‘‘(vii) For fiscal year 2015, 23 per-
cent. 
‘‘(viii) For fiscal year 2016, 26 per-
cent. 
‘‘(ix) For fiscal year 2017, 29 percent. 
‘‘(x) For fiscal year 2018, 32 percent. 
‘‘(xi) For fiscal year 2019, 35 percent. 
‘‘(xii) For fiscal year 2020 and each 
subsequent fiscal year, 37.5 percent. 
‘‘(C) The provisions of this paragraph shall 
not apply to leases that could not have been 
issued but for section 5(k) of this Act or section 
105(2) of the Funding a Clean Energy Future 
By Bringing Lower Gas Prices for Americans 
Today Act of 2008. 
‘‘(3) IMMEDIATE RECEIPTS SHARING.—Begin-
ning October 1, 2008, the Secretary shall share 37.5 
percent of OCS Receipts derived on and after Octo-
ber 1, 2008, from all lease tracts located partially or 
completely beyond 100 miles of any coastline not in-
cluded within the provisions of paragraph (2), except 
that the Secretary shall only share 25 percent of 
such OCS Receipts derived from all such lease tracts 
within a State’s Adjacent Zone if no leasing is al-
lowed within any portion of that State’s Adjacent 
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Zone located completely within 100 miles of any 
coastline. 
‘‘(4) ALLOCATIONS.—The Secretary shall allo-
cate the OCS Receipts deposited into the separate 
account established by paragraph (1) that are 
shared under paragraphs (2) and (3) as follows: 
‘‘(A) BONUS BIDS.—Deposits derived from 
bonus bids from a leased tract, including inter-
est thereon, shall be allocated at the end of 
each fiscal year to the Adjacent State. 
‘‘(B) ROYALTIES.—Deposits derived from 
royalties from a leased tract, including interest 
thereon, shall be allocated at the end of each 
fiscal year to the Adjacent State and any other 
producing State or States with a leased tract 
within its Adjacent Zone partially or completely 
beyond 100 miles of its coastline that generated 
royalties during the fiscal year, if the other pro-
ducing State or States have a coastline point 
within 300 miles of any portion of the leased 
tract, in which case the amount allocated for 
the leased tract shall be— 
‘‘(i) one-third to the Adjacent State; 
and 
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‘‘(ii) two-thirds to each producing 
State, including the Adjacent State, in-
versely proportional to the distance be-
tween the nearest point on the coastline of 
the producing State and the geographic 
center of the leased tract. 
‘‘(d) TRANSMISSION OF ALLOCATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days 
after the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall 
transmit— 
‘‘(A) to each State 60 percent of such 
State’s allocations under subsections (b)(5)(A), 
(b)(5)(B), (c)(4)(A), and (c)(4)(B) for the im-
mediate prior fiscal year; 
‘‘(B) to each coastal county-equivalent and 
municipal political subdivisions of such State a 
total of 40 percent of such State’s allocations 
under 
subsections 
(b)(5)(A), 
(b)(5)(B), 
(c)(4)(A), and (c)(4)(B), together with all ac-
crued interest thereon; and 
‘‘(C) the remaining allocations under sub-
sections (b)(5) and (c)(4), together with all ac-
crued interest thereon. 
‘‘(2) ALLOCATIONS
TO
COASTAL
COUNTY- 
EQUIVALENT
POLITICAL
SUBDIVISIONS.—The Sec-
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retary shall make an initial allocation of the OCS 
Receipts to be shared under paragraph (1)(B) as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(A) 25 percent shall be allocated to coast-
al county-equivalent political subdivisions that 
are completely more than 25 miles landward of 
the coastline and at least a part of which lies 
not more than 75 miles landward from the 
coastline, with the allocation among such coast-
al county-equivalent political subdivisions based 
on population. 
‘‘(B) 75 percent shall be allocated to coast-
al county-equivalent political subdivisions that 
are completely or partially less than 25 miles 
landward of the coastline, with the allocation 
among such coastal county-equivalent political 
subdivisions to be further allocated as follows: 
‘‘(i) 25 percent shall be allocated 
based on the ratio of such coastal county- 
equivalent political subdivision’s population 
to the coastal population of all coastal 
county-equivalent political subdivisions in 
the State. 
‘‘(ii) 25 percent shall be allocated 
based on the ratio of such coastal county- 
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equivalent political subdivision’s coastline 
miles to the coastline miles of all coastal 
county-equivalent political subdivisions in 
the State as calculated by the Secretary. 
In such calculations, coastal county-equiva-
lent political subdivisions without a coast-
line shall be considered to have 50 percent 
of the average coastline miles of the coast-
al county-equivalent political subdivisions 
that do have coastlines. 
‘‘(iii) 25 percent shall be allocated to 
all coastal county-equivalent political sub-
divisions having a coastline point within 
300 miles of the leased tract for which 
OCS Receipts are being shared based on a 
formula that allocates the funds based on 
such coastal county-equivalent political 
subdivision’s relative distance from the 
leased tract. 
‘‘(iv) 25 percent shall be allocated to 
all coastal county-equivalent political sub-
divisions having a coastline point within 
300 miles of the leased tract for which 
OCS Receipts are being shared based on 
the relative level of outer Continental Shelf 
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oil and gas activities in a coastal political 
subdivision compared to the level of outer 
Continental Shelf activities in all coastal 
political subdivisions in the State. The Sec-
retary shall define the term ‘outer Conti-
nental Shelf oil and gas activities’ for pur-
poses of this subparagraph to include, but 
not be limited to, construction of vessels, 
drillships, and platforms involved in explo-
ration, production, and development on the 
outer Continental Shelf; support and sup-
ply bases, ports, and related activities; of-
fices of geologists, geophysicists, engineers, 
and other professionals involved in support 
of exploration, production, and develop-
ment of oil and gas on the outer Conti-
nental Shelf; pipelines and other means of 
transporting oil and gas production from 
the outer Continental Shelf; and processing 
and refining of oil and gas production from 
the outer Continental Shelf. For purposes 
of this subparagraph, if a coastal county- 
equivalent political subdivision does not 
have a coastline, its coastal point shall be 
the point on the coastline closest to it. 
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‘‘(3) ALLOCATIONS TO COASTAL MUNICIPAL PO-
LITICAL
SUBDIVISIONS.—The initial allocation to 
each coastal county-equivalent political subdivision 
under paragraph (2) shall be further allocated to the 
coastal county-equivalent political subdivision and 
any coastal municipal political subdivisions located 
partially or wholly within the boundaries of the 
coastal county-equivalent political subdivision as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(A) One-third shall be allocated to the 
coastal county-equivalent political subdivision. 
‘‘(B) Two-thirds shall be allocated on a per 
capita basis to the municipal political subdivi-
sions and the county-equivalent political sub-
division, with the allocation to the latter based 
upon its population not included within the 
boundaries of a municipal political subdivision. 
‘‘(e) INVESTMENT OF DEPOSITS.—Amounts depos-
ited under this section shall be invested by the Secretary 
of the Treasury in securities backed by the full faith and 
credit of the United States having maturities suitable to 
the needs of the account in which they are deposited and 
yielding the highest reasonably available interest rates as 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
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‘‘(f) USE OF FUNDS.—A recipient of funds under this 
section may use the funds for one or more of the following: 
‘‘(1) To reduce in-State college tuition at public 
institutions of higher learning and otherwise support 
public education, including career technical edu-
cation. 
‘‘(2) To make transportation infrastructure im-
provements. 
‘‘(3) To reduce taxes. 
‘‘(4) To promote, fund, and provide for— 
‘‘(A) coastal or environmental restoration; 
‘‘(B) fish, wildlife, and marine life habitat 
enhancement; 
‘‘(C) waterways construction and mainte-
nance; 
‘‘(D) levee construction and maintenance 
and shore protection; and 
‘‘(E) marine and oceanographic education 
and research. 
‘‘(5) To promote, fund, and provide for— 
‘‘(A) infrastructure associated with energy 
production activities conducted on the outer 
Continental Shelf; 
‘‘(B) energy demonstration projects; 
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‘‘(C) supporting infrastructure for shore- 
based energy projects; 
‘‘(D) State geologic programs, including 
geologic mapping and data storage programs, 
and state geophysical data acquisition; 
‘‘(E) State seismic monitoring programs, 
including operation of monitoring stations; 
‘‘(F) development of oil and gas resources 
through enhanced recovery techniques; 
‘‘(G) alternative energy development, in-
cluding bio fuels, coal-to-liquids, oil shale, tar 
sands, geothermal, geopressure, wind, waves, 
currents, hydro, and other renewable energy; 
‘‘(H) energy efficiency and conservation 
programs; and 
‘‘(I) front-end engineering and design for 
facilities that produce liquid fuels from hydro-
carbons and other biological matter. 
‘‘(6) To promote, fund, and provide for— 
‘‘(A) historic preservation programs and 
projects; 
‘‘(B) natural disaster planning and re-
sponse; and 
‘‘(C) hurricane and natural disaster insur-
ance programs. 
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‘‘(7) For any other purpose as determined by 
State law. 
‘‘(g) NO ACCOUNTING REQUIRED.—No recipient of 
funds under this section shall be required to account to 
the Federal Government for the expenditure of such 
funds, except as otherwise may be required by law. How-
ever, States may enact legislation providing for accounting 
for and auditing of such expenditures. Further, funds allo-
cated under this section to States and political subdivi-
sions may be used as matching funds for other Federal 
programs. 
‘‘(h) EFFECT OF FUTURE LAWS.—Enactment of any 
future Federal statute that has the effect, as determined 
by the Secretary, of restricting any Federal agency from 
spending appropriated funds, or otherwise preventing it 
from fulfilling its pre-existing responsibilities as of the 
date of enactment of the statute, unless such responsibil-
ities have been reassigned to another Federal agency by 
the statute with no prevention of performance, to issue 
any permit or other approval impacting on the OCS oil 
and gas leasing program, or any lease issued thereunder, 
or to implement any provision of this Act shall automati-
cally prohibit any sharing of OCS Receipts under this sec-
tion directly with the States, and their coastal political 
subdivisions, for the duration of the restriction. The Sec-
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retary shall make the determination of the existence of 
such restricting effects within 30 days of a petition by any 
outer Continental Shelf lessee or producing State. 
‘‘(i) TREATMENT OF REMAINING OCS RECEIPTS.— 
All OCS Receipts derived from lease tracts referred to in 
subsections (b) and (c) that are not required to be depos-
ited and shared under those subsections shall be deposited 
into the OCS Alternative Energy Development Fund es-
tablished by section 114 of the Funding a Clean Energy 
Future By Bringing Lower Gas Prices for Americans 
Today Act of 2008. 
‘‘(j) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) COASTAL COUNTY-EQUIVALENT POLITICAL 
SUBDIVISION.—The term ‘coastal county-equivalent 
political subdivision’ means a political jurisdiction 
immediately below the level of State government, in-
cluding a county, parish, borough in Alaska, inde-
pendent municipality not part of a county, parish, or 
borough in Alaska, or other equivalent subdivision of 
a coastal State, that lies within the coastal zone. 
‘‘(2) COASTAL MUNICIPAL POLITICAL SUBDIVI-
SION.—The term ‘coastal municipal political subdivi-
sion’ means a municipality located within and part 
of a county, parish, borough in Alaska, or other 
equivalent subdivision of a State, all or part of which 
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coastal municipal political subdivision lies within the 
coastal zone. 
‘‘(3) COASTAL POPULATION.—The term ‘coastal 
population’ means the population of all coastal coun-
ty-equivalent political subdivisions, as determined by 
the most recent official data of the Census Bureau. 
‘‘(4) COASTAL ZONE.—The term ‘coastal zone’ 
means that portion of a coastal State, including the 
entire territory of any coastal county-equivalent po-
litical subdivision at least a part of which lies, within 
75 miles landward from the coastline, or a greater 
distance as determined by State law enacted to im-
plement this section. 
‘‘(5) BONUS
BIDS.—The term ‘bonus bids’ 
means all funds received by the Secretary to issue 
an outer Continental Shelf minerals lease. 
‘‘(6) ROYALTIES.—The term ‘royalties’ means 
all funds received by the Secretary from production 
of oil or natural gas, or the sale of production taken 
in-kind, from an outer Continental Shelf minerals 
lease. 
‘‘(7) PRODUCING STATE.—The term ‘producing 
State’ means an Adjacent State having an Adjacent 
Zone containing leased tracts from which OCS Re-
ceipts were derived. 
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‘‘(8) OCS RECEIPTS.—The term ‘OCS Receipts’ 
means bonus bids, royalties, and conservation of re-
sources fees.’’. 
SEC. 110. RESERVATION OF LANDS AND RIGHTS. 
Section 12 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1341) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by adding at the end the 
following: ‘‘The President may partially or com-
pletely revise or revoke any prior withdrawal made 
by the President under the authority of this section. 
The President may not revise or revoke a withdrawal 
that is extended by a State under subsection (h), nor 
may the President withdraw from leasing any area 
for which a State failed to prohibit, or petition to 
prohibit, leasing under subsection (g). Further, in 
the area of the outer Continental Shelf more than 
100 miles from any coastline, not more than 25 per-
cent of the acreage of any OCS Planning Area may 
be withdrawn from leasing under this section at any 
point in time. A withdrawal by the President may be 
for a term not to exceed 10 years. When considering 
potential uses of the outer Continental Shelf, to the 
maximum extent possible, the President shall accom-
modate competing interests and potential uses.’’; 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
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