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of the outer Continental Shelf for oil and gas or natural 
gas leasing. If the Secretaries are not able to resolve all 
such conflicts, any unresolved issues shall be elevated to 
the President for resolution. 
‘‘(2) After the consideration and analysis required by 
paragraph (1), including the consideration of the sugges-
tions received from any interested Federal agency, the 
Federal Trade Commission, the Governor of any coastal 
State, any local government of a coastal State, and any 
other person, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal 
Register a proposed leasing program accompanied by a 
draft environmental impact statement prepared pursuant 
to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. After 
the publishing of the proposed leasing program and during 
the comment period provided for on the draft environ-
mental impact statement, the Secretary shall submit a 
copy of the proposed program to the Governor of each af-
fected State for review and comment. The Governor may 
solicit comments from those executives of local govern-
ments in the Governor’s State that the Governor, in the 
discretion of the Governor, determines will be affected by 
the proposed program. If any comment by such Governor 
is received by the Secretary at least 15 days prior to sub-
mission to the Congress pursuant to paragraph (3) and 
includes a request for any modification of such proposed 
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program, the Secretary shall reply in writing, granting or 
denying such request in whole or in part, or granting such 
request in such modified form as the Secretary considers 
appropriate, and stating the Secretary’s reasons therefor. 
All such correspondence between the Secretary and the 
Governor of any affected State, together with any addi-
tional information and data relating thereto, shall accom-
pany such proposed program when it is submitted to the 
Congress.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(i) PROJECTION OF STATE ADJACENT ZONE RE-
SOURCES AND STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT SHARES 
OF OCS RECEIPTS.—Concurrent with the publication of 
the scoping notice at the beginning of the development of 
each 5-year outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing 
program, or as soon thereafter as possible, the Secretary 
shall— 
‘‘(1) provide to each Adjacent State a current 
estimate of proven and potential oil and gas re-
sources located within the State’s Adjacent Zone; 
and 
‘‘(2) provide to each Adjacent State, and coast-
al political subdivisions thereof, a best-efforts projec-
tion of the OCS Receipts that the Secretary expects 
will be shared with each Adjacent State, and its 
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coastal political subdivisions, using the assumption 
that the unleased tracts within the State’s Adjacent 
Zone are fully made available for leasing, including 
long-term projected OCS Receipts. In addition, the 
Secretary shall include a macroeconomic estimate of 
the impact of such leasing on the national economy 
and each State’s economy, including investment, 
jobs, revenues, personal income, and other cat-
egories.’’. 
SEC. 10. COORDINATION WITH ADJACENT STATES. 
Section 19 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1345) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) in the first sentence by in-
serting ‘‘, for any tract located within the Adjacent 
State’s Adjacent Zone,’’ after ‘‘government’’; and 
(2) by adding the following: 
‘‘(f)(1) No Federal agency may permit or otherwise 
approve, without the concurrence of the Adjacent State, 
the construction of a crude oil or petroleum products (or 
both) pipeline within the part of the Adjacent State’s Ad-
jacent Zone that is withdrawn from oil and gas or natural 
gas leasing, except that such a pipeline may be approved, 
without such Adjacent State’s concurrence, to pass 
through such Adjacent Zone if at least 50 percent of the 
production projected to be carried by the pipeline within 
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its first 10 years of operation is from areas of the Adja-
cent State’s Adjacent Zone. 
‘‘(2) No State may prohibit the construction within 
its Adjacent Zone or its State waters of a natural gas pipe-
line that will transport natural gas produced from the 
outer Continental Shelf. However, an Adjacent State may 
prevent a proposed natural gas pipeline landing location 
if it proposes two alternate landing locations in the Adja-
cent State, acceptable to the Adjacent State, located with-
in 50 miles on either side of the proposed landing loca-
tion.’’. 
SEC. 11. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. 
Section 20(d) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act (43 U.S.C. 1346) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(d)’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) For all programs, lease sales, leases, and actions 
under this Act, the following shall apply regarding the ap-
plication of the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969: 
‘‘(A) Granting or directing lease suspensions 
and the conduct of all preliminary activities on outer 
Continental Shelf tracts, including seismic activities, 
are categorically excluded from the need to prepare 
either an environmental assessment or an environ-
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mental impact statement, and the Secretary shall 
not be required to analyze whether any exceptions to 
a categorical exclusion apply for activities conducted 
under the authority of this Act. 
‘‘(B) The environmental impact statement de-
veloped in support of each 5-year oil and gas leasing 
program provides the environmental analysis for all 
lease sales to be conducted under the program and 
such sales shall not be subject to further environ-
mental analysis. 
‘‘(C) Exploration plans shall not be subject to 
any requirement to prepare an environmental impact 
statement, and the Secretary may find that explo-
ration plans are eligible for categorical exclusion due 
to the impacts already being considered within an 
environmental impact statement or due to mitigation 
measures included within the plan. 
‘‘(D) Within each OCS Planning Area, after the 
preparation of the first development and production 
plan environmental impact statement for a leased 
tract within the Area, future development and pro-
duction plans for leased tracts within the Area shall 
only require the preparation of an environmental as-
sessment unless the most recent development and 
production plan environmental impact statement 
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