To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from revising the approved oil and gas leasing program for fiscal years 2017 through 2022.

Bill: 115-hr-2248
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2017-04-28
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alaska

Gulf of Mexico

Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Oil and gas
Latest action: action_date: 2017-05-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-04-28
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior from revising the approved Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for FY2017-FY2022. (Interior approved the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's proposed final Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for FY2017-FY2022 on January 17, 2017.)</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2248 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 28, 2017 Mr. Pallone introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from revising the approved oil and gas leasing program for fiscal years 2017 through 2022.

1. Prohibition on revising approved 2017–2022 oil and gas leasing program The Secretary of the Interior shall not revise the approved oil and gas leasing program for the period of fiscal years 2017 through 2022 prepared under section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1344 ) and described in the document entitled 2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program and dated November 2016.