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Union Calendar No. 454 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1506 
[Report No. 117–631, Part I] 
To provide for the accurate reporting of fossil fuel extraction and emissions 
by entities with leases on public land, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 2, 2021 
Mr. LOWENTHAL (for himself, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. LEVIN of California, Ms. 
LEE of California, and Ms. PORTER) 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 
DECEMBER 14, 2022 
Additional sponsors: Mr. HUFFMAN, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. 
DEGETTE, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. COHEN, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mr. HASTINGS, 
and Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ 
DECEMBER 14, 2022 
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
DECEMBER 14, 2022 
Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 2, 2021] 
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A BILL 
To provide for the accurate reporting of fossil fuel extraction 
and emissions by entities with leases on public land, 
and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transparency in Energy 
Production Act of 2021’’. 
SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED FOR AN ENTITY SEEKING A 
LEASE.—The Secretary concerned shall require any entity 
seeking a lease to develop covered operations on public land 
or Indian land to submit to the Secretary concerned a re-
port, at the time of submission of a bid to develop covered 
operations. Such report shall— 
(1) make the disclosures described in the Sus-
tainable Accounting Standard for the Extractives and 
Minerals Processing Sector and the Renewable Re-
sources and Alternative Energy Sector in effect on the 
date the report is filed (that is produced by the Sus-
tainability Accounting Standards Board) for the cov-
ered operations developed by the entity and in effect 
at the date of such bid; and 
(2) disaggregate the information in paragraph 
(1) by State and by type of covered operation. 
(b) REPORT REQUIRED FOR AN ENTITY HOLDING A 
LEASE.—The Secretary concerned shall require any entity 
holding a lease to develop covered operations on public land 
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or Indian land to submit to the Secretary concerned a re-
port annually. Such report shall— 
(1) make the disclosures described in the Sus-
tainable Accounting Standard for the Extractives and 
Minerals Processing Sector and the Renewable Re-
sources and Alternative Energy Sector in effect on the 
date the report is filed (that is produced by the Sus-
tainability Accounting Standards Board); and 
(2) disaggregate the information in paragraph 
(1) by State and by type of covered operation. 
(c) FAILURE TO COMPLY.—If the Secretary concerned 
determines that an entity did not meet the requirements 
of subsection (a), the Secretary concerned— 
(1) may not issue to such entity a lease for a 
covered operation; and 
(2) may suspend a lease for a covered operation 
held by such entity. 
SEC. 3. ONLINE PUBLICATION OF DISCLOSURE. 
The Secretary concerned shall make the information 
reported under section 2 available to the public on an inter-
net website in a machine readable format. 
SEC. 4. REPORT TO CONGRESS. 
Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment 
of this Act and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary con-
cerned shall submit a report to Congress that includes— 
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(1) with respect to covered operations, the an-
nual and 2-year totals of greenhouse gas emissions, 
air quality, water management, biodiversity impacts, 
production, and number of sites according to the 
metrics described in the Sustainable Accounting 
Standard for Oil and Gas Exploration and Produc-
tion in effect on the date the report is filed (that is 
produced by the Sustainability Accounting Standards 
Board) for covered operations on public land or In-
dian land; and 
(2) the changes in the information in paragraph 
(1); 
(3) the projected future changes for 5, 10, and 25 
years; 
(4) for renewable energy operations, an estimate 
of the greenhouse gas emissions that would result from 
production of the same amount of energy using fossil 
fuels and water management, including water use, 
biodiversity impacts, production, number of sites, and 
acres including associated transmission lines; 
(5) the emission produced during the construc-
tion of solar panels and wind turbines that would be 
used for renewable energy operations; 
(6) a determination as to whether the materials 
or labor for the construction of solar panels and wind 
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turbines used for renewable energy operations would 
be sourced from the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in 
China; 
(7) the environmental impacts of the decommis-
sioning and disposal of renewable energy products 
and electronic waste, including batteries, solar panels, 
and products that have exceeded their life cycle; 
(8) with respect to lands on which covered oper-
ations occur, the annual and 2-year totals of green-
house gas emissions, air quality, water management, 
and biodiversity impacts of catastrophic wildfires, the 
number of acres identified as being at high or very 
high risk of wildfire, and the number of acres in need 
of treatment or fuels reduction activities; and 
(9) an assessment of the environmental and 
human rights impacts in the production of renewable 
energy products for the lifecycle of such products, in-
cluding such impacts from source materials for and 
the disposal of such products. 
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘covered operation’’ means— 
(A) any renewable energy operations; 
(B) any fossil fuel operation; and 
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(C) any operation using any right-of-way 
or special use permit that would cross public 
lands, Indian lands, or national forests that 
would facilitate fossil fuel development; 
(2) the term ‘‘fossil fuel’’ means oil, natural gas, 
natural gas liquids, coal, and any derivative of these 
that is used for fuel; 
(3) the term ‘‘Indian land’’ has the meaning 
given such term in section 2601(2) of the Energy Pol-
icy Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 3501(2)); 
(4) the term ‘‘public land’’ means any land, in-
terest in land, or submerged land owned by the 
United States; 
(5) the term ‘‘renewable energy’’ means a project 
carried out on public land or Indian land that uses 
wind, solar, geothermal, wave, current, tidal, or ocean 
thermal energy to generate electricity; and 
(6) the term ‘‘Secretary concerned’’ means— 
(A) the Secretary of the Interior, with re-
spect to public lands and Indian lands; and 
(B) the Secretary of Agriculture, with re-
spect to National Forest System land. 
SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
This Act shall take effect 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
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Union Calendar No. 454 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1506 
[Report No. 117–631, Part I] 
A BILL 
To provide for the accurate reporting of fossil fuel 
extraction and emissions by entities with leases 
on public land, and for other purposes. 
DECEMBER 14, 2022 
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with 
an amendment 
DECEMBER 14, 2022 
Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
Union and ordered to be printed 
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