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lation or for a particular lease sale, the price thresholds 
shall be $40.50 for oil (2006 dollars) and $6.75 for nat-
ural gas (2006 dollars). 
‘‘(t) CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES FEES.— 
‘‘(1) Not later than one year after the date of 
the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources 
Act of 2006, the Secretary by regulation shall estab-
lish a conservation of resources fee for producing 
leases that will apply to new and existing leases 
which shall be set at $9 per barrel for oil and $1.25 
per million Btu for gas. This fee shall only apply to 
leases in production located in more than 200 me-
ters of water for which royalties are not being paid 
when prices exceed $40.50 per barrel for oil and 
$6.75 per million Btu for natural gas in 2006, dol-
lars. This fee shall apply to production from and 
after October 1, 2005, and shall be treated as offset-
ting receipts. 
‘‘(2) Not later than one year after the date of 
the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources 
Act of 2006, the Secretary by regulation shall estab-
lish a conservation of resources fee for nonproducing 
leases that will apply to new and existing leases 
which shall be set at $3.75 per acre per year. This 
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fee shall apply from and after October 1, 2005, and 
shall be treated as offsetting receipts.’’; 
(5) by striking subsection (a)(3)(A) and redes-
ignating the subsequent subparagraphs as subpara-
graphs (A) and (B), respectively; 
(6) in subsection (a)(3)(A) (as so redesignated) 
by striking ‘‘In the Western’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘the Secretary’’ the first place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘The Secretary’’; and 
(7) effective October 1, 2006, in subsection 
(g)— 
(A) by striking all after ‘‘(g)’’, except para-
graph (3); 
(B) by striking the last sentence of para-
graph (3); and 
(C) by striking ‘‘(3)’’. 
SEC. 7. DISPOSITION OF RECEIPTS. 
Section 9 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1338) is amended— 
(1) by designating the existing text as sub-
section (a); 
(2) in subsection (a) (as so designated) by in-
serting ‘‘, if not paid as otherwise provided in this 
title’’ after ‘‘receipts’’; and 
(3) by adding the following: 
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‘‘(b) TREATMENT OF OCS RECEIPTS FROM TRACTS 
COMPLETELY WITHIN 100 MILES OF THE COASTLINE.— 
‘‘(1) DEPOSIT.—The Secretary shall deposit 
into a separate account in the Treasury the portion 
of OCS Receipts for each fiscal year that will be 
shared under paragraphs (2), (3), and (4). 
‘‘(2) PHASED-IN RECEIPTS SHARING.— 
‘‘(A) Beginning October 1, 2005, the Sec-
retary shall share OCS Receipts derived from 
the following areas: 
‘‘(i) Lease tracts located on portions 
of the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region com-
pletely beyond 4 marine leagues from any 
coastline and completely within 100 miles 
of any coastline that are available for leas-
ing under the 2002–2007 5-Year Oil and 
Gas Leasing Program in effect prior to the 
date of the enactment of the Deep Ocean 
Energy Resources Act of 2006. 
‘‘(ii) Lease tracts in production prior 
to October 1, 2005, completely beyond 4 
marine leagues from any coastline and 
completely within 100 miles of any coast-
line located on portions of the OCS that 
were not available for leasing under the 
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2002–2007 5-Year OCS Oil and Gas Leas-
ing Program in effect prior to the date of 
the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy 
Resources Act of 2006. 
‘‘(iii) Lease tracts for which leases are 
issued prior to October 1, 2005, located in 
the Alaska OCS Region completely beyond 
4 marine leagues from any coastline and 
completely within 100 miles of the coast-
line. 
‘‘(B) The Secretary shall share the fol-
lowing percentages of OCS Receipts from the 
leases described in subparagraph (A) derived 
during the fiscal year indicated: 
‘‘(i) For fiscal year 2006, 4.6 percent. 
‘‘(ii) For fiscal year 2007, 5.95 per-
cent. 
‘‘(iii) For fiscal year 2008, 6.8 per-
cent. 
‘‘(iv) For fiscal year 2009, 7.65 per-
cent. 
‘‘(v) For fiscal year 2010, 10.20 per-
cent. 
‘‘(vi) For fiscal year 2011, 12.75 per-
cent. 
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‘‘(vii) For fiscal year 2012, 15.30 per-
cent. 
‘‘(viii) For fiscal year 2013, 17.85 
percent. 
‘‘(ix) For fiscal year 2014, 20.40 per-
cent. 
‘‘(x) For fiscal year 2015, 22.95 per-
cent. 
‘‘(xi) For fiscal year 2016, 25.50 per-
cent. 
‘‘(xii) For fiscal year 2017, 28.05 per-
cent. 
‘‘(xiii) For fiscal year 2018, 30.60 
percent. 
‘‘(xiv) For fiscal year 2019, 33.15 
percent. 
‘‘(xv) For fiscal year 2020, 35.70 per-
cent. 
‘‘(xvi) For fiscal year 2021, 38.25 
percent. 
‘‘(xvii) For fiscal year 2022 and each 
subsequent fiscal year, 42.50 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 
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6(2) of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act 
of 2006. 
‘‘(3) IMMEDIATE RECEIPTS SHARING.—Begin-
ning October 1, 2005, the Secretary shall share 
42.50 percent of OCS Receipts derived from all 
leases located completely beyond 4 marine leagues 
from any coastline and completely within 100 miles 
of any coastline not included within the provisions of 
paragraph (2). 
‘‘(4) RECEIPTS SHARING FROM TRACTS WITHIN 
4 MARINE LEAGUES OF ANY COASTLINE.— 
‘‘(A) AREAS
DESCRIBED
IN
PARAGRAPH 
(2).— 
‘‘(i) Beginning October 1, 2005, and 
continuing through September 30, 2010, 
the Secretary shall share 25 percent of 
OCS Receipts derived from all leases lo-
cated within 4 marine leagues from any 
coastline within areas described in para-
graph (2). For each fiscal year after Sep-
tember 30, 2010, the Secretary shall in-
crease the percent shared in 5 percent in-
crements each fiscal year until the sharing 
rate for all leases located within 4 marine 
leagues from any coastline within areas de-
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scribed in paragraph (2) becomes 42.5 per-
cent. 
‘‘(ii) During fiscal year 2016, the Sec-
retary shall conduct an analysis of all of 
the areas described in paragraph (3) and 
subsection (c)(3) to determine the total of 
OCS Receipts derived from such areas dur-
ing the period of fiscal year 2007 through 
fiscal year 2016. The Secretary shall sub-
tract the amount of $4 billion from the 
total of such OCS Receipts. If the result is 
a positive number, the Secretary shall di-
vide such positive number by $4 billion. 
The resulting quotient, not to exceed 0.5, 
shall then be multiplied times 25. The 
product of such multiplication shall be 
added to 42.5 and the sum shall be the 
percent that the Secretary shall share for 
fiscal year 2017 and all future years from 
OCS Receipts derived from all leases lo-
cated within 4 marine leagues from any 
coastline within areas described in para-
graph (2), unless increased by the provi-
sions of (iii). 
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‘‘(iii) Beginning October 1, 2017, the 
Secretary shall share, in addition to the 
share established by (i), as modified by (ii) 
if any, amounts determined as follows, 
with the total of the amounts shared under 
this paragraph not to exceed in any fiscal 
year an amount equal to 63.75 percent of 
total OCS Receipts derived from all leases 
located within 4 marine leagues from any 
coastline within areas described in para-
graph (2)—25 percent of the total of OCS 
Receipts derived from areas described in 
paragraph (3) and subsection (c)(3) that 
exceed the following amounts for the fiscal 
year indicated: for fiscal year 2017 the 
amount of $900,000,000 and for each fis-
cal year thereafter add $100,000,000. 
Amounts added under this clause to be 
shared, if any, for any fiscal year shall be 
added to the sharing base for all subse-
quent years and shall be allocated among 
State Adjacent Zones on a basis propor-
tional to the result from the calculation in 
clause (i). 
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‘‘(B) AREAS
NOT
DESCRIBED
IN
PARA-
GRAPH
(2).—Beginning October 1, 2005, the 
Secretary shall share 63.75 percent of OCS re-
ceipts derived from all leases located completely 
or partially within 4 marine leagues from any 
coastline within areas not described paragraph 
(2). 
‘‘(5) ALLOCATIONS.—The Secretary shall allo-
cate the OCS Receipts deposited into the separate 
account established by paragraph (1) that are 
shared under paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) 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 within 100 miles of its 
coastline that generated royalties during the fis-
cal year, if the other producing or States have 
a coastline point within 300 miles of any por-
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tion of the leased tract, in which case the 
amount allocated for the leased tract shall be— 
‘‘(i) one-third to the Adjacent State; 
and 
‘‘(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. 
‘‘(c) TREATMENT OF OCS RECEIPTS FROM TRACTS 
PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY BEYOND 100 MILES OF THE 
COASTLINE.— 
‘‘(1) DEPOSIT.—The Secretary shall deposit 
into a separate account in the Treasury the portion 
of OCS Receipts for each fiscal year that will be 
shared under paragraphs (2) and (3). 
‘‘(2) PHASED-IN RECEIPTS SHARING.— 
‘‘(A) Beginning October 1, 2005, the Sec-
retary shall share OCS Receipts derived from 
the following areas: 
‘‘(i) Lease tracts located on portions 
of the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region partially 
or completely beyond 100 miles of any 
coastline that were available for leasing 
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under the 2002–2007 5-Year Oil and Gas 
Leasing Program in effect prior to the 
date of enactment of the Deep Ocean En-
ergy Resources Act of 2006. 
‘‘(ii) Lease tracts in production prior 
to October 1, 2005, partially or completely 
beyond 100 miles of any coastline located 
on portions of the OCS that were not 
available for leasing under the 2002–2007 
5-Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program 
in effect prior to the date of enactment of 
the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 
2006. 
‘‘(iii) Lease tracts for which leases are 
issued prior to October 1, 2005, located in 
the Alaska OCS Region partially or com-
pletely beyond 100 miles of the coastline. 
‘‘(B) The Secretary shall share the fol-
lowing percentages of OCS Receipts from the 
leases described in subparagraph (A) derived 
during the fiscal year indicated: 
‘‘(i) For fiscal year 2006, 4.6 percent. 
‘‘(ii) For fiscal year 2007, 5.95 per-
cent. 
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‘‘(iii) For fiscal year 2008, 6.80 per-
cent. 
‘‘(iv) For fiscal year 2009, 7.65 per-
cent. 
‘‘(v) For fiscal year 2010, 10.20 per-
cent. 
‘‘(vi) For fiscal year 2011, 12.75 per-
cent. 
‘‘(vii) For fiscal year 2012, 15.30 per-
cent. 
‘‘(viii) For fiscal year 2013, 17.85 
percent. 
‘‘(ix) For fiscal year 2014, 20.40 per-
cent. 
‘‘(x) For fiscal year 2015, 22.95 per-
cent. 
‘‘(xi) For fiscal year 2016, 25.50 per-
cent. 
‘‘(xii) For fiscal year 2017, 28.05 per-
cent. 
‘‘(xiii) For fiscal year 2018, 30.60 
percent. 
‘‘(xiv) For fiscal year 2019, 33.15 
percent. 
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‘‘(xv) For fiscal year 2020, 35.70 per-
cent. 
‘‘(xvi) For fiscal year 2021, 38.25 
percent. 
‘‘(xvii) For fiscal year 2022 and each 
subsequent fiscal year, 42.50 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 
6(2) of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act 
of 2006. 
‘‘(3) IMMEDIATE RECEIPTS SHARING.—Begin-
ning October 1, 2005, the Secretary shall share 42.5 
percent of OCS Receipts derived on and after Octo-
ber 1, 2005, from all leases located partially or com-
pletely 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 leases 
within a State’s Adjacent Zone if no leasing is al-
lowed within any portion of that State’s Adjacent 
Zone located completely within 100 miles of any 
coastline. 
‘‘(4) ALLOCATIONS.—The Secretary shall allo-
cate the OCS Receipts deposited into the separate 
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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 
‘‘(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 
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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-
retary shall make an initial allocation of the OCS 
Receipts to be shared under paragraph (1)(B) as fol-
lows: 
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‘‘(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- 
equivalent political subdivision’s coastline 
miles to the coastline miles of all coastal 
county-equivalent political subdivisions in 
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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 
oil and gas activities in a coastal political 
subdivision compared to the level of outer 
Continental Shelf activities in all coastal 
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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. 
‘‘(3) ALLOCATIONS TO COASTAL MUNICIPAL PO-
LITICAL
SUBDIVISIONS.—The initial allocation to 
each coastal county-equivalent political subdivision 
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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. 
‘‘(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 
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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; 
‘‘(C) supporting infrastructure for shore- 
based energy projects; 
‘‘(D) State geologic programs, including 
geologic mapping and data storage programs, 
and state geophysical data acquisition; 
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‘‘(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. 
‘‘(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 
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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-
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) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
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‘‘(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 
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 
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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. 
‘‘(8) OCS RECEIPTS.—The term ‘OCS Receipts’ 
means bonus bids, royalties, and conservation of re-
sources fees.’’. 
SEC. 8. 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 
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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: 
‘‘(g) AVAILABILITY FOR LEASING WITHIN CERTAIN 
AREAS OF THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF.— 
‘‘(1) PROHIBITION AGAINST LEASING.— 
‘‘(A) UNAVAILABLE
FOR
LEASING
WITH-
OUT
STATE
REQUEST.—Except as otherwise 
provided in this subsection, from and after en-
actment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources 
Act of 2006, the Secretary shall not offer for 
leasing for oil and gas, or natural gas, any area 
within 50 miles of the coastline that was with-
drawn from disposition by leasing in the Atlan-
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tic OCS Region or the Pacific OCS Region, or 
the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Plan-
ning Area, as depicted on the maps referred to 
in this subparagraph, under the ‘Memorandum 
on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United 
States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing 
Disposition’, 34 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 
1111, dated June 12, 1998, or any area within 
50 miles of the coastline not withdrawn under 
that Memorandum that is included within the 
Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning 
Area as indicated on the map entitled ‘Gulf of 
Mexico OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and 
OCS Planning Areas’ or the Florida Straits 
Planning Area as indicated on the map entitled 
‘Atlantic OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and 
OCS Planning Areas’, both of which are dated 
September 2005 and on file in the Office of the 
Director, Minerals Management Service. 
‘‘(B) AREAS BETWEEN 50 AND 100 MILES 
FROM
THE
COASTLINE.—Unless an Adjacent 
State petitions under subsection (h) within one 
year after the date of the enactment of the 
Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006 for 
natural gas leasing or by June 30, 2009, for oil 
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and gas leasing, the Secretary shall offer for 
leasing any area more than 50 miles but less 
than 100 miles from the coastline that was 
withdrawn from disposition by leasing in the 
Atlantic OCS Region, the Pacific OCS Region, 
or the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern 
Planning Area, as depicted on the maps re-
ferred to in this subparagraph, under the 
‘Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas 
of the United States Outer Continental Shelf 
from Leasing Disposition’, 34 Weekly Comp. 
Pres. Doc. 1111, dated June 12, 1998, or any 
area more than 50 miles but less than 100 
miles of the coastline not withdrawn under that 
Memorandum that is included within the Gulf 
of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning Area 
as indicated on the map entitled ‘Gulf of Mexico 
OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS 
Planning Areas’ or within the Florida Straits 
Planning Area as indicated on the map entitled 
‘Atlantic OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and 
OCS Planning Areas’, both of which are dated 
September 2005 and on file in the Office of the 
Director, Minerals Management Service. 
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‘‘(2) REVOCATION OF WITHDRAWAL.—The pro-
visions of the ‘Memorandum on Withdrawal of Cer-
tain Areas of the United States Outer Continental 
Shelf from Leasing Disposition’, 34 Weekly Comp. 
Pres. Doc. 1111, dated June 12, 1998, are hereby 
revoked and are no longer in effect. The 2002–2007 
5-Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing 
Program is hereby amended to include the areas 
added to the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Central 
Planning Area by this Act to the extent that such 
areas were included within the original boundaries of 
proposed Lease Sale 181. The amendment to such 
leasing program includes a sale in such additional 
areas, which shall be held no later than April 30, 
2007. The Final Environmental Impact Statement 
prepared for this area for Lease Sale 181 shall be 
deemed sufficient for all purposes for each lease sale 
in which such area is offered for lease during the 
2002–2007 5-Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and 
Gas Leasing Program without need for supplemen-
tation. Any tract only partially added to the Gulf of 
Mexico OCS Region Central Planning Area by this 
Act shall be eligible for leasing of the part of such 
tract that is included within the Gulf of Mexico OCS 
Region Central Planning Area, and the remainder of 
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such tract that lies outside of the Gulf of Mexico 
OCS Region Central Planning Area may be devel-
oped and produced by the lessee of such partial tract 
using extended reach or similar drilling from a loca-
tion on a leased area. Further, any area in the OCS 
withdrawn from leasing may be leased, and there-
after developed and produced by the lessee using ex-
tended reach or similar drilling from a location on 
a leased area located in an area available for leasing. 
‘‘(3) PETITION FOR LEASING.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Governor of the 
State, upon concurrence of its legislature, may 
submit to the Secretary a petition requesting 
that the Secretary make available any area that 
is within the State’s Adjacent Zone, included 
within the provisions of paragraph (1), and that 
(i) is greater than 25 miles from any point on 
the coastline of a Neighboring State for the 
conduct of offshore leasing, pre-leasing, and re-
lated activities with respect to natural gas leas-
ing; or (ii) is greater than 50 miles from any 
point on the coastline of a Neighboring State 
for the conduct of offshore leasing, pre-leasing, 
and related activities with respect to oil and gas 
leasing. The Adjacent State may also petition 
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for leasing any other area within its Adjacent 
Zone if leasing is allowed in the similar area of 
the Adjacent Zone of the applicable Neigh-
boring State, or if not allowed, if the Neigh-
boring State, acting through its Governor, ex-
presses its concurrence with the petition. The 
Secretary shall only consider such a petition 
upon making a finding that leasing is allowed 
in the similar area of the Adjacent Zone of the 
applicable Neighboring State or upon receipt of 
the concurrence of the Neighboring State. The 
date of receipt by the Secretary of such concur-
rence by the Neighboring State shall constitute 
the date of receipt of the petition for that area 
for which the concurrence applies. Except for 
any area described in the last sentence of para-
graph (2), a petition for leasing any part of the 
Alabama Adjacent Zone that is a part of the 
Gulf of Mexico Eastern Planning Area, as indi-
cated on the map entitled ‘Gulf of Mexico OCS 
Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS Plan-
ning Areas’ which is dated September 2005 and 
on file in the Office of the Director, Minerals 
Management Service, shall require the concur-
rence of both Alabama and Florida. 
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‘‘(B) LIMITATIONS
ON
LEASING.—In its 
petition, a State with an Adjacent Zone that 
contains leased tracts may condition new leas-
ing for oil and gas, or natural gas for tracts 
within 25 miles of the coastline by— 
‘‘(i) requiring a net reduction in the 
number of production platforms; 
‘‘(ii) requiring a net increase in the 
average distance of production platforms 
from the coastline; 
‘‘(iii) limiting permanent surface occu-
pancy on new leases to areas that are more 
than 10 miles from the coastline; 
‘‘(iv) limiting some tracts to being 
produced from shore or from platforms lo-
cated on other tracts; or 
‘‘(v) other conditions that the Adja-
cent State may deem appropriate as long 
as the Secretary does not determine that 
production is made economically or tech-
nically impracticable or otherwise impos-
sible. 
‘‘(C) ACTION BY SECRETARY.—Not later 
than 90 days after receipt of a petition under 
subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall approve 
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