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eral support for research and other activities to 
achieve that result. 
‘‘(3) CONTENTS.—The strategy shall include 
plans and programs for obtaining information re-
quired for determining the optimal methods, loca-
tions, amount, and timeframe for potential develop-
ment on Federal lands within the Green River For-
mation. The strategy shall also include plans for 
conducting critical environmental and ecological re-
search, high-payoff process improvement research, 
an assessment of carbon management options, and a 
large-scale demonstration of carbon dioxide seques-
tration in the general vicinity of the Piceance Basin. 
‘‘(f) ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES.—In developing the 
strategy under subsection (e), the Secretary shall, in co-
operation with the Secretary of Energy and the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency, consult 
with industry and other interested persons regarding al-
ternative approaches to providing access to Federal lands 
for early first-of-a-kind commercial facilities for extracting 
and processing oil shale and tar sands.’’; 
(8) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by 
striking ‘‘of the final regulation required by sub-
section (d)’’ and inserting ‘‘of final regulations 
issued under this section’’;
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(9) in subsection (g), as so redesignated, by 
adding at the end the following: ‘‘Compliance with 
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 is 
required on a site-by-site basis for all lands proposed 
to be leased under the commercial leasing program 
established in this subsection.’’; and 
(10) in subsection (i)(1)(B), as so redesignated, 
by striking ‘‘subsection (e)’’ and inserting ‘‘sub-
section (g)’’. 
SEC. 7104. LIMITATION OF REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION RE-
GARDING APPLICATION OF CATEGORICAL 
EXCLUSION UNDER NEPA FOR OIL AND GAS 
EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVI-
TIES. 
Section 390 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public 
Law 109–58; 42 U.S.C. 15942) is amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(c) ADHERENCE TO CEQ REGULATIONS.—In ad-
ministering this section, the Secretary of the Interior in 
managing the public lands, and the Secretary of Agri-
culture in managing National Forest System lands, shall 
adhere to the regulations issued by the Council on Envi-
ronmental Quality relating to categorical exclusions (40 
CFR 1507.3 and 1508.4), as in effect on the date of en-
actment of this Act.’’.
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SEC. 7105. BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior, through the Bu-
reau of Land Management, shall amend the best manage-
ment practices guidelines for oil and gas development on 
Federal lands, to— 
(1) require public review and comment prior to 
waiving any stipulation of an oil and gas lease for 
such lands, except in the case of an emergency; and 
(2) create an incentive for oil and gas operators 
to adopt best management practices that minimize 
adverse impacts to wildlife habitat, by providing ex-
pedited permit review for any operator that commits 
to adhering to those practices without seeking waiver 
of such stipulations. 
SEC. 7106. FEDERAL CONSISTENCY APPEALS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
‘‘Federal Consistency Appeals Decision Refinement Act’’. 
(b) CLARIFICATION OF APPEAL DECISION TIME PE-
RIODS
AND
INFORMATION
REQUIREMENTS.—Section 
319(b) of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 
U.S.C. 1465(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘160-day’’ 
and inserting ‘‘200-day’’; 
(2) in paragraph (3)(A)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘160-day’’ and inserting 
‘‘200-day’’; and 
(B) by amending clause (ii) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(ii) as the Secretary determines nec-
essary to receive, on an expedited basis, 
any supplemental or clarifying information 
relevant to the consolidated record com-
piled by the lead Federal permitting agen-
cy to complete a consistency review under 
this title.’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (3)(B) by striking ‘‘160-day’’ 
and inserting ‘‘200-day’’. 
Subtitle B—Federal Energy Public 
Accountability, 
Integrity, 
and 
Public Interest 
CHAPTER 1—ACCOUNTABILITY AND IN-
TEGRITY IN THE FEDERAL ENERGY 
PROGRAM 
SEC. 7201. AUDITS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF 
AUDITS.—The Secretary of the Interior shall ensure that 
by fiscal year 2009 the Minerals Management Service 
shall perform no less that 550 audits of oil and gas leases 
each fiscal year.
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‘‘(2) the Secretary of Homeland Security, with 
respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating 
as a service in the Navy; 
‘‘(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices, with respect to the commissioned corps of the 
Public Health Service; and 
‘‘(4) the Secretary of Commerce, with respect 
to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration.’’. 
(b) TRANSFER OF 15-YEAR CAREER STATUS BONUS 
TO SUBCHAPTER II.— 
(1) TRANSFER.—Section 322 of title 37, United 
States Code, is transferred to appear after section 
353 of subchapter II of chapter 5 of such title, as 
added by subsection (a), and is redesignated as sec-
tion 354. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subsection (f) 
of such section, as so transferred and redesignated, 
is amended by striking ‘‘section 303a(e)’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘section 373’’. 
(3) CROSS
REFERENCES.—Sections 1401a, 
1409(b)(2), and 1410 of title 10, United States 
Code, are amended by striking ‘‘section 322’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘section 322 (as in ef-
fect before the enactment of the National Defense
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3593 
AN ACT 
To amend the United States International Broad-
casting Act of 1994 to extend by one year the 
operation of Radio Free Asia, and for other pur-
poses.
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(b) STANDARDS.—Not later than 120 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior 
shall issue regulations that require that all employees that 
conduct audits or compliance reviews must meet profes-
sional auditor qualifications that are consistent with the 
latest revision of the Government Auditing Standards pub-
lished by the Government Accountability Office. Such reg-
ulations shall also ensure that all audits conducted by the 
Department of the Interior are performed in accordance 
with such standards. 
SEC. 7202. FINES AND PENALTIES. 
(a) SANCTIONS FOR VIOLATIONS RELATING TO FED-
ERAL OIL AND GAS ROYALTIES.—Section 109 of the Fed-
eral Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (30 
U.S.C. 1719) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘CIVIL PENALTIES 
‘‘SEC. 109. (a) ROYALTY VIOLATIONS.—(1) No per-
son shall— 
‘‘(A) after due notice of violation or after such 
violation has been reported under paragraph (3)(A), 
fail or refuse to comply with any requirement of any 
mineral leasing law or any regulation, order, lease, 
or permit under such a law; 
‘‘(B) fail or refuse to make any royalty pay-
ment in the amount or value required by any min-
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eral leasing law or any regulation, order, or lease 
under such a law, with the intent to defraud; 
‘‘(C) fail or refuse to make any royalty payment 
by the date required by any mineral leasing law or 
any regulation, order, or lease under such a law, 
with the intent to defraud; or 
‘‘(D) prepare, maintain, or submit any false, in-
accurate, or misleading report, notice, affidavit, 
record, data, or other written information or filing 
related to royalty payments that is required under 
any mineral leasing law or regulation issued under 
any mineral leasing law, with the intent to defraud. 
‘‘(2) A person who violates paragraph (1) shall be lia-
ble— 
‘‘(A) in the case of a violation of subparagraph 
(B) or (C) of paragraph (1) for an amount equal to 
3 times the royalty the person fails or refuses to 
pay, plus interest on that trebled amount measured 
from the first date the royalty payment was due; 
and 
‘‘(B) in the case of any violation, for a civil 
penalty of— 
‘‘(i) except as provided in clause (ii), up to 
$25,000 per violation for each day the violation 
continues; or
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3603 
AN ACT 
To rename the Ocmulgee National Monument. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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‘‘(m) STATE SHARING OF PENALTIES.—Amounts re-
ceived by the United States in an action brought under 
section 3730 of title 31, United States Code, that arises 
from any underpayment of royalties owed to the United 
States under any lease shall be treated as royalties paid 
to the United States under that lease for purposes of the 
mineral leasing laws and the Land and Water Conserva-
tion Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 et seq.).’’. 
(b) SHARED CIVIL PENALTIES.—Section 206 of the 
Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 
(30 U.S.C. 1736) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘trebled royalties or’’ after ‘‘50 
per centum of any’’; and 
(2) by striking the second sentence. 
CHAPTER 2—AMENDMENTS TO FEDERAL 
OIL AND GAS ROYALTY MANAGEMENT 
ACT OF 1982 
SEC. 7211. AMENDMENTS TO DEFINITIONS. 
Section 3 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Man-
agement Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1702) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (20)(A), by striking ‘‘: Pro-
vided, That’’ and all that follows through ‘‘subject of 
the judicial proceeding’’;
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(2) in paragraph (20)(B), by striking ‘‘(with 
written notice to the lessee who designated the des-
ignee)’’; 
(3) in paragraph (23)(A), by striking ‘‘(with 
written notice to the lessee who designated the des-
ignee)’’ ; 
(4) by amending paragraph (24) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(24) ‘designee’ means any person who pays, 
offsets, or credits monies, makes adjustments, re-
quests and receives refunds, or submits reports with 
respect to payments a lessee must make pursuant to 
section 102(a);’’; 
(5) in paragraph (25)(B), by striking ‘‘(subject 
to the provisions of section 102(a) of this Act)’’; and 
(6) in paragraph (26), by striking ‘‘(with notice 
to the lessee who designated the designee)’’. 
SEC. 7212. INTEREST. 
(a) ESTIMATED PAYMENTS; INTEREST ON AMOUNT 
OF UNDERPAYMENT.—Section 111(j) of the Federal Oil 
and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 
1721(j)) is amended by striking ‘‘If the estimated pay-
ment exceeds the actual royalties due, interest is owed on 
the overpayment.’’.
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(b) OVERPAYMENTS.—Section 111 of the Federal Oil 
and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 
1721) is amended by striking subsections (h) and (i). 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall be effective one year after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 7213. OBLIGATION PERIOD. 
Section 115(c) of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty 
Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1724(c)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) ADJUSTMENTS.—In the case of an adjust-
ment under section 111A(a) (30 U.S.C. 1721a(a)) in 
which a recoupment by the lessee results in an un-
derpayment of an obligation, for purposes of this Act 
the obligation becomes due on the date the lessee or 
its designee makes the adjustment.’’. 
SEC. 7214. TOLLING AGREEMENTS AND SUBPOENAS. 
(a) TOLLING AGREEMENTS.—Section 115(d)(1) of 
the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 
(30 U.S.C. 1724(d)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘(with no-
tice to the lessee who designated the designee)’’. 
(b) SUBPOENAS.—Section 115(d)(2)(A) of the Fed-
eral Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (30 
U.S.C. 1724(d)(2)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘(with no-
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tice to the lessee who designated the designee, which notice 
shall not constitute a subpoena to the lessee)’’. 
SEC. 7215. LIABILITY FOR ROYALTY PAYMENTS. 
Section 102(a) of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty 
Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1712(a)) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) In order to increase receipts and achieve effec-
tive collections of royalty and other payments, a lessee who 
is required to make any royalty or other payment under 
a lease or under the mineral leasing laws, shall make such 
payments in the time and manner as may be specified by 
the Secretary or the applicable delegated State. Any per-
son who pays, offsets or credits monies, makes adjust-
ments, requests and receives refunds, or submits reports 
with respect to payments the lessee must make is the les-
see’s designee under this Act. Notwithstanding any other 
provision of this Act to the contrary, a designee shall be 
liable for any payment obligation of any lessee on whose 
behalf the designee pays royalty under the lease. The per-
son owning operating rights in a lease and a person own-
ing legal record title in a lease shall be liable for that per-
son’s pro rata share of payment obligations under the 
lease.’’.
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3606 
AN ACT 
To amend the Truth in Lending Act to make a technical 
correction to an amendment made by the Credit CARD 
Act of 2009. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1811 
To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide for equitable 
allotment of lands to Alaska Native veterans. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 21, 2005 
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Resources 
A BILL 
To amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to pro-
vide for equitable allotment of lands to Alaska Native 
veterans. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Alaska Native Vet-
erans Land Allotment Equity Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO ALLOW CERTAIN ALASKA NATIVE 
VETERAN LAND ALLOTMENTS. 
Section 41 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 
Act (43 U.S.C. 1629g) is amended as follows:
(1) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) 
are amended to read as follows: ‘‘(1) The period for 
filing allotments under this Act shall end 3 years 
after the Secretary issues final regulations under 
section 3 of the Alaska Native Veterans Land Allot-
ment Equity Act. A person described in paragraph 
(1) or (2) of subsection (b) shall be eligible for an 
allotment of not more than two parcels of Federal 
land totaling 160 acres or less. 
‘‘(2)(A) Allotments may be selected from the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(i) Vacant lands that are owned by the United 
States; 
‘‘(ii) Lands that have been selected or conveyed 
to the State of Alaska if the State voluntarily relin-
quishes or conveys to the United States the land for 
the allotment. 
‘‘(iii) Lands that have been selected or conveyed 
to a Native Corporation if the Native Corporation 
voluntarily relinquishes or conveys to the United 
States the land for the allotment. 
‘‘(B) A Native Corporation may select an equal 
amount of acres of appropriate Federal land within the 
State of Alaska to replace lands voluntarily relinquished
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House Calendar No. 231 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1234 
[Report No. 110–678] 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3021) to direct the Secretary 
of Education to make grants and low-interest loans to local educational 
agencies for the construction, modernization, or repair of public kinder-
garten, elementary, and secondary educational facilities, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 3, 2008 
Ms. SUTTON, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolution; 
which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3021) to direct 
the Secretary of Education to make grants and low- 
interest loans to local educational agencies for the con-
struction, modernization, or repair of public kinder-
garten, elementary, and secondary educational facilities, 
and for other purposes. 
Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of 
rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee 
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or conveyed by that Native Corporation under subpara-
graph (A)(iii). 
‘‘(C) For security reasons, allotments may not be se-
lected from— 
‘‘(i) lands within the right-of-way granted for 
the TransAlaska Pipeline; or 
‘‘(ii) the inner or outer corridor of that right- 
of-way withdrawal.’’. 
(2) Subsection (a)(3) is repealed. 
(3) In subsection (b)(1), strike ‘‘A person’’ and 
insert ‘‘Except as provided in paragraph (3), a per-
son’’. 
(4) Subsection (b)(1)(B) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(B) is a veteran who served during the period 
between August 5, 1964, and May 7, 1975, includ-
ing such dates.’’. 
(5) Subsection (b)(2) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(2) If an individual who would otherwise have been 
eligible for an allotment dies before applying for the allot-
ment, an heir on behalf of the estate of the deceased vet-
eran may apply for and receive the allotment.’’. 
(6) In subsection (b)(3), insert before the pe-
riod the following: ‘‘, except for an heir who applies
and receives an allotment on behalf of the estate of 
a deceased veteran pursuant to paragraph (2)’’. 
(7) Subsection (e) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(e) REGULATIONS.—All regulations in effect imme-
diately before the enactment of subsection (f) that were 
promulgated under the authority of this section shall be 
repealed in accordance with section 552(a)(1)(E) of the 
Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 552(a)(1)(E))’’. 
(8) Add at the end the following new sub-
sections: 
‘‘(f) APPROVAL OF ALLOTMENTS.—(1) Subject to 
valid existing rights, and except as otherwise provided in 
this subsection, not later than January 31, 2010, the Sec-
retary shall approve an application for allotments filed in 
accordance with subsection (a) and issue a certificate of 
allotment which shall be subject to the same terms, condi-
tions, restrictions, and protections provided for such allot-
ments. 
‘‘(2) Upon receipt of an allotment application, but in 
any event not later than October 31, 2007, the Secretary 
shall notify any person or entity having an interest in land 
potentially adverse to the applicant of their right to ini-
tiate a private contest or file a protest under existing Fed-
eral regulations.
‘‘(3) Not later than January 31, 2008, the Secretary 
shall— 
‘‘(A) if no contest or protest is timely filed, ap-
prove the application pursuant to paragraph (1); or 
‘‘(B) if a contest or protest is timely filed, stay 
the issuance of the certificate of allotment until the 
contest or protest has been decided. 
‘‘(g) RESELECTION.—A person who made an allot-
ment selection under this section before the date of the 
enactment of Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Eq-
uity Act may withdraw that selection and reselect lands 
under this section if the lands originally selected were not 
conveyed to that person before the date of the enactment 
of Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act.’’. 
SEC. 3. REGULATIONS. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall issue final 
regulations to implement the amendments made by this 
Act. 
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2124 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for clinical research 
support grants, clinical research infrastructure grants, and a demonstra-
tion program on partnerships in clinical research, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 5, 2005 
Mr. WELDON of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for 
clinical research support grants, clinical research infra-
structure grants, and a demonstration program on part-
nerships in clinical research, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clinical Research Act 
of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Strong academic health centers are essential 
to a vigorous clinical research enterprise. 
(2) Breakthroughs in basic biomedical sciences 
over the past 5 decades have provided an unprece-
dented supply of information for improving human 
health and preventing disease. 
(3) Translating the information gained through 
these basic discoveries into knowledge that will im-
pact clinical practice and ultimately human health 
requires strong clinical research institutions. 
(4) The enhancement of clinical research career 
programs and opportunity will sustain the momen-
tum of the discovery, development, and delivery of 
important health advances. 
(5) Without a sound infrastructure to accom-
plish this translation in a systematic and coherent 
way, the sum of data and information produced by 
the basic science enterprise will not result in tangible 
public benefit. 
(6) The clinical research environment is in-
creasingly encumbered by incompatible databases, 
shortage of qualified investigators, rising costs, inad-
equate funding, and mounting unreimbursed regu-
latory burdens such as human subject research pro-
tections and additional record-keeping requirements
under the Health Insurance Portability and Ac-
countability Act of 1996. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘clinical research’’ means— 
(A) patient-oriented clinical research con-
ducted with human subjects; 
(B) research on the causes and con-
sequences of disease in human populations in-
volving material of human origin (such as tissue 
specimens and cognitive phenomena) for which 
an investigator or colleague directly interacts 
with human subjects in an outpatient or inpa-
tient setting to clarify a problem in human 
physiology, pathophysiology or disease; 
(C) epidemiologic or behavioral studies; 
(D) outcomes research; 
(E) health services research; or 
(F) development of new technologies, 
therapeutic interventions, or clinical trials. 
(2) The term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 
the National Institutes of Health. 
(3) The term ‘‘eligible academic health center’’ 
means an academic institution and an affiliated 
teaching hospital, a teaching hospital, an inde-
pendent research institute, or a consortium of re-
search institutions which conduct clinical research 
and receive funds from the Department of Health 
and Human Services for basic, applied, or clinical 
biomedical or behavioral research in the fields of 
dentistry, medicine, and nursing. 
(4) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services. 
SEC. 4. CLINICAL INVESTIGATOR ADVANCEMENT GRANTS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—For the purposes described in 
subsection (b), the Director shall make a clinical investi-
gator advancement grant in the amount determined under 
subsection (d) to each eligible academic health center that 
submits an application in accordance with this section. 
(b) PURPOSES.—A grant under this section to an eli-
gible academic health center shall be used only for the fol-
lowing purposes: 
(1) To establish career development programs 
for new and mid-level clinician-investigators who are 
fully committed to academic clinical research ca-
reers. 
(2) To support the translation of basic science 
to patient care by implementing and conducting all 
aspects of their clinical research mission.