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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2566 
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to establish and collect fees for inspections of Outer 
Continental Shelf facilities, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 15, 2011 
Mr. MARKEY (for himself and Mr. HOLT) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct 
the Secretary of the Interior to establish and collect 
fees for inspections of Outer Continental Shelf facilities, 
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 ‘‘No Free Inspections 
for Oil Companies Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. OCS FACILITY INSPECTION FEES. 
Section 22 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1348) is amended by adding at the end of the 
section the following: 
‘‘(g) INSPECTION FEES.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of the 
Interior shall establish, by rule, and collect from the 
operators of facilities subject to inspection under 
subsection (c) non-refundable fees for such inspec-
tions— 
‘‘(A) at an aggregate level equal to the 
amount necessary to offset the annual expenses 
of inspections of outer Continental Shelf facili-
ties (including mobile offshore drilling units) by 
the Department of the Interior; and 
‘‘(B) using a schedule that reflects the dif-
ferences in complexity among the classes of fa-
cilities to be inspected. 
‘‘(2) OCEAN ENERGY ENFORCEMENT FUND.— 
There is established in the Treasury a fund, to be 
known as the ‘Ocean Energy Enforcement Fund’ 
(referred to in this subsection as the ‘Fund’), into 
which shall be deposited amounts collected as fees 
under paragraph (1) and which shall be available as 
provided under paragraph (3). 
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‘‘(3) AVAILABILITY OF FEES.—Notwithstanding 
section 3302 of title 31, United States Code, all 
amounts collected by the Secretary under this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(A) shall be credited as offsetting collec-
tions; 
‘‘(B) shall be available for expenditure only 
for purposes of carrying out inspections of 
outer Continental Shelf facilities (including mo-
bile offshore drilling units) and the administra-
tion of the inspection program under this sec-
tion; 
‘‘(C) shall be available only to the extent 
provided for in advance in an appropriations 
Act; and 
‘‘(D) shall remain available until expended. 
‘‘(4) ANNUAL REPORTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 60 
days after the end of each fiscal year beginning 
with fiscal year 2011, 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. 
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‘‘(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. 
‘‘(ii) A description of the expenditures 
made from the Fund for the fiscal year, in-
cluding the purpose of the expenditures. 
‘‘(iii) Recommendations for additional 
authorities to fulfill the purpose of the 
Fund. 
‘‘(iv) A statement of the balance re-
maining in the Fund at the end of the fis-
cal year.’’. 
Æ 
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