Florida Coastal Protection Act

Bill: 117-hr-2836
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-14]
Introduced: 2021-04-26
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Florida

Gulf of Mexico

Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Oil and gas
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-13
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-04-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Florida Coastal Protection Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management from offering any tract for oil and gas leasing or preleasing in the following areas: </p> <ul> <li> the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Planning Area that is within 125 miles of the coastline of Florida,</li> <li> the South Atlantic Planning Area that is south of 30 degrees 43 minutes North Latitude, or </li> <li> the Straits of Florida Planning Area.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2836 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 26, 2021 Ms. Castor of Florida (for herself, Mr. Buchanan , Mr. Bilirakis , Mr. Crist , Mrs. Demings , Mr. Deutch , Mr. Donalds , Ms. Lois Frankel of Florida , Mr. C. Scott Franklin of Florida , Mr. Gaetz , Mr. Gimenez , Mr. Lawson of Florida , Mr. Mast , Mrs. Murphy of Florida , Mr. Posey , Mr. Rutherford , Ms. Salazar , Mr. Soto , Ms. Wasserman Schultz , and Ms. Wilson of Florida ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities in certain areas of the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Florida, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Florida Coastal Protection Act . 2. Prohibition of oil and natural gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities in certain areas off the coast of Florida Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1344 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (i) Prohibition of oil and natural gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities in certain areas off the coast of Florida (1) Prohibition Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or any other law, the Secretary may not offer for oil and gas leasing or preleasing or any related activity, any tract located in— (A) any area of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico that is referred to in section 104(a) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006; (B) the portion of the South Atlantic Planning Area south of 30 degrees 43 minutes North Latitude; or (C) the Straits of Florida Planning Area. (2) Limitation on effect Nothing in this subsection affects any right under any lease issued under this Act before the date of enactment of this subsection. .