Title: To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish a credit to any bid for a lease that includes a commitment to use a project labor agreement, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill directs the Department of the Interior, in evaluating a bid for an oil or gas lease, to award a 10% credit to the value of a bid if the bidder commits to enter into a project labor agreement with respect to any employees who will be engaged in building or construction in the offshore wind energy development within the leased track.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9061 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9061

To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to establish a credit to 
 any bid for a lease that includes a commitment to use a project labor 
                   agreement, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 31, 2020

 Mr. Kennedy 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 establish a credit to 
 any bid for a lease that includes a commitment to use a project labor 
                   agreement, 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. PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT CREDIT IN OFFSHORE LEASING.

    (a) In General.--Section 8(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(a)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(9) Project Labor Agreement Credit.--
            ``(1) In general.--In evaluating a bid under this section, 
        the Secretary shall award a 10 percent credit to value of a bid 
        if the bidder commits to enter into a project labor agreement 
        with respect to any employees who, upon their employment, will 
        be engaged in building or construction with respect to the 
        offshore wind energy development within the leased tract. The 
        Secretary shall include such commitment as a term in any lease 
        the bid for which included such commitment.
            ``(2) Project labor agreement.--In this paragraph, the term 
        `project labor agreement' means a collective bargaining 
        agreement that is--
                    ``(A) an agreement described in section 8(f) of the 
                National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 158(f)); and
                    ``(B) between an employer and one or more labor 
                organizations and establishes, in advanced of hiring 
                employees who, upon their employment, will be engaged 
                in building or construction of a specific project, the 
                terms and conditions of employment for such employees 
                for such project.''.
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