Deficit Reduction, Job Creation, and Energy Security Act

Bill: 112-hr-3710
Sponsor: Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18]
Introduced: 2011-12-16 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alabama
Aquatic ecology
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of the Interior
Disaster relief and insurance
Employment and training programs
Energy revenues and royalties
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive agency funding and structure
Florida
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government trust funds
Gulf of Mexico
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Louisiana
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Minority employment
Mississippi
Oil and gas
Public contracts and procurement
Texas
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Women in business
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: 
Deficit Reduction, Job Creation, and Energy Security Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct oil and gas lease sales under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act for an additional 10% of acreage of the outer Continental Shelf proposed to be leased under the Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017. Requires: (1) such additional acreage to be known as the Deficit Reduction Acreage, and (2) the Secretary to lease at least 20% of such Deficit Reduction Acreage in each such year. 
 
Establishes the Deficit Reduction Energy Security Fund. Requires all sums due under Deficit Reduction Acreage lease sales during the 15 fiscal years beginning when sums are first received from such sales to be deposited into such Fund.
 
Establishes the Coastal and Ocean Sustainability and Health Fund to be administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for: (1) the Coastal and Ocean Disaster Grant Program for restoring, mitigating, monitoring, or otherwise managing coastal and ocean natural resources in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida impacted by coastal or ocean disasters; and (2) the National Grant Program for Coastal and Ocean Sustainability and Health for restoring, protecting, maintaining, managing, or understanding marine resources and their habitats and resources in coastal and ocean water. 
 
Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reinstate expired producible leases in the offshore Gulf or Mexico upon the petition of a prior leaseholder if such reinstatement furthers the purposes and objectives of such Act. 
 
Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) an Office of Energy Employment and Training to oversee the efforts of the Department of the Interior's energy planning, permitting, and regulatory activities to carry out the purposes, objectives, and requirements of this Act; and (2) an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion to be responsible for all matters of the Department of the Interior relating to diversity in management, employment, and business activities. Requires the Secretary to take affirmative steps to seek diversity in all levels of such Department.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2012-01-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2012-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
action_date: 2012-01-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2011-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2011-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2011-12-16
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-12-16
text: Introduced in House