of the

2 Secretary, to make written relinquishment of all

3 rights under any lease issued pursuant to this Act.

4 The Secretary shall accept such relinquishment by

5 the lessee of any lease issued under this Act where

6 there has not been surface disturbance of the lands

7 covered by the lease;

8 (14) provide that for the purpose of conserving

9 the natural resources of any oil or gas pool, field, or

10 like area, or any part thereof, and in order to avoid

11 the unnecessary duplication of facilities, to protect

12 the environment of the Coastal Plain, and to protect

13 correlative rights, the Secretary shall require that, to

14 the greatest extent practicable, lessees unite with

15 each other in collectively adopting and operating

16 under a cooperative or unit plan of development for

17 operation of such pool, field, or like area, or any

18 part thereof, and the Secretary is also authorized

19 and directed to enter into such agreements as are

20 necessary or appropriate for the protection of the

21 United States against drainage;

22 (15) require that the holder of a lease or leases

23 on lands within the Coastal Plain shall be fully re24 sponsible and liable for the reclamation of lands

25 within the Coastal Plain and any other Federal
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1 lands adversely affected in connection with explo2 ration, development, production or transportation

3 activities on a lease within the Coastal Plain by the

4 holder of a lease or as a result of activities con5 ducted on the lease by any of the leaseholder’s sub6 contractors or agents;

7 (16) provide that the holder of a lease may not

8 delegate or convey, by contract or otherwise, the rec9 lamation responsibility and liability to another party

10 without the express written approval of the Sec11 retary;

12 (17) provide that the standard of reclamation

13 for lands required to be reclaimed under this Act be,

14 as nearly as practicable, a condition capable of sup15 porting the uses which the lands were capable of

16 supporting prior to any exploration, development, or

17 production activities, or upon application by the les18 see, to a higher or better use as approved by the

19 Secretary;

20 (18) contain the terms and conditions relating

21 to protection of fish and wildlife, their habitat, and

22 the environment, as required by section 3(a) of this

23 Act;

24 (19) provide that the holder of a lease, its

25 agents, and contractors used best efforts to provide
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1 a fair share, as determined by the level of obligation

2 previously agreed to in the 1974 agreement imple3 menting Section 29 of the Federal Agreement and

4 Grant of Right of Way for the Operation of the

5 Trans-Alaska Pipeline, of employment and con6 tracting for Alaska Natives and Alaska Native Cor7 porations from throughout the State; and

8 (20) contain such other provisions as the Sec9 retary determines necessary to ensure compliance

10 with the provisions of this Act and the regulations

11 issued under this Act.

12 SEC. 9. BONDING REQUIREMENTS TO ENSURE FINANCIAL

13 RESPONSIBILITY OF LESSEE AND AVOID FED14 ERAL LIABILITY.

15 (a) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary shall, by rule or

16 regulation, establish such standards as may be necessary

17 to ensure that an adequate bond, surety, or other financial

18 arrangement will be established prior to the commence19 ment of surface disturbing activities on any lease, to en20 sure the complete and timely reclamation of the lease

21 tract, and the restoration of any lands or surface waters

22 adversely affected by lease operations after the abandon23 ment or cessation of oil and gas operations on the lease.

24 Such bond, surety, or financial arrangement is in addition

25 to, and not in lieu, of any bond, surety, or financial ar-
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1 rangement required by any other regulatory authority or

2 required by any other provision of law.

3 (b) AMOUNT.—The bond, surety, or financial ar4 rangement shall be in an amount—

5 (1) to be determined by the Secretary to pro6 vide for reclamation of the lease site in accordance

7 with an approved or revised exploration or develop8 ment and production plan; plus

9 (2) set by the Secretary consistent with the

10 type of operations proposed, to provide the means

11 for rapid and effective cleanup, and to minimize

12 damages resulting from an oil spill, the escape of

13 gas, refuse, domestic wastewater, hazardous or toxic

14 substances, or fire caused by oil and gas activities.

15 (c) ADJUSTMENT.—In the event that an approved ex16 ploration or development and production plan is revised,

17 the Secretary may adjust the amount of the bond, surety,

18 or other financial arrangement to conform to such modi19 fied plan.

20 (d) DURATION.—The responsibility and liability of

21 the lessee and its surety under the bond, surety, or other

22 financial arrangement shall continue until such time as

23 the Secretary determines that there has been compliance

24 with the terms and conditions of the lease and all applica25 ble law.
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1 (e) TERMINATION.—Within sixty days after deter2 mining that there has been compliance with the terms and

3 conditions of the lease and all applicable laws, the Sec4 retary, after consultation with affected Federal and State

5 agencies, shall notify the lessee that the period of liability

6 under the bond, surety, and other financial arrangement

7 has been terminated.

8 SEC. 10. OIL AND GAS INFORMATION.

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Any lessee or permittee con10 ducting any exploration for, or development or production

11 of, oil or gas pursuant to this Act shall provide the Sec12 retary access to all data and information from any lease

13 granted pursuant to this Act (including processed and

14 analyzed) obtained from such activity and shall provide

15 copies of such data and information as the Secretary may

16 request. Such data and information shall be provided in

17 accordance with regulations which the Secretary shall pre18 scribe.

19 (2) If processed and analyzed information provided

20 pursuant to paragraph (1) is provided in good faith by

21 the lessee or permittee, such lessee or permittee shall not

22 be responsible for any consequence of the use or of reliance

23 upon such processed and analyzed information.

24 (3) Whenever any data or information is provided to

25 the Secretary, pursuant to paragraph (1)—
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1 (A) by a lessee or permittee, in the form and

2 manner of processing which is utilized by such lessee

3 or permittee in the normal conduct of business, the

4 Secretary shall pay the reasonable cost of reproduc5 ing such data and information; or

6 (B) by a lessee or permittee, in such other form

7 and manner of processing as the Secretary may re8 quest, the Secretary shall pay the reasonable cost of

9 processing and reproducing such data and informa10 tion.

11 (b) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall prescribe

12 regulations to: (1) assure that the confidentiality of privi13 leged or proprietary information received by the Secretary

14 under this section will be maintained; and (2) set forth

15 the time periods and conditions which shall be applicable

16 to the release of such information.

17 SEC. 11. EXPEDITED JUDICIAL REVIEW.

18 (a) Any complaint seeking judicial review of any pro19 vision in this Act, or any other action of the Secretary

20 under this Act may be filed in any appropriate district

21 court of the United States, and such complaint must be

22 filed within ninety days from the date of the action being

23 challenged, or after such date if such complaint is based

24 solely on grounds arising after such ninetieth day, in

25 which case the complaint must be filed within ninety days
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1 after the complainant knew or reasonably should have

2 known of the grounds for the complaint: Provided, That

3 any complaint seeking judicial review of an action of the

4 Secretary in promulgating any regulation under this Act

5 may be filed only in the United States Court of Appeals

6 for the District of Columbia.

7 (b) Actions of the Secretary with respect to which re8 view could have been obtained under this section shall not

9 be subject to judicial review in any civil or criminal pro10 ceeding for enforcement.

11 SEC. 12. RIGHTS-OF-WAY ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAIN.

12 Notwithstanding Title XI of the Alaska National In13 terest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 3161

14 et seq.), the Secretary is authorized and directed to grant,

15 in accordance with the provisions of Section 28(c) through

16 (t) and (v) through (y) of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920

17 (30 U.S.C. 185), rights-of-way and easements across the

18 Coastal Plain for the transportation of oil and gas under

19 such terms and conditions as may be necessary so as not

20 to result in a significant adverse effect on the fish and

21 wildlife, subsistence resources, their habitat, and the envi22 ronment of the Coastal Plain. Such terms and conditions

23 shall include requirements that facilities be sited or modi24 fied so as to avoid unnecessary duplication of roads and

25 pipelines. The regulations issued as required by section 4
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1 of this Act shall include provisions granting rights-of-way

2 and easements across the Coastal Plain.

3 SEC. 13. ENFORCEMENT OF SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL

4 REGULATIONS TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE

5 WITH TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

6 (a) RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SECRETARY.—The Sec7 retary shall diligently enforce all regulations, lease terms,

8 conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, and stipulations pro9 mulgated pursuant to this Act.

10 (b) RESPONSIBILITY OF HOLDERS OF LEASE.—It

11 shall be the responsibility of any holder of a lease under

12 this Act to—

13 (1) maintain all operations within such lease

14 area in compliance with regulations intended to pro15 tect persons and property on, and fish and wildlife,

16 their habitat, subsistence resources, and the environ17 ment of, the Coastal Plain; and

18 (2) allow prompt access at the site of any oper19 ations subject to regulation under this Act to any

20 appropriate Federal or State inspector, and to pro21 vide such documents and records which are pertinent

22 to occupational or public health, safety, or environ23 mental protection, as may be requested.

24 (c) ON-SITE INSPECTION.—The Secretary shall pro25 mulgate regulations to provide for—
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1 (1) scheduled onsite inspection by the Sec2 retary, at least twice a year, of each facility on the

3 Coastal Plain which is subject to any environmental

4 or safety regulation promulgated pursuant to this

5 Act or conditions contained in any lease issued pur6 suant to this Act to assure compliance with such en7 vironmental or safety regulations or conditions; and

8 (2) periodic onsite inspection by the Secretary

9 at least once a year without advance notice to the

10 operator of such facility to assure compliance with

11 all environmental or safety regulations.

12 SEC. 14. NEW REVENUES.

13 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all reve14 nues received by the Federal Government from competitive

15 bids, sales, bonuses, royalties, rents, fees, or interest de16 rived from the leasing of oil and gas within the Coastal

17 Plain shall be deposited into the Treasury of the United

18 States, solely as provided in this section. The Secretary

19 of the Treasury shall pay to the State of Alaska the same

20 percentage of such revenues as is set forth under the head21 ing ‘‘EXPLORATION OF NATIONAL PETROLEUM

22 RESERVE IN ALASKA’’ in Public Law 96–514 (94

23 Stat. 2957, 2964) semiannually to the State of Alaska,

24 on March 30 and September 30 of each year and shall
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1 deposit the balance of all such revenues as miscellaneous

2 receipts in the Treasury.

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