West Coast Ocean Protection Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2849 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2849

To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to permanently prohibit 
   oil and gas exploration, development, and production on the outer 
 Continental Shelf off the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2025

Mr. Huffman (for himself, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Brownley, Ms. 
Chu, Ms. DelBene, Mr. DeSaulnier, Ms. Hoyle of Oregon, Ms. Jacobs, Ms. 
Jayapal, Mr. Larsen of Washington, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Matsui, Mr. 
 Panetta, Mr. Peters, Mr. Swalwell, Ms. Tokuda, Ms. Castor of Florida, 
  Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Nadler, Mr. 
Min, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Correa, and Ms. Lofgren) 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 permanently prohibit 
   oil and gas exploration, development, and production on the outer 
 Continental Shelf off the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington.

    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 ``West Coast Ocean Protection Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND 
              PRODUCTION ON THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OFF THE COAST 
              OF CALIFORNIA, OREGON, AND WASHINGTON.

    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 Exploration, Development, and 
Production in Certain Areas of the Outer Continental Shelf.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        this section or any other law, the Secretary shall not issue a 
        lease or any other authorization for the exploration, 
        development, or production of oil or natural gas in the 
        planning areas described in paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Planning areas.--The planning areas referred to in 
        paragraph (1) are the following, as depicted in the 2024-2029 
        National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed 
        Final Program published on September 29, 2023, by the Bureau of 
        Ocean Energy Management (as announced in the notice of 
        availability of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management entitled 
        `Notice of Availability of the 2024-2029 National Outer 
        Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program 
        and Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement' (88 Fed. 
        Reg. 67798 (October 2, 2023))):
                    ``(A) The Washington/Oregon Planning Area.
                    ``(B) The Northern California Planning Area.
                    ``(C) The Central California Planning Area.
                    ``(D) The Southern California Planning Area.''.
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