leasing of areas for exploration for, and development and 
production of, oil and natural gas. 
SEC. 322. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LEASING PROGRAM. 
The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1331 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 9 the 
following: 
‘‘SEC. 10. MORATORIA AREA AND STATE APPROVAL RE-
QUIREMENT WITH RESPECT TO OIL AND NAT-
URAL GAS LEASING. 
‘‘(a) BUFFER ZONE.—The Secretary may not grant 
any oil or natural gas lease for any area of the outer Con-
tinental Shelf that is located within 25 miles of the coast-
line of a State. 
‘‘(b) STATE APPROVAL REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may not 
issue any lease authorizing exploration for, or devel-
opment of, natural gas in any area of the outer Con-
tinental Shelf that is located within 50 miles of the 
coastline of a State unless the State has enacted a 
law approving of the issuance of such leases by the 
Secretary. 
‘‘(2) STATE APPROVAL PERMANENT.—Repeal of 
such a law by a State shall have no effect for pur-
poses of paragraph (1). 
‘‘(c) STATE DISAPPROVAL AUTHORITY.— 
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‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may not 
issue any lease authorizing exploration for, or devel-
opment of, oil or natural gas in any area of the 
outer Continental Shelf that is located more than 50 
miles and less than 100 miles from the coastline of 
a State if the State has enacted a law disapproving 
of the issuance of such leases by the Secretary. 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS FOR STATE LAW.—A law 
enacted by a State for purposes of paragraph (1)— 
‘‘(A) shall have no force or effect for pur-
poses of paragraph (1) unless first enacted by 
the State within the one-year period beginning 
on the date of the enactment of the National 
Environment and Energy Development Act; and 
‘‘(B) shall have no force or effect for pur-
poses of paragraph (1) after the end of the 2- 
year period beginning on the date it first takes 
effect, unless the State, in the 2-year period 
preceding the application of the law for pur-
poses of paragraph (1), enacted legislation ex-
tending the effectiveness of the law.’’. 
SEC. 323. SHARING OF REVENUES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 8(g) of the Outer Conti-
nental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(g)) is amended— 
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(1) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘Notwith-
standing’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as provided in 
paragraph (6), and notwithstanding’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (6) and (7) as 
paragraphs (8) and (9); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (5) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(6) BONUS
BIDS
AND
ROYALTIES
UNDER 
QUALIFIED OIL AND GAS LEASES.— 
‘‘(A) NEW
OIL
AND
GAS
LEASES.—Of 
amounts received by the United States as bonus 
bids and royalties under any qualified oil or gas 
lease on submerged lands that are located with-
in the seaward boundaries of a State estab-
lished under section 4(a)(2)(A)— 
‘‘(i) 37.5 percent shall be paid to the 
States that are producing States with re-
spect to those submerged lands; and 
‘‘(ii) the remainder shall be trans-
ferred to the American-Made Energy Trust 
Fund established by section 9511 of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 
‘‘(B) LEASED
TRACT
THAT
LIES
PAR-
TIALLY WITHIN THE SEAWARD BOUNDARIES OF 
A STATE.—In the case of a leased tract that lies 
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partially within the seaward boundaries of a 
State, the amounts of bonus bids and royalties 
from such tract that are subject to subpara-
graph (A) with respect to such State shall be a 
percentage of the total amounts of bonus bids 
and royalties from such tract that is equivalent 
to the total percentage of surface acreage of the 
tract that lies within such seaward boundaries. 
‘‘(C) USE
OF
PAYMENTS
TO
STATES.— 
Amounts paid to a State under subparagraph 
(A)(ii) shall be used by the State for one or 
more of the following: 
‘‘(i) Education. 
‘‘(ii) Transportation. 
‘‘(iii) Reducing taxes. 
‘‘(iv) Coastal and environmental res-
toration. 
‘‘(v) 
Energy 
infrastructure 
and 
projects. 
‘‘(vi) State seismic monitoring pro-
grams. 
‘‘(vii) Alternative energy development. 
‘‘(viii) Energy efficiency and conserva-
tion. 
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‘‘(ix) Hurricane and natural disaster 
insurance programs. 
‘‘(x) Any other purpose determined by 
State law. 
‘‘(D) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 
‘‘(i) ADJACENT
STATE.—The term 
‘adjacent State’ means, with respect to any 
program, plan, lease sale, leased tract or 
other activity, proposed, conducted, or ap-
proved pursuant to the provisions of this 
Act, any State the laws of which are de-
clared, pursuant to section 4(a)(2), to be 
the law of the United States for the por-
tion of the outer Continental Shelf on 
which such program, plan, lease sale, 
leased tract, or activity appertains or is, or 
is proposed to be, conducted. 
‘‘(ii) ADJACENT
ZONE.—The term 
‘adjacent zone’ means, with respect to any 
program, plan, lease sale, leased tract, or 
other activity, proposed, conducted, or ap-
proved pursuant to the provisions of this 
Act, the portion of the outer Continental 
Shelf for which the laws of a particular ad-
jacent State are declared, pursuant to sec-
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tion 4(a)(2), to be the law of the United 
States. 
‘‘(iii) PRODUCING STATE.—The term 
‘producing State’ means an Adjacent State 
having an adjacent zone containing leased 
tracts from which are derived bonus bids 
and royalties under a lease under this Act. 
‘‘(iv) STATE.—The term ‘State’ in-
cludes Puerto Rico and the other Terri-
tories of the United States. 
‘‘(v) QUALIFIED
GAS
LEASE.—The 
term ‘qualified oil or gas lease’ means a 
lease under this Act granted after the date 
of the enactment of the National Environ-
ment and Energy Development Act that 
authorizes development and production of 
oil or natural gas and associated conden-
sate. 
‘‘(E) APPLICATION.—This paragraph shall 
apply to bonus bids and royalties received by 
the United States after September 30, 2008. 
‘‘(7) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT BY STATES.— 
The Secretary of the Interior shall ensure that fi-
nancial assistance provided to a State for any pur-
pose with amounts made available under this sub-
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section supplement, and do not replace, the amounts 
expended by the State for that purpose before the 
date of the enactment of this paragraph.’’. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE SEAWARD BOUND-
ARIES.—Section 4(a)(2)(A) of the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1333(a)(2)(A)) is amended in the 
first sentence by striking ‘‘, and the President’’ and all 
that follows through the end of the sentence and inserting 
the following: ‘‘. Such extended lines are deemed to be as 
indicated on the maps for each Outer Continental Shelf 
region entitled ‘Alaska OCS Region State Adjacent Zone 
and OCS Planning Areas’, ‘Pacific OCS Region State Ad-
jacent Zones and OCS Planning Areas’, ‘Gulf of Mexico 
OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning 
Areas’, and ‘Atlantic OCS Region State Adjacent Zones 
and OCS Planning Areas’, all of which are dated Sep-
tember 2005 and on file in the Office of the Director, Min-
erals Management Service. The preceding sentence shall 
not apply with respect to the treatment under section 105 
of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (title 
I of division C of Public Law 109–432) of qualified outer 
Continental Shelf revenues deposited and disbursed under 
subsection (a)(2) of that section.’’. 
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Subtitle C—Prohibition on Expor-
tation of Alaskan North Slope 
Crude Oil 
SEC. 331. PROHIBITION ON EXPORTATION OF ALASKAN 
NORTH SLOPE CRUDE OIL. 
Effective 90 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act— 
(1) no domestically produced crude oil trans-
ported by pipeline over right-of-way granted pursu-
ant to section 203 of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Au-
thorization Act (43 U.S.C. 1652) may be exported 
from the United States, or any commonwealth, terri-
tory, or possession of the United States; and 
(2) subsections (s) and (u) of section 28 of the 
Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 (30 U.S.C. 185(s) and 
(u)), and section 7(d) of the Export Administration 
Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2406(d)), are repealed. 
Æ 
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