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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Feb 15, 2006
Domestic Energy Production through Offshore Exploration and Equitable Treatment of State Holdings Act of 2006 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to revise the determination of adjacent zones and planning areas in the subsoil and seabed of the outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
Prescribes guidelines for: (1) lease administration; (2) lease grants; (3) lease receipts ; and (4) allocations to states and coastal municipal political subdivisions.
Modifies review guidelines for OCS exploration plans and drilling permits.
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Directs the Secretary of the Interior to include in each five-year program lease sales that offer at least 75% of the available unleased acreage within each OCS Planning Area for oil and gas or natural gas leasing.
Revises requirements for review of OCS development and production plans.
Establishes the Federal Energy Natural Resources Enhancement Fund.
Declares without force or effect all provisions of existing federal law that prohibit spending appropriated funds for OCS oil and natural gas leasing and preleasing.
Prohibits a federal agency from permitting certain activities on federal OCS or in state waters that are incompatible with either oil or natural gas leasing, or with exploration and production of tracts that are geologically prospective for oil or natural gas.
Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to revise regulation of surface-disturbing activities.
Redesignates the Minerals Management Service as the National Ocean Resources and Royalty Service.
Rigs to Reefs Act of 2005 - Amends the OCSLA to prescribe requirements for the use of decommissioned offshore oil and gas platforms for mariculture, artificial reef, and scientific research.
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal the requirement for: (1) a comprehensive inventory of OCS oil and natural gas resources; and (2) payments for oil shale and tar sands leases.
Establishes the Federal Energy And Mineral Resources Professional Development Fund.
National Geologic Data and Mapping Fund Act of 2006 - Establishes the National Geologic Data and Mapping Fund.
Prescribes implementation guidelines for leasing areas located within 100 miles of California or Florida.
Amends the OCSLA to repeal the coastal impact assistance program.
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Rep. Jindal, Bobby [R-LA-1] · R–LA
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Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 588.
Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Received in the Senate.
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 4761.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by recorded vote: 232 - 187 (Roll no. 356).
House roll call 356 · Individual votesPassed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 232 - 187 (Roll no. 356).
House roll call 356 · Individual votesThe House adopted the amendment as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 4761.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of specified amendments which were debated earlier and on which further proceedings were postponed.
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4890-4892)
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 4761 as unfinished business.
On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
Mr. Pombo moved that the Committee rise.
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Bilirakis amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Bilirakis demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 897, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Bilirakis amendment.
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Markey amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Markey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 897, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Markey amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 897, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tom Davis (VA) amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 897, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Inslee amendment.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 897, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Pombo amendment, as modified.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole continued with general debate on H.R. 4761.
GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 4761.
House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 897 and Rule XVIII.
The Speaker designated the Honorable Michael K. Simpson to act as Chairman of the Committee.
Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4761 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Resources now printed in the bill.
Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 897. (consideration: CR H4830-4875; text of measure as reported in House: CR H4845-4860)
Rule H. Res. 897 passed House.
Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 897 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 4761 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. It shall be in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Resources now printed in the bill.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 295.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-531. (consideration: CR H4553-4554)
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-531.(consideration: CR H4553-4554)
Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 29 - 9.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Committee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1987)
Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
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Introduced in House
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