Act, shall require that the lessee and its agents and contrac-
tors negotiate to obtain an agreement for the employment 
of laborers and mechanics on production, maintenance, and 
construction under the lease. 
SEC. 7. POLICIES REGARDING BUYING, BUILDING, AND 
WORKING FOR AMERICA. 
(a) CONGRESSIONAL INTENT.—It is the intent of the 
Congress that— 
(1) this Act will support a healthy and growing 
United States domestic energy sector that, in turn, 
helps to reinvigorate American manufacturing, trans-
portation, and service sectors by employing the vast 
talents of United States workers to assist in the devel-
opment of energy from domestic sources; and 
(2) Congress will monitor the deployment of per-
sonnel and material onshore and offshore to encourage 
the development of American technology and manu-
facturing to enable United States workers to benefit 
from this Act through good jobs and careers, as well 
as the establishment of important industrial facilities 
to support expanded access to American resources. 
(b) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary of the Interior 
shall when possible, and practicable, encourage the use of 
United States workers and equipment manufactured in the 
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United States in all construction related to mineral devel-
opment on the Coastal Plain. 
SEC. 8. COASTAL PLAIN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. 
(a) NO SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE EFFECT STANDARD TO 
GOVERN AUTHORIZED COASTAL PLAIN ACTIVITIES.—The 
Secretary shall, consistent with the requirements of section 
3, administer this Act through regulations, lease terms, con-
ditions, restrictions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other 
provisions that— 
(1) ensure the oil and gas exploration, develop-
ment, and production activities on the Coastal Plain 
will result in no significant adverse effect on fish and 
wildlife, their habitat, and the environment; 
(2) require the application of the best commer-
cially available technology for oil and gas explo-
ration, development, and production on all new explo-
ration, development, and production operations; and 
(3) ensure that the maximum amount of surface 
acreage covered by production and support facilities, 
including airstrips and any areas covered by gravel 
berms or piers for support of pipelines, does not ex-
ceed 10,000 acres on the Coastal Plain for each 
100,000 acres of area leased. 
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(b) SITE-SPECIFIC ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION.— 
The Secretary shall also require, with respect to any pro-
posed drilling and related activities, that— 
(1) a site-specific analysis be made of the prob-
able effects, if any, that the drilling or related activi-
ties will have on fish and wildlife, their habitat, sub-
sistence resources, and the environment; 
(2) a plan be implemented to avoid, minimize, 
and mitigate (in that order and to the extent prac-
ticable) any significant adverse effect identified under 
paragraph (1); and 
(3) the development of the plan shall occur after 
consultation with the agency or agencies having juris-
diction over matters mitigated by the plan. 
(c) REGULATIONS TO PROTECT COASTAL PLAIN FISH 
AND WILDLIFE RESOURCES, SUBSISTENCE USERS, AND 
THE ENVIRONMENT.—Before implementing the leasing pro-
gram authorized by this Act, the Secretary shall prepare 
and promulgate regulations, lease terms, conditions, restric-
tions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other measures de-
signed to ensure that the activities undertaken on the Coast-
al Plain under this Act are conducted in a manner con-
sistent with the purposes and environmental requirements 
of this Act. 
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(d) COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL AND STATE ENVI-
RONMENTAL LAWS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—The pro-
posed regulations, lease terms, conditions, restrictions, pro-
hibitions, and stipulations for the leasing program under 
this Act shall require compliance with all applicable provi-
sions 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 Statement’’ 
(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 con-
centrated fish and wildlife breeding, denning, nesting, 
spawning, and migration based on a preponderance 
of the best available scientific evidence that has been 
peer reviewed and obtained by following appropriate, 
documented scientific procedures, the results of which 
can be repeated using those same procedures. 
(3) That exploration activities, except for surface 
geological studies, be limited to the period between ap-
proximately November 1 and May 1 each year and 
that exploration activities shall be supported, if nec-
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essary, by ice roads, winter trails with adequate snow 
cover, ice pads, ice airstrips, and air transport meth-
ods, except that such exploration activities may occur 
at other times if the Secretary finds that such explo-
ration 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 migra-
tory species such as caribou; and 
(B) minimize adverse effects upon the flow 
of surface water by requiring the use of culverts, 
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 Act, requiring the removal from the Coastal 
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 
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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 systems; 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. 
(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 hazardous 
materials tracking system, and a prohibition on 
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chlorinated solvents, in accordance with applicable 
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 subsist-
ence 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 nec-
essary by the Secretary. 
(e) CONSIDERATIONS.—In preparing and promul-
gating regulations, lease terms, conditions, restrictions, pro-
hibitions, and stipulations under this section, the Secretary 
shall consider the following: 
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(1) The stipulations and conditions that govern 
the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska leasing pro-
gram, as set forth in the 1999 Northeast National Pe-
troleum Reserve-Alaska Final Integrated Activity 
Plan/Environmental Impact Statement. 
(2) The environmental protection standards that 
governed the initial Coastal Plain seismic exploration 
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, agreement 
between Arctic Slope Regional Corporation and the 
United States. 
(f) FACILITY CONSOLIDATION PLANNING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, after pro-
viding for public notice and comment, prepare and 
update periodically a plan to govern, guide, and di-
rect the siting and construction of facilities for the ex-
ploration, development, production, and transpor-
tation of Coastal Plain oil and gas resources. 
(2) OBJECTIVES.—The plan shall have the fol-
lowing objectives: 
(A) Avoiding unnecessary duplication of fa-
cilities and activities. 
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(B) Encouraging consolidation of common 
facilities and activities. 
(C) Locating or confining facilities and ac-
tivities to areas that will minimize impact on 
fish and wildlife, their habitat, and the environ-
ment. 
(D) Utilizing existing facilities wherever 
practicable. 
(E) Enhancing compatibility between wild-
life values and development activities. 
(g) ACCESS
TO
PUBLIC
LANDS.—The Secretary 
shall— 
(1) manage public lands in the Coastal Plain 
subject to section 811 of the Alaska National Interest 
Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3121); and 
(2) ensure that local residents shall have reason-
able access to public lands in the Coastal Plain for 
traditional uses. 
SEC. 9. EXPEDITED JUDICIAL REVIEW. 
(a) FILING OF COMPLAINT.— 
(1) DEADLINE.—Subject to paragraph (2), any 
complaint seeking judicial review— 
(A) of any provision of this Act shall be 
filed by not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act; or 
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(B) of any action of the Secretary under 
this Act shall be filed— 
(i) except as provided in clause (ii), 
within the 90-day period beginning on the 
date of the action being challenged; or 
(ii) 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 complaint. 
(2) VENUE.—Any complaint seeking judicial re-
view of any provision of this Act or any action of the 
Secretary under this Act may be filed only in the 
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Co-
lumbia. 
(3) LIMITATION
ON
SCOPE
OF
CERTAIN
RE-
VIEW.—Judicial review of a Secretarial decision to 
conduct a lease sale under this Act, including the en-
vironmental analysis thereof, shall be limited to 
whether the Secretary has complied with this Act and 
shall be based upon the administrative record of that 
decision. The Secretary’s identification of a preferred 
course of action to enable leasing to proceed and the 
Secretary’s analysis of environmental effects under 
this Act shall be presumed to be correct unless shown 
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