American-Made Energy and Good Jobs Act

Bill: 109-hr-5429
Sponsor: Rep. Pombo, Richard W. [R-CA-11]
Introduced: 2006-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Air pollution control
Air traffic
Airports
Alaska
Animal breeding
Animals
Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Caribou
Chlorine
Citizen participation
Commerce
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Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction workers
Cultural property
Department of the Interior
Drainage
Easements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy development
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Explosives
Export controls
Fishes
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Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel storage
Gas industry
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Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
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History
Hunting
Impact aid
Indian claims
Indian lands
Indigenous peoples
Industrial pollution
Infrastructure
Judicial review
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Land transfers
Land use
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Mining engineering
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority employment
Native Americans
Natural areas
Natural gas
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oil pollution
Oil well drilling
Petroleum
Petroleum engineering
Petroleum industry
Petroleum pipelines
Planning
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reclamation of land
Refuse and refuse disposal
Revenue sharing
Right-of-way
Riparian ecology
Roads and highways
Sand and gravel industry
Science, Technology, Communications
Solvents
Sports and Recreation
Standards
State laws
Subcontractors
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Trapping
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water supply
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2006-05-19
text: 
American-Made Energy and Good Jobs Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish, implement, and administer a competitive oil and gas leasing program on the Coastal Plain of Alaska.
 
Repeals the prohibition against production or leasing of oil and gas resources from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
 
Declares that this Act is in compliance with specified environmental requirements and is compatible with ANWR purposes.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to designate up to a total of 45,000 acres of the Coastal Plain as a Special Area, after consultation with the state of Alaska, the city of Kaktovik, and the North Slope Borough.
 
Permits directional drilling in such Special Areas.
 
Prescribes guidelines for implementation of lease sales.
 
Sets forth: (1) a &quot;no significant adverse effect&quot; standard to govern Coastal Plain activities; (2) guidelines for expedited judicial review; and (3) a plan for federal and state distribution of revenues.
 
Directs the Secretary to issue rights-of-way and easements across the Coastal Plain for the transportation of oil and gas.
 
Provides for financial assistance for local government impact aid and community service assistance. 
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Coastal Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund.

action_date: 2006-05-25
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
 American-Made Energy and Good Jobs Act - (Sec. 3) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish, implement, and administer a competitive oil and gas leasing program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources on the Coastal Plain of Alaska.
 
Amends the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 to repeal the proscription against production or leasing of oil and gas resources from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
 
States that this Act is in compliance with such Act and certain other statutes, and is compatible with the purposes for which ANWR was established.
 
States that the Secretary: (1) is not required to identify nonbearing alternative courses of action or to analyze the environmental effects of such courses of action; and (2) is only required to identify a preferred action for such leasing and a single leasing alternative, and to analyze the environmental effects and potential mitigation measures for those two alternatives.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to designate up to a total of 45,000 acres of the Coastal Plain as a Special Area after consultation with the state of Alaska, the city of Kaktovik, and the North Slope Borough.
 
Directs the Secretary to designate the Sadlerochit Spring area as such a Special Area.
 
Prohibits surface occupancy of the lands comprising a Special Area if the Secretary leases any part thereof for oil and gas exploration, development, production, and related activities. Permits directional drilling in such Special Areas.
 
States that the Secretary's sole authority to close lands within the Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing, exploration, development, and production is that set forth in this Act.
 
(Sec. 4) Prescribes implementation guidelines for lease sales and lease grants, including a minimum of 200,000 acres for the first lease sale. Prescribes lease terms and conditions.
 
(Sec. 7) Sets forth: (1) a &quot;no significant adverse effect&quot; standard to govern Coastal Plain activities; (2) guidelines for expedited judicial review; and (3) a plan for federal and state distribution of revenues that pays semiannually to the State of Alaska 50% of revenues from the operations authorized under this Act.
 
(Sec. 10) Directs the Secretary to issue rights-of-way and easements across the Coastal Plain for the transportation of oil and gas without regard to specified provisions of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
 
(Sec. 11) Directs the Secretary to convey: (1) to the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation the surface estate of certain lands to the extent necessary to fulfill the Corporation's entitlement in accordance with a specified Agreement; and (2) to the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation the remaining subsurface estate to which it is entitled pursuant to a specified agreement between such Corporation and the United States of America.
 
(Sec. 12) Authorizes financial assistance for entities directly impacted by oil and gas exploration or production under this Act, including the North Slope Borough and the City of Kaktovik. Restricts the uses of such assistance.
 
Establishes in the Treasury the Coastal Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund. Limits fund assistance to uses prescribed by this Act.
 
Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-06-05
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 464.
action_date: 2006-05-26
text: Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 225 - 201 (Roll no. 209). (text: CR H3245-3247)
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 225 - 201 (Roll no. 209).(text: CR H3245-3247)
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by the Yeas and Nays: 201 - 223 (Roll no. 208). (consideration: CR H3266-3267)
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3266-3268)
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the motion to recommit H.R. 5429 with instructions, the Chair put the question on the motion and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. George Miller demanded the yeas and and nays and pursuant to a previous order of the House, the Chair postponed further proceedings on the adoption of the motion until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H3260)
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Floor summary: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the George Miller motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require that the bill be reported back forthwith, with an amendment to provide that under the bill, persons shall not be treated as qualified to obtain leases if such person is a lessee under an existing lease issued by he Department of Interior pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act that is not subject to limitations on royalty relief based on market price.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Mr. Miller, George moved to recommit with instructions to Resources. (consideration: CR H3258-3259, H3266-3267; text: CR H3258)
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H3259)
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 5429.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5429 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 835. (consideration: CR H3245-3259)
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: ORDER OF PROCEDURE - Mr. Bishop of Utah asked unanimous consent that, during consideration of H.R. 5429 pursuant to H. Res. 835, the Speaker may postpone further proceedings on a motion to recommit as though under clause 8(a)(1)(A) of Rule 20. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-05-25
text: Rule H. Res. 835 passed House.
action_date: 2006-05-24
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 835 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5429 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments.
action_date: 2006-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2006-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2006-05-19
text: Introduced in House