‘‘(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; 
‘‘(E) State seismic monitoring programs, 
including operation of monitoring stations; 
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‘‘(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. 
‘‘(f) 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 
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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. 
‘‘(g) 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. 
‘‘(h) USE OF FEDERAL REVENUES FROM CERTAIN 
NEW LEASES TO REDUCE SOCIAL SECURITY DEBT.— 
‘‘(1) SPECIAL DEDICATED ACCOUNT IN SOCIAL 
SECURITY TRUST FUND.—25 percent of OCS Re-
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ceipts that are derived from leases under this Act on 
tracts that would not have been available for leasing 
prior to the enactment of the Grow American Supply 
Act and that would otherwise have been deposited in 
the General Fund of the Treasury and not allocated 
to any other specific use shall be deposited in a Spe-
cial Dedicated Account in the Federal Old-Age and 
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund. Notwithstanding 
section 201(d) of the Social Security Act, amounts 
deposited in the Special Dedicated Account under 
this subsection 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 Sec-
retary of the Treasury. 
‘‘(2) EXPENDITURES.—No portion of the prin-
cipal amount of such Special Dedicated Account or 
of the accrued interest in such account may be ex-
pended in any fiscal year unless the Secretary of the 
Treasury determines that revenues allocated to the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust 
Fund in that fiscal year will be less than expendi-
tures from the Fund in that fiscal year, and in any 
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such fiscal year the Secretary may transfer such 
amounts as may be necessary from the Special Dedi-
cated Account to the general account in the Federal 
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund for ex-
penditure in that fiscal year to the extent necessary 
to equalize revenues and expenditures from such 
Trust Fund in that fiscal year. 
‘‘(i) 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 
coastal municipal political subdivision lies within the 
coastal zone. 
‘‘(3) COASTAL POPULATION.—The term ‘coastal 
population’ means the population of all coastal coun-
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