Program, or as soon thereafter as possible, the Secretary 
shall— 
‘‘(1) provide to each Adjacent State a current 
estimate of proven and potential oil and gas re-
sources located within the State’s Adjacent Zone; 
and 
‘‘(2) provide to each Adjacent State, and coast-
al political subdivisions thereof, a best-efforts projec-
tion of the OCS Receipts that the Secretary expects 
will be shared with each Adjacent State, and its 
coastal political subdivisions, using the assumption 
that the unleased tracts within the State’s Adjacent 
Zone are fully made available for leasing, including 
long-term projected OCS Receipts. In addition, the 
Secretary shall include a macroeconomic estimate of 
the impact of such leasing on the national economy 
and each State’s economy, including investment, 
jobs, revenues, personal income, and other cat-
egories.’’. 
SEC. 11. COORDINATION WITH ADJACENT STATES. 
Section 19 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1345) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) in the first sentence by in-
serting ‘‘, for any tract located within the Adjacent 
State’s Adjacent Zone,’’ after ‘‘government’’; and 
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(2) by adding the following: 
‘‘(f)(1) No Federal agency may permit or otherwise 
approve, without the concurrence of the Adjacent State, 
the construction of a crude oil or petroleum products (or 
both) pipeline within the part of the Adjacent State’s Ad-
jacent Zone that is withdrawn from oil and gas or natural 
gas leasing, except that such a pipeline may be approved, 
without such Adjacent State’s concurrence, to pass 
through such Adjacent Zone if at least 50 percent of the 
production projected to be carried by the pipeline within 
its first 10 years of operation is from areas of the Adja-
cent State’s Adjacent Zone. 
‘‘(2) No State may prohibit the construction within 
its Adjacent Zone or its State waters of a natural gas pipe-
line that will transport natural gas produced from the 
outer Continental Shelf. However, an Adjacent State may 
prevent a proposed natural gas pipeline landing location 
if it proposes two alternate landing locations in the Adja-
cent State, acceptable to the Adjacent State, located with-
in 50 miles on either side of the proposed landing loca-
tion.’’. 
SEC. 12. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES. 
Section 20(d) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act (43 U.S.C. 1346) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(d)’’; and 
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(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) For all programs, lease sales, leases, and actions 
under this Act, the following shall apply regarding the ap-
plication of the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969: 
‘‘(A) Granting or directing lease suspensions 
and the conduct of all preliminary activities on outer 
Continental Shelf tracts, including seismic activities, 
are categorically excluded from the need to prepare 
either an environmental assessment or an environ-
mental impact statement, and the Secretary shall 
not be required to analyze whether any exceptions to 
a categorical exclusion apply for activities conducted 
under the authority of this Act. 
‘‘(B) The environmental impact statement de-
veloped in support of each 5-year oil and gas leasing 
program provides the environmental analysis for all 
lease sales to be conducted under the program and 
such sales shall not be subject to further environ-
mental analysis. 
‘‘(C) Exploration plans shall not be subject to 
any requirement to prepare an environmental impact 
statement, and the Secretary may find that explo-
ration plans are eligible for categorical exclusion due 
to the impacts already being considered within an 
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environmental impact statement or due to mitigation 
measures included within the plan. 
‘‘(D) Within each OCS Planning Area, after the 
preparation of the first development and production 
plan environmental impact statement for a leased 
tract within the Area, future development and pro-
duction plans for leased tracts within the Area shall 
only require the preparation of an environmental as-
sessment unless the most recent development and 
production plan environmental impact statement 
within the Area was finalized more than 10 years 
prior to the date of the approval of the plan, in 
which case an environmental impact statement shall 
be required.’’. 
SEC. 13. REVIEW OF OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF DEVEL-
OPMENT AND PRODUCTION PLANS. 
Section 25 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1351(a)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 25. REVIEW OF OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF DEVEL-
OPMENT AND PRODUCTION PLANS. 
‘‘(a) DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION PLANS; SUB-
MISSION TO SECRETARY; STATEMENT OF FACILITIES AND 
OPERATION; SUBMISSION TO GOVERNORS OF AFFECTED 
STATES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.— 
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‘‘(1) Prior to development and production pur-
suant to an oil and gas lease issued on or after Sep-
tember 18, 1978, for any area of the outer Conti-
nental Shelf, or issued or maintained prior to Sep-
tember 18, 1978, for any area of the outer Conti-
nental Shelf, with respect to which no oil or gas has 
been discovered in paying quantities prior to Sep-
tember 18, 1978, the lessee shall submit a develop-
ment and production plan (hereinafter in this sec-
tion referred to as a ‘plan’) to the Secretary for re-
view. 
‘‘(2) A plan shall be accompanied by a state-
ment describing all facilities and operations, other 
than those on the outer Continental Shelf, proposed 
by the lessee and known by the lessee (whether or 
not owned or operated by such lessee) that will be 
constructed or utilized in the development and pro-
duction of oil or gas from the lease area, including 
the location and site of such facilities and oper-
ations, the land, labor, material, and energy require-
ments associated with such facilities and operations, 
and all environmental and safety safeguards to be 
implemented. 
‘‘(3) Except for any privileged or proprietary 
information (as such term is defined in regulations 
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