I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1682 
To promote alternative and renewable fuels and domestic energy production, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 3, 2011 
Mr. ROSS of Arkansas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To promote alternative and renewable fuels and domestic 
energy production, 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘American-Made Energy Act of 2011’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—AMERICAN-MADE ENERGY TRUST FUND 
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Sec. 101. American-Made Energy Trust Fund. 
TITLE II—DEVELOPMENT OF OIL AND GAS RESOURCES OF THE 
COASTAL PLAIN OF ALASKA 
Sec. 201. Definitions. 
Sec. 202. Leasing program for lands within the Coastal Plain. 
Sec. 203. Lease sales. 
Sec. 204. Grant of leases by the Secretary. 
Sec. 205. Lease terms and conditions. 
Sec. 206. Coastal plain environmental protection. 
Sec. 207. Expedited judicial review. 
Sec. 208. Federal and State distribution of revenues. 
Sec. 209. Rights-of-way across the Coastal Plain. 
Sec. 210. Conveyance. 
Sec. 211. Local government impact aid and community service assistance. 
TITLE III—OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASING 
Sec. 301. Termination of prohibitions on expenditures for, and withdrawals 
from, offshore leasing. 
Sec. 302. Sharing of revenues. 
TITLE I—AMERICAN-MADE 
ENERGY TRUST FUND 
SEC. 101. AMERICAN-MADE ENERGY TRUST FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUST FUND.—There is es-
tablished in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund 
to be known as the ‘‘American-Made Energy Trust Fund’’, 
consisting of such amounts as may be appropriated or 
credited to the American-Made Energy Trust Fund as 
provided in this section. 
(b) TRANSFERS TO TRUST FUND.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—There are hereby appro-
priated to the American-Made Energy Trust Fund 
amounts required to be transferred under section 
208 of this Act and under section 8(g)(6) of the 
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Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (as added by sec-
tion 302 of this Act). 
(2) INVESTMENT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the 
Treasury shall invest such portion of the Amer-
ican-Made Energy Trust Fund as is not, in the 
Secretary’s judgment, required to meet current 
withdrawals. Such investments may be made 
only in interest-bearing obligations of the 
United States. For purposes of this paragraph 
rules similar to the rules of section 9602(b) of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall apply. 
(B) INTEREST ON CERTAIN PROCEEDS.— 
The interest on, and the proceeds from the sale 
or redemption of, any obligations held in the 
American-Made Energy Trust Fund shall be 
credited to and form a part of the Trust Fund. 
(c) EXPENDITURES FROM AMERICAN-MADE ENERGY 
TRUST FUND.—Amounts in the American-Made Energy 
Trust Fund shall be available in any year to the Secretary 
of Energy for alternative and renewable energy incentives 
and projects, including with respect to— 
(1) wind resources, 
(2) solar resources, 
(3) biomass resources, 
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(4) biodiesel and renewable diesel resources, 
(5) renewable jet fuel, 
(6) waste to energy, including municipal solid 
waste technology and technologies to convert renew-
able biomass to electricity, biogas, and synthesis gas, 
(7) geothermal resources, 
(8) hydropower, 
(9) nuclear power, 
(10) carbon capture and sequestration, includ-
ing where carbon capture and sequestration tech-
nology is retrofitted, 
(11) coal to liquid technology, 
(12) energy efficiency measures, 
(13) compressed natural gas, or 
(14) liquified natural gas. 
TITLE II—DEVELOPMENT OF OIL 
AND GAS RESOURCES OF THE 
COASTAL PLAIN OF ALASKA 
SEC. 201. 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. 
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(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’, except 
as otherwise provided, means the Secretary of the 
Interior or the Secretary’s designee. 
SEC. 202. 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 
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-
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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. 
The Secretary shall not commence leasing under the pro-
gram described in paragraph (1) unless a finding has been 
made that bonus bids for offered leases are estimated to 
be not less than $6,000,000,000. 
(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. 
(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-
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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-
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, 
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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 
title. The Secretary shall only consider public com-
ments that specifically address the Secretary’s pre-
ferred action and that are filed within 30 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 
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-
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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 
related activities, there shall be no surface occu-
pancy of the lands comprising the Special Area. 
(4) DIRECTIONAL DRILLING.—Notwithstanding 
the other provisions of this subsection, the Secretary 
may lease all or a portion of a Special Area under 
terms that permit the use of horizontal drilling tech-
nology from sites on leases located outside the Spe-
cial Area. 
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(f) LIMITATION
ON
CLOSED
AREAS.—The Sec-
retary’s sole authority to close lands within the Coastal 
Plain to oil and gas leasing and to exploration, develop-
ment, and production is that set forth in this title. 
(g) REGULATIONS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall pre-
scribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry 
out this title, including rules and regulations relating 
to protection of the fish and wildlife, their habitat, 
subsistence resources, and environment of the Coast-
al Plain, by no later than 15 months after the date 
of enactment of this title. 
(2) REVISION
OF
REGULATIONS.—The Sec-
retary shall periodically review and, if appropriate, 
revise the rules and regulations issued under sub-
section (a) to reflect any significant biological, envi-
ronmental, or engineering data that come to the Sec-
retary’s attention. 
SEC. 203. LEASE SALES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Lands may be leased pursuant to 
this title to any person qualified to obtain a lease for de-
posits of oil and gas under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
U.S.C. 181 et seq.). 
(b) PROCEDURES.—The Secretary shall, by regula-
tion, establish procedures for— 
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(1) receipt and consideration of sealed nomina-
tions for any area in the Coastal Plain for inclusion 
in, or exclusion (as provided in subsection (c)) from, 
a lease sale; 
(2) the holding of lease sales after such nomina-
tion process; and 
(3) public notice of and comment on designa-
tion of areas to be included in, or excluded from, a 
lease sale. 
(c) LEASE SALE BIDS.—Bidding for leases under 
this title shall be by sealed competitive cash bonus bids. 
(d) ACREAGE MINIMUM IN FIRST SALE.—In the first 
lease sale under this title, the Secretary shall offer for 
lease those tracts the Secretary considers to have the 
greatest potential for the discovery of hydrocarbons, tak-
ing into consideration nominations received pursuant to 
subsection (b)(1), but in no case less than 200,000 acres. 
(e) TIMING
OF
LEASE
SALES.—The Secretary 
shall— 
(1) conduct the first lease sale under this title 
within 30 months after the date of the enactment of 
this title; and 
(2) conduct additional sales so long as sufficient 
interest in development exists to warrant, in the Sec-
retary’s judgment, the conduct of such sales. 
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