Consumer Relief for Pain at the Pump Act

Bill: 112-hr-1777
Sponsor: Rep. Latta, Robert E. [R-OH-5]
Introduced: 2011-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Administrative remedies
Air quality
Alaska
Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Arctic Ocean
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of the Interior
District of Columbia
Energy prices
Energy revenues and royalties
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Federal district courts
Government information and archives
Gulf of Mexico
Indian lands and resources rights
Intergovernmental relations
Judicial procedure and administration
Judicial review and appeals
Jurisdiction and venue
Land transfers
Licensing and registrations
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Motor fuels
Oil and gas
State and local finance
Supreme Court
User charges and fees
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: 
Consumer Relief for Pain at the Pump Act - Sets forth a deadline for action on certain permit applications under existing Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leases.
 
Amends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 to repeal the moratorium on oil and gas leasing in certain areas of the Gulf of Mexico. Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to offer for leasing areas made available as a result of such repeal.
 
Instructs the Secretary to: (1) offer specified areas for oil and gas leasing pursuant to certain Lease Sale Schedules, (2) conduct OCS lease sales in specified Planning Areas, (3) share OCS receipts derived from all leases with states and local governments, (4) implement a leasing program for certain land within the Arctic Coastal Plain, and (5) issue rights-of-way and easements across the Coastal Plain for oil and gas transportation.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to designate certain Coastal Plain lands, including the Sadlerochit Spring area, as Special Areas requiring special management and regulatory protection.
 
Revokes a specified Secretarial Order relating to protecting wilderness characteristics on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
 
Amends the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 to repeal the prohibition on the use of funds for either a commercial oil shale leasing program or for oil shale lease sales.
 
Directs the Secretary to offer leases for oil shale resources.
 
Confers exclusive jurisdiction upon the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for covered energy projects under this Act.
 
Establishes the Office of the Federal Oil and Gas Permit Coordinator.
 
Instructs the Secretary to establish and maintain, in coordination with the Mayor of the North Slope Borough of Alaska, a separate Alaska Offshore Continental Shelf Coordination Office to coordinate the leasing program.
 
Amends the Clean Air Act to redefine &quot;air pollutant&quot; to exclude carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride (greenhouse gases).
 
Declares that nothing in specified statutes addressing pollution control shall be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or global warming.
 
Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal the prohibition against federal procurement of alternative or synthetic fuel.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), upon request of the governor of a state or the governing body of an Indian tribe, to enter into a streamlined refinery permitting agreement. Sets forth deadlines for: (1) approval or disapproval of consolidated permits for construction of new or expansion of existing refineries, and (2) submission of existing refinery permit applications. 
 
Requires the EPA Administrator to conduct a research and demonstration program to evaluate the air quality benefits of ultra-clean Fischer-Tropsch transportation fuel, including diesel and jet fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-08-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2011-05-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
action_date: 2011-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform     .
action_date: 2011-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2011-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2011-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-05-05
text: Introduced in House