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Calendar No. 116 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1938 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 27, 2011 
Received; read the first time 
JULY 28, 2011 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To direct the President to expedite the consideration and 
approval of the construction and operation of the Key-
stone XL oil pipeline, 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 ‘‘North American-Made 
Energy Security Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds and declares the following: 
(1) The United States currently imports more 
than half of the oil it consumes, often from countries 
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hostile to United States interests or with political 
and economic instability that compromises supply se-
curity. 
(2) While a significant portion of imports are 
derived from allies such as Canada and Mexico, the 
United States remains vulnerable to substantial sup-
ply disruptions created by geopolitical tumult in 
major producing nations. 
(3) Strong increases in oil consumption in the 
developing world outpace growth in conventional oil 
supplies, bringing tight market conditions and high-
er oil prices in periods of global economic expansion 
or when supplies are threatened. 
(4) The development and delivery of oil and gas 
from Canada to the United States is in the national 
interest of the United States in order to secure oil 
supplies to fill needs that are projected to otherwise 
be filled by increases in other foreign supplies, nota-
bly from the Middle East. 
(5) Continued development of North American 
energy resources, including Canadian oil, increases 
domestic refiners’ access to stable and reliable 
sources of crude and improves certainty of fuel sup-
ply for the Department of Defense, the largest con-
sumer of petroleum in the United States. 
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(6) Canada and the United States have the 
world’s largest two-way trading relationship. There-
fore, for every United States dollar spent on prod-
ucts from Canada, including oil, 90 cents is returned 
to the United States economy. When the same 
metrics are applied to trading relationships with 
some other major sources of United States crude oil 
imports, returns are much lower. 
(7) The principal choice for Canadian oil ex-
porters is between moving increasing crude oil vol-
umes to the United States or Asia, led by China. In-
creased Canadian oil exports to China will result in 
increased United States crude oil imports from other 
foreign sources, especially the Middle East. 
(8) Increased Canadian crude oil imports into 
the United States correspondingly reduce the scale 
of ‘‘wealth transfers’’ to other more distant foreign 
sources resulting from the greater cost of importing 
crude oil from those sources. 
(9) Not only are United States companies 
major investors in Canadian oil sands, but many 
United States businesses throughout the country 
benefit from supplying goods and services required 
for ongoing Canadian oil sands operations and ex-
pansion. 
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(10) There has been more than 2 years of con-
sideration and a coordinated review by more than a 
dozen Federal agencies of the technical aspects and 
of the environmental, social, and economic impacts 
of the proposed pipeline project known as the Key-
stone XL from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Ne-
braska, and then on to the United States Gulf Coast 
through Cushing, Oklahoma. 
(11) Keystone XL represents a high capacity 
pipeline supply option that could meet early as well 
as long-term market demand for crude oil to United 
States refineries, and could also potentially bring 
over 100,000 barrels per day of United States 
Bakken crudes to market. 
(12) Completion of the Keystone XL pipeline 
would increase total Keystone pipeline capacity by 
700,000 barrels per day to 1,290,000 barrels per 
day. 
(13) The Keystone XL pipeline would provide 
short-term and long-term employment opportunities 
and related labor income benefits, as well as govern-
ment revenues associated with sales and payroll 
taxes. 
(14) The earliest possible construction of the 
Keystone XL pipeline will make the extensive proven 
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and potential reserves of Canadian oil available for 
United States use and increase United States jobs 
and will therefore serve the national interest. 
(15) Analysis using the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency models shows that the Keystone XL 
pipeline will result in no significant change in total 
United States or global greenhouse gas emissions. 
(16) The Keystone XL pipeline would be state- 
of-the-art and have a degree of safety higher than 
any other typically constructed domestic oil pipeline 
system. 
(17) Because of the extensive governmental 
studies already made with respect to the Keystone 
XL project and the national interest in early delivery 
of Canadian oil to United States markets, a decision 
with respect to a Presidential Permit for the Key-
stone XL pipeline should be promptly issued without 
further administrative delay or impediment. 
SEC. 3. EXPEDITED APPROVAL PROCESS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The President, acting through the 
Secretary of Energy, shall coordinate with each Federal 
agency responsible for coordinating or considering an as-
pect of the President’s National Interest Determination 
and Presidential Permit decision regarding construction 
and operation of the Keystone XL pipeline, to ensure that 
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all necessary actions with respect to such decision are 
taken on an expedited schedule. 
(b) AGENCY COOPERATION WITH SECRETARY
OF 
ENERGY.—Each Federal agency described in subsection 
(a) shall comply with any deadline established by the Sec-
retary of Energy pursuant to subsection (a). 
(c) FINAL ORDER.—Not later than 30 days after the 
issuance of the final environmental impact statement, the 
President shall issue a final order granting or denying the 
Presidential Permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, but in 
no event shall such decision be made later than November 
1, 2011. 
(d) ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.—No action by the 
Secretary of Energy pursuant to this section shall affect 
any duty or responsibility to comply with any requirement 
to conduct environmental review. 
(e) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that the United States must decrease its dependence 
on oil from countries which are hostile to the interests of 
the United States. Canada has long been a strong trading 
partner, and increased access to their energy resources will 
create jobs in the United States. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 26, 2011. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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