Coastal Economies Protection Act

Coastal Economies Protection Act

This bill amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management from offering any tract for oil and gas leasing or preleasing until June 30, 2027, in the following areas:

• the North Atlantic planning area,
• the Mid-Atlantic planning area,
• the South Atlantic planning area,
• the Straits of Florida planning area, or
• the Eastern Gulf of Mexico planning area that is within 125 miles of the coastline of Florida.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2252 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2252

  To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to place a ten-year 
 moratorium on oil and gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities 
  on the Outer Continental Shelf in the North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, 
   South Atlantic, and Straits of Florida planning areas and in the 
                        Eastern Gulf of Mexico.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 2017

  Mr. Sanford (for himself and Mr. LoBiondo) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to place a ten-year 
 moratorium on oil and gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities 
  on the Outer Continental Shelf in the North Atlantic, Mid-Atlantic, 
   South Atlantic, and Straits of Florida planning areas and in the 
                        Eastern Gulf of Mexico.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Coastal Economies Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. MORATORIUM ON OIL AND GAS PRELEASING, LEASING, AND RELATED 
              ACTIVITIES IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE OUTER CONTINENTAL 
              SHELF.

    Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1344) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) Moratorium on Oil and Natural Gas Preleasing, Leasing, and 
Related Activities in Certain Areas of the Outer Continental Shelf.--
            ``(1) Moratorium.--Effective during the period beginning on 
        the date of enactment of this subsection and ending on June 30, 
        2027, the Secretary shall not offer for leasing, preleasing, or 
        any related activity on the following geographic areas of the 
        outer Continental Shelf:
                    ``(A) The North Atlantic planning area.
                    ``(B) The Mid-Atlantic planning area.
                    ``(C) The South Atlantic planning area.
                    ``(D) The Straits of Florida Planning Area.
                    ``(E) The area of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico 
                described in section 104(a) of the Gulf of Mexico 
                Energy Security Act of 2006 (title I of division C of 
                Public Law 109-432; 43 U.S.C. 1331 note).
            ``(2) Limitation on effect.--Nothing in this subsection 
        affects any right under any lease issued under this Act before 
        the date of the enactment of this subsection.''.
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