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‘‘(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, from and after the enactment of the Deep 
Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008, no area of the 
outer Continental Shelf located in the Gulf of Mexico 
east of the military mission line may be offered for 
leasing for oil and gas or natural gas prior to Janu-
ary 1, 2022. 
‘‘(2) In this subsection, the term ‘military mis-
sion line’ means a line located at 86 degrees, 41 
minutes West Longitude, and extending south from 
the coast of Florida to the outer boundary of United 
States territorial waters in the Gulf of Mexico.’’. 
SEC. 338. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LEASING PROGRAM. 
Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1344) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end of 
paragraph (3) the following: ‘‘The Secretary shall, in 
each 5-year program, include lease sales that when 
viewed as a whole propose to offer for oil and gas 
or natural gas leasing at least 75 percent of the 
available unleased acreage within each OCS Plan-
ning Area. Available unleased acreage is that portion 
of the outer Continental Shelf that is not under 
lease at the time of the proposed lease sale, and has 
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not otherwise been made unavailable for leasing by 
law.’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking so much as 
precedes paragraph (3) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(c)(1) During the preparation of any proposed leas-
ing program under this section, the Secretary shall con-
sider and analyze leasing throughout the entire Outer 
Continental Shelf without regard to any other law affect-
ing such leasing. During this preparation the Secretary 
shall invite and consider suggestions from any interested 
Federal agency, including the Attorney General, in con-
sultation with the Federal Trade Commission, and from 
the Governor of any coastal State. The Secretary may also 
invite or consider any suggestions from the executive of 
any local government in a coastal State that have been 
previously submitted to the Governor of such State, and 
from any other person. Further, the Secretary shall con-
sult with the Secretary of Defense regarding military oper-
ational needs in the outer Continental Shelf. The Sec-
retary shall work with the Secretary of Defense to resolve 
any conflicts that might arise regarding offering any area 
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. 
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‘‘(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 
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. 
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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 
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 
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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. 339. 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 
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-
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