Title: Restore Onshore Energy Production Act
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Restore Onshore Energy Production Act
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to immediately resume sales of oil and gas leases in accordance with applicable onshore mineral leasing laws and specifies a minimum number of sales that Interior must conduct in each state where there is land available for oil and gas leasing. The bill also prohibits the President from taking actions to cancel, delay, or otherwise impede federal processes related to energy mineral leasing without congressional approval.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7304 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7304

To require the Secretary of the Interior to immediately resume onshore 
            oil and gas lease sales, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 30, 2022

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of the Interior to immediately resume onshore 
            oil and gas lease sales, 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 ``Restore Onshore Energy Production 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ONSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASING.

    (a) Requirement To Immediately Resume Onshore Oil and Gas Lease 
Sales.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
        immediately resume onshore oil and gas lease sales in 
        compliance with the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et 
        seq.).
            (2) Requirement.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
        ensure that any oil and gas lease sale pursuant to paragraph 
        (1) is conducted immediately on completion of all applicable 
        scoping, public comment, and environmental analysis 
        requirements under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et 
        seq.) and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
        U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).
    (b) Annual Lease Sales.--
            (1) In general.--In accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act 
        (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), beginning in fiscal year 2022, the 
        Secretary of the Interior shall annually conduct a minimum of 
        four oil and gas lease sales in each of the following States:
                    (A) Wyoming.
                    (B) New Mexico.
                    (C) Colorado.
                    (D) Utah.
                    (E) Montana.
                    (F) North Dakota.
                    (G) Oklahoma.
                    (H) Nevada.
                    (I) Any other State in which there is land 
                available for oil and gas leasing under the Mineral 
                Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) or any other 
                mineral leasing law.
            (2) Requirement.--In conducting a lease sale under 
        paragraph (1) in a State described in that paragraph, the 
        Secretary of the Interior shall offer all parcels eligible for 
        oil and gas exploration, development, and production under the 
        resource management plan in effect for the State.
            (3) Replacement sales.--If, for any reason, a lease sale 
        under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year is canceled, delayed, or 
        deferred, including for a lack of eligible parcels, the 
        Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a replacement sale 
        during the same fiscal year.
    (c) Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Delays.--Section 17 of the Mineral 
Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 226) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(q) Unreasonable Delays.--
            ``(1) In general.--The President shall not, through 
        Executive order or any other administrative procedure, 
        unreasonably pause, cancel, delay, defer, or otherwise impede 
        or circumvent any Federal energy mineral leasing processes 
        under this Act, or a related rulemaking process required by 
        subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5, United 
        States Code (commonly known as the `Administrative Procedure 
        Act'), without congressional approval.
            ``(2) Rebuttable presumption.--There shall be a rebuttable 
        presumption that any attempt by the President to pause, cancel, 
        delay, defer, or otherwise impede or circumvent any Federal 
        energy mineral leasing process, or a related rulemaking 
        process, described in paragraph (1), without congressional 
        approval, is considered unreasonable for purposes of paragraph 
        (1).''.
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