I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 513 
To nullify certain Presidential withdrawals of unleased offshore land, amend 
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish limits on the author-
ity of the President to withdraw unleased offshore land, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 16, 2025 
Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana (for himself, Mr. HUNT, Mr. WEBER of Texas, Mr. 
BURCHETT, Mr. SHREVE, Mr. MEUSER, Mr. ARRINGTON, Mrs. MILLER 
of West Virginia, Mr. CRENSHAW, Mr. BRECHEEN, Ms. VAN DUYNE, Mr. 
PERRY, Mr. TIFFANY, Mrs. MILLER of Illinois, Mr. OGLES, Mr. 
BURLISON, Mr. CLYDE, Mr. BIGGS of Arizona, Mr. HARRIS of Maryland, 
and Mr. MOORE of Alabama) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the 
Committee on Rules, 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 nullify certain Presidential withdrawals of unleased off-
shore land, amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act to establish limits on the authority of the President 
to withdraw unleased offshore land, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Offshore Lands Au-
thorities Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. NULLIFICATION OF PRESIDENTIAL WITHDRAWALS 
OF UNLEASED OFFSHORE LAND. 
The following Presidential withdrawals of unleased 
offshore land shall have no force or effect: 
(1) The Presidential Memorandum of December 
20, 2016, titled ‘‘Memorandum on Withdrawal of 
Certain Portions of the United States Arctic Outer 
Continental Shelf From Mineral Leasing’’ (relating 
to the Chukchi Sea Planning Area and the Beaufort 
Sea Planning Area). 
(2) The Presidential Memorandum of December 
16, 2014, titled ‘‘Memorandum on Withdrawal of 
Certain Areas of the United States Outer Conti-
nental Shelf From Leasing Disposition’’ (relating to 
the North Aleutian Basin Planning Area). 
(3) Section 3 of Executive Order 13754 (81 
Fed. Reg. 90669; relating to Northern Bering Sea 
climate resilience). 
(4) Section 4(b) of Executive Order 13990 (86 
Fed. Reg. 7037; relating to reinstating Executive 
Order 13754 and the Presidential Memorandum of 
December 20, 2016). 
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(5) The Presidential Memorandum of March 
13, 2023, titled ‘‘Memorandum on Withdrawal of 
Certain Areas off the United States Arctic Coast of 
the Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Gas Leas-
ing’’ (relating to the Beaufort Planning Area). 
(6) The Presidential Memorandum of December 
20, 2016, titled ‘‘Memorandum on Withdrawal of 
Certain Areas off the Atlantic Coast on the Outer 
Continental Shelf From Mineral Leasing’’ (relating 
to canyons and canyon complexes offshore the Atlan-
tic coast). 
(7) The Presidential Memorandum of January 
6, 2025, titled ‘‘Memorandum on the Withdrawal of 
Certain Areas of the United States Outer Conti-
nental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing’’ (re-
lating to the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, and Pacific 
areas). 
(8) The Presidential Memorandum of January 
6, 2025, titled ‘‘Memorandum on the Withdrawal of 
Certain Areas of the United States Outer Conti-
nental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing’’ (re-
lating to the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resil-
ience Area). 
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SEC. 3. LIMITATION OF AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT TO 
WITHDRAW UNLEASED OFFSHORE LANDS. 
Section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act (43 U.S.C. 1341(a)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘(a)The President’’ and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘(a) WITHDRAWAL OF UNLEASED LANDS BY THE 
PRESIDENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graphs (2) and (3), the President’’; 
(2) by inserting ‘‘Beginning on the date of en-
actment of the Offshore Lands Authorities Act of 
2025, the President shall transmit a withdrawal 
made under the preceding sentence to the President 
of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Rep-
resentatives.’’ after ‘‘outer Continental Shelf.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) LIMITATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) ACRES.—A withdrawal under para-
graph (1) may not exceed an area larger than 
150,000 acres in total or contiguous with any 
other withdrawal under such paragraph. 
‘‘(B) PERIOD.—A withdrawal under para-
graph (1) may not be made for a period longer 
than 20 years. 
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‘‘(C) 
CUMULATIVE
WITHDRAWALS.—No 
President may, under paragraph (1), withdraw 
more than 500,000 acres cumulatively without 
obtaining Congressional approval. 
‘‘(3) ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED.—The President 
may not withdraw unleased lands of the outer Conti-
nental Shelf under paragraph (1) unless— 
‘‘(A) the Secretary completed a quan-
titative and qualitative geophysical and geologi-
cal mineral resource assessment of the lands to 
be withdrawn during the 5-year period ending 
on the date of such withdrawal; 
‘‘(B) the Secretary, in consultation with 
the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of 
Energy, the Secretary of Defense, and the Sec-
retary of Agriculture, completed an assessment 
of the economic, energy, and national security 
value of mineral deposits identified in the min-
eral resource assessment completed under sub-
paragraph (A); 
‘‘(C) the Secretary completed an assess-
ment of the expected reduction in future Fed-
eral revenues resulting from the proposed with-
drawal to the Treasury, States (including from 
allocations made under section 105 of the Gulf 
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of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (43 
U.S.C. 1331 note)), the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund, and the Historic Preservation 
Fund; and 
‘‘(D) the Secretary submits to the Commit-
tees on Natural Resources, Agriculture, Armed 
Services, Energy and Commerce, and Foreign 
Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 
Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For-
estry, Armed Services, Energy and Natural Re-
sources, and Foreign Relations of the Senate a 
report that includes the results of the assess-
ments completed under this subsection. 
‘‘(4) CONGRESSIONAL
DISAPPROVAL
PROCE-
DURE.— 
‘‘(A) JOINT RESOLUTION DEFINED.—For 
the purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘joint 
resolution’ means only a joint resolution, which 
may not have a preamble, the matter after the 
resolving clause of which is as follows: ‘That 
Congress disapproves the withdrawal made 
under section 12(a)(1) of the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act on llll, relating to 
llll, and such withdrawal shall have no 
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force or effect.’ (the blank spaces being appro-
priately filled in). 
‘‘(B) REFERRAL.—A joint resolution de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) shall be referred to 
the committees in each House of Congress with 
jurisdiction. 
‘‘(C) DISCHARGE.—In the Senate, if the 
committee to which is referred a joint resolution 
described in subparagraph (A) has not reported 
such joint resolution (or a joint resolution 
aimed at the same Presidential withdrawal) at 
the end of 20 calendar days after the submis-
sion or introduction of legislation to disapprove 
the withdrawal, such committee may be dis-
charged from further consideration of such joint 
resolution and placed on the appropriate cal-
endar of the Senate upon a petition supported 
in writing by 30 Members of the Senate. 
‘‘(D) FLOOR CONSIDERATION.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—In the Senate, 
when the committee to which a joint reso-
lution is referred has reported, or when a 
committee is discharged (under subpara-
graph (C)) from further consideration of, a 
joint resolution described in subparagraph 
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(A), it is at any time thereafter in order 
(even though a previous motion to the 
same effect has been disagreed to) for a 
motion to proceed to the consideration of 
the joint resolution, and all points of order 
against the joint resolution (and against 
consideration of joint resolution) are 
waived. The motion is not subject to 
amendment, to a motion to postpone, or to 
a motion to proceed to the consideration of 
other business. A motion to reconsider the 
vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
disagreed to shall not be in order. If a mo-
tion to proceed to the consideration of the 
joint resolution is agreed to, the joint reso-
lution shall remain the unfinished business 
of the Senate until disposed of. 
‘‘(ii) DEBATE.—In the Senate, debate 
on the joint resolution, and on all debat-
able motions and appeals in connection 
therewith, shall be limited to not more 
than 10 hours, which shall be divided 
equally between those favoring and those 
opposing the resolution. A motion further 
to limit debate is in order and not debat-
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able. An amendment to, or a motion to 
postpone, or a motion to proceed to the 
consideration of other business, or a mo-
tion to recommit the resolution is not in 
order. 
‘‘(iii) FINAL PASSAGE.—In the Sen-
ate, immediately following the conclusion 
of the debate on a resolution described in 
subparagraph (A), and a single quorum 
call at the conclusion of the debate if re-
quested in accordance with the rules of the 
Senate, the vote on final passage of the 
resolution shall occur. 
‘‘(iv) APPEALS.—In the Senate, ap-
peals from the decisions of the Chair relat-
ing to the application of the rules of the 
Senate to the procedure relating to a reso-
lution described in subparagraph (A) shall 
be decided without debate. 
‘‘(v) TREATMENT
IF
OTHER
HOUSE 
HAS ACTED.—If, before the passage by one 
House of a resolution of that House de-
scribed in subparagraph (A), that House 
receives from the other House a resolution 
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described in subparagraph (A), then the 
following procedures shall apply: 
‘‘(I) NONREFERRAL.—The reso-
lution of the other House shall not be 
referred to a committee. 
‘‘(II) FINAL PASSAGE.—With re-
spect to a resolution described in sub-
paragraph (A) of the House receiving 
the resolution— 
‘‘(aa) the procedure in that 
House shall be the same as if no 
resolution had been received from 
the other House; but 
‘‘(bb) the vote on final pas-
sage shall be on the resolution of 
the other House. 
‘‘(vi) DEBATE ON VETO MESSAGE.— 
In the Senate, debate on a veto message 
from the President on a joint resolution 
described in subparagraph (A), including 
all debatable motions and appeals in con-
nection therewith, shall be limited to not 
more than 10 hours, equally divided be-
tween those favoring and those opposing 
the resolution. A motion further to limit 
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