Title: COAST Anti-Drilling Act
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-Drilling Act or the COAST Anti-Drilling Act
This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior from issuing a lease or other authorization for the exploration, development, or production of oil, natural gas, or any other mineral in the Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Atlantic, Straits of Florida, or Eastern Gulf of Mexico planning areas.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 341 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 341

To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently prohibit 
the conduct of offshore drilling on the outer Continental Shelf in the 
 Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Atlantic, Straits of Florida, and 
                 Eastern Gulf of Mexico planning areas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 8, 2019

 Mr. Pallone (for himself, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Sires, Mrs. Demings, Ms. 
  Norton, Mr. McEachin, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Deutch, Mr. Lowenthal, Ms. 
Wilson of Florida, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. Pascrell, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Mr. Cunningham, Ms. Shalala, 
  Mr. McGovern, Mr. Malinowski, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Velazquez, 
 Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mrs. Luria, Mrs. Dingell, 
 Mr. Serrano, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Payne, Mr. Lipinski, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. 
     Castor of Florida, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr. 
 Gottheimer, Mr. Kim, Mr. Ruppersberger, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Adams, Mr. 
   Thompson of California, Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Keating, Mr. Rooney of 
 Florida, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Ms. Omar, and Mr. Beyer) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently prohibit 
the conduct of offshore drilling on the outer Continental Shelf in the 
 Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Atlantic, Straits of Florida, and 
                 Eastern Gulf of Mexico planning areas.

    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 ``Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism Anti-
Drilling Act'' or the ``COAST Anti-Drilling Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF OIL AND GAS LEASING IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE 
              OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF.

    Section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(q) Prohibition of Oil and Gas Leasing in Certain Areas of the 
Outer Continental Shelf.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
section or any other law, the Secretary of the Interior shall not issue 
a lease or any other authorization for the exploration, development, or 
production of oil, natural gas, or any other mineral in--
            ``(1) the Mid-Atlantic planning area;
            ``(2) the South Atlantic planning area;
            ``(3) the North Atlantic planning area;
            ``(4) the Straits of Florida planning area; or
            ``(5) the Eastern Gulf of Mexico planning area.''.
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