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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2566 

To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary 

of the Interior to establish and collect fees for inspections of Outer 

Continental Shelf facilities, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 15, 2011 

Mr. MARKEY (for himself and Mr. HOLT) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct 

the Secretary of the Interior to establish and collect 

fees for inspections of Outer Continental Shelf facilities, 

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 ‘‘No Free Inspections 

5 for Oil Companies Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. OCS FACILITY INSPECTION FEES. 

2 Section 22 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 

3 (43 U.S.C. 1348) is amended by adding at the end of the 

4 section the following: 

5 ‘‘(g) INSPECTION FEES.— 

6 ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of the 

7 Interior shall establish, by rule, and collect from the 

8 operators of facilities subject to inspection under 

9 subsection (c) non-refundable fees for such inspec10 tions— 

11 ‘‘(A) at an aggregate level equal to the 

12 amount necessary to offset the annual expenses 

13 of inspections of outer Continental Shelf facili14 ties (including mobile offshore drilling units) by 

15 the Department of the Interior; and 

16 ‘‘(B) using a schedule that reflects the dif17 ferences in complexity among the classes of fa18 cilities to be inspected. 

19 ‘‘(2) OCEAN ENERGY ENFORCEMENT FUND.— 

20 There is established in the Treasury a fund, to be 

21 known as the ‘Ocean Energy Enforcement Fund’ 

22 (referred to in this subsection as the ‘Fund’), into 

23 which shall be deposited amounts collected as fees 

24 under paragraph (1) and which shall be available as 

25 provided under paragraph (3). 


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1 ‘‘(3) AVAILABILITY OF FEES.—Notwithstanding 

2 section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, all 

3 amounts collected by the Secretary under this sec4 tion— 

5 ‘‘(A) shall be credited as offsetting collec6 tions; 

7 ‘‘(B) shall be available for expenditure only 

8 for purposes of carrying out inspections of 

9 outer Continental Shelf facilities (including mo10 bile offshore drilling units) and the administra11 tion of the inspection program under this sec12 tion; 

13 ‘‘(C) shall be available only to the extent 

14 provided for in advance in an appropriations 

15 Act; and 

16 ‘‘(D) shall remain available until expended. 

17 ‘‘(4) ANNUAL REPORTS.— 

18 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 

19 days after the end of each fiscal year beginning 

20 with fiscal year 2011, the Secretary shall sub21 mit to the Committee on Energy and Natural 

22 Resources of the Senate and the Committee on 

23 Natural Resources of the House of Representa24 tives a report on the operation of the Fund dur25 ing the fiscal year. 


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1 ‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—Each report shall in2 clude, for the fiscal year covered by the report, 

3 the following: 

4 ‘‘(i) A statement of the amounts de5 posited into the Fund. 

6 ‘‘(ii) A description of the expenditures 

7 made from the Fund for the fiscal year, in8 cluding the purpose of the expenditures. 

9 ‘‘(iii) Recommendations for additional 

10 authorities to fulfill the purpose of the 

11 Fund. 

12 ‘‘(iv) A statement of the balance re13 maining in the Fund at the end of the fis14 cal year.’’. 

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