SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Energy Independence 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
TITLE I—OIL AND GAS LEASING PROGRAM FOR LANDS WITHIN 
THE COASTAL PLAIN OF ALASKA 
Sec. 101. Short title. 
Sec. 102. Definitions. 
Sec. 103. Leasing program for lands within the Coastal Plain. 
Sec. 104. Lease sales. 
Sec. 105. Grant of leases by the Secretary. 
Sec. 106. Lease terms and conditions. 
Sec. 107. Coastal plain environmental protection. 
Sec. 108. Expedited judicial review. 
Sec. 109. Federal and State distribution of revenues. 
Sec. 110. Rights-of-way across the Coastal Plain. 
Sec. 111. Conveyance. 
Sec. 112. Local government impact aid and community service assistance. 
Sec. 113. ANWR Alternative Energy Trust Fund. 
TITLE II—OPENING OF OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF 
Sec. 201. Short title. 
Sec. 202. Policy. 
Sec. 203. Definitions under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. 
Sec. 204. Determination of Adjacent Zones and planning areas. 
Sec. 205. Administration of leasing. 
Sec. 206. Grant of leases by Secretary. 
Sec. 207. Reservation of lands and rights. 
Sec. 208. Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Program. 
Sec. 209. Coordination with Adjacent States. 
Sec. 210. Environmental studies. 
Sec. 211. Federal Energy Natural Resources Enhancement Act of 2008. 
Sec. 212. Termination of effect of laws prohibiting the spending of appro-
priated funds for certain purposes. 
Sec. 213. Outer Continental Shelf incompatible use. 
Sec. 214. Repurchase of certain leases. 
Sec. 215. Offsite environmental mitigation. 
Sec. 216. Minerals Management Service. 
Sec. 217. Authority to use decommissioned offshore oil and gas platforms and 
other facilities for artificial reef, scientific research, or other 
uses. 
Sec. 218. Repeal of requirement to conduct comprehensive inventory of OCS oil 
and natural gas resources. 
Sec. 219. Leases for areas located within 100 miles of California or Florida. 
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Sec. 220. Coastal impact assistance. 
Sec. 221. Oil shale and tar sands amendments. 
TITLE III—NUCLEAR ENERGY 
Sec. 301. Incentives for innovative technologies. 
Sec. 302. Standby support for certain nuclear plant delays. 
Sec. 303. Authorization for nuclear power 2010 program. 
Sec. 304. Domestic manufacturing base for nuclear components and equipment. 
Sec. 305. Nuclear energy workforce. 
Sec. 306. Licensing of new nuclear power plants. 
Sec. 307. Investment tax credit for investments in nuclear power facilities. 
Sec. 308. National Nuclear Energy Council. 
Sec. 309. Temporary spent nuclear fuel storage agreements. 
Sec. 310. Implementation of temporary spent nuclear fuel storage agreements. 
Sec. 311. Expedited procedures for congressional review of temporary spent nu-
clear fuel storage agreements. 
Sec. 312. Contracting and Nuclear Waste Fund. 
Sec. 313. Confidence in availability of waste disposal. 
TITLE IV—AMENDMENTS TO THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 
1986 
Sec. 401. Credit for investment in coal-to-liquid fuels projects. 
Sec. 402. Temporary expensing for equipment used in coal-to-liquid fuels proc-
ess. 
Sec. 403. Extension of alternative fuel credit for fuel derived from coal through 
the Fischer-Tropsch process or the Schobert process. 
TITLE I—OIL AND GAS LEASING 
PROGRAM FOR LANDS WITH-
IN THE COASTAL PLAIN OF 
ALASKA 
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘American Energy 
Independence and Price Reduction Act’’. 
SEC. 102. 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. 103. 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. 
(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-
ther findings or decisions are required to implement 
this determination. 
(2) ADEQUACY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE 
INTERIOR’S LEGISLATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 
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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, 
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 
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