Coastal Economic and Environmental Protection Act

Bill: 109-hr-5649
Sponsor: Rep. Harris, Katherine [R-FL-13]
Introduced: 2006-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Alaska
Animals
Aquaculture
California
Coal
Coastal zone
Compensation (Law)
Congressional reporting requirements
Continental shelf
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Energy
Energy development
Energy prices
Energy transportation
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Federal-state relations
Fees
Fishery management
Florida
Gas in submerged lands
Gas pipelines
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Gulf of Mexico
Habitat conservation
Interstate relations
Law
Liability (Law)
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine resources conservation
Mines and mineral resources
Mining engineering
Mining leases
Mining royalties
Names
National forests
Natural gas
Nature conservation
Offshore structures
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil pollution
Oil shales
Petroleum
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum pipelines
Planning
Pollution measurement
Prospecting
Reefs
Revenue sharing
Science, Technology, Communications
State constitutions
State laws
Submarine oil well drilling
Surveys
Transportation and Public Works
Water pollution control
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: 
Coastal Economic and Environmental Protection Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to revise the determination of adjacent zones and planning areas in the subsoil and seabed of the outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
 
Prescribes guidelines for: (1) lease administration; (2) lease grants; (3) lease receipts ; and (4) allocations to states and coastal municipal political subdivisions.
 
Modifies review guidelines for OCS exploration plans and drilling permits.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to include in each five-year program lease sales that offer at least 75% of the available unleased acreage within each OCS Planning Area for oil and gas or natural gas leasing.
 
Revises requirements for review of OCS development and production plans.
 
Establishes the Federal Energy Natural Resources Enhancement Fund.
 
Declares without force or effect all provisions of existing federal law that prohibit spending appropriated funds for OCS oil and natural gas leasing and preleasing. 
 
Prohibits a federal agency from permitting certain activities on federal OCS or in state waters that are incompatible with either oil or natural gas leasing, or with exploration and production of tracts that are geologically prospective for oil or natural gas.
 
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to revise regulation of surface-disturbing activities.
 
Redesignates the Minerals Management Service as the National Ocean Resources and Royalty Service.
 
Rigs to Reefs Act of 2005 - Amends the OCSLA to prescribe requirements for the use of decommissioned offshore oil and gas platforms for mariculture, artificial reef, and scientific research. 
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal the requirement for: (1) a comprehensive inventory of OCS oil and natural gas resources; and (2) payments for oil shale and tar sands leases.
 
Prescribes implementation guidelines for leasing areas located within 125 miles of California or Florida.
 
 Amends the OCSLA to repeal the coastal impact assistance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2006-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Introduced in House