SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act 
of 2009’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—CONSOLIDATION OF DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
ENERGY AND MINERALS LEASING PROGRAMS 
Sec. 101. Establishment of the Office of Federal Energy and Minerals Leasing. 
Sec. 102. Officers and employees. 
Sec. 103. Ethics. 
TITLE II—OIL AND GAS ROYALTY REFORM 
Sec. 201. Amendments to definitions. 
Sec. 202. Compliance reviews. 
Sec. 203. Clarification of liability for royalty payments. 
Sec. 204. Required recordkeeping. 
Sec. 205. Fines and penalties. 
Sec. 206. Interest on overpayments. 
Sec. 207. Adjustments and refunds. 
Sec. 208. Conforming amendment. 
Sec. 209. Obligation period. 
Sec. 210. Notice regarding tolling agreements and subpoenas. 
Sec. 211. Appeals and final agency action. 
Sec. 212. Assessments. 
Sec. 213. Collection and production accountability. 
Sec. 214. Natural gas reporting. 
Sec. 215. Penalty for late or incorrect reporting of data. 
Sec. 216. Required recordkeeping. 
Sec. 217. Limitation on royalty in-kind program. 
Sec. 218. Shared civil penalties. 
Sec. 219. Applicability to other minerals. 
Sec. 220. Entitlements. 
TITLE III—OIL AND GAS LEASING REFORMS 
Sec. 301. Diligent development. 
Sec. 302. Reporting requirements. 
Sec. 303. Notice requirements. 
Sec. 304. Oil and gas leasing system. 
Sec. 305. Electronic reporting. 
Sec. 306. Best management practices. 
Sec. 307. Coal mine methane recovery. 
Sec. 308. Environmental review. 
Sec. 309. Amendments to Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. 
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TITLE IV—FULL FUNDING FOR THE LAND AND WATER 
CONSERVATION FUND 
Sec. 401. Amendments to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. 
Sec. 402. Extension of the land and water conservation fund. 
Sec. 403. Permanent funding. 
Sec. 404. Allocation of funds. 
TITLE V—NEW ONSHORE LEASING AUTHORITY 
Subtitle A—Solar and Wind Leasing 
Sec. 501. Authority to issue commercial leases for wind and solar projects on 
Federal lands. 
Sec. 502. Land management. 
Sec. 503. Revenues. 
Sec. 504. Recordkeeping and reporting requirements. 
Sec. 505. Audits. 
Sec. 506. Trade secrets. 
Sec. 507. Interest and Substantial Underreporting Assessments. 
Sec. 508. Indian savings provision. 
Subtitle B—Uranium Leasing 
Sec. 511. Federal lands uranium leasing. 
TITLE VI—OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF COORDINATION AND 
PLANNING 
Sec. 601. Regional Outer Continental Shelf coordination. 
Sec. 602. Regional Outer Continental Shelf Councils. 
Sec. 603. Regional Outer Continental Shelf strategic plans. 
Sec. 604. Regulations. 
Sec. 605. Ocean Resources Conservation and Assistance Fund. 
Sec. 606. Waiver. 
Sec. 607. Transition period. 
Sec. 608. Alternative energy on the Outer Continental Shelf. 
TITLE VII—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
Sec. 701. Repeal of certain taxpayer subsidized royalty relief for the oil and gas 
industry. 
Sec. 702. Production incentive fee. 
Sec. 703. Leasing on Indian lands. 
Sec. 704. Offshore aquaculture clarification. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
For the purposes of this Act: 
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 
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(2) AFFECTED INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘af-
fected Indian tribe’’ means an Indian tribe that has 
federally reserved rights that are affirmed by treaty, 
statute, Executive order, Federal court order, or 
other Federal law in the area at issue. 
(3) ALTERNATIVE ENERGY.—The term ‘‘alter-
native energy’’ means electricity generated by a re-
newable energy resource. 
(4) 
COASTAL
STATE.—The 
term 
‘‘coastal 
State’’ has the meaning given the term in section 
304 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 
(16 U.S.C. 1453). 
(5) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 
the Director of the Leasing Office, except as other-
wise provided in this Act. 
(6) 
ECOSYSTEM-BASED
MANAGEMENT.—The 
term ‘‘ecosystem-based management’’ means an inte-
grated approach to management that— 
(A) considers the entire ecosystem, includ-
ing humans, and accounts for interactions 
among the ecosystem, the range of activities af-
fecting the ecosystem, and the management of 
such activities; 
(B) aims to maintain ecosystems in a 
healthy, productive, sustainable, and resilient 
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condition so that they can provide the services 
humans want and need; 
(C) emphasizes the protection of ecosystem 
structure, function, patterns, and important 
processes; 
(D) considers the impacts, including cumu-
lative impacts, of the range of activities affect-
ing an ecosystem that fall within geographical 
boundaries of the ecosystem; 
(E) explicitly accounts for the inter-
connectedness within an ecosystem, such as 
food webs, and acknowledges the interconnect-
edness among systems, such as between air, 
land, and sea; and 
(F) integrates ecological, social, economic, 
cultural, and institutional perspectives, recog-
nizing their strong interdependencies. 
(7) FUNCTION.—The term ‘‘function’’ includes 
authorities, powers, rights, privileges, immunities, 
programs, projects, activities, duties, and respon-
sibilities. 
(8) IMPORTANT ECOLOGICAL AREA.—The term 
‘‘important ecological area’’ means an area that con-
tributes significantly to local or larger marine eco-
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system health or is an especially unique or sensitive 
marine ecosystem. 
(9) INDIAN
LAND.—The term ‘‘Indian land’’ 
has the meaning given the term in section 502(a) of 
title V of Public Law 109–58 (25 U.S.C. 3501(2)). 
(10) LEASING OFFICE.—The term ‘‘Leasing Of-
fice’’ means the Office of Federal Energy and Min-
erals Leasing established under this Act. 
(11) MARINE ECOSYSTEM HEALTH.—The term 
‘‘marine ecosystem health’’ means the ability of an 
ecosystem in ocean and coastal waters to support 
and maintain patterns, important processes, and 
productive, sustainable, and resilient communities of 
organisms, having a species composition, diversity, 
and functional organization resulting from the nat-
ural habitat of the region, such that it is capable of 
supporting a variety of activities and providing a 
complete range of ecological benefits. Such an eco-
system would be characterized by a variety of fac-
tors, including— 
(A) a complete diversity of native species 
and habitat wherein each native species is able 
to maintain an abundance, population struc-
ture, and distribution supporting its ecological 
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