Southern California Coast and Ocean Protection Act

Southern California Coast and Ocean Protection Act

This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior from issuing a lease for the exploration, development, or production (i.e., offshore drilling) of oil or natural gas in the Southern California planning area of the Outer Continental Shelf.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3978 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3978

To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas 
           leasing in the Southern California planning area.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 9, 2023

  Mr. Levin (for himself, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Jacobs, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. 
Barragan, Mr. Swalwell, Ms. Ross, Mr. Vargas, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Khanna, 
  Mr. Connolly, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Sherman, and Mr. Peters) 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 prohibit oil and gas 
           leasing in the Southern California planning area.

    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 ``Southern California Coast and Ocean 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF OIL AND GAS LEASING IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 
              PLANNING AREA.

    Section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(q) Prohibition of Oil and Gas Leasing in the Southern California 
Planning Area.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or 
any other law, the Secretary of the Interior may not issue a lease for 
the exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas in 
the Southern California planning area, as such planning area is 
described in the document entitled `2019-2024 National OCS Oil and Gas 
Leasing Draft Proposed Program', dated January 2018, or a subsequent 
oil and gas leasing program developed under section 18 of the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344).''.
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