Title: Strategy to Secure Offshore Energy Act
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Strategy to Secure Offshore Energy Act
This bill modifies requirements for the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, including by specifying that the program must be updated on a five-year basis and setting a minimum number of annual lease sales for the program.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7306 Introduced in House (IH)]

<DOC>






117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7306

To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to provide deadlines for 
  the development of five-year oil and gas leasing programs, and for 
                            other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2022

Ms. Van Duyne (for herself, Mr. Westerman, Mr. Carl, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. 
Stauber, Mr. Rosendale, Mrs. Boebert, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. McClintock, Mr. 
   Stewart, Mr. Tiffany, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Graves of Louisiana, Mr. 
 Lamborn, Mr. Balderson, Ms. Stefanik, and Mr. Gohmert) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to provide deadlines for 
  the development of five-year oil and gas leasing programs, 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 ``Strategy to Secure Offshore Energy 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLISHING A FIVE-YEAR PLAN FOR OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASING.

    Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1344) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``subsections (c) and (d) of this 
                section, shall prepare and periodically revise,'' and 
                inserting ``this section, shall issue every five 
                years'';
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(5) Each five-year program shall include at least two 
        lease sales per year.''; and
                    (C) in paragraph (3), by inserting ``domestic 
                energy security,'' after ``between'';
            (2) by redesignating subsections (f) through (h) as 
        subsections (h) through (j), respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (e) the following:
    ``(f) Five-Year Program for 2022 Through 2027.--The Secretary shall 
issue the five-year oil and gas leasing program for 2022 through 2027 
by not later than June 30, 2022.
    ``(g) Subsequent Leasing Programs.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 36 months after 
        conducting the first lease sale under an oil and gas leasing 
        program prepared pursuant to this section, the Secretary shall 
        begin preparing the subsequent oil and gas leasing program 
        under this section.
            ``(2) Requirement.--Each subsequent oil and gas leasing 
        program under this section shall be approved by not later than 
        180 days before the expiration of the previous oil and gas 
        leasing program.''.
                                 <all>