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[EX Q]: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This bill shall be called the ``National Petroleum Reserve Alaska 
Access Act''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS AND REAFFIRMING NATIONAL POLICY FOR THE 
              NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE IN ALASKA.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska remains 
        explicitly designated, both in name and legal status, for 
        purposes of providing oil and natural gas resources to the 
        United States; and
            (2) accordingly, the national policy is to actively advance 
        oil and gas development within the Reserve by facilitating the 
        expeditious exploration, production, and transportation of oil 
        and natural gas from and through the Reserve.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE IN ALASKA: LEASE SALES.

    Section 107(a) of the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 
1976 (42 U.S.C. 6506a(a)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall conduct an expeditious 
program of competitive leasing of oil and gas in the reserve in 
accordance with this Act. Such program shall include at least one lease 
sale annually in those areas of the reserve most likely to produce 
commercial quantities of oil and natural gas each year in the period 
2011 through 2021.''.

SEC. 4. NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVE IN ALASKA: PLANNING AND PERMITTING 
              PIPELINE AND ROAD CONSTRUCTION.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Transportation, shall facilitate and ensure permits, in an 
environmentally responsible manner, for all surface development 
activities, including for the construction of pipelines and roads, 
necessary to--
            (1) develop and bring into production any areas within the 
        National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska that are subject to oil 
        and gas leases; and
            (2) transport oil and gas from and through the National 
        Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to existing transportation or 
        processing infrastructure on the North Slope of Alaska.
    (b) Timeline.--The Secretary shall ensure that any Federal 
permitting agency shall issue permits in accordance with the following 
timeline:
            (1) Permits for such construction for transportation of oil 
        and natural gas produced under existing Federal oil and gas 
        leases with respect to which the Secretary has issued a permit 
        to drill shall be approved within 60 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act.
            (2) Permits for such construction for transportation of oil 
        and natural gas produced under Federal oil and gas leases shall 
        be approved within 6 months after the submission to the 
        Secretary of a request for a permit to drill.
    (c) Plan.--To ensure timely future development of the Reserve, 
within 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall submit to Congress a plan for approved 
rights-of-way for a plan for pipeline, road, and any other surface 
infrastructure that may be necessary infrastructure that will ensure 
that all leasable tracts in the Reserve are within 25 miles of an 
approved road and pipeline right-of-way that can serve future 
development of the Reserve.

SEC. 5. DEPARTMENTAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR DEVELOPMENT.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior shall issue 
regulations within 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act 
that establish clear requirements to ensure that the Department of the 
Interior is supporting development of oil and gas leases in the 
National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
    (b) Deadlines.--At a minimum, the regulations shall--
            (1) require the Department to respond within 5 business 
        days acknowledging receipt of any permit application for such 
        development; and
            (2) establish a timeline for the processing of each such 
        application, that--
                    (A) specifies deadlines for decisions and actions 
                on permit applications; and
                    (B) provide that the period for issuing each permit 
                after submission of such an application shall not 
                exceed 60 days without the concurrence of the 
                applicant.
    (c) Actions Required for Failure To Comply With Deadlines.--If the 
Department fails to comply with any deadline under subsection (b) with 
respect to a permit application, the Secretary shall notify the 
applicant every 5 days with specific information regarding the reasons 
for the permit delay, the name of the specific Department office or 
offices responsible for issuing the permit and for monitoring the 
permit delay, and an estimate of the time that the permit will be 
issued.

SEC. 6. UPDATED RESOURCE ASSESSMENT.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior shall complete a 
comprehensive assessment of all technically recoverable fossil fuel 
resources within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, including 
all conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas.
    (b) Cooperation and Consultation.--The resource assessment required 
by subsection (a) shall be carried out by the United States Geological 
Survey in cooperation and consultation with the State of Alaska and the 
American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
    (c) Timing.--The resource assessment required by subsection (a) 
shall be completed within 24 months of the date of the enactment of 
this Act.
    (d) Funding.--The United States Geological Survey may, in carrying 
out the duties under this section, cooperatively use resources and 
funds provided by the State of Alaska.
[EX A]: National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act - (Sec. 2) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the National Petroleum Reserve (NPR) in Alaska remains explicitly designated to provide oil and natural gas resources to the United States, and (2) it is national policy to actively advance oil and gas development within the NPR.

(Sec. 3) Amends the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 to require the mandatory program of competitive leasing of oil and gas in the NPR to include at least one lease sale annually in those areas of the NPR most likely to produce commercial quantities of oil and natural gas each year in the period 2011-2021.

(Sec. 4) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to ensure permits, according to a specified timeline, for all surface development activities, including pipelines and roads construction to: (1) develop and bring into production any areas within the NPR that are subject to oil and gas leases; and (2) transport oil and gas from and through the NPR to existing transportation or processing infrastructure on the North Slope of Alaska.

(Sec. 5) Instructs the Secretary to issue regulations establishing clear requirements to ensure that the Department of the Interior is supporting development of oil and gas leases in the NPR.

(Sec. 6) Requires the Secretary to assess all technically recoverable fossil fuel resources within the NPR, including all conventional and unconventional oil and natural gas.

Requires the resource assessment to be implemented by the U.S. Geological Survey, which is authorized to use resources and funds provided by the state of Alaska.

[EX Q]: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Preserving Access 
to Modern Prosthetic Limbs Act of 2016''.
    (b) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Medicare program includes coverage for prosthetic 
        limbs under section 1861(s)(9) of the Social Security Act (42 
        U.S.C. 1395w(s)(9)).
            (2) As a result of significant Federal and private 
        investment in research and development over the past decades, 
        beneficiaries with lower limb prostheses are able to maintain 
        optimal function and lead productive and independent lives.
            (3) Federal spending for prosthetic devices in the Medicare 
        program has decreased by 15 percent between 2010 and 2014.
            (4) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through 
        Medicare contractors known as Durable Medical Equipment 
        Medicare Administrative Contractors, released on July 16, 2015, 
        a document entitled ``Local Coverage Determination (LCD): Lower 
        Limb Prostheses (DL33787)'', which applies to all Medicare 
        beneficiaries across the United States.
            (5) The policies proposed in this document would 
        comprehensively change the requirements under which a Medicare 
        beneficiary would qualify for a lower limb prosthetic device 
        and would seriously restrict access to modern prosthetic care.
            (6) If finalized, the changes proposed in this document 
        would create coverage requirements that are inconsistent with 
        current clinical practice and would arbitrarily and 
        unreasonably deny Medicare beneficiaries access to prosthetic 
        limb technologies considered the current standard of care.
            (7) Under these proposed policies, beneficiaries instead 
        would be eligible for prosthetic devices that are functionally 
        outdated, less durable, and less safe.
            (8) The adverse impact of the Medicare contractors' 
        proposed policies extend well beyond the Medicare program and 
        has implications for other Federal health programs, such as 
        health programs of the Veterans Administration, and commercial 
        insurers.
            (9) Given the far reaching effect of these policies, and 
        the fact that little or no clinical or scientific evidence 
        supported the issuance of these proposals, any changes to 
        prosthetic limb coverage should be made only after a 
        transparent process in which evidence is offered to justify 
        coverage modifications, meaningful stakeholder feedback is 
        solicited, and the Secretary and Medicare contractors receive 
        and respond to this stakeholder feedback in a public manner.
            (10) A moratorium on the implementation and enforcement of 
        these proposed policies would enable the Secretary and the 
        Medicare contractors to engage in such a transparent process.

SEC. 2. MORATORIUM ON IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPOSED MEDICARE LOCAL 
              COVERAGE DETERMINATION ON LOWER LIMB PROSTHESES.

    (a) Moratorium.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
        and any Medicare Administrative Contractor may not implement 
        and enforce the policies in the LCD on lower limb prostheses 
        (as defined in subsection (d)(1)), in whole or in part, during 
        the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
        and ending on June 30, 2017.
            (2) Removal of policy from websites.--The Secretary of 
        Health and Human Services and its medicare administrative 
        contractors shall remove the LCD on lower limb prostheses from 
        the websites of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 
        and its medicare administrative contractors during the period 
        of the moratorium under paragraph (1).
    (b) Providing the Secretary With Authority To Oversee the 
Development of Local Coverage Determinations.--Section 1862(l)(5) of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 395y(l)(5)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (D); 
        and
            (2) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new 
        subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Secretary oversight and guidance in 
                developing local coverage determinations.--The 
                Secretary shall provide guidance and oversight of any 
                local coverage determination developed by a medicare 
                administrative contractor to ensure that the local 
                coverage determination is consistent with this 
                title.''.
    (c) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to 
prevent the Secretary from enforcing existing statutes, regulations, 
and local coverage determinations other than with respect to policies 
in the LCD on lower limb prostheses.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) LCD on lower limb prostheses.--The term ``LCD on lower 
        limb prostheses'' means the local coverage determination on 
        lower limb prostheses as proposed by a medicare administrative 
        contractor in the document (DL33787) released on July 16, 2015, 
        and any successor to such determination.
            (2) Medicare administrative contractor.--The term 
        ``medicare administrative contractor'' has the meaning given 
        such term in section 1874A(a)(3)(A) of the Social Security Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 1395kk-1(a)(3)(A)).
[EX A]: Preserving Access to Modern Prosthetic Limbs Act of 2016 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to postpone implementation and enforcement of&nbsp;a local coverage determination (LCD) proposed by a Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) on lower limb prostheses. (An LCD is a decision by a MAC, which is a private insurer that processes Medicare claims within a specified geographic&nbsp;jurisdiction, as to&nbsp;whether to cover a service on a MAC-wide basis.) The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid shall provide guidance and oversight related to LCDs, as specified by the bill.

[EX Q]: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Light Weight Armor Research 
Requirements for Individual Operational Readiness Act'' or the ``LT 
WARRIOR Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF JOINT TASK FORCE ON LIGHTWEIGHT BODY ARMOR.

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a 
joint task force, to be known as ``Joint Task Force Light Weight Armor 
Research Requirements for Individual Operational Readiness'' or ``JTF-
LT WARRIOR'', to--
            (1) synchronize efforts among the military departments to 
        identify and examine the requirements for lighter weight body 
        armor; and
            (2) serve as the centralized body for determining and 
        coordinating issues regarding lightweight body armor and other 
        personal protective equipment, including the required 
        attributes of such armor and the development and procurement of 
        such armor and equipment.
    (b) Composition.--
            (1) Membership.--The task force shall consist of not more 
        than 20 members, to be appointed by the Secretary as follows:
                    (A) At least one member shall be appointed from 
                each of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
                    (B) At least one member shall represent the Natick 
                Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center of 
                the Army.
                    (C) At least one member shall represent the Defense 
                Logistics Agency.
                    (D) At least one member shall represent the United 
                States Special Operations Command.
                    (E) At least one member shall represent the Program 
                Executive Office Soldier.
                    (F) At least one member shall represent the Test 
                and Evaluation Command of the Army.
                    (G) At least one member shall represent the Defense 
                Standardization Program Office.
                    (H) Other members representing other entities 
                considered appropriate by the Secretary.
            (2) Private entities.--In appointing members to the task 
        force, the Secretary may consider including representatives 
        from industry, including developers, manufacturers, and testing 
        personnel.
            (3) Deadline.--The members of the task force shall be 
        appointed not later than 30 days after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act.
            (4) Chair.--Of a member appointed under paragraph (1) who 
        is a member of the Armed Forces, the Secretary shall designate 
        a chair of the task force.
    (c) Recommendations.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than six months after the date 
        on which all members of the task force have been appointed, and 
        each six month period thereafter for a period of 18 months, the 
        task force shall submit to the Secretary a report recommending 
        ways in which the Secretary and each Secretary of a military 
        department may more effectively address the research, 
        development, and procurement requirements regarding reducing 
        the weight of body armor.
            (2) Matters included.--The reports required under paragraph 
        (1) shall include an assessment of the following:
                    (A) The requirement for lighter weight body armor 
                and personal protective equipment.
                    (B) Innovative design ideas for more modular body 
                armor that allow for scalable protection levels for 
                various missions and threats.
                    (C) Research, development, acquisition, and funding 
                objectives specifically dedicated to reducing the 
                weight of body armor and other personal protective 
                equipment items.
                    (D) The efficiency and effectiveness of current 
                body armor funding procedures and processes.
                    (E) Industry concerns, capabilities, and 
                willingness to invest in the development and production 
                of lightweight body armor initiatives.
            (3) Methodology.--In submitting the reports under paragraph 
        (1), the task force shall consider as bases for making 
        assessments--
                    (A) the findings and recommendations of previous 
                reviews and the efforts of similar coordination boards;
                    (B) the views of operations, combat, and materiel 
                developers; and
                    (C) other factors the task force considers 
                appropriate.
    (d) Final Report.--
            (1) Requirement.--The task force shall submit to the 
        Secretary of Defense and each Secretary of a military 
        department a final report on the activities of the task force.
            (2) Matters included.--The report shall include the 
        following:
                    (A) An assessment of the ability of the Department 
                of Defense to support the requirement for lightweight 
                body armor.
                    (B) An assessment of any barriers preventing the 
                development of lighter weight body armor (including 
                such barriers with respect to technical, institutional, 
                or financial problems).
                    (C) The need for dedicated research and development 
                funding specifically for reducing the weight of body 
                armor.
                    (D) Other areas of concern not previously mentioned 
                or addressed by equipping boards, body armor producers, 
                or program managers.
                    (E) The final findings and conclusions of the task 
                force.
                    (F) Any recommendations for changes to procedures 
                and policy the task force considers appropriate.
            (3) Submission to congress.--Not later than 60 days after 
        the receipt of the report under paragraph (1), the Secretary of 
        Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees 
        the report, together with an evaluation of the report from the 
        Secretary of Defense and each Secretary of a military 
        department.
    (e) Administrative Support.--
            (1) Compensation.--
                    (A) Each member of the task force who is a member 
                of the Armed Forces or a civilian officer or employee 
                of the United States shall serve without compensation 
                (other than compensation to which entitled as a member 
                of the Armed Forces or an officer or employee of the 
                United States, as the case may be).
                    (B) Other members of the task force shall be 
                appointed in accordance with, and subject to, section 
                3161 of title 5, United States Code.
            (2) Oversight.--The Under Secretary of Defense for 
        Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, shall provide oversight 
        of the task force.
            (3) Logistics.--The Washington Headquarters Services of the 
        Department of Defense shall provide the task force with 
        personnel, facilities, and other administrative support as 
        necessary for the performance of the duties of the task force.
    (f) Termination.--The task force shall terminate 90 days after the 
date on which the final report is submitted under subsection (d).
[EX A]:
Light Weight Armor Research Requirements for Individual Operational Readiness Act or LT WARRIOR Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to establish the Joint Task Force Light Weight Armor Research Requirements for Individual Operational Readiness, or JTF-LT WARRIOR, to: (1) synchronize efforts among the military departments to identify and examine the requirements for lighter weight body armor; and (2) serve as the centralized body for determining and coordinating issues regarding such armor and other personal protective equipment, including its development and procurement.

Requires the Task Force to report to the Secretary semiannually over a two-year period recommending ways to more effectively address the research, development, and procurement requirements regarding reducing the weight of body armor.