Title: Of inquiry directing the Secretary of the Interior to transmit certain documents to the House of Representatives relating to the 2023-2028 five-year program for offshore oil and gas leasing.
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
This resolution directs the Department of the Interior to provide the House of Representatives certain information and documents about the 2023-2028 program for offshore oil and gas leasing, including information on funding implications.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1247 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1247

Of inquiry directing the Secretary of the Interior to transmit certain 
  documents to the House of Representatives relating to the 2023-2028 
          five-year program for offshore oil and gas leasing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2022

 Mr. Graves of Louisiana submitted the following resolution; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Of inquiry directing the Secretary of the Interior to transmit certain 
  documents to the House of Representatives relating to the 2023-2028 
          five-year program for offshore oil and gas leasing.

    Resolved, That the Secretary of the Interior is directed to 
transmit, to the House of Representatives, not later than 14 days after 
the date of the adoption of this resolution, copies of any document, 
memorandum, correspondence, and other communication, or any portion of 
any such communication, that refers or relates to the 2023-2028 five-
year program for offshore oil and gas leasing, including the following:
            (1) All documents and communications referring or relating 
        to the proposed program for offshore oil and gas leasing for 
        2023-2028.
            (2) All documents and communications referring or relating 
        to compliance with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act's 
        requirement to develop a five-year program for offshore oil and 
        gas leasing.
            (3) All documents and communications relating to the 2017-
        2022 five-year program for offshore oil and gas leasing, 
        including--
                    (A) any reference to the decision to cancel or 
                delay planned lease sales;
                    (B) any reference to the decision to not pursue an 
                appeal to the judgment vacating Lease Sale 257; and
                    (C) any reference to the impact of such program's 
                expiration without the creation of a 2023-2028 five-
                year program for offshore oil and gas leasing.
            (4) All documents and communications referring or relating 
        to Secretary Debra Haaland's commitment to release a proposed 
        five-year program for offshore oil and gas leasing for 2023-
        2028 by June 30, 2022.
            (5) All documents and communications relating to funding 
        implications of such proposed program, including--
                    (A) any reference to the Gulf of Mexico Energy 
                Security Act;
                    (B) any reference to the Land and Water 
                Conservation Fund;
                    (C) any reference to the Historic Preservation 
                Fund;
                    (D) any reference to the sale of petroleum products 
                from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve related to the 
                Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act; and
                    (E) any reference to the general fund of the 
                Treasury of the United States.
            (6) Any meeting or communication that occurred between 
        Secretary Debra Haaland, or her representative, and 
        environmental advocacy groups relating to the 2023-2028 five-
        year program for offshore oil and gas leasing.
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