(d) FILING OF RECORD.—When any civil action is 
brought pursuant to this subtitle, the Federal Permit Co-
ordinator shall immediately prepare for the court a con-
solidated record. 
(e) EXPEDITED REVIEW.—Any action for judicial re-
view challenging a decision approved pursuant to this sec-
tion shall be set for consideration by not later than 90 
days after the date the action is filed. 
(f) EXPEDITED
MANDAMUS
REVIEW.—Notwith-
standing subsection (e), within 30 days after the filing of 
an action challenging or seeking to enforce an established 
permit review schedule for a class I permit, the court shall 
issue a decision either compelling permit issuance or sanc-
tioning the delay and establishing a new schedule that en-
ables the most expeditious possible completion of pro-
ceedings. In rendering its decision, the court shall review 
whether the agencies subject to the schedule have been 
acting in good faith, whether the permit applicant has 
been cooperating fully with the agencies that are respon-
sible for issuing the requested permits, and any other rel-
evant matters. The court may issue orders to enforce any 
schedule it establishes under this subsection. 
(g) NO PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION.—This subtitle 
shall not be construed to create any additional right, ben-
efit, or trust responsibility, substantive or procedural, en-
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forceable at law or equity, by a person against the United 
States, its agencies, its officers, or any person. 
(h) FINALITY
OF LEASING DECISIONS.—Notwith-
standing the provisions of any law or regulation to the 
contrary, a decision by the Bureau of Land Management 
or the Minerals Management Service to issue a Final No-
tice of Sale and proceed with an oil and gas lease sale 
pursuant to any mineral leasing law shall not be subject 
to further administrative review within the Department of 
the Interior, and shall be the final decision of the agency 
for purposes of judicial review. 
SEC. 238. AMENDMENTS TO PUBLICATION PROCESS. 
Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1344) is amended— 
(1) by amending subsection (c)(2) to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(2) The Secretary shall publish a proposed 
leasing program in the Federal Register, and shall 
submit a copy of such proposed program to the Gov-
ernor of each affected State, for review and com-
ment. The Governor may solicit comments from 
those executives of local governments in his State 
which he, in his discretion, determines will be af-
fected by the proposed program.’’; 
(2) by striking subsection (c)(3); and 
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(3) in subsection (d)(2) by inserting ‘‘final’’ 
after ‘‘proposed’’. 
SEC. 239. REPEAL OF FEE FOR PERMITS TO DRILL. 
Public Law 110–161 is amended under the heading 
‘‘Bureau of Land Managementlmanagement of lands 
and resources’’ (121 Stat. 2098) by striking ‘‘to be re-
duced by amounts collected by the Bureau and credited 
to this appropriation that shall be derived from $4,000 
per new application for permit to drill that the Bureau 
shall collect upon submission of each new application,’’. 
SEC. 240. ALASKA OFFSHORE CONTINENTAL SHELF CO-
ORDINATION OFFICE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of the Interior 
shall establish and maintain, in coordination with the 
Mayor of the North Slope Borough of Alaska, a separate 
office to be known as the Alaska Offshore Continental 
Shelf Coordination Office. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the office shall be 
to— 
(1) coordinate the leasing of the Outer Conti-
nental Shelf off the coast of Alaska; 
(2) advise persons awarded such leases on local 
conditions and the history of areas affected by devel-
opment of the oil and gas resources of the Outer 
Continental Shelf off the coast of Alaska; 
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(3) provide to the Committee on Natural Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
Senate annual reports on the status of the coordina-
tion between such and communities affected by such 
development; 
(4) collect from residents of the North Slope of 
Alaska information regarding the impacts of such 
development on marine wildlife, coastal habitats, ma-
rine and coastal subsistence resources, and the ma-
rine and coastal environment of Alaska’s North 
Slope region; and 
(5) ensure that the information collected under 
paragraph (3) is submitted to— 
(A) developers of such resources; and 
(B) any appropriate Federal agency. 
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TITLE III—RELIEF FROM REGU-
LATIONS AND PROHIBITIONS 
THAT 
CAUSE 
ARTIFICIAL 
PRICE INCREASES 
Subtitle A—Relief From EPA Cli-
mate Change Regulations and 
Federal Prohibitions on Syn-
thetic Fuels 
SEC. 301. REPEAL OF EPA CLIMATE CHANGE REGULATION. 
(a) GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATION UNDER CLEAN 
AIR ACT.—Section 302(g) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7602(g)) is amended by adding the following at the end 
thereof: ‘‘The term ‘air pollutant’ shall not include carbon 
dioxide, 
water 
vapor, 
methane, 
nitrous 
oxide, 
hydrofluorocarbons, 
perfluorocarbons, 
or 
sulfur 
hexafluoride.’’. 
(b) NO REGULATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE.—Noth-
ing in the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.), the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.), the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), the Endangered Species Act of 1973 
(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), or the Solid Waste Disposal Act 
(42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), shall be treated as authorizing 
or requiring the regulation of climate change or global 
warming. 
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