Title: Safe COAST Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Safe Coasts, Oceans, And Seaside Towns Act or the Safe COAST Act
This bill provides statutory authority for specified safety regulations that govern offshore oil and gas production in the Outer Continental Shelf and provide protections for human, marine, and coastal environments.
The Department of the Interior must contract with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to complete the study titled "Review and Update of Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Inspection Program" within 21 months.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4888 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4888

To provide that the production safety systems rule and the well control 
  rule in section 250 of title 30, Code of Federal Regulations, shall 
have the same force and effect of law as if such rules had been enacted 
             by an Act of Congress, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 29, 2018

Ms. Barragan (for herself, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Crist, Mr. 
 Soto, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Lee, Mr. Huffman, Mr. 
  Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Suozzi, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. 
Norton, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Hastings, Ms. Bass, Mr. 
  Gallego, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Khanna, Mr. 
 Keating, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Welch, Mr. McNerney, Mr. Gomez, 
 Mrs. Watson Coleman, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. McEachin, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Scott 
 of Virginia, and Ms. Blunt Rochester) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that the production safety systems rule and the well control 
  rule in section 250 of title 30, Code of Federal Regulations, shall 
have the same force and effect of law as if such rules had been enacted 
             by an Act of Congress, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safe Coasts, Oceans, And Seaside 
Towns Act'' or the ``Safe COAST Act''.

SEC. 2. FORCE AND EFFECT OF PRODUCTION SAFETY SYSTEMS RULE AND THE WELL 
              CONTROL RULE.

    Subparts D, E, F, G, H, and Q of section 250 of title 30, Code of 
Federal Regulations (as in effect on January 1, 2018), shall have the 
same force and effect of law as if such subparts had been enacted by an 
Act of Congress.

SEC. 3. STUDY ON BSEE OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS OPERATIONS INSPECTION 
              PROGRAM.

    The Secretary of the Interior shall contract with the National 
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to complete, not later 
than 21 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the study 
entitled ``Review and Update of Bureau of Safety and Environmental 
Enforcement Offshore Oil and Gas Operations Inspection Program'' that 
the Secretary of the Interior had previously contracted with the 
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to complete.
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