ing program authorized by this title, the Secretary shall 
prepare and promulgate regulations, lease terms, condi-
tions, restrictions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other 
measures designed to ensure that the activities undertaken 
on the Coastal Plain under this title are conducted in a 
manner consistent with the purposes and environmental 
requirements of this title. 
(d) COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL AND STATE ENVI-
RONMENTAL LAWS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—The 
proposed regulations, lease terms, conditions, restrictions, 
prohibitions, and stipulations for the leasing program 
under this title shall require compliance with all applicable 
provisions of Federal and State environmental law, and 
shall also require the following: 
(1) Standards at least as effective as the safety 
and environmental mitigation measures set forth in 
items 1 through 29 at pages 167 through 169 of the 
‘‘Final Legislative Environmental Impact State-
ment’’ (April 1987) on the Coastal Plain. 
(2) Seasonal limitations on exploration, develop-
ment, and related activities, where necessary, to 
avoid significant adverse effects during periods of 
concentrated fish and wildlife breeding, denning, 
nesting, spawning, and migration. 
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(3) That exploration activities, except for sur-
face geological studies, be limited to the period be-
tween approximately November 1 and May 1 each 
year and that exploration activities shall be sup-
ported, if necessary, by ice roads, winter trails with 
adequate snow cover, ice pads, ice airstrips, and air 
transport methods, except that such exploration ac-
tivities may occur at other times if the Secretary 
finds that such exploration will have no significant 
adverse effect on the fish and wildlife, their habitat, 
and the environment of the Coastal Plain. 
(4) Design safety and construction standards 
for all pipelines and any access and service roads, 
that— 
(A) minimize, to the maximum extent pos-
sible, adverse effects upon the passage of mi-
gratory species such as caribou; and 
(B) minimize adverse effects upon the flow 
of surface water by requiring the use of cul-
verts, bridges, and other structural devices. 
(5) Prohibitions on general public access and 
use on all pipeline access and service roads. 
(6) Stringent reclamation and rehabilitation re-
quirements, consistent with the standards set forth 
in this title, requiring the removal from the Coastal 
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Plain of all oil and gas development and production 
facilities, structures, and equipment upon completion 
of oil and gas production operations, except that the 
Secretary may exempt from the requirements of this 
paragraph those facilities, structures, or equipment 
that the Secretary determines would assist in the 
management of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 
and that are donated to the United States for that 
purpose. 
(7) Appropriate prohibitions or restrictions on 
access by all modes of transportation. 
(8) Appropriate prohibitions or restrictions on 
sand and gravel extraction. 
(9) Consolidation of facility siting. 
(10) Appropriate prohibitions or restrictions on 
use of explosives. 
(11) Avoidance, to the extent practicable, of 
springs, streams, and river system; the protection of 
natural surface drainage patterns, wetlands, and ri-
parian habitats; and the regulation of methods or 
techniques for developing or transporting adequate 
supplies of water for exploratory drilling. 
(12) Avoidance or minimization of air traffic-re-
lated disturbance to fish and wildlife. 
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(13) Treatment and disposal of hazardous and 
toxic wastes, solid wastes, reserve pit fluids, drilling 
muds and cuttings, and domestic wastewater, includ-
ing an annual waste management report, a haz-
ardous materials tracking system, and a prohibition 
on chlorinated solvents, in accordance with applica-
ble Federal and State environmental law. 
(14) Fuel storage and oil spill contingency plan-
ning. 
(15) Research, monitoring, and reporting re-
quirements. 
(16) Field crew environmental briefings. 
(17) Avoidance of significant adverse effects 
upon subsistence hunting, fishing, and trapping by 
subsistence users. 
(18) Compliance with applicable air and water 
quality standards. 
(19) Appropriate seasonal and safety zone des-
ignations around well sites, within which subsistence 
hunting and trapping shall be limited. 
(20) Reasonable stipulations for protection of 
cultural and archeological resources. 
(21) All other protective environmental stipula-
tions, restrictions, terms, and conditions deemed 
necessary by the Secretary. 
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(e) CONSIDERATIONS.—In preparing and promul-
gating regulations, lease terms, conditions, restrictions, 
prohibitions, and stipulations under this section, the Sec-
retary shall consider the following: 
(1) The stipulations and conditions that govern 
the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska leasing pro-
gram, as set forth in the 1999 Northeast National 
Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Final Integrated Activity 
Plan/Environmental Impact Statement. 
(2) The environmental protection standards 
that governed the initial Coastal Plain seismic explo-
ration program under parts 37.31 to 37.33 of title 
50, Code of Federal Regulations. 
(3) The land use stipulations for exploratory 
drilling on the KIC–ASRC private lands that are set 
forth in appendix 2 of the August 9, 1983, agree-
ment between Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and 
the United States. 
(f) FACILITY CONSOLIDATION PLANNING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, after 
providing for public notice and comment, prepare 
and update periodically a plan to govern, guide, and 
direct the siting and construction of facilities for the 
exploration, development, production, and transpor-
tation of Coastal Plain oil and gas resources. 
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(1) DEADLINE.—Subject to paragraph (2), any 
complaint seeking judicial review of any provision of 
this title or any action of the Secretary under this 
title shall be filed— 
(A) except as provided in subparagraph 
(B), within the 90-day period beginning on the 
date of the action being challenged; or 
(B) in the case of a complaint based solely 
on grounds arising after such period, within 90 
days after the complainant knew or reasonably 
should have known of the grounds for the com-
plaint. 
(2) VENUE.—Any complaint seeking judicial re-
view of any provision of this title or any action of 
the Secretary under this title may be filed only in 
the United States Court of Appeals for the District 
of Columbia. 
(3) LIMITATION
ON
SCOPE
OF
CERTAIN
RE-
VIEW.—Judicial review of a Secretarial decision to 
conduct a lease sale under this title, including the 
environmental analysis thereof, shall be limited to 
whether the Secretary has complied with the terms 
of this title and shall be based upon the administra-
tive record of that decision. The Secretary’s identi-
fication of a preferred course of action to enable 
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leasing to proceed and the Secretary’s analysis of 
environmental effects under this title shall be pre-
sumed to be correct unless shown otherwise by clear 
and convincing evidence to the contrary. 
(b) LIMITATION ON OTHER REVIEW.—Actions of the 
Secretary with respect to which review could have been 
obtained under this section shall not be subject to judicial 
review in any civil or criminal proceeding for enforcement. 
SEC. 409. FEDERAL AND STATE DISTRIBUTION OF REVE-
NUES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, of the amount of adjusted bonus, rental, and 
royalty revenues from Federal oil and gas leasing and op-
erations authorized under this title— 
(1) 50 percent shall be paid to the State of 
Alaska; and 
(2) except as provided in section 412(d), the 
balance shall be transferred to the ANWR Alter-
native Energy Trust Fund established by this title. 
(b) PAYMENTS TO ALASKA.—Payments to the State 
of Alaska under this section shall be made semiannually. 
SEC. 410. RIGHTS-OF-WAY ACROSS THE COASTAL PLAIN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall issue rights- 
of-way and easements across the Coastal Plain for the 
transportation of oil and gas— 
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(1) except as provided in paragraph (2), under 
section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 
185), without regard to title XI of the Alaska Na-
tional Interest Lands Conservation Act (30 U.S.C. 
3161 et seq.); and 
(2) under title XI of the Alaska National Inter-
est Lands Conservation Act (30 U.S.C. 3161 et 
seq.), for access authorized by sections 1110 and 
1111 of that Act (16 U.S.C. 3170 and 3171). 
(b) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The Secretary shall 
include in any right-of-way or easement issued under sub-
section (a) such terms and conditions as may be necessary 
to ensure that transportation of oil and gas does not result 
in a significant adverse effect on the fish and wildlife, sub-
sistence resources, their habitat, and the environment of 
the Coastal Plain, including requirements that facilities be 
sited or designed so as to avoid unnecessary duplication 
of roads and pipelines. 
(c) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall include in 
regulations under section 403(g) provisions granting 
rights-of-way and easements described in subsection (a) 
of this section. 
SEC. 411. CONVEYANCE. 
In order to maximize Federal revenues by removing 
clouds on title to lands and clarifying land ownership pat-
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terns within the Coastal Plain, the Secretary, notwith-
standing the provisions of section 1302(h)(2) of the Alas-
ka National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 
3192(h)(2)), shall convey— 
(1) to the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation the 
surface estate of the lands described in paragraph 1 
of Public Land Order 6959, to the extent necessary 
to fulfill the Corporation’s entitlement under sec-
tions 12 and 14 of the Alaska Native Claims Settle-
ment Act (43 U.S.C. 1611 and 1613) in accordance 
with the terms and conditions of the Agreement be-
tween the Department of the Interior, the United 
States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of 
Land Management, and the Kaktovik Inupiat Cor-
poration effective January 22, 1993; and 
(2) to the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation 
the remaining subsurface estate to which it is enti-
tled pursuant to the August 9, 1983, agreement be-
tween the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and the 
United States of America. 
SEC. 412. LOCAL GOVERNMENT IMPACT AID AND COMMU-
NITY SERVICE ASSISTANCE. 
(a) FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may use 
amounts available from the Coastal Plain Local Gov-
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ernment Impact Aid Assistance Fund established by 
subsection (d) to provide timely financial assistance 
to entities that are eligible under paragraph (2) and 
that are directly impacted by the exploration for or 
production of oil and gas on the Coastal Plain under 
this title. 
(2) ELIGIBLE
ENTITIES.—The North Slope 
Borough, the City of Kaktovik, and any other bor-
ough, municipal subdivision, village, or other com-
munity in the State of Alaska that is directly im-
pacted by exploration for, or the production of, oil 
or gas on the Coastal Plain under this title, as de-
termined by the Secretary, shall be eligible for finan-
cial assistance under this section. 
(b) USE
OF
ASSISTANCE.—Financial assistance 
under this section may be used only for— 
(1) planning for mitigation of the potential ef-
fects of oil and gas exploration and development on 
environmental, social, cultural, recreational, and sub-
sistence values; 
(2) implementing mitigation plans and main-
taining mitigation projects; 
(3) developing, carrying out, and maintaining 
projects and programs that provide new or expanded 
public facilities and services to address needs and 
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problems associated with such effects, including fire- 
fighting, police, water, waste treatment, medivac, 
and medical services; and 
(4) establishment of a coordination office, by 
the North Slope Borough, in the City of Kaktovik, 
which shall— 
(A) coordinate with and advise developers 
on local conditions, impact, and history of the 
areas utilized for development; and 
(B) provide to the Committee on Resources 
of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
Senate an annual report on the status of co-
ordination between developers and the commu-
nities affected by development. 
(c) APPLICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any community that is eligi-
ble for assistance under this section may submit an 
application for such assistance to the Secretary, in 
such form and under such procedures as the Sec-
retary may prescribe by regulation. 
(2) NORTH SLOPE BOROUGH COMMUNITIES.—A 
community located in the North Slope Borough may 
apply for assistance under this section either directly 
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to the Secretary or through the North Slope Bor-
ough. 
(3) APPLICATION ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary 
shall work closely with and assist the North Slope 
Borough and other communities eligible for assist-
ance under this section in developing and submitting 
applications for assistance under this section. 
(d) ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the 
Treasury the Coastal Plain Local Government Im-
pact Aid Assistance Fund. 
(2) USE.—Amounts in the fund may be used 
only for providing financial assistance under this 
section. 
(3) DEPOSITS.—Subject to paragraph (4), there 
shall be deposited into the fund amounts received by 
the United States as revenues derived from rents, 
bonuses, and royalties from Federal leases and lease 
sales authorized under this title. 
(4) LIMITATION
ON
DEPOSITS.—The total 
amount in the fund may not exceed $11,000,000. 
(5) INVESTMENT
OF
BALANCES.—The Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall invest amounts in the 
fund in interest bearing government securities. 
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(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To pro-
vide financial assistance under this section there is author-
ized to be appropriated to the Secretary from the Coastal 
Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund 
$5,000,000 for each fiscal year. 
SEC. 413. ANWR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY TRUST FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUST FUND.—There is es-
tablished in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund 
to be known as the ‘‘ANWR Alternative Energy Trust 
Fund’’, consisting of such amounts as may be transferred 
to the ANWR Alternative Energy Trust Fund as provided 
in section 409. 
(b) EXPENDITURES FROM ANWR ALTERNATIVE 
ENERGY TRUST FUND.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Amounts in the ANWR Al-
ternative Energy Trust Fund shall be available with-
out further appropriation to carry out specified pro-
visions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public 
Law 109–58; in this section referred to as 
‘‘EPAct2005’’) and the Energy Independence and 
Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–140; in this 
section referred to as ‘‘EISAct2007’’), as follows: 
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To carry out the provisions of: 
The following percentage 
of annual receipts to the 
ANWR Alternative Energy 
Trust Fund, but not to ex-
ceed the limit on amount 
authorized, if any: 
EPAct2005: 
Section 210 .....................................
1.5 percent 
Section 242 .....................................
1.0 percent 
Section 369 .....................................
2.0 percent 
Section 401 .....................................
6.0 percent 
Section 812 .....................................
6.0 percent 
Section 931 .....................................
19.0 percent 
Section 942 .....................................
1.5 percent 
Section 962 .....................................
3.0 percent 
Section 968 .....................................
1.5 percent 
Section 1704 ...................................
6.0 percent 
EISAct2007: 
Section 207 .....................................
15.0 percent 
Section 607 .....................................
1.5 percent 
Title VI, Subtitle B ........................
3.0 percent 
Title VI, Subtitle C ........................
1.5 percent 
Section 641 .....................................
9.0 percent 
Title VII, Subtitle A .......................
15.0 percent 
Section 1112 ...................................
1.5 percent 
Section 1304 ...................................
6.0 percent. 
(2) APPORTIONMENT
OF
EXCESS
AMOUNT.— 
Notwithstanding paragraph (1), any amounts allo-
cated under paragraph (1) that are in excess of the 
amounts authorized in the applicable cited section or 
subtitle of EPAct2005 and EISAct2007 shall be re-
allocated to the remaining sections and subtitles 
cited in paragraph (1), up to the amounts otherwise 
authorized by law to carry out such sections and 
subtitles, in proportion to the amounts authorized by 
law to be appropriated for such other sections and 
subtitles. 
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TITLE V—NORTHERN ROUTE 
APPROVAL ACT 
SEC. 501. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Northern Route Ap-
proval Act’’. 
SEC. 502. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) To maintain our Nation’s competitive edge 
and ensure an economy built to last, the United 
States must have fast, reliable, resilient, and envi-
ronmentally sound means of moving energy. In a 
global economy, we will compete for the world’s in-
vestments based in significant part on the quality of 
our infrastructure. Investing in the Nation’s infra-
structure provides immediate and long-term eco-
nomic benefits for local communities and the Nation 
as a whole. 
(2) The delivery of oil from Canada, a close ally 
not only in proximity but in shared values and 
ideals, to domestic markets is in the national inter-
est because of the need to lessen dependence upon 
insecure foreign sources. 
(3) The Keystone XL pipeline would provide 
both short-term and long-term employment opportu-
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nities and related labor income benefits, such as gov-
ernment revenues associated with taxes. 
(4) The State of Nebraska has thoroughly re-
viewed and approved the proposed Keystone XL 
pipeline reroute, concluding that the concerns of Ne-
braskans have had a major influence on the pipeline 
reroute and that the reroute will have minimal envi-
ronmental impacts. 
(5) The Department of State and other Federal 
agencies have over a long period of time conducted 
extensive studies and analysis of the technical as-
pects and of the environmental, social, and economic 
impacts of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, 
and— 
(A) the Department of State assessments 
found that the Keystone XL pipeline ‘‘is not 
likely to impact the amount of crude oil pro-
duced from the oil sands’’ and that ‘‘approval 
or denial of the proposed project is unlikely to 
have a substantial impact on the rate of devel-
opment in the oil sands’’; 
(B) the Department of State found that 
incremental life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions 
associated with the Keystone XL project are es-
timated in the range of 0.07 to 0.83 million 
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metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, with 
the upper end of this range representing twelve 
one-thousandths of one percent of the 6,702 
million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted in 
the United States in 2011; and 
(C) after extensive evaluation of potential 
impacts to land and water resources along the 
Keystone XL pipeline’s 875-mile proposed 
route, the Department of State found that 
‘‘The analyses of potential impacts associated 
with construction and normal operation of the 
proposed Project suggest that there would be 
no significant impacts to most resources along 
the proposed Project route (assuming Keystone 
complies with all laws and required conditions 
and measures).’’. 
(6) The transportation of oil via pipeline is the 
safest and most economically and environmentally 
effective means of doing so, and— 
(A) transportation of oil via pipeline has a 
record of unmatched safety and environmental 
protection, and the Department of State found 
that ‘‘Spills associated with the proposed 
Project that enter the environment expected to 
be rare and relatively small’’, and that ‘‘there 
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is no evidence of increased corrosion or other 
pipeline threat due to viscosity’’ of diluted bitu-
men oil that will be transported by the Key-
stone XL pipeline; and 
(B) plans to incorporate 57 project-specific 
special conditions related to the design, con-
struction, and operations of the Keystone XL 
pipeline led the Department of State to find 
that the pipeline will have ‘‘a degree of safety 
over any other typically constructed domestic oil 
pipeline’’. 
(7) The Keystone XL is in much the same posi-
tion today as the Alaska Pipeline in 1973 prior to 
congressional action. Once again, the Federal regu-
latory process remains an insurmountable obstacle 
to a project that is likely to reduce oil imports from 
insecure foreign sources. 
SEC. 503. KEYSTONE XL PERMIT APPROVAL. 
Notwithstanding Executive Order No. 13337 (3 
U.S.C. 301 note), Executive Order No. 11423 (3 U.S.C. 
301 note), section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and 
any other Executive order or provision of law, no Presi-
dential permit shall be required for the pipeline described 
in the application filed on May 4, 2012, by TransCanada 
Keystone Pipeline, L.P. to the Department of State for 
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the Keystone XL pipeline, as supplemented to include the 
Nebraska reroute evaluated in the Final Evaluation Re-
port issued by the Nebraska Department of Environ-
mental Quality in January 2013 and approved by the Ne-
braska governor. The final environmental impact state-
ment issued by the Secretary of State on August 26, 2011, 
coupled with the Final Evaluation Report described in the 
previous sentence, shall be considered to satisfy all re-
quirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and of the National His-
toric Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.). 
SEC. 504. JUDICIAL REVIEW. 
(a) EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION.—Except for review by 
the Supreme Court on writ of certiorari, the United States 
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit shall 
have original and exclusive jurisdiction to determine— 
(1) the validity of any final order or action (in-
cluding a failure to act) of any Federal agency or of-
ficer with respect to issuance of a permit relating to 
the construction or maintenance of the Keystone XL 
pipeline, including any final order or action deemed 
to be taken, made, granted, or issued; 
(2) the constitutionality of any provision of this 
Act, or any decision or action taken, made, granted, 
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or issued, or deemed to be taken, made, granted, or 
issued under this Act; or 
(3) the adequacy of any environmental impact 
statement prepared under the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), 
or of any analysis under any other Act, with respect 
to any action taken, made, granted, or issued, or 
deemed to be taken, made, granted, or issued under 
this Act. 
(b) DEADLINE FOR FILING CLAIM.—A claim arising 
under this Act may be brought not later than 60 days 
after the date of the decision or action giving rise to the 
claim. 
(c) 
EXPEDITED
CONSIDERATION.—The 
United 
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Cir-
cuit shall set any action brought under subsection (a) for 
expedited consideration, taking into account the national 
interest of enhancing national energy security by providing 
access to the significant oil reserves in Canada that are 
needed to meet the demand for oil. 
SEC. 505. AMERICAN BURYING BEETLE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— 
(1) environmental reviews performed for the 
Keystone XL pipeline project satisfy the require-
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ments of section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 
1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536(a)(2)) in its entirety; and 
(2) for purposes of that Act, the Keystone XL 
pipeline project will not jeopardize the continued ex-
istence of the American burying beetle or destroy or 
adversely modify American burying beetle critical 
habitat. 
(b) BIOLOGICAL OPINION.—The Secretary of the In-
terior is deemed to have issued a written statement setting 
forth the Secretary’s opinion containing such findings 
under section 7(b)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act 
of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536(b)(1)(A)) and any taking of the 
American burying beetle that is incidental to the construc-
tion or operation and maintenance of the Keystone XL 
pipeline as it may be ultimately defined in its entirety, 
shall not be considered a prohibited taking of such species 
under such Act. 
SEC. 506. RIGHT-OF-WAY AND TEMPORARY USE PERMIT. 
The Secretary of the Interior is deemed to have 
granted or issued a grant of right-of-way and temporary 
use permit under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act 
(30 U.S.C. 185) and the Federal Land Policy and Man-
agement Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), as set forth 
in the application tendered to the Bureau of Land Man-
agement for the Keystone XL pipeline. 
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SEC. 
507. 
PERMITS 
FOR 
ACTIVITIES 
IN 
NAVIGABLE 
WATERS. 
(a) ISSUANCE OF PERMITS.—The Secretary of the 
Army, not later than 90 days after receipt of an applica-
tion therefor, shall issue all permits under section 404 of 
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) 
and section 10 of the Act of March 3, 1899 (33 U.S.C. 
403; commonly known as the Rivers and Harbors Appro-
priations Act of 1899), necessary for the construction, op-
eration, and maintenance of the pipeline described in the 
May 4, 2012, application referred to in section 3, as sup-
plemented by the Nebraska reroute. The application shall 
be based on the administrative record for the pipeline as 
of the date of enactment of this Act, which shall be consid-
ered complete. 
(b) WAIVER OF PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS.—The 
Secretary may waive any procedural requirement of law 
or regulation that the Secretary considers desirable to 
waive in order to accomplish the purposes of this section. 
(c) ISSUANCE IN ABSENCE OF ACTION BY THE SEC-
RETARY.—If the Secretary has not issued a permit de-
scribed in subsection (a) on or before the last day of the 
90-day period referred to in subsection (a), the permit 
shall be deemed issued under section 404 of the Federal 
Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) or section 
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10 of the Act of March 3, 1899 (33 U.S.C. 403), as appro-
priate, on the day following such last day. 
(d) LIMITATION.—The Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency may not prohibit or restrict an 
activity or use of an area that is authorized under this 
section. 
SEC. 508. MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT PERMIT. 
The Secretary of the Interior is deemed to have 
issued a special purpose permit under the Migratory Bird 
Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703 et seq.), as described in the 
application filed with the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service for the Keystone XL pipeline on January 11, 
2013. 
SEC. 509. OIL SPILL RESPONSE PLAN DISCLOSURE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any pipeline owner or operator 
required under Federal law to develop an oil spill response 
plan for the Keystone XL pipeline shall make such plan 
available to the Governor of each State in which such pipe-
line operates to assist with emergency response prepared-
ness. 
(b) UPDATES.—A pipeline owner or operator required 
to make available to a Governor a plan under subsection 
(a) shall make available to such Governor any update of 
such plan not later than 7 days after the date on which 
such update is made. 
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TITLE 
VI—REPEAL 
OF 
EM-
PLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE 
MANDATE 
SEC. 601. REPEAL OF EMPLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE MAN-
DATE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 43 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 is amended by striking section 4980H. 
(b) REPEAL
OF RELATED REPORTING REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Subpart D of part III of subchapter A of chap-
ter 61 of such Code is amended by striking section 6056. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) Subparagraph (B) of section 6724(d)(1) of 
such Code is amended by inserting ‘‘or’’ at the end 
of clause (xxiii), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of 
clause (xxiv) and inserting ‘‘or’’, and by striking 
clause (xxv). 
(2) Paragraph (2) of section 6724(d) of such 
Code is amended by inserting ‘‘or’’ at the end of 
subparagraph (FF), by striking ‘‘, or’’ at the end of 
subparagraph (GG) and inserting a period, and by 
striking subparagraph (HH). 
(3) The table of sections for chapter 43 of such 
Code is amended by striking the item relating to sec-
tion 4980H. 
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(4) The table of sections for subpart D of part 
III of subchapter A of chapter 61 of such Code is 
amended by striking the item relating to section 
6056. 
(5) Section 1513 of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act is amended by striking sub-
section (c). 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATES.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this subsection, the amendments made by 
this section shall apply to months and other periods 
beginning after December 31, 2013. 
(2) REPEAL
OF
STUDY
AND
REPORT.—The 
amendment made by subsection (c)(5) shall take ef-
fect on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
TITLE VII—SECRET BALLOT 
PROTECTION ACT 
SEC. 701. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Secret Ballot Protec-
tion Act’’. 
SEC. 702. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) the importance of a secret ballot election 
has been recognized by the United States for over 
100 years; 
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(2) the fundamental democratic right to choose 
by secret ballot is the only method that ensures a 
choice free of coercion, intimidation, irregularity, or 
illegality; 
(3) the recognition of a labor organization by 
way of a private agreement, rather than a secret bal-
lot election supervised by a neutral third party, 
threatens an employee’s right, codified in the Na-
tional Labor Relations Act, to choose whether or not 
to be represented by a labor organization; and 
(4) preserving workers’ right to choose whether 
or not to be represented by a labor organization 
through a secret ballot election is important to the 
strength of the national economy. 
SEC. 703. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT. 
(a) RECOGNITION OF REPRESENTATIVE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 8(a)(2) of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(a)(2)) is 
amended by inserting before the colon the following: 
‘‘or to recognize or bargain collectively with a labor 
organization that has not been selected by a major-
ity of employees in a unit appropriate for such pur-
poses in a secret ballot election conducted by the 
National Labor Relations Board in accordance with 
section 9’’. 
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(2) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by 
paragraph (1) shall not apply to collective bar-
gaining relationships that were recognized before the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) ELECTION REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 8(b) of the National 
Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(b)), as amend-
ed by subsection (c) of this section, is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (6); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
paragraph (7) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(8) to cause or attempt to cause an employer 
to recognize or bargain collectively with a represent-
ative of a labor organization that has not been se-
lected by a majority of employees in a unit appro-
priate for such purposes in a secret ballot election 
conducted by the National Labor Relations Board in 
accordance with section 9.’’. 
(2) APPLICATION.—The amendment made by 
paragraph (1) shall not apply to collective bar-
gaining relationships that were recognized before the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
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(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘alleging’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘defined in section 
9(a)’’. 
SEC. 704. REGULATIONS. 
Not later than 6 months after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act the National Labor Relations Board shall 
review and revise all regulations promulgated before such 
date to implement the amendments made in this title to 
the National Labor Relations Act. 
TITLE VIII—FEDERAL RULES OF 
CIVIL PROCEDURE IMPROVE-
MENTS 
SEC. 801. ATTORNEY ACCOUNTABILITY. 
Rule 11(c) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 
is amended— 
(1) by amending the first sentence to read as 
follows: ‘‘If a pleading, motion, or other paper is 
signed in violation of this rule, the court, upon mo-
tion or upon its own initiative, shall impose upon the 
attorney, law firm, or parties that have violated this 
subdivision or are responsible for the violation, an 
appropriate sanction, which may include an order to 
pay the other party or parties for the reasonable ex-
penses incurred as a direct result of the filing of the 
pleading, motion, or other paper, that is the subject 
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of the violation, including a reasonable attorney’s 
fee.’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1)(A)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Rule 5’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘corrected.’’ and inserting ‘‘Rule 
5.’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the court may award’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the court shall award’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘shall be lim-
ited to what is sufficient’’ and all that follows 
through the end of the paragraph (including sub-
paragraphs (A) and (B)) and inserting ‘‘shall be suf-
ficient to deter repetition of such conduct or com-
parable conduct by others similarly situated, and to 
compensate the parties that were injured by such 
conduct. The sanction may consist of an order to 
pay to the party or parties the amount of the rea-
sonable expenses incurred as a direct result of the 
filing of the pleading, motion, or other paper that is 
the subject of the violation, including a reasonable 
attorney’s fee.’’. 
SEC. 802. APPLICABILITY OF RULE 11 TO STATE CASES AF-
FECTING INTERSTATE COMMERCE. 
In any civil action in State court, the court, upon mo-
tion, shall determine within 30 days after the filing of such 
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motion whether the action substantially affects interstate 
commerce. Such court shall make such determination 
based on an assessment of the costs to the interstate econ-
omy, including the loss of jobs, were the relief requested 
granted. If the court determines such action substantially 
affects interstate commerce, the provisions of Rule 11 of 
the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure shall apply to such 
action. 
SEC. 803. PREVENTION OF FORUM-SHOPPING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), a per-
sonal injury claim filed in State or Federal court may be 
filed only in the State and, within that State, in the county 
(or if there is no State court in the county, the nearest 
county where a court of general jurisdiction is located), 
or Federal district in which— 
(1) the person bringing the claim, including an 
estate in the case of a decedent and a parent or 
guardian in the case of a minor or incompetent— 
(A) resides at the time of filing; or 
(B) resided at the time of the alleged in-
jury; 
(2) the alleged injury or circumstances giving 
rise to the personal injury claim allegedly occurred; 
(3) the defendant’s principal place of business 
is located, if the defendant is a corporation; or 
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(4) the defendant resides, if the defendant is an 
individual. 
(b) 
DETERMINATION
OF
MOST
APPROPRIATE 
FORUM.—If a person alleges that the injury or cir-
cumstances giving rise to the personal injury claim oc-
curred in more than one county (or Federal district), the 
trial court shall determine which State and county (or 
Federal district) is the most appropriate forum for the 
claim. If the court determines that another forum would 
be the most appropriate forum for a claim, the court shall 
dismiss the claim. Any otherwise applicable statute of limi-
tations shall be tolled beginning on the date the claim was 
filed and ending on the date the claim is dismissed under 
this subsection. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘personal injury claim’’— 
(A) means a civil action brought under 
State law by any person to recover for a per-
son’s personal injury, illness, disease, death, 
mental or emotional injury, risk of disease, or 
other injury, or the costs of medical monitoring 
or surveillance (to the extent such claims are 
recognized under State law), including any de-
rivative action brought on behalf of any person 
on whose injury or risk of injury the action is 
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based by any representative party, including a 
spouse, parent, child, or other relative of such 
person, a guardian, or an estate; 
(B) does not include a claim brought as a 
class action; and 
(C) does not include a claim against a 
debtor in a case pending under title 11 of the 
United States Code that is a personal injury 
tort or wrongful death claim within the mean-
ing of section 157(b)(5) of title 28, United 
States Code. 
(2) The term ‘‘person’’ means any individual, 
corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, 
society, joint stock company, or any other entity, but 
not any governmental entity. 
(3) The term ‘‘State’’ includes the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 
United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and any other 
territory or possession of the United States. 
(d) APPLICABILITY.—This section applies to any per-
sonal injury claim filed in Federal or State court on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 804. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in section 402 or in the amendments made 
by section 401 shall be construed to bar or impede the 
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