I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1330 
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require the Secretary 
of the Interior to conduct offshore oil and gas leasing, to use revenues 
from such leasing to capitalize bonds that provide a dedicated source 
of revenue to fund highway, other transportation, and water infrastruc-
ture projects, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 4, 2015 
Mr. STIVERS (for himself and Mr. RICHMOND) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addi-
tion to the Committees on Ways and Means, Transportation and Infra-
structure, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently de-
termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require 
the Secretary of the Interior to conduct offshore oil and 
gas leasing, to use revenues from such leasing to cap-
italize bonds that provide a dedicated source of revenue 
to fund highway, other transportation, and water infra-
structure projects, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American-Made En-
ergy and Infrastructure Jobs Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
TITLE I—OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LEASING PROGRAM 
REFORMS 
Sec. 101. Outer Continental Shelf leasing program reforms. 
Sec. 102. Domestic oil and natural gas production goal. 
Sec. 103. Development and submittal of new 5-year oil and gas leasing pro-
gram. 
TITLE II—ENHANCING THE 2012–2017 FIVE-YEAR OUTER 
CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND GAS LEASING PROGRAM 
Sec. 201. Requirement to conduct proposed oil and gas Lease Sale 220 on the 
Outer Continental Shelf offshore Virginia. 
Sec. 202. South Carolina lease sale. 
Sec. 203. Southern California existing infrastructure lease sale. 
Sec. 204. Environmental impact statement requirement. 
Sec. 205. National defense. 
TITLE III—EQUITABLE SHARING OF OUTER CONTINENTAL 
SHELF REVENUES 
Sec. 301. Disposition of Outer Continental Shelf revenues to coastal States. 
Sec. 302. Acceleration of Phase II GOMESA revenue sharing. 
TITLE IV—REORGANIZATION OF MINERALS MANAGEMENT 
AGENCIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
Sec. 401. Establishment of Under Secretary for Energy, Lands, and Minerals 
and Assistant Secretary of Ocean Energy and Safety. 
Sec. 402. Bureau of Ocean Energy. 
Sec. 403. Ocean Energy Safety Service. 
Sec. 404. Office of Natural Resources revenue. 
Sec. 405. Ethics and drug testing. 
Sec. 406. Abolishment of Minerals Management Service. 
Sec. 407. Conforming amendments to Executive Schedule pay rates. 
Sec. 408. Outer Continental Shelf Energy Safety Advisory Board. 
Sec. 409. Outer Continental Shelf inspection fees. 
TITLE V—UNITED STATES TERRITORIES 
Sec. 501. Application of Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act with respect to ter-
ritories of the United States. 
TITLE VI—INFRASTRUCTURE REVENUE BONDS 
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Sec. 601. Leveraging Infrastructure Trust Account with infrastructure revenue 
bonds. 
Sec. 602. Ninety-five percent of bond proceeds for Highway Trust Fund. 
Sec. 603. Five percent of bond proceeds for State revolving loan funds for 
wastewater treatment facilities and drinking water facilities. 
TITLE I—OUTER CONTINENTAL 
SHELF 
LEASING 
PROGRAM 
REFORMS 
SEC. 101. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LEASING PROGRAM 
REFORMS. 
Section 18(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act (43 U.S.C. 1344(a)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘(5)(A) In each oil and gas leasing program 
under this section, the Secretary shall make avail-
able for leasing and conduct lease sales including at 
least 50 percent of the available unleased acreage 
within each outer Continental Shelf planning area 
considered to have the largest undiscovered, tech-
nically recoverable oil and gas resources (on a total 
btu basis) based upon the most recent national geo-
logic assessment of the outer Continental Shelf, with 
an emphasis on offering the most geologically pro-
spective parts of the planning area. 
‘‘(B) The Secretary shall include in each pro-
posed oil and gas leasing program under this section 
any State subdivision of an outer Continental Shelf 
planning area that the Governor of the State that 
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represents that subdivision requests be made avail-
able for leasing. The Secretary may not remove such 
a subdivision from the program until publication of 
the final program. 
‘‘(C) In this paragraph the term ‘available un-
leased acreage’ means that portion of the outer Con-
tinental Shelf that is not under lease at the time of 
a proposed lease sale, and that has not otherwise 
been made unavailable for leasing by law. 
‘‘(6)(A) In the 5-year oil and gas leasing pro-
gram, the Secretary shall make available for leasing 
any outer Continental Shelf planning areas that— 
‘‘(i) are estimated to contain more than 
2,500,000,000 barrels of oil; or 
‘‘(ii) are estimated to contain more than 
7,500,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas. 
‘‘(B) To determine the planning areas described 
in subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall use the 
document entitled ‘Minerals Management Service 
Assessment of Undiscovered Technically Recoverable 
Oil and Gas Resources of the Nation’s Outer Conti-
nental Shelf, 2006’.’’. 
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SEC. 102. DOMESTIC OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION 
GOAL. 
Section 18(b) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act (43 U.S.C. 1344(b)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) DOMESTIC OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUC-
TION GOAL.—– 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In developing a 5-year oil 
and gas leasing program, and subject to paragraph 
(2), the Secretary shall determine a domestic stra-
tegic production goal for the development of oil and 
natural gas as a result of that program. Such goal 
shall be— 
‘‘(A) the best estimate of the possible in-
crease in domestic production of oil and natural 
gas from the outer Continental Shelf; 
‘‘(B) focused on meeting domestic demand 
for oil and natural gas and reducing the de-
pendence of the United States on foreign en-
ergy; and 
‘‘(C) focused on the production increases 
achieved by the leasing program at the end of 
the 15-year period beginning on the effective 
date of the program. 
‘‘(2) PROGRAM GOAL.—For purposes of the 5- 
year oil and gas leasing program, the production 
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goal referred to in paragraph (1) shall be an in-
crease by 2033 of— 
‘‘(A) no less than 3,000,000 barrels in the 
amount of oil produced per day; and 
‘‘(B) no less than 10,000,000,000 cubic 
feet in the amount of natural gas produced per 
day. 
‘‘(3) REPORTING.—The Secretary shall report 
annually, beginning at the end of the 5-year period 
for which the program applies, to the Committee on 
Natural Resources of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-
sources of the Senate on the progress of the pro-
gram in meeting the production goal. The Secretary 
shall identify in the report projections for production 
and any problems with leasing, permitting, or pro-
duction that will prevent meeting the goal.’’. 
SEC. 103. DEVELOPMENT AND SUBMITTAL OF NEW 5-YEAR 
OIL AND GAS LEASING PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior 
shall— 
(1) by not later than July 15, 2015, publish 
and submit to Congress a new proposed oil and gas 
leasing program under section 18 of the Outer Con-
tinental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344) for the 
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5-year period beginning on such date and ending 
July 15, 2021; and 
(2) by not later than July 15, 2016, approve a 
final oil and gas leasing program under such section 
for such period. 
(b) CONSIDERATION OF ALL AREAS.—In preparing 
such program the Secretary shall include consideration of 
areas of the Continental Shelf off the coasts of all States 
(as such term is defined in section 2 of that Act, as 
amended by this Act), that are subject to leasing under 
this Act. 
(c) TECHNICAL CORRECTION.—Section 18(d)(3) of 
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1344(d)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘or after eighteen 
months following the date of enactment of this section, 
whichever first occurs,’’. 
TITLE II—ENHANCING THE 2012– 
2017 FIVE-YEAR OUTER CON-
TINENTAL SHELF OIL AND 
GAS LEASING PROGRAM 
SEC. 201. REQUIREMENT TO CONDUCT PROPOSED OIL AND 
GAS LEASE SALE 220 ON THE OUTER CONTI-
NENTAL SHELF OFFSHORE VIRGINIA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding the inclusion of 
Lease Sale 220 in the Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil 
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& Gas Leasing Program 2012–2017, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall conduct offshore oil and gas Lease Sale 220 
under section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1337) as soon as practicable, but not later 
than one year after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) REQUIREMENT TO MAKE REPLACEMENT LEASE 
BLOCKS AVAILABLE.—For each lease block in a proposed 
lease sale under this section for which the Secretary of 
Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, 
under the Memorandum of Agreement referred to in sec-
tion 205(b), issues a statement proposing deferral from 
a lease offering due to defense-related activities that are 
irreconcilable with mineral exploration and development, 
the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of Defense, shall make available in the same lease 
sale one other lease block in the Virginia lease sale plan-
ning area that is acceptable for oil and gas exploration 
and production in order to mitigate conflict. 
(c) BALANCING MILITARY AND ENERGY PRODUC-
TION GOALS.—In recognition that the Outer Continental 
Shelf oil and gas leasing program and the domestic energy 
resources produced therefrom are integral to national se-
curity, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Defense shall work jointly in implementing this section in 
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order to ensure achievement of the following common 
goals: 
(1) Preserving the ability of the Armed Forces 
of the United States to maintain an optimum state 
of readiness through their continued use of the 
Outer Continental Shelf. 
(2) Allowing effective exploration, development, 
and production of our Nation’s oil, gas, and renew-
able energy resources. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) LEASE SALE 220.—The term ‘‘Lease Sale 
220’’ means such lease sale referred to in the Re-
quest for Comments on the Draft Proposed 5-Year 
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing 
Program for 2010–2015 and Notice of Intent To 
Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 
for the Proposed 5-Year Program published January 
21, 2009 (74 Fed. Reg. 3631). 
(2) VIRGINIA LEASE SALE PLANNING AREA.— 
The term ‘‘Virginia lease sale planning area’’ means 
the area of the outer Continental Shelf (as that term 
is defined in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.)) that is bounded by— 
(A) a northern boundary consisting of a 
straight line extending from the northernmost 
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point of Virginia’s seaward boundary to the 
point on the seaward boundary of the United 
States exclusive economic zone located at 37 de-
grees 17 minutes 1 second North latitude, 71 
degrees 5 minutes 16 seconds West longitude; 
and 
(B) a southern boundary consisting of a 
straight line extending from the southernmost 
point of Virginia’s seaward boundary to the 
point on the seaward boundary of the United 
States exclusive economic zone located at 36 de-
grees 31 minutes 58 seconds North latitude, 71 
degrees 30 minutes 1 second West longitude. 
SEC. 202. SOUTH CAROLINA LEASE SALE. 
Notwithstanding inclusion of the South Atlantic 
Outer Continental Shelf Planning Area in the Final Outer 
Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program 2012–2017, 
the Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a lease sale not 
later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this 
Act for areas off the coast of South Carolina determined 
by the Secretary to have the most geologically promising 
hydrocarbon resources and constituting not less than 25 
percent of the leasable area within the South Carolina off-
shore administrative boundaries depicted in the notice en-
titled ‘‘Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Adminis-
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trative Boundaries Extending from the Submerged Lands 
Act Boundary seaward to the Limit of the United States 
Outer Continental Shelf’’, published January 3, 2006 (71 
Fed. Reg. 127). 
SEC. 203. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EXISTING INFRASTRUC-
TURE LEASE SALE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior shall 
offer for sale leases of tracts in the Santa Maria and 
Santa Barbara/Ventura Basins of the Southern California 
OCS Planning Area as soon as practicable, but not later 
than December 31, 2015. 
(b) USE OF EXISTING STRUCTURES OR ONSHORE- 
BASED DRILLING.—The Secretary of the Interior shall in-
clude in leases offered for sale under this lease sale such 
terms and conditions as are necessary to require that de-
velopment and production may occur only from offshore 
infrastructure in existence on the date of the enactment 
of this Act or from onshore-based, extended-reach drilling. 
SEC. 204. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT REQUIRE-
MENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—For the purposes of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall prepare a multisale environ-
mental impact statement under section 102 of the Na-
tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) 
for all lease sales required under this title. 
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‘‘(7) BILLING.—The Secretary shall bill des-
ignated operators under paragraph (5) within 60 
days after the date of the inspection, with payment 
required within 30 days of billing. The Secretary 
shall bill designated operators under paragraph (6) 
within 30 days of the end of the month in which the 
inspection occurred, with payment required within 
30 days after billing. 
‘‘(8) SUNSET.—No fee may be collected under 
this subsection for any fiscal year after fiscal year 
2024. 
‘‘(9) ANNUAL REPORTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 60 
days after the end of each fiscal year beginning 
with fiscal year 2015, the Secretary shall sub-
mit to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate and the Committee on 
Natural Resources of the House of Representa-
tives a report on the operation of the Fund dur-
ing the fiscal year. 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—Each report shall in-
clude, for the fiscal year covered by the report, 
the following: 
‘‘(i) A statement of the amounts de-
posited into the Fund. 
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TITLE V—UNITED STATES 
TERRITORIES 
SEC. 501. APPLICATION OF OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF 
LANDS ACT WITH RESPECT TO TERRITORIES 
OF THE UNITED STATES. 
Section 2 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1331) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (a), by inserting after ‘‘con-
trol’’ the following: ‘‘or lying within the United 
States exclusive economic zone and the Continental 
Shelf adjacent to any territory of the United 
States’’; 
(2) in paragraph (p), by striking ‘‘and’’ after 
the semicolon at the end; 
(3) in paragraph (q), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(r) The term ‘State’ includes each territory of the 
United States.’’. 
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