Shelf shall have no force or effect with respect to such 
activities. 
(b) REVOCATION WITHDRAWALS.—All withdrawals 
of Federal submerged lands of the Outer Continental Shelf 
from leasing, including withdrawals by the President 
under the authority of section 12(a) of the Outer Conti-
nental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1341(a)), are hereby 
revoked and are no longer in effect with respect to the 
leasing of areas for exploration for, and development and 
production of, natural gas. 
(c) PROHIBITIONS AND WITHDRAWALS FOR OIL NOT 
AFFECTED.—This section does not affect— 
(1) any prohibition on the expenditure of appro-
priated funds to conduct oil leasing or preleasing ac-
tivities; and 
(2) any withdrawal of Federal submerged lands 
from leasing for exploration for, and development 
and production of, oil. 
SEC. 303. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF NATURAL GAS 
LEASING PROGRAM. 
The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1331 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 9 the 
following: 
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‘‘SEC. 10. MORATORIA AREA AND STATE APPROVAL RE-
QUIREMENT WITH RESPECT TO NATURAL 
GAS LEASING. 
‘‘(a) BUFFER ZONE.—The Secretary may not grant 
any natural gas lease for any area of the outer Continental 
Shelf that is located within 25 miles of the coastline of 
a State. 
‘‘(b) STATE APPROVAL REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may not 
issue any lease authorizing exploration for, or devel-
opment of, natural gas in any area of the outer Con-
tinental Shelf that is located within 50 miles of the 
coastline of a State unless the State has enacted a 
law approving of the issuance of such leases by the 
Secretary. 
‘‘(2) STATE APPROVAL PERMANENT.—Repeal of 
such a law by a State shall have no effect for pur-
poses of paragraph (1). 
‘‘(c) STATE DISAPPROVAL AUTHORITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may not 
issue any lease authorizing exploration for, or devel-
opment of, natural gas in any area of the outer Con-
tinental Shelf that is located more than 50 miles and 
less than 100 miles from the coastline of a State if 
the State has enacted a law disapproving of the 
issuance of such leases by the Secretary. 
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‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS FOR STATE LAW.—A law 
enacted by a State for purposes of paragraph (1)— 
‘‘(A) shall have no force or effect for pur-
poses of paragraph (1) unless first enacted by 
the State within the one-year period beginning 
on the date of the enactment of the National 
Environment and Energy Development Act; and 
‘‘(B) shall have no force or effect for pur-
poses of paragraph (1) after the end of the 2- 
year period beginning on the date it first takes 
effect, unless the State, in the 2-year period 
preceding the application of the law for pur-
poses of paragraph (1), enacted legislation ex-
tending the effectiveness of the law.’’. 
SEC. 304. NATURAL GAS LEASING. 
Section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1337) is further amended by adding at the 
end the following subsection: 
‘‘(r) NATURAL GAS LEASING.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may issue 
leases under this section that authorize development 
and production of natural gas and associated con-
densate in accordance with regulations promulgated 
under paragraph (2). 
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‘‘(2) REGULATIONS.—Before issuing any lease 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary must promulgate 
regulations that— 
‘‘(A) define what constitutes natural gas, 
condensate, and oil; 
‘‘(B) establish the lessee’s rights and obli-
gations regarding condensate produced in asso-
ciation with natural gas; 
‘‘(C) prescribe procedures and require-
ments that the lessee of a lease issued under 
this subsection must follow if the lessee dis-
covers oil deposits in the course of exploration 
or development; and 
‘‘(D) establish such other requirements for 
natural gas leases as the Secretary considers 
appropriate. 
‘‘(3) APPLICATION OF OTHER LAWS.—All provi-
sions of this Act or any other Federal law or regula-
tions that apply to oil and natural gas leases for the 
Outer Continental Shelf shall apply to natural gas- 
only leases authorized under this subsection. 
‘‘(4) EXISTING LEASES.—At the request of the 
lessee of an oil and gas lease in effect under this sec-
tion on the date of enactment of this subsection, and 
under the requirements prescribed in regulations 
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promulgated under paragraph (2), the Secretary 
may restrict development under such a lease to nat-
ural gas and associated condensate. 
‘‘(5) OIL AND GAS LEASING PROGRAMS.—The 
Secretary may include provisions regarding issuance 
of natural gas leases in the outer Continental shelf 
leasing program that applies for the 5-year period 
beginning in 2007, notwithstanding any draft pro-
posal for such program issued before the date of the 
enactment of this subsection. 
‘‘(6) PROHIBITIONS
AND
WITHDRAWALS
FOR 
OIL NOT AFFECTED.—This subsection does not af-
fect— 
‘‘(A) any prohibition on the expenditure of 
appropriated funds to conduct oil leasing or 
preleasing activities; and 
‘‘(B) any withdrawal of Federal submerged 
lands from leasing for exploration for, and de-
velopment and production of, oil.’’. 
SEC. 305. POLICIES REGARDING BUYING AND BUILDING 
AMERICAN. 
(a) INTENT OF CONGRESS.—It is the intent of the 
Congress that this title, among other things, result in a 
healthy and growing American industrial, manufacturing, 
transportation, and service sector employing the vast tal-
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ents of America’s workforce to assist in the development 
of affordable energy from the Outer Continental Shelf. 
Moreover, the Congress intends to monitor the deployment 
of personnel and material in the Outer Continental Shelf 
to encourage the development of American technology and 
manufacturing to enable United States workers to benefit 
from this title by good jobs and careers, as well as the 
establishment of important industrial facilities to support 
expanded access to American resources. 
(b) SAFEGUARD FOR EXTRAORDINARY ABILITY.— 
Section 30(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
(43 U.S.C. 1356(a)) is amended in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘regulations which’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘regulations that shall be supplemental and com-
plimentary with and under no circumstances a substi-
tution for the provisions of the Constitution and laws of 
the United States extended to the subsoil and seabed of 
the outer Continental Shelf pursuant to section 4 of this 
Act, except insofar as such laws would otherwise apply to 
individuals who have extraordinary ability in the sciences, 
arts, education, or business, which has been demonstrated 
by sustained national or international acclaim, and that’’. 
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TITLE IV—OIL AND GAS LEASING 
PROGRAM FOR LANDS WITH-
IN THE COASTAL PLAIN OF 
ALASKA 
SECTION 401. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘American Energy 
Independence and Price Reduction Act’’. 
SEC. 402. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) COASTAL
PLAIN.—The term ‘‘Coastal 
Plain’’ means that area described in appendix I to 
part 37 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’, except 
as otherwise provided, means the Secretary of the 
Interior or the Secretary’s designee. 
SEC. 403. LEASING PROGRAM FOR LANDS WITHIN THE 
COASTAL PLAIN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall take such ac-
tions as are necessary— 
(1) to establish and implement, in accordance 
with this title and acting through the Director of the 
Bureau of Land Management in consultation with 
the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, a competitive oil and gas leasing program 
that will result in an environmentally sound program 
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for the exploration, development, and production of 
the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain; and 
(2) to administer the provisions of this title 
through regulations, lease terms, conditions, restric-
tions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other provisions 
that ensure the oil and gas exploration, development, 
and production activities on the Coastal Plain will 
result in no significant adverse effect on fish and 
wildlife, their habitat, subsistence resources, and the 
environment, including, in furtherance of this goal, 
by requiring the application of the best commercially 
available technology for oil and gas exploration, de-
velopment, and production to all exploration, devel-
opment, and production operations under this title 
in a manner that ensures the receipt of fair market 
value by the public for the mineral resources to be 
leased. 
(b) REPEAL.— 
(1) REPEAL.—Section 1003 of the Alaska Na-
tional Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (16 
U.S.C. 3143) is repealed. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of 
contents in section 1 of such Act is amended by 
striking the item relating to section 1003. 
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(c) COMPLIANCE WITH REQUIREMENTS UNDER CER-
TAIN OTHER LAWS.— 
(1) COMPATIBILITY.—For purposes of the Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 
1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd et seq.), the oil and gas 
leasing program and activities authorized by this 
section in the Coastal Plain are deemed to be com-
patible with the purposes for which the Arctic Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge was established, and no fur-
ther findings or decisions are required to implement 
this determination. 
(2) ADEQUACY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE 
INTERIOR’S LEGISLATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 
STATEMENT.—The 
‘‘Final 
Legislative 
Environ-
mental Impact Statement’’ (April 1987) on the 
Coastal Plain prepared pursuant to section 1002 of 
the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation 
Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 3142) and section 102(2)(C) 
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
(42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)) is deemed to satisfy the re-
quirements under the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969 that apply with respect to prelease ac-
tivities, including actions authorized to be taken by 
the Secretary to develop and promulgate the regula-
tions for the establishment of a leasing program au-
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thorized by this title before the conduct of the first 
lease sale. 
(3) COMPLIANCE WITH NEPA FOR OTHER AC-
TIONS.—Before conducting the first lease sale under 
this title, the Secretary shall prepare an environ-
mental impact statement under the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969 with respect to the ac-
tions authorized by this title that are not referred to 
in paragraph (2). Notwithstanding any other law, 
the Secretary is not required to identify nonleasing 
alternative courses of action or to analyze the envi-
ronmental effects of such courses of action. The Sec-
retary shall only identify a preferred action for such 
leasing and a single leasing alternative, and analyze 
the environmental effects and potential mitigation 
measures for those two alternatives. The identifica-
tion of the preferred action and related analysis for 
the first lease sale under this title shall be completed 
within 18 months after the date of enactment of this 
Act. The Secretary shall only consider public com-
ments that specifically address the Secretary’s pre-
ferred action and that are filed within 20 days after 
publication of an environmental analysis. Notwith-
standing any other law, compliance with this para-
graph is deemed to satisfy all requirements for the 
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analysis and consideration of the environmental ef-
fects of proposed leasing under this title. 
(d) RELATIONSHIP TO STATE AND LOCAL AUTHOR-
ITY.—Nothing in this title shall be considered to expand 
or limit State and local regulatory authority. 
(e) SPECIAL AREAS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, after con-
sultation with the State of Alaska, the city of 
Kaktovik, and the North Slope Borough, may des-
ignate up to a total of 45,000 acres of the Coastal 
Plain as a Special Area if the Secretary determines 
that the Special Area is of such unique character 
and interest so as to require special management 
and regulatory protection. The Secretary shall des-
ignate as such a Special Area the Sadlerochit Spring 
area, comprising approximately 4,000 acres. 
(2) MANAGEMENT.—Each such Special Area 
shall be managed so as to protect and preserve the 
area’s unique and diverse character including its 
fish, wildlife, and subsistence resource values. 
(3) EXCLUSION
FROM
LEASING
OR
SURFACE 
OCCUPANCY.—The Secretary may exclude any Spe-
cial Area from leasing. If the Secretary leases a Spe-
cial Area, or any part thereof, for purposes of oil 
and gas exploration, development, production, and 
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