CLAMP Act of 2023

Subjects: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:  <p><strong>CCP Lease Abolishment for Minerals and Petroleum Act of 2023 or the CLAMP Act of 2023</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture from issuing or renewing a lease, issuing a permit, or recording a claim for any federal lands under any provision of law relating to the production, refining, harvesting, or extraction of minerals, timber, oil or natural gas, or any other natural resource or the production of energy, to China or specified entities or individuals affiliated with the Chinese Community Party.</p> <p>The bill prohibits transferring a title, lease, permit, recorded claim, or other interest to such entities or individuals.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1569 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1569

   To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing leases to 
 certain entities affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 2023

 Mr. Waltz (for himself, Mr. Gottheimer, and Mr. Gaetz) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
   Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing leases to 
 certain entities affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``CCP Lease Abolishment for Minerals 
and Petroleum Act of 2023'' or the ``CLAMP Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. RESTRICTION ON LEASES TO CERTAIN ENTITIES AFFILIATED WITH THE 
              CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture may not issue or renew a lease, issue a permit, or record a 
claim for any Federal lands (including submerged lands) under the 
general mining laws, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1301 note et seq.), or any other provision of law relating to the 
production, refining, harvesting, or extraction of minerals, timber, 
oil or natural gas, or any other natural resource or the production of 
energy, to any person described in subsection (c).
    (b) Prohibition of Transfer.--No person may transfer a title, 
lease, permit, recorded claim, or other interest described in 
subsection (a) to any person described in subsection (c).
    (c) Persons Subject to Restriction.--A person is described by this 
subsection if such person--
            (1) is the People's Republic of China;
            (2) is a member of the Chinese Communist Party;
            (3) is a member of the People's Liberation Army;
            (4) is identified by the Secretary of Defense under section 
        1260H(a) of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense 
        Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (10 U.S.C. 113 note) as 
        a Chinese military company;
            (5) is included in the Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial 
        Complex Companies List published by the Department of the 
        Treasury; or
            (6) is owned by or controlled by or is an agency or 
        instrumentality of any person described in paragraphs (1) 
        through (5).
    (d) Effective Date.--This section applies to leases, permits, and 
claims issued after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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