‘‘(A) UNAVAILABLE
FOR
LEASING
WITH-
OUT
STATE
REQUEST.—Except as otherwise 
provided in this subsection, from and after the 
date of enactment of the Grow American Sup-
ply Act, the Secretary shall not offer for leasing 
for oil and gas, or natural gas, any area within 
35 miles of the coastline that was withdrawn 
from disposition by leasing in the Atlantic OCS 
Region or the Pacific OCS Region, or the Gulf 
of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning Area, 
as depicted on the maps referred to in this sub-
paragraph, under the ‘Memorandum on With-
drawal of Certain Areas of the United States 
Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposi-
tion’, 34 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 1111, dated 
June 12, 1998, or any area within 35 miles of 
the coastline not withdrawn from leasing under 
that Memorandum that is included within the 
territorial waters and Exclusive Economic Zone 
adjacent to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Is-
lands, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, 
Guam, and the other Territories of the United 
States, or any area within 35 miles of the 
coastline within the Florida Straits Planning 
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Area as indicated on the map entitled ‘Atlantic 
OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS 
Planning Areas’, which is dated September 
2005 and on file in the Office of the Director, 
Minerals Management Service. 
‘‘(B) AREAS BETWEEN 35 AND 75 MILES 
FROM
THE
COASTLINE.—Unless an Adjacent 
State petitions under subsection (h) within one 
year after the date of enactment of the Grow 
American Supply Act for natural gas leasing or 
within three years after date of enactment for 
oil and gas leasing, the Secretary shall offer for 
leasing any area more than 35 miles but less 
than 75 miles from the coastline that was with-
drawn from disposition by leasing in the Atlan-
tic OCS Region, the Pacific OCS Region, or the 
Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning 
Area, as depicted on the maps referred to in 
this subparagraph, under the ‘Memorandum on 
Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United 
States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing 
Disposition’, 34 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 
1111, dated June 12, 1998, or any area more 
than 35 miles but less than 75 miles of the 
coastline not withdrawn under that Memo-
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randum that is included within the Exclusive 
Economic Zone adjacent to the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin Islands, 
American Samoa, Guam, and the other Terri-
tories of the United States, or any area more 
than 35 miles but less than 75 miles of the 
coastline within the Florida Straits Planning 
Area as indicated on the map entitled ‘Atlantic 
OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS 
Planning Areas’, which is dated September 
2005 and on file in the Office of the Director, 
Minerals Management Service. 
‘‘(2) REVOCATION OF WITHDRAWAL.—The pro-
visions of the ‘Memorandum on Withdrawal of Cer-
tain Areas of the United States Outer Continental 
Shelf from Leasing Disposition’, 34 Weekly Comp. 
Pres. Doc. 1111, dated June 12, 1998, are hereby 
revoked and are no longer in effect. Any area in the 
OCS withdrawn from leasing may be leased, and 
thereafter developed and produced by the lessee 
using extended reach or similar drilling from a loca-
tion on a leased area located in an area available for 
leasing. 
‘‘(3) PETITION FOR LEASING.— 
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Governor of the 
State, upon enactment of a State statute pro-
viding for such, shall submit to the Secretary a 
petition requesting that the Secretary make 
available any area that is within the State’s Ad-
jacent Zone, included within the provisions of 
paragraph (1), and that (i) is greater than 35 
miles from any point on the coastline of a 
Neighboring State for the conduct of offshore 
leasing, pre-leasing, and related activities with 
respect to natural gas leasing; or (ii) is greater 
than 50 miles from any point on the coastline 
of a Neighboring State for the conduct of off-
shore leasing, pre-leasing, and related activities 
with respect to oil and gas leasing. The Adja-
cent State may also petition for leasing any 
other area within its Adjacent Zone if leasing is 
allowed in the similar area of the Adjacent 
Zone of the applicable Neighboring State, or if 
not allowed, if the Neighboring State, acting 
through its Governor, expresses its concurrence 
with the petition. The Secretary shall only con-
sider such a petition upon making a finding 
that leasing is allowed in the similar area of the 
Adjacent Zone of the applicable Neighboring 
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State or upon receipt of the concurrence of the 
Neighboring State. The date of receipt by the 
Secretary of such concurrence by the Neigh-
boring State shall constitute the date of receipt 
of the petition for that area for which the con-
currence applies. 
‘‘(B) LIMITATIONS
ON
LEASING.—In its 
petition, a State with an Adjacent Zone that 
contains leased tracts may condition new leas-
ing for oil and gas, or natural gas for tracts 
within 35 miles of the coastline by— 
‘‘(i) requiring a net reduction in the 
number of production platforms; 
‘‘(ii) requiring a net increase in the 
average distance of production platforms 
from the coastline; 
‘‘(iii) limiting permanent surface occu-
pancy on new leases to areas that are more 
than 10 miles from the coastline; 
‘‘(iv) limiting some tracts to being 
produced from shore or from platforms lo-
cated on other tracts; or 
‘‘(v) other conditions that the Adja-
cent State may deem appropriate as long 
as the Secretary does not determine that 
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