Stewardship for Our Coasts and Opportunities for Reliable Energy Act

Bill: 109-s-1026
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2005-05-12 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Alaska
Alternative energy sources
Animals
Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
Boundaries
California
Coastal zone
Continental shelf
Department of the Interior
Easements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Energy storage
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal-state relations
Florida
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Gulf of Mexico
Health
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Law
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine parks and reserves
Marine resources conservation
Nature conservation
Ocean mining
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Oregon
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Revenue sharing
Right-of-way
Submarine oil well drilling
Territorial waters
Washington State
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: 
Stewardship for Our Coasts and Opportunities for Reliable Energy Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to instruct the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer certain Outer Continental Shelf revenues deposited in the Treasury to the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to make payments to producing states and coastal political subdivisions.
 
Sets forth disbursement and allocation guidelines, including requirements for payments to coastal political subdivisions.
 
Requires the Governor of a producing state to submit a coastal impact assistance plan to the Secretary by July 1, 2008.
 
Directs the Secretary to delineate the lateral boundaries between coastal states in areas of the outer Continental Shelf under exclusive federal jurisdiction, to the extent of the exclusive economic zone of the United States, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of December 10, 1982.
 
Prescribes expedited petition and approval procedures under which the Governor of a state whose seaward lateral boundaries have been delineated as restricted for leasing may petition the Secretary for a resource assessment, if the leasing is for: (1) oil and gas leasing; (2) gas-only leasing; or (3) any other energy source leasing, including renewable energy leasing.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to grant a lease, easement, or right-of-way on the outer Continental Shelf for activities not otherwise authorized under existing law if those activities: (1) support exploration, development, production, transportation, or storage of oil, natural gas, or other minerals; (2) produce or support production, transportation, or transmission of energy from sources other than oil and gas; or (3) use, for energy-related or marine-related purposes, facilities in use on or before the date of enactment of this Act for activities authorized under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5157-5158)
action_date: 2005-05-12
text: Introduced in Senate