Plug Offshore Wells Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9168 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9168

    To require the Secretary of the Interior to annually submit to 
    Congress, and make publicly available on a website, a report on 
 decommissioning offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and pipelines.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 25, 2024

  Ms. Porter (for herself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Mullin, Mrs. Dingell, Ms. 
Bonamici, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, and Mr. Grijalva) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Secretary of the Interior to annually submit to 
    Congress, and make publicly available on a website, a report on 
 decommissioning offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and pipelines.

    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 ``Plug Offshore Wells Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT ON DECOMMISSIONING OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS WELLS, 
              PLATFORMS, AND PIPELINES.

    (a) Annual Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date of 
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the 
Interior shall submit to Congress, and make publicly available on a 
website, a report that describes, with respect to the preceding year--
            (1) the number of applications for decommissioning an 
        offshore oil and gas well, platform, or pipeline that were 
        required to be submitted pursuant to subpart Q of part 250 of 
        title 30, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor 
        regulations) and the number of such applications received by 
        the Secretary of the Interior;
            (2) the number of offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, 
        and pipelines for which decommissioning did not occur by the 
        date required pursuant to subpart Q of part 250 of title 30, 
        Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations);
            (3) the number of offshore oil and gas wells and platforms 
        approved for decommissioning in place;
            (4) the length of any--
                    (A) offshore oil and gas pipelines that were 
                decommissioned in place pursuant to section 250.1750 of 
                title 30, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor 
                regulations);
                    (B) offshore oil and gas pipelines that were 
                removed pursuant to section 250.1752 of title 30, Code 
                of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations); 
                and
                    (C) offshore oil and gas pipelines that were 
                removed pursuant to section 250.1754 of title 30, Code 
                of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations); 
                and
            (5) the status of enforcement actions, including notices of 
        incident of noncompliance, orders, citations, civil penalties, 
        and disqualifications from future offshore operations, by the 
        Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement with respect to 
        decommissioning offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and 
        pipelines.
    (b) Decommissioning.--In this section, the term ``decommissioning'' 
has the meaning given such term in section 250.1700 of title 30, Code 
of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations).
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