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I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3033 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 2, 2013 Mr. Latta (for himself, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Coffman, Mr. Huelskamp, Mr. Westmoreland, Mr. Long, and Mr. Huizenga of Michigan) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned A BILL To enhance energy security by expanding access to domestic energy resources, boost employment opportunities in the energy sector, and provide consumers relief from artificial price increases.
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Short title; table of contents
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Short title
This Act may be referred to as the Energy Security and Employment Act. (b)
Table of contents
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Title I—Expand access to America’s Oil and Gas Resources Subtitle A—Outer Continental Shelf Sec. 101. Repeal of moratorium under Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006. Sec. 102. National defense areas. Sec. 103. OCS oil and gas leasing program for 2013–2018. Sec. 104. Sharing of OCS receipts with States and local governments. Subtitle B—Arctic Coastal Plain Sec. 111. Definitions. Sec. 112. Leasing program for land within the Coastal Plain. Sec. 113. Lease sales. Sec. 114. Grant of leases by the Secretary. Sec. 115. Lease terms and conditions. Sec. 116. Expedited judicial review. Sec. 117. Rights-of-way and easements across the Coastal Plain. Sec. 118. Conveyance. Title II—Revocation of Energy-Restricting BLM Lockup Subtitle A—Expedited Shale Leasing of Federal Lands Sec. 201. Opening of lands to oil shale leasing. Subtitle B—Judicial Review Regarding Energy Projects Sec. 211. Definitions. Sec. 212. Jurisdiction over causes and claims relating to covered energy projects. Sec. 213. Time for filing complaint. Sec. 214. Expedition in hearing and determining the action. Sec. 215. Standard of review. Sec. 216. Limitation on injunction and prospective relief. Sec. 217. Limitation on Attorneys’ fees. Sec. 218. Legal standing. Subtitle C—Permitting reform Sec. 221. Purposes. Sec. 222. Federal Coordinator. Sec. 223. Regional offices and Regional Permit Coordinators. Sec. 224. Reviews and actions of Federal agencies. Sec. 225. State coordination. Sec. 226. Savings provision. Sec. 227. Administrative and judicial review. Sec. 228. Amendments to publication process. Sec. 229. Definitions. Title III—Relief From Regulations and Prohibitions that Cause Artificial Price Increases Subtitle A—Relief from EPA climate change regulations and Federal prohibitions on synthetic fuels Sec. 301. Repeal of EPA climate change regulation. Sec. 302. Repeal of Federal ban on synthetic fuels purchasing requirement. Sec. 303. Elimination of boutique fuels. Subtitle B—Refinery reform Sec. 311. Refinery permitting process. Sec. 312. Existing refinery permit application deadline.
<enum>I</enum><header>Expand access to America’s Oil and Gas Resources</header> <subtitle id="H96AB149B19714F81B5DAC50A3B85CC20"><enum>A</enum><header>Outer Continental Shelf</header> <section id="H63D36C17CA564007A5F8BC107E464429"><enum>101.</enum><header>Repeal of moratorium under Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 104 of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1331">43 U.S.C. 1331</external-xref> note; <external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/109/432">Public Law 109–432</external-xref>) is repealed.</text> </section><section id="H3A94FA33B0F9495F9D69518EAD8F7EB8"><enum>102.</enum><header>National defense areas</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title shall not affect the authority of the Secretary of Defense, with the approval of the President, to designate national defense areas on the outer Continental Shelf pursuant to section 12(d) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1341(d)).</text> </section><section id="HCA124C308EB04128B7A598267F400A6A"><enum>103.</enum><header>OCS oil and gas leasing program for 2013–2018</header> <subsection commented="no" id="HFCE225A8A9354671AA031330C76B177B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2010–2015 issued by the Secretary of the Interior under section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1344">43 U.S.C. 1344</external-xref>) shall be considered to be the final oil and gas leasing program under that section for the period of fiscal years 2013 through 2018.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H990661A3365045F3AC81741E109AAF54"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Final Environmental Impact Statement</header><text>The Secretary is considered to have issued a final environmental impact statement for the program referred to in subsection (a) in accordance with all requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text> </subsection><subsection id="H8293880F9D3A4D908A44DFB34A9F8CD8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Termination of existing program</header><text>The Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012–2017 shall have no force or effect.</text> </subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H17D8728193EF4DCC9F45E8155AE606DE"><enum>104.</enum><header>Sharing of OCS receipts with States and local governments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1338">43 U.S.C. 1338</external-xref>) is amended as follows:</text> <paragraph id="HCEFD018077F64D1D8B5AA80961090CD7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>By designating the existing text as a subsection (a).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H37726418201F42868C9E4D46DAD97F19"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In subsection (a) (as so designated) by inserting <quote>, if not paid as otherwise provided in this title</quote> after <quote>receipts</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H4AC4B3B681A04E74BC976B080420BCF0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>By adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block id="HD1082180C5DB4650A319F97639AE3FB0" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H6680429663AA4915A46712A92DECC79F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Treatment of OCS Receipts</header> <paragraph id="HCF1C6E2B22944AE28D9FD69F0619639D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deposit</header><text>The Secretary shall deposit into a separate account in the Treasury the portion of OCS Receipts for each fiscal year that will be shared under paragraph (2).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6AAADB5DF288431CB946AF569D3BD8E4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Immediate receipts sharing</header><text>Beginning October 1, 2013, the Secretary shall pay under subsection (c) 50 percent of OCS Receipts received by the United States under all leases under this Act, except that the Secretary shall only pay 25 percent of such OCS Receipts received under all such leases within a State’s Adjacent Zone if leasing is not allowed within at least 25 percent of the portion of that State’s Adjacent Zone located completely within 75 miles of any coastline.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H890D62BD1EAC4E9FB3C51641D2771C3A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Allocations</header><text>The Secretary shall allocate the OCS Receipts deposited into the separate account established by paragraph (1) that are paid under paragraph (2) as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="H69F328364EFD402D88A6FC47BC9732DC"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Bonus bids</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Deposits of bonus bids from a leased tract, including interest thereon, shall be allocated at the end of each fiscal year to the Adjacent State.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF160B6CB11E74979B2980DCDC72DFBB5"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Royalties</header><text>Deposits of royalties and net profit shares from a leased tract, including interest thereon, shall be allocated at the end of each fiscal year as follows:</text> <clause id="HC67EF065E2C14B3381B69511E4D015AA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>50 percent to the Adjacent State.</text> </clause><clause id="HEFCE8FFEE871424A92D948DCA148F64E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>50 percent, in equal amounts, to all States, including the Adjacent State, that—</text> <subclause id="H5D86A2D8A99140559804676C0D98CEAD"><enum>(I)</enum><text>have a coastline point within 300 miles of the center of the leased tract; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H0A48FEDCF548436982C6C9206288E6F5"><enum>(II)</enum><text>allow leasing within at least 25 percent of the portion of each State’s Adjacent Zone that is within 75 miles of the coastline.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H859227659E2D4F9DBB98CBBDF76836FB"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Limitation if not admitted to the union as a State</header><text>Any territory of the United States shall only be entitled to one-half of a State share under this paragraph.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4B0C0CE245A148EA8B519F5E0ABA5056"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Payment of Allocations</header> <paragraph id="H8A2CC57B03FD433A956E29E409F40617"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall pay—</text> <subparagraph id="HF312EE5C7F2A495C9DC913528BF8706C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to each State 60 percent of such State’s allocations under subsection b)(3) for the preceding fiscal year, together with all accrued interest thereon; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H683955B6C6CE4A378FC4F3C3261A880F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to the coastal county-equivalents and municipal political subdivisions of such State a total of 40 percent of such State’s allocations under subsection (b)(3) for the preceding fiscal year, together with all accrued interest thereon, allocated among such county equivalents and subdivision in accordance with paragraph (2).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H352D6532828D42648D1A0363153468E0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Allocations to coastal county-equivalent political subdivisions</header><text>The Secretary shall make an initial allocation of the OCS Receipts to be paid with respect to a State under paragraph (1)(B) for a fiscal year as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="H5FF5A8457BE143FAA63E1CCCD5B03BE5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>25 percent shall be allocated among coastal county-equivalent political subdivisions of the State that each—</text> <clause id="HCE1F2239235B4F3DA76326FA9FA7FA51"><enum>(i)</enum><text>are completely more than 25 miles landward of the coastline of the State; and</text> </clause><clause id="H7373F3BA85344954A077900A878439D6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>have a part of which that lies not more than 75 miles landward from the coastline,</text> </clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">based on the population of such subdivisions.</continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA67DB33BD80B4DF4904FE0C290BD3B56"><enum>(B)</enum><text>75 percent shall be allocated among coastal county-equivalent political subdivisions of the State that each are completely or partially less than 25 miles landward of the coastline, of which—</text> <clause id="H9EFCCE6B621340039FCD5444C72D8505"><enum>(i)</enum><text>25 percent shall be allocated based on the ratio of each such subdivision’s population to the coastal population of all such subdivisions;</text> </clause><clause id="H0131DA8E114643998CE1AF0CA6682D83"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>25 percent shall be allocated based on the ratio of the coastline miles of each such subdivision’s to the coastline miles of all such subdivisions of the State, as calculated by the Secretary with each such subdivisions without a coastline considered to have 50 percent of the average coastline miles of such subdivisions that do have coastlines; and</text> </clause><clause id="H26B378827D364A22AAB9E664F0AFC553"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>50 percent shall be allocated equally to all such subdivisions having a coastline point within 300 miles of the center of the leased tract with respect to which OCS Receipts are paid.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H62FA8F7B087448AE80EC7AAE53EA2034"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Allocations to coastal municipal political subdivisions</header><text>The initial allocation to each coastal county-equivalent political subdivision under paragraph (2) shall be further allocated to the coastal county-equivalent political subdivision and any coastal municipal political subdivisions located partially or wholly within the boundaries of the coastal county-equivalent political subdivision, as follows:</text> <subparagraph id="H8418FD56A86D43D09429F370D0DA1813"><enum>(A)</enum><text>One-third shall be allocated to the coastal county-equivalent political subdivision.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H93C6D222B14345E78FBF842ED694F145"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Two-thirds shall be allocated on a per capita basis to the municipal political subdivisions and the county-equivalent political subdivision, with the allocation to the latter based upon its population not included within the boundaries of a municipal political subdivision.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H38DD67DD3DDC4E1E8FEF0E2762F5D3D2"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Investment of Deposits</header><text>Amounts deposited under this section shall be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury in securities backed by the full faith and credit of the United States having maturities suitable to the needs of the account in which they are deposited and yielding the highest reasonably available interest rates as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H7FB9578F3343425CA62D544D56476F9D"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Use of Funds</header><text>A recipient of funds under this section may use the funds for one or more of the following:</text> <paragraph id="H6A9359C1879947D89F23ED7890D16609"><enum>(1)</enum><text>To reduce in-State college tuition at public institutions of higher learning and otherwise support public education, including career technical education.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H09E15B698BEA418AADB89EDEE9F6528E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>To make transportation infrastructure improvements.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H60E66B2221B049B7BC71D542EDABF5E4"><enum>(3)</enum><text>To reduce taxes.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HABFEC72BD1B845D8B82E22E73980969E"><enum>(4)</enum><text>To promote, fund, and provide for—</text> <subparagraph id="H4C016342A05D4A6BBFC5D723448FFC33"><enum>(A)</enum><text>coastal or environmental restoration;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5E8710B8B3E3404FB7FE738AFF264A7D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>fish, wildlife, and marine life habitat enhancement;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF6C6F6641D4F4195A79AD8C3510FFC90"><enum>(C)</enum><text>waterways construction and maintenance;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF582507DA10E4222BB06EA7E485D42AB"><enum>(D)</enum><text>levee construction and maintenance and shore protection; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF3C5AC87AD884B389DA3AE9A2C858DE6"><enum>(E)</enum><text>marine and oceanographic education and research.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2796AA8882774EE2AFDBD190D276CDFA"><enum>(5)</enum><text>To promote, fund, and provide for—</text> <subparagraph id="H68D66B9B94E84B759CD2A21403F80D7B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>infrastructure associated with energy production activities conducted on the outer Continental Shelf;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H550F1850744B452390CA840227EF741B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>energy demonstration projects;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD72768FDC1FB4131B754D69C53816B0D"><enum>(C)</enum><text>supporting infrastructure for shore-based energy projects;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA5CD334EB89C48FAA61C3C67C9E64E32"><enum>(D)</enum><text>State geologic programs, including geologic mapping and data storage programs, and State geophysical data acquisition;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H02132DBDC41D44C5956F9A65223585D3"><enum>(E)</enum><text>State seismic monitoring programs, including operation of monitoring stations;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9F534768C97D401DA33E454ABB094168"><enum>(F)</enum><text>development of oil and gas resources through enhanced recovery techniques;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H19A589E0AEEF47F2BC3507B83BE8D4D7"><enum>(G)</enum><text>alternative energy development, including bio fuels, coal-to-liquids, oil shale, tar sands, geothermal, geopressure, wind, waves, currents, hydro, and other renewable energy;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDEE275542F8B4FF2B5FBBFFE5E273AF6"><enum>(H)</enum><text>energy efficiency and conservation programs; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFB0FCFB841DC47119E63665C4ED25845"><enum>(I)</enum><text>front-end engineering and design for facilities that produce liquid fuels from hydrocarbons and other biological matter.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H4A8E0C58D9174145892395FE7D9217A9"><enum>(6)</enum><text>To promote, fund, and provide for—</text> <subparagraph id="H191D748D5B714DCFA81B48275F1684F1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>historic preservation programs and projects;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0BB1C0FE3E1848FAAFDFF79C0F6CA62E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>natural disaster planning and response; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEFDEF097B5E24E6DB10BB107CB2D4809"><enum>(C)</enum><text>hurricane and natural disaster insurance programs.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H566BB578A79048AE97CBBF5E3040A05A"><enum>(f)</enum><header>No Accounting Required</header><text>No recipient of funds under this section shall be required to account to the Federal Government for the expenditure of such funds, except as otherwise may be required by law. However, States may enact legislation providing for accounting for and auditing of such expenditures. Funds allocated under this section to States and political subdivisions may be used as matching funds for other Federal programs.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H843DDD8D4EF247E1ACC05F71041535EF"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Effect of Future Laws</header><text>Enactment after the date of the enactment of the Energy Security and Employment Act of any Federal statute that has the effect, as determined by the Secretary, of restricting any Federal agency from spending appropriated funds, or otherwise preventing it from fulfilling its preexisting responsibilities as of the date of enactment of the statute (unless such responsibilities have been reassigned to another Federal agency by the statute with no prevention of performance) to issue any permit or other approval impacting on the OCS oil and gas leasing program, or any lease issued thereunder, or to implement any provision of this Act shall automatically prohibit any payment of OCS Receipts under this section directly to States, and their coastal political subdivisions, for the duration of the restriction. The Secretary shall make the determination of the existence of such restricting effects within 30 days of a petition by any outer Continental Shelf lessee or producing State.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HE9ED17E1F70945398123AA7569F82F49"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H7641378FDA1749968F0ACBC07A762944"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Adjacent state</header><text>The term <term>Adjacent State</term> means, with respect to any program, plan, lease sale, leased tract or other activity, proposed, conducted, or approved pursuant to the provisions of this Act, any State the laws of which are declared to be the law of the United States for the portion of the outer Continental Shelf on which such program, plan, lease sale, leased tract, or activity appertains or is, or is proposed to be, conducted.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H6E2656549B854E1782EB51894F557CD4"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Adjacent zone and state adjacent zone</header><text>Each of the terms <term>Adjacent Zone</term> and <term>State Adjacent Zone</term> means, with respect to any program, plan, lease sale, leased tract, or other activity, proposed, conducted, or approved under this Act, the portion of the outer Continental Shelf for which the laws of a particular Adjacent State are declared to be the law of the United States.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H360EBDBB26E541669F7D1A2FB42B7C35"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Bonus bids</header><text>The term <term>bonus bid</term> means all funds received by the Secretary to issue an outer Continental Shelf mineral lease.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H48218801B3D44E0D986C34B40C660255"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Coastal county-equivalent political subdivision</header><text>The term <term>coastal county-equivalent political subdivision</term> means a political jurisdiction immediately below the level of State government, including a county, parish, borough in Alaska, independent municipality that is not part of a county, parish, or borough in Alaska, or other equivalent subdivision of a coastal State, that lies within the coastal zone.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HAC496E8EFC194A32A0FCEBF14BD88B7F"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Coastal municipal political subdivision</header><text>The term <term>coastal municipal political subdivision</term> means a municipality located within and part of a county, parish, borough in Alaska, or other equivalent subdivision of a State, all or part of which coastal municipal political subdivision lies within the coastal zone.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HDC580960724B4CC6BAFD5F753B0B5609"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Coastal population</header><text>The term <term>coastal population</term> means the population of all coastal county-equivalent political subdivisions, as determined by the most recent official data of the Census Bureau.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H708A3497E9234F1EB697CD802FC90925"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Coastal zone</header><text>The term <term>coastal zone</term> means that portion of a coastal State, including the entire territory of any coastal county-equivalent political subdivision at least a part of which lies, within 75 miles landward from the coastline, or a greater distance as determined by State law enacted to implement this section.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HFE7CD9653AF349629AC8AB008038ABE0"><enum>(8)</enum><header>OCS receipts</header><text>The term <term>OCS Receipts</term> means bonus bids and royalties, excluding royalties from leases amended under the authority of section 8(s) of this Act.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H9996FCECB98A41DE9C8E9D80F5EC7926"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Producing State</header><text>The term <term>producing State</term> means an Adjacent State having an Adjacent Zone containing a leased tract from which OCS Receipts are derived.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H8B4EB9C3209E4CF7842A2C05CBDFD358"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Royalty</header><text>The term <term>royalty</term> means all funds received by the United States from production of oil or natural gas, or the sale of production taken in-kind, or from net profit shares, from an outer Continental Shelf mineral lease.</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></section></subtitle><subtitle id="HE196A0BE0828482F978073361C12D038"><enum>B</enum><header>Arctic Coastal Plain</header> <section id="H148E0E73130B4A638583E3C91DD05661"><enum>111.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle:</text> <paragraph id="HDE2AFB0C480F40639989E66E7E7A705D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Coastal Plain</header><text>The term <term>Coastal Plain</term> means that area identified as the <quote>1002 Coastal Plain Area</quote> on the map.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HFEDC07E784204B589CDC99AC69D27C56"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Federal agreement</header><text>The term <term>Federal Agreement</term> means the Federal Agreement and Grant Right-of-Way for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline issued on January 23, 1974, in accordance with section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/185">30 U.S.C. 185</external-xref>) and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act (43 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H11807A7C2DB2499897A7EBD273F97B3B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Final statement</header><text>The term <term>Final Statement</term> means the final legislative environmental impact statement on the Coastal Plain, dated April 1987, and prepared pursuant to section 1002 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/3142">16 U.S.C. 3142</external-xref>) and section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H884AD23824434E9B853F138F9A6B97AB"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Map</header><text>The term <term>map</term> means the map entitled <quote>Arctic National Wildlife Refuge</quote>, dated September 2005, and prepared by the United States Geological Survey.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF61F5469CBC0416A95C6D9C856B0213E"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of the Interior (or the designee of the Secretary), acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, in consultation with the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="H80FC1B43A02E4B41B161D06EFB597C39"><enum>112.</enum><header>Leasing program for land within the Coastal Plain</header> <subsection id="H21AEB423B90944C081C618DC8FCF1713"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary shall take such actions as are necessary—</text> <paragraph id="H1AB9603FF08B458EA0CDD1A9138500C6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to establish and implement, in accordance with this subtitle, a competitive oil and gas leasing program that will result in an environmentally sound program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1BD413408B274BCE9D0D9376304E046A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to administer this subtitle through regulations, lease terms, conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other provisions that require the application of the best commercially available technology for oil and gas exploration, development, and production to all exploration, development, and production operations under this subtitle in a manner that ensures the receipt of fair market value by the public for the mineral resources to be leased.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC7B8B644260E40BDA4B69CF477A89131"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repeal</header> <paragraph id="H0FEE0317DEAB427293995E385B39AC95"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Repeal</header><text>Section 1003 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 3143) is repealed.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H873E7C8692E94501B0E0FF100F405670"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The table of contents contained in section 1 of that Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/3101">16 U.S.C. 3101</external-xref> note) is amended by striking the item relating to section 1003.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF2088D042DFC43628B51DFFC0C988912"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Compliance with requirements from certain other laws</header> <paragraph commented="no" id="H1CCC4E7883D64841AA5E2760153BC36D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Adequacy of the Department of the Interior’s legislative environmental impact statement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The <quote>Final Legislative Environmental Impact Statement</quote> (April 1987) on the Coastal Plain prepared pursuant to section 1002 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/3142">16 U.S.C. 3142</external-xref>) and section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>) is deemed to satisfy the requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 that apply with respect to prelease activities under this subtitle, including actions authorized to be taken by the Secretary to develop and promulgate the regulations for the establishment of a leasing program authorized by this subtitle before the conduct of the first lease sale.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE6068221880648CB84A99D597A2D6EC2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Compliance with NEPA for other actions</header> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H2ED6FEA8796148CB962187D2FE24D841"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Before conducting the first lease sale under this subtitle, the Secretary shall prepare an environmental impact statement in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) with respect to the actions authorized by this subtitle that are not referred to in paragraph (1).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB7B3D202EF2D4802939B482E72753880"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Identification and analysis</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in carrying out this paragraph, the Secretary shall not be required—</text> <clause id="H68283FF3A9FD40288A1B0D8499E53867"><enum>(i)</enum><text>to identify nonleasing alternative courses of action; or</text> </clause><clause id="H418028B487DA4E7CBFC3790CB16A6208"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to analyze the environmental effects of those courses of action.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD8F8A05001744DCD9A8359202B49DF27"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Identification of preferred action</header><text>Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall—</text> <clause id="H345AC00AE6F04DF89E9E751CD3BA79C3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>identify only a preferred action and a single leasing alternative for the first lease sale authorized under this subtitle; and</text> </clause><clause id="H22DAEE0CBA1844469E3F6DA38728C452"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>analyze the environmental effects and potential mitigation measures for those 2 alternatives.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEC641DA29EA24AE9BB70F53DA797A202"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Public comments</header><text>In carrying out this paragraph, the Secretary shall consider only public comments that are filed not later than 20 days after the date of publication of a draft environmental impact statement.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H81816287570D4E978284C3E7B28DE42D"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Effect of compliance</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, compliance with this paragraph shall be considered to satisfy all requirements for the analysis and consideration of the environmental effects of proposed leasing under this subtitle.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB6215394264A4A7BB556D3C0069B5BBD"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Relationship to State and local authority</header><text>Nothing in this subtitle expands or limits any State or local regulatory authority.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H45C855F23D3C41D3B54264343FDE2151"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Special areas</header> <paragraph id="H9DF9127D602C48C1906A3DE7778B3B26"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Designation</header> <subparagraph id="H82B43C663D8F445EAD662524E74E32A0"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary, after consultation with the State of Alaska, the North Slope Borough, Alaska, and the City of Kaktovik, Alaska, may designate not more than 45,000 acres of the Coastal Plain as a special area if the Secretary determines that the special area would be of such unique character and interest as to require special management and regulatory protection.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1DC3B293521045B182DC81E952A0B67E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Sadlerochit Spring area</header><text>The Secretary shall designate as a special area in accordance with subparagraph (A) the Sadlerochit Spring area, comprising approximately 4,000 acres as depicted on the map.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB9853ACE28E34738947B27472EE2A58E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Management</header><text>The Secretary shall manage each special area designated under this subsection in a manner that preserves the unique and diverse character of the area, including fish, wildlife, subsistence resources, and cultural values of the area.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC87276B2ADC5472AB51D24DF5C5F2FB9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Exclusion from leasing or surface occupancy</header> <subparagraph id="H8F26673E16FD49279D488A1168152DDC"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary may exclude any special area designated under this subsection from leasing.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE0527CCB6A3D4D1A911598F4C49925C0"><enum>(B)</enum><header>No surface occupancy</header><text>If the Secretary leases all or a portion of a special area for the purposes of oil and gas exploration, development, production, and related activities, there shall be no surface occupancy of the land comprising the special area.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H11E2A9C81AD0498387C2A7C9C7D1D029"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Directional drilling</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, the Secretary may lease all or a portion of a special area under terms that permit the use of horizontal drilling technology from sites on lease tracts located outside the special area.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4C2A108A3298432CBE6C02ED71CCC271"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Limitation on closed areas</header><text>The Secretary may not close land within the Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing or to exploration, development, or production except in accordance with this subtitle.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H123015792BD742619F9DD3AC61920633"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Regulations</header> <paragraph id="H3F81A227E4B6490384658289009DBD07"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 15 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall promulgate such regulations as are necessary to carry out this subtitle, including rules and regulations relating to protection of the fish and wildlife, fish and wildlife habitat, subsistence resources, and environment of the Coastal Plain.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEC6F60206C9B43F691C79C6C60F851A0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Revision of regulations</header><text>The Secretary shall periodically review and, as appropriate, revise the rules and regulations issued under paragraph (1) to reflect any significant biological, environmental, scientific or engineering data that come to the attention of the Secretary.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HD98B2D05A5964CF887CC442016A3CF90"><enum>113.</enum><header>Lease sales</header> <subsection id="H88800B89CEDE4EBF88B3A7E9961585AF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Land may be leased pursuant to this subtitle to any person qualified to obtain a lease for deposits of oil and gas under the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/181">30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.</external-xref>).</text> </subsection><subsection id="HC36BE06F52984BCAA93B45C1E0FC6F9D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Procedures</header><text>The Secretary shall, by regulation, establish procedures for—</text> <paragraph id="H49C67F6FEF0B4233810328E0BD606D08"><enum>(1)</enum><text>receipt and consideration of sealed nominations for any area in the Coastal Plain for inclusion in, or exclusion (as provided in subsection (c)) from, a lease sale;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HBEFF03F327F346E09306BA9B2F20B386"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the holding of lease sales after that nomination process; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF0FA337FDE8149DDA84FEAEEB6FCCDEB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>public notice of and comment on designation of areas to be included in, or excluded from, a lease sale.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HDBB5898A1FFF406F93ECA297E5250D9B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Lease sale bids</header><text>Lease sales under this subtitle may be conducted through an Internet leasing program, if the Secretary determines that such a system will result in savings to the taxpayer, an increase in the number of bidders participating, and higher returns than oral bidding or a sealed bidding system.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H17698D8EC360417E8B7DADB60BB24F34"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Acreage minimum in first sale</header><text>For the first lease sale under this subtitle, the Secretary shall offer for lease those tracts the Secretary considers to have the greatest potential for the discovery of hydrocarbons, taking into consideration nominations received pursuant to subsection (b)(1), but in no case less than 200,000 acres.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H0B294347726D4E98BFDA3F17310E2563"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Timing of lease sales</header><text>The Secretary shall—</text> <paragraph id="HB79FF4A3819A4587BBDDBB63B47E18C7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>not later than 22 months after the date of enactment of this Act, conduct the first lease sale under this subtitle;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H389F0F337AB04BA29BE2B966E1BF306C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>not later than 90 days after the date of the completion of such sale, evaluate the bids in the sale and issue leases resulting from the sale; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC4066DD9F72C4F189DF4FECFCE821116"><enum>(3)</enum><text>conduct additional lease sales under this subtitle at appropriate intervals if sufficient interest in exploration or development exists to warrant the conduct of the additional sales.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H63A55F18E69C4CC9BCC79D62E21E25D8"><enum>114.</enum><header>Grant of leases by the Secretary</header> <subsection id="HD18B5D28FB46496C8FCBE7EFEE6F3723"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>On payment by a lessee of such bonus as may be accepted by the Secretary, the Secretary may grant to the highest responsible qualified bidder in a lease sale conducted pursuant to section 113 a lease for any land on the Coastal Plain.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H79312D784A4A4FC3AA9044383D750ED8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Subsequent transfers</header> <paragraph id="HAF425EA978124119B2EF6FF38BFD1ED0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>No lease issued under this subtitle may be sold, exchanged, assigned, sublet, or otherwise transferred except with the approval of the Secretary.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H85DE2BFEC48648CBA964A732D8D845CB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Condition for approval</header><text>Before granting any approval described in paragraph (1), the Secretary shall consult with and give due consideration to the opinion of the Attorney General.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H2164B137C8984B1194A36AE9972B4866"><enum>115.</enum><header>Lease terms and conditions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An oil or gas lease issued pursuant to this subtitle shall—</text> <paragraph id="H62C24D1B7E2C46F4A1FA835A849D5A67"><enum>(1)</enum><text>provide for the payment of a royalty of not less than 12<fraction>½</fraction> percent of the amount or value of the production removed or sold under the lease, as determined by the Secretary in accordance with regulations applicable to other Federal oil and gas leases;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H33E2192B88E04C78AE21C834935F4D60"><enum>(2)</enum><text>require that each lessee of land within the Coastal Plain shall be fully responsible and liable for the reclamation of land within the Coastal Plain and any other Federal land that is adversely affected in connection with exploration, development, production, or transportation activities within the Coastal Plain conducted by the lessee or by any of the subcontractors or agents of the lessee;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H26C96A13BE3545D79BADF0478B8A5C6B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>provide that the lessee may not delegate or convey, by contract or otherwise, that reclamation responsibility and liability to another person without the express written approval of the Secretary;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H22E64DCF92724AAF9DE0F512CCE0143F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>provide that the standard of reclamation for land required to be reclaimed under this subtitle shall be, to the maximum extent practicable—</text> <subparagraph id="HB3005AD42939428CB08EBBAEB9BB6BE4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a condition capable of supporting the uses that the land was capable of supporting prior to any exploration, development, or production activities; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5E75BA7F498D421C9BDF11B8455C9198"><enum>(B)</enum><text>on application by the lessee, to a higher or better standard, as approved by the Secretary;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF7FAE834DA1B4831890EDA23DBA3C8B0"><enum>(5)</enum><text>contain terms and conditions relating to protection of fish and wildlife, fish and wildlife habitat, subsistence resources, and the environment as required under section 112(g)(1);</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H3EE20BD16B854BABBB0837D7700FA1AB"><enum>(6)</enum><text>provide that each lessee, and each agent and contractor of a lessee, use their best efforts to provide a fair share of employment and contracting for Alaska Natives and Alaska Native Corporations from throughout the State of Alaska, as determined by the level of obligation previously agreed to in the Federal Agreement; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H0E569F6C9EE640048231270031322D91"><enum>(7)</enum><text>contain such other provisions as the Secretary determines to be necessary to ensure compliance with this subtitle and the regulations promulgated under this subtitle.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="H2E59F46C2785405C8E5A09621B51B80A"><enum>116.</enum><header>Expedited judicial review</header> <subsection id="HD5C9118E75EA48A09767F4A26E3222CE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Filing of complaints</header> <paragraph id="HFF3D8DA589B844C4A1971BBAB9229240"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deadline</header><text>A complaint seeking judicial review of a provision of this subtitle or an action of the Secretary under this subtitle shall be filed—</text> <subparagraph id="H612A3B85C3F84A16BA812D6D823EEC25"><enum>(A)</enum><text>except as provided in subparagraph (B), during the 90-day period beginning on the date on which the action being challenged was carried out; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCB467F12FBC3453C9BE268D88390DA50"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of a complaint based solely on grounds arising after the 90-day period described in subparagraph (A), by not later than 90 days after the date on which the complainant knew or reasonably should have known about the grounds for the complaint.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H05E74ADF3DBE418A84851DDBCCD35FC0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Venue</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A complaint seeking judicial review of a provision of this subtitle or an action of the Secretary under this subtitle shall be filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H77B703938AAF4578B3BCB54A1B0A6C1D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Scope</header> <subparagraph id="H400B1780D9BF41D99391C66DE20E644E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Judicial review of a decision of the Secretary relating to a lease sale under this subtitle (including an environmental analysis of such a lease sale) shall be—</text> <clause id="H8FB44EE51A1F454A88C2866320176714"><enum>(i)</enum><text>limited to a review of whether the decision is in accordance with this subtitle; and</text> </clause><clause id="H138727F71C9A4C7AA3CC010535D1CBB2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>based on the administrative record of the decision.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDFAB7F09DF784276BB810E2B26AA43FD"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Presumptions</header><text>Any identification by the Secretary of a preferred course of action relating to a lease sale, and any analysis by the Secretary of environmental effects, under this subtitle shall be presumed to be correct unless proven otherwise by clear and convincing evidence.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF51D4EBAF2C945818554B5DC680A7464"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on other review</header><text>Any action of the Secretary that is subject to judicial review under this section shall not be subject to judicial review in any civil or criminal proceeding for enforcement.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H1246F9C85B35420FAE06F0012AF72D9C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Relationship to other provisions</header><text>Subtitle B of title II shall not affect the application of this section.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H313AF37BAB404A00885E516845A332F2"><enum>117.</enum><header>Rights-of-way and easements across the Coastal Plain</header> <subsection id="HE3030A7176AB48FB8B2983B1D1ABB028"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The Secretary shall issue rights-of-way and easements across the Coastal Plain for the transportation of oil and gas—</text> <paragraph id="H21801D5213294412B76A41F80A0C78B8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>except as provided in paragraph (2), under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/185">30 U.S.C. 185</external-xref>), without regard to title XI of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/3161">16 U.S.C. 3161 et seq.</external-xref>); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H3916797126BF493EAEE6264F642C618E"><enum>(2)</enum><text>under title XI of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/3161">16 U.S.C. 3161 et seq.</external-xref>), for access authorized by sections 1110 and 1111 of that Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/3170">16 U.S.C. 3170</external-xref>, 3171).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HD273C6E5CCC140B9BDA1112338ADDF9A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The Secretary shall include in regulations under section 112(g) provisions governing the granting of rights-of-way and easements described in subsection (a).</text> </subsection></section><section id="HAB16BB01E2C04093B87922E9ADFCC952"><enum>118.</enum><header>Conveyance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 1302(h)(2) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/3192">16 U.S.C. 3192(h)(2)</external-xref>), to remove any cloud on title to land, and to clarify land ownership patterns in the Coastal Plain, the Secretary shall—</text> <paragraph id="H2905989F9F264661A0273E0192EB04DD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to the extent necessary to fulfill the entitlement of the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation under sections 12 and 14 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1611">43 U.S.C. 1611</external-xref>, 1613), as determined by the Secretary, convey to that Corporation the surface estate of the land described in paragraph (1) of Public Land Order 6959, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement between the Secretary, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation, dated January 22, 1993; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H940357BECA764377A7567C6948A5B90F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>convey to the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation the remaining subsurface estate to which that Corporation is entitled under the agreement between that corporation and the United States, dated August 9, 1983.</text> </paragraph></section></subtitle><enum>II</enum><header>Revocation of Energy-Restricting BLM Lockup</header> <subtitle commented="no" id="H7A3FB73A78DD4EE29448DE499D0B385D"><enum>A</enum><header>Expedited Shale Leasing of Federal Lands</header> <section commented="no" id="HED334F35829242F18A05BF2498C0F780"><enum>201.</enum><header>Opening of lands to oil shale leasing</header> <subsection commented="no" id="HFF0972D9C4BD4FE5B809E9B461FF4D4C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Repeal of Limitation on Use of Funds</header><text>Section 433 of division F of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (<external-xref legal-doc="public-law" parsable-cite="pl/110/161">Public Law 110–161</external-xref>; 121 Stat. 2152) is repealed.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H74D0615327394CFFB10CC74C1A7443F8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Issuance of Regulations</header><text>The Secretary of the Interior shall issue all regulations necessary to implement section 369 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/15927">42 U.S.C. 15927</external-xref>) with respect to oil shale by not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. Such regulations shall include such safeguards and assurances as the Secretary considers necessary to allow States to exercise their regulatory and statutory authorities under State law, consistent with otherwise applicable Federal law.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H9E81B405CA45434FAB0585AB2A6A2769"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Leasing of Oil Shale Resource</header><text>Immediately after issuing regulations under subsection (b), the Secretary of the Interior shall—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="H0E6E795AA85A4EDB8F4DEE7EF1013DF5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>offer for leasing for research and development of oil shale resources under subsection (c) of section 369 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/15927">42 U.S.C. 15927</external-xref>), additional 160-acre tracts of lands the Secretary considers necessary to fulfill the research and development objectives of such Act; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HB64DC3FC8E6B442DBAA9D19E3E9374FA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>offer for leasing for commercial exploration, development, and production of oil shale resources under subsection (e) of such section, public lands in States for which the Secretary finds sufficient support and interest as required by that subsection.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H55483EA48CC1403C8A3DDCCD2DD068A5"><enum>B</enum><header>Judicial Review Regarding Energy Projects</header> <section id="HAC11B6AB45ED4973BA4F89EB3360FBED"><enum>211.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle:</text> <paragraph id="HAB9068579D644237AEEB1BEF94D5C637"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The term <term>covered civil action</term> means a civil action containing a claim under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/5/702">section 702</external-xref> of title 5, United States Code, regarding agency action (as defined for the purposes of that section) affecting a covered energy project on Federal lands of the United States.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H0B36A168BFE74CE4807BE3BD0F0DA96C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The term <term>covered energy project</term> means any action or decision by the President or a Federal official regarding the leasing of Federal lands (including submerged lands) for the exploration, development, production, processing, or transmission of oil, natural gas, or any other source or form of energy, including actions and decisions regarding the selection or offering of Federal lands for such leasing, or any action under such a lease, except that the term does not include any disputes between the parties to a lease regarding the obligations under such lease, including regarding any alleged breach of the lease.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="H7B9FACB4128E4ADFBC15D078EEEC693C"><enum>212.</enum><header>Jurisdiction over causes and claims relating to covered energy projects</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Venue for any covered civil action shall lie in the district court where a project or lease tract exists or is proposed.</text> </section><section id="HC961DD3E72914410A1D7503935D20779"><enum>213.</enum><header>Time for filing complaint</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">All causes and claims arising from a covered energy project must be filed not later than the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of the action or decision by a Federal official that constitutes the covered energy project concerned. Any cause or claim not filed within that time period shall be barred.</text> </section><section id="H1B7A4BA0A377481185FD12606296B3D5"><enum>214.</enum><header>Expedition in hearing and determining the action</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The court shall endeavor to hear and determine any covered civil action as expeditiously as possible.</text> </section><section id="H3ECAC69B88FF4573941B089B015716E0"><enum>215.</enum><header>Standard of review</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In any judicial review of a covered civil action, administrative findings and conclusions relating to the challenged Federal action or decision shall be presumed to be correct, and the presumption may be rebutted only by clear and convincing evidence contained in the administrative record.</text> </section><section id="H3DBD1DAB4A20448BB77EE4D0D081F60C"><enum>216.</enum><header>Limitation on injunction and prospective relief</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In a covered civil action, the court shall not grant or approve any prospective relief unless the court finds that such relief is narrowly drawn, extends no further than necessary to correct the violation of a legal requirement, and is the least intrusive means necessary to correct that violation. In addition, a court shall limit the duration of a preliminary injunction to halt a covered energy projects to no more than 60 days, unless the court finds clear reasons to extend the injunction. In such case of an extension, such extension shall only be in a 30-day increment and shall require action by the court to renew the injunction.</text> </section><section id="H30445469B42F4872B8B83A0F3BA25CEB"><enum>217.</enum><header>Limitation on Attorneys’ fees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Sections 504 of title 5, United States Code, and 2412 of title 28, United States Code, (together commonly called the Equal Access to Justice Act) do not apply to a covered civil action, nor shall any party in such a covered civil action receive payment from the Federal Government for their attorneys’ fees, expenses, and other court costs.</text> </section><section id="HE7BC893783B5435BAF94382639203161"><enum>218.</enum><header>Legal standing</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Challengers filing appeals with the Department of the Interior Board of Land Appeals shall meet the same standing requirements as challengers before a United States district court.</text> </section></subtitle><subtitle id="H215E7338E47A45DB966CF81804E5A350"><enum>C</enum><header>Permitting reform</header> <section id="H16E1A349D3B1436EA015B5B8C8E2735C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>221.</enum><header>Purposes</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purposes of this subtitle are to—</text> <paragraph id="HF0AD5CFAF23A40849F07792D8FCCD8B6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>respond to the Nation’s increased need for domestic energy resources;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H4BDEC209E9194D9A9C626DF8FECD2B6B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>facilitate interagency coordination and cooperation in the processing of permits required to support oil and gas use authorization on Federal lands, both onshore and on the Outer Continental Shelf, in order to achieve greater consistency, certainty, and timeliness in permit processing requirements;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H2EB5CFECF31041D6A5EE1299780630D1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>promote process streamlining and increased interagency efficiency, including elimination of interagency duplication of effort;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA53670ECB6D94831BFDB705176C45511"><enum>(4)</enum><text>improve information sharing among agencies and understanding of respective agency roles and responsibilities;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H7058D4FC079F40B297DFD2BDD2C54EAC"><enum>(5)</enum><text>promote coordination with State agencies with expertise and responsibilities related to Federal oil and gas permitting decisions;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H4BE5BFA5BD3049D2BCD3F55A44721BBB"><enum>(6)</enum><text>promote responsible stewardship of Federal oil and gas resources;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF22857BF9A394470B26BC2039B4C3F5E"><enum>(7)</enum><text>maintain high standards of safety and environmental protection; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HBB5025396A9242568DFF0DACF29CD947"><enum>(8)</enum><text>enhance the benefits to Federal permitting already occurring as a result of a coordinated and timely interagency process for oil and gas permit review for certain Federal oil and gas leases.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="HA5B00C3BEC93458CA491576DD10CF70E"><enum>222.</enum><header>Federal Coordinator</header> <subsection id="HCD00F2C2438E4198B274F9347257460F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment</header><text>There is established, as an independent agency in the Executive Branch, the Office of the Federal Oil and Gas Permit Coordinator.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HB5122CF537664B30B1CB071685D32E2B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Federal Permit Coordinator</header><text>The Office shall be headed by a Federal Permit Coordinator, who shall be appointed by the President within 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H6A7D68C1FA5E41F0A29D668AABC51241"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>The Federal Permit Coordinator shall be responsible for the following:</text> <paragraph id="H7AF9ADFE17BD430CAA1A058F21AA3697"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Coordinating the timely completion of all permitting activities by Federal agencies, and State agencies to the maximum extent practicable, with respect to any oil and gas project under a Federal lease issued pursuant to the mineral leasing laws, either onshore or on the Outer Continental Shelf, including (for purposes of this subtitle only) any oil shale project under a Federal oil shale lease.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H293B103E5C454D1BA7802DB3DD35E5B6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Ensuring the compliance of Federal agencies, and State agencies to the extent they participate, with this subtitle.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HC042977043B94888B7D3B2BD3AD59888"><enum>223.</enum><header>Regional offices and Regional Permit Coordinators</header> <subsection id="H52B2301C74A14A65896177473E575C45"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Regional offices</header><text>Within 90 days after the date of appointment of the Federal Permit Coordinator, the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Federal Permit Coordinator, shall establish regional offices to coordinate review of Federal permits for oil and gas projects on Federal lands onshore and on the Outer Continental Shelf.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HCA2C66E2FE0946F6B5864D0EAF9A13F6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Number and location of regional offices</header><text>The number of regional offices shall be established by the Secretary in consultation with the Federal Permit Coordinator. The Secretary shall ensure that there is an adequate number of offices in each region proximate to available Federal oil and gas lease tracts onshore and on the Outer Continental Shelf to meet the demands for expeditious permitting in that region. The Secretary shall designate as regional offices under this section all offices established under section 365 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/15924">42 U.S.C. 15924</external-xref>).</text> </subsection><subsection id="HE0F84E893E1E40F3A02586AF8A94CCEF"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Memorandum of understanding</header><text>Within 90 days after the appointment of the Federal Permit Coordinator, the Federal Permit Coordinator, the Secretary, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Defense, and the head of any other Federal agency with responsibilities related to permitting of Federal oil and gas leases, shall enter into a memorandum of understanding establishing respective duties and responsibilities for staffing the regional offices and accomplishing the objectives of this section.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HF5487B10210542FA9AA3EA0B7EB5A158"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Designation of qualified staff</header> <paragraph id="H2D6DEA154EF84209A4A68B898C3512E4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 30 days after the date of signing of the MOU, all Federal signatory agencies shall assign to each regional office the appropriate employees with expertise in the oil and gas permitting issues relating to that office, including, but not limited to, with respect to—</text> <subparagraph id="HD79EF155C9454032976B1DE6340BEFFE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>consultation and preparation of biological opinions under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1536">16 U.S.C. 1536</external-xref>);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H38BCC65B371147DB845522BA9DEB20F7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>permits under section 404 of Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1344">33 U.S.C. 1344</external-xref>);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB5C0666661304FE399CAB40C4270BBA2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>regulatory matters under the Clean Air Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7401">42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.</external-xref>);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3DC22DBF40E34DDB91162B5FF1451E24"><enum>(D)</enum><text>planning under the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/472a">16 U.S.C. 472a et seq.</external-xref>);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3C22290B5F6C4F46AF96B14C8A201DBC"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the preparation of analyses under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.);</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE55A10BD567F4E358F96F84AA21EA589"><enum>(F)</enum><text>applications for permits to drill under the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/181">30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.</external-xref>); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEE515E7E2E1B4764BEF1A21018A5B423"><enum>(G)</enum><text>exploration plans and development and production plans under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1331">43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.</external-xref>).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H86983DA0E5C3465AA93FC50D6155E945"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Preference and incentives</header><text>To the maximum extent practicable, for purposes of this subsection, Federal agencies shall give preference to employees volunteering for reassignment to the regional offices, and shall offer incentives to attract and retain regional office employees, including, but not limited to, retaining contract employees, rotational assignments, salary incentives of up to 120 percent of an employee’s existing salary immediately prior to reassignment, or any combination of strategies.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H21D6323F86444FF59B8B7B1F1D3C09F1"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Duties</header><text>Each employee assigned under subsection (d) shall—</text> <paragraph id="H69F60423F9CA4F5AAC7DD14A35CC3FDF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>within 90 days after the date of assignment, report to the regional office to which the employee is assigned;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HAB0EAED90DBF449C9FA7DEE2519E3CD7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>be responsible for all issues relating to the jurisdiction of the home office or agency of the employee; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HB7440905648549D4BA4DF0D3E83EBB45"><enum>(3)</enum><text>participate as part of the team working on proposed oil and gas projects, planning, and environmental analyses.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HFCF58F65DFAA43B3B61782875425919D"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Creation of and delegation of authority to regional permit coordinators</header><text>The Federal Permit Coordinator shall appoint a Regional Permit Coordinator to be located within each regional office established under this section, with full authority to act on behalf of the Federal Permit Coordinator.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H4AC345014ECE47DDA93F4EE45FF7E50F"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Additional personnel</header><text>The Federal Permit Coordinator or Regional Permit Coordinators may at any time direct that any Federal agency party to the MOU under subsection (c) assign additional staff required to implement the duties of the regional offices.</text> </subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2C6BF1930BFA43FFB8D75FAB4B5FD86F"><enum>224.</enum><header>Reviews and actions of Federal agencies</header> <subsection commented="no" id="H0A46A161D5824F3DAD1B653321C43C68"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Schedules for timely permit decisionmaking</header><text>Within 10 days after the date on which the Secretary receives any oil and gas permit application or amended application, the Secretary shall either notify the applicant that the application is complete or notify the applicant that information is missing and specify the information that is required to be submitted for the application to be complete. Within 30 days after notifying a permit applicant that an application is complete, the Secretary, in consultation with the permit applicant as necessary, shall determine and inform the Regional Permit Coordinator responsible for that project area whether the proposed permit is a class I, class II, or class III permit. The Regional Permit Coordinator shall as soon as possible but in no event later than 30 days following the Secretary’s determination establish a binding schedule to ensure the most expeditious possible review and processing of the requested permit, in accordance with this section.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HF7C5F64CF0F240DD8A0D29D5D14E3365"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Permit classes and schedules</header> <paragraph commented="no" id="HB92FA613679B4BE3A675C3E1506A4B0A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Class I permits</header><text>An oil and gas permit shall be designated as a class I permit under this section if the permitted activity is of a nature that would typically require preparation of an environmental impact statement under NEPA to inform the permitting decision. For such permits, the Regional Permit Coordinator shall establish a schedule for timely completion of all permit reviews and processing, not to exceed 30 months. The Regional Permit Coordinator shall make the schedule publicly available within 10 days after the schedule is established.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H3E1B9B451529474E88916E2E88081F30"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Class II permits</header><text>An oil and gas permit shall be designated as a class II permit under this section if the permitted activity is of a nature that would typically be found not to significantly affect the quality of the human environment under NEPA. For such permits, the Regional Permit Coordinator shall establish the most expeditious schedule possible for completion of all permit reviews and processing, not to exceed 90 days. The Regional Permit Coordinator may grant a one-time extension of that schedule, not to exceed 60 days, upon a good cause showing that additional time is necessary to complete permit decisions. Not later than 15 days after establishing or extending any schedule for a class II permit, the Regional Permit Coordinator shall provide the permit applicant with the schedule.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H0CAF19F2F978469B83B49D67610C4CA9"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Class III permits</header><text>Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), an oil and gas permit shall be designated as a class III permit under this section if the permitted activity either qualifies for a statutory or regulatory categorical exclusion under NEPA or if the requirements under NEPA and other applicable law for the permit have been completed within 30 days after the date of a complete application. For such permits, the permit shall be issued within 30 days after the date of a complete application.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H18C64513BE87450A9F2C065CD618AC56"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Reclassification of class II permit</header><text>If prior to the expiration of the established schedule for a class II permit newly discovered information indicates that the class II permit will significantly affect the quality of the human environment, the Secretary may, in consultation with the permit applicant, reclassify the permit as a class I permit under paragraph (1), and the Regional Coordinator shall establish an amended schedule that complies with the provisions of that paragraph.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H31938F774FAC41AAA0DC2438AD2DA473"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Reporting</header><text>The Regional Permit Coordinators shall include data on all schedule timing and compliance in their reports to the Federal Permit Coordinator required under subsection (i), who shall include such data in the report to the President and Congress required under subsection (i).</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HD9572B5A9D5F4331A43E34A934369C86"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Dispute resolution</header><text>The Regional Permit Coordinator shall resolve all administrative issues that affect oil and gas permit reviews. The Regional Permit Coordinator shall report jointly to the Federal Permit Coordinator and to the head of the relevant action agency, or his or her designee, for resolution of any issue regarding an oil and gas permit that may result in missing the schedule deadlines established pursuant to subsection (b). The Regional Permit Coordinators shall include data regarding the incidence and resolution of disputes under this subsection in their reports to the Federal Permit Coordinator required under subsection (i), who shall include such reported data and develop recommendations in the report to the President and Congress required under subsection (i).</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H3B77925F6CF54D8BBB6581E9BCA16477"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Remedies</header><text>An applicant for a class I permit may bring a cause of action to seek expedited mandamus review, if a Regional Permit Coordinator or the Secretary fails to—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="H5D0D46202FF0415FAAC7337BE396C9E8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>establish a schedule in accordance with subsection (b);</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HBA493FC6529E4A9E8D3CA97DE9A024EC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>enforce and ensure completion of reviews within schedule deadlines; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H9A2AD3934D354031864DA206FBBC3F65"><enum>(3)</enum><text>take all actions as are necessary and proper to avoid jeopardizing the timely completion of the entire schedule.</text> </paragraph><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="subsection">If an agency fails to complete its review of and issue a decision upon a permit within the schedule established by the court, that permit shall be deemed granted to the applicant.</continuation-text></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HF962136855EF4727BE83274BC03CC1ED"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Prohibition of certain terms and conditions</header><text>No Federal agency may include in any permit, right-of-way, or other authorization issued for an oil and gas project subject to the provisions of this subtitle, any term or condition that may be authorized, but is not required, by the provisions of any applicable law, if the Federal Permit Coordinator determines that such term or condition would prevent or impair in any significant respect completion of a permit review within the time schedule established pursuant to subsection (b) or would otherwise impair in any significant respect expeditious oil and gas development.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HCEBF940616EB4F29A17EE172B5EB9069"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Consolidated record</header><text>The Federal Permit Coordinator, acting through the appropriate Regional Permit Coordinator, with the cooperation of Federal and State administrative officials and agencies, shall maintain a complete, consolidated record of all decisions made or actions taken by the Federal Permit Coordinator or Regional Permit Coordinator or by any Federal agency with respect to any oil and gas permit.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H7BED7348CFDD4860B1C90CF64A0A931E"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Relationship to NEPA and Energy Policy Act of 2005</header> <paragraph commented="no" id="H916381E9F78F4096B5D802A2D95BBBAF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 390(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/15942">42 U.S.C. 15942(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H2AB3742E3C7449ABBC3FBB8806DCDB54"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>rebuttable presumption that the use of a</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H48365C0AE7044214B330A6AE94AD37BD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking <quote>would apply</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H1480324B144F42C281ED3536FF46B7DF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 17(p) of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226(p)</external-xref>) is repealed.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H8E954A9A852C4BAAA9F87C89F8713356"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Additional powers and responsibilities</header> <paragraph commented="no" id="HAAAF50B09D934630B1881B9797E51DD2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Regional Permit Coordinator reports</header><text>The Regional Permit Coordinators shall each submit a report to the Federal Permit Coordinator by December 31 of each year that documents each office’s performance in meeting the objectives under this subtitle, including recommendations to further streamline the permitting process.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H56C9243600EC416FB7795270526EA838"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Redirection of priorities or resources</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In order to expedite overall permitting activity, the Federal Permit Coordinator may redirect the priority of regional office activities or the allocation of resources among such offices, and shall engage the agencies that are parties to the MOU to the extent such adjustments implicate their respective staffs or resources.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H1997C6D567514F12B2FC21B1C0511B77"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Report to congress</header><text>Beginning 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Permit Coordinator shall prepare and submit a report to the President and Congress by April 15 of each year that outlines the results achieved under this subtitle and makes recommendations to the President and Congress for further improvements in processing oil and gas permits on Federal lands.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HB09724BE6DCA4DD0B22EE023E7CE5469"><enum>225.</enum><header>State coordination</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Governor of any State wherein an oil and gas operation may require a Federal permit, or the coastline of which is in immediate geographic proximity to oil and gas operations on the Outer Continental Shelf, may be a signatory to the MOU for purposes of fulfilling any State responsibilities with respect to Federal oil and gas permitting decisions. The Regional Permit Coordinators shall facilitate and coordinate concurrent State reviews of requested permits for oil and gas projects on the Outer Continental Shelf.</text> </section><section id="HF80A186CD5FA4638BFFCCA1628BF1092"><enum>226.</enum><header>Savings provision</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Except as expressly stated, nothing in this subtitle affects—</text> <paragraph id="HC5AB88816F1F4DCBB8B242635083CC49"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the applicability of any Federal or State law; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H0DD1AC03321148D491CAEEE1D7B75911"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any delegation of authority made by the head of a Federal agency the employees of which are participating in the implementation of this section.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="H65E4B2F74F9E4B60B43D23F540B7DCA2"><enum>227.</enum><header>Administrative and judicial review</header> <subsection id="H27C0B4FD3CB843238B9FD52FDCA6BF0E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Administrative review</header><text>Any oil and gas permitting decision for Federal lands onshore or on the Outer Continental Shelf that was issued in accordance with the procedures established by this subtitle shall not be subject to further administrative review within the respective Federal agency responsible for that decision, and shall be the final decision of that agency for purposes of judicial review.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H60725098FA0549B09280CA2F714F3766"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exclusive jurisdiction over permit decisions</header><text>Only the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall have original jurisdiction over any civil action for the review of such a permit decision.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HD032F70D511943B5BECF667AE8D291BD"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Limitations on claims</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any action arising under Federal law seeking judicial review of a permit, license, or approval issued by a Federal agency for an oil and gas permit subject to this subtitle shall be barred unless it is filed within 90 days after the date of the decision. Nothing in this subtitle creates a right to judicial review or places any limit on filing a claim that a person has violated the terms of a permit, license, or approval.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H75572E7CEC6F44D5B932260255A9E593"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Filing of record</header><text>When any civil action is brought pursuant to this subtitle, the Federal Permit Coordinator shall immediately prepare for the court a consolidated record.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H9EACF2B3CE0347CAB49341A97E5D28E2"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Expedited review</header><text>The court shall endeavor to hear and determine any action for judicial review challenging a decision approved pursuant to this section as expeditiously as possible.</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HED7B1F91266844249014CAC4AED74269"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Expedited mandamus review</header><text>Notwithstanding subsection (e), within 30 days after the filing of an action challenging or seeking to enforce an established permit review schedule for a class I permit, the court shall issue a decision either compelling permit issuance or sanctioning the delay and establishing a new schedule that enables the most expeditious possible completion of proceedings. In rendering its decision, the court shall review whether the agencies subject to the schedule have been acting in good faith, whether the permit applicant has been cooperating fully with the agencies that are responsible for issuing the requested permits, and any other relevant matters. The court may issue orders to enforce any schedule it establishes under this subsection.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H9F593D08B5D24411A64A727D3793F2AE"><enum>(g)</enum><header>No private right of action</header><text>This subtitle shall not be construed to create any additional right, benefit, or trust responsibility, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or equity, by a person against the United States, its agencies, its officers, or any person.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HEA3273972CE04493998CA6C7F0C14B6F"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Finality of leasing decisions</header><text>Notwithstanding the provisions of any law or regulation to the contrary, a decision by the Department of the Interior to issue a Final Notice of Sale and proceed with an oil and gas lease sale pursuant to any mineral leasing law shall not be subject to further administrative review within the Department of the Interior, and shall be the final decision of the agency for purposes of judicial review.</text> </subsection></section><section id="HFC37A6CF7226487D93585D51BA7879B7"><enum>228.</enum><header>Amendments to publication process</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1344">43 U.S.C. 1344</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H5C21C0573D00462399D9F9BF52B29DE1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending subsection (c)(2) to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2D54AB0324314E3982A0C5545F4FE44F" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="H4CF89745530D46F8A6B6E367024DB4C5" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall publish a proposed leasing program in the Federal Register, and shall submit a copy of such proposed program to the Governor of each affected State, for review and comment. The Governor of a State may solicit comments from those executives of local governments of the State that the Governor, in the Governor’s discretion, determines will be affected by the proposed program.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph><paragraph id="HB5EDABD688EE4E83AC930961D3F8B6A1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking subsection (c)(3); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H27F4D46642424845A9C52BBB4B76C025"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(2) by inserting <quote>final</quote> after <quote>proposed</quote>.</text> </paragraph></section><section id="HEEB47DCFCF5040B6A126C2AA3C462E28"><enum>229.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle:</text> <paragraph id="HB54687B3F0D848ABA6261C1AEEC7FCC1"><enum>(1)</enum><header>MOU</header><text>The term <term>MOU</term> means the memorandum of understanding entered into under section 223(c).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H96C0DD8B901444798239AFCBDA494C1D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>NEPA</header><text>The term <term>NEPA</term> means the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H7F066C1EAEB44085B9FFD4358CACE1D5"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of the Interior.</text> </paragraph></section></subtitle><enum>III</enum><header>Relief From Regulations and Prohibitions that Cause Artificial Price Increases</header> <subtitle id="H42E9FD7575B1497D8A772467F9AC960C"><enum>A</enum><header>Relief from EPA climate change regulations and Federal prohibitions on synthetic fuels </header> <section commented="no" id="H328C627BCFBD4733BF1EDB765C8A04F8"><enum>301.</enum><header>Repeal of EPA climate change regulation</header> <subsection id="H91B3569BD64A448ABB70CF7EA80D5C08"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph id="H7F3D219555F6458F8A3F01DB2EE7B7FA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Administrator</header><text>The term <term>Administrator</term> means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HF38CA92068AA4F7886FC49AEAA1CB459"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Greenhouse gas</header><text>The term <term>greenhouse gas</term> means any of the following:</text> <subparagraph id="H8F78539F5D154E8FAD0AB48756FBC0E9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Carbon dioxide.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBEA6DD990A9C40E18175CC3924A2CFD2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Methane.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H51C497D936274F96AD5E340DA28769BD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Nitrous oxide.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H63D7BEE6155340C1A3D6D88BBD85040B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Sulfur hexafluoride.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6B5683271271483CBD8A3BC8A3B0A9C4"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Any hydrofluorocarbon.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H65E0AAAFEC2148BB98EAF2144CB8C8D8"><enum>(F)</enum><text>Any perfluorocarbon.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2FC438DEF145434480DFA1730E9FA22D"><enum>(G)</enum><text>Nitrogen trifluoride.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H422B2DBE1F0D46E888B1E2E0C7A63FD0"><enum>(H)</enum><text>Any other substance subject to regulation, action, or consideration due to the contribution of the substance to climate change.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1267FA95EDD8424EBAC4A14DC553B70C"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Stationary source</header><text>The term <term>stationary source</term> has the meaning given the term in section 302 of the Clean Air Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7602">42 U.S.C. 7602</external-xref>).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H866A35DB2A0348FA98B9013443B12F74"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Regulation of greenhouse gases</header> <paragraph id="HE16C98A893D24070BDC41A8BCF5C973E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Regulation, action, and consideration for effects other than climate change</header> <subparagraph id="H9F88688EF03349DAB60D4DAC28DEEA50"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the President or the head of a Federal department or agency may not promulgate regulations providing for the control of emissions of a greenhouse gas, enforce or implement any law (including a regulation) enacted or promulgated as of the date of enactment of this Act that provides for the control of emissions of a greenhouse gas, take action relating to or take into consideration the climate effects of emissions of a greenhouse gas, consider climate effects in implementing or enforcing any law (including a regulation), or condition or deny any approval based on climate effects.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H733A22A0B0A7481C9B1B4FDBB42174B1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Exception</header><text>The limitation under subparagraph (A) does not prohibit—</text> <clause id="H2C4DEF2263414B2DBBD1E1A8AF363E9A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>regulation of, action with respect to, or consideration of a greenhouse gas under title VI of the Clean Air Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7671">42 U.S.C. 7671 et seq.</external-xref>) other than for the potential or actual effect of the greenhouse gas on climate change; or</text> </clause><clause id="H40019ED1D77E451DAFC4971BC26EA894"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>voluntary incentive programs to promote the development or deployment of technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5D7180DDB979439D853BD932390E0503"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Exclusive authority; CAFE regulations; challenges to rules</header> <clause id="H79BF2558F91942AD96891DDCB14C6E0E"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Exclusive authority</header><text>The authority of the Secretary of Transportation under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/49/329">chapter 329</external-xref> of title 49, United States Code—</text> <subclause id="H91594F199DB64318A47946569E6A4548"><enum>(I)</enum><text>does not include any authority with respect to greenhouse gases; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H5C0DBC9F7AB349B68717BC07824B0252"><enum>(II)</enum><text>is unaffected by this section.</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="H5C5C6EDE81F3454CBF7A8883D1FD8C63"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>CAFE regulations</header><text>Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Act, the requirements set forth in the final rule entitled <quote>Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards; Final Rule</quote> (75 Fed. Reg. 25324 (May 7, 2010)), and the final rule entitled <quote>2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards</quote> (77 Fed. Reg. 62624 (October 15, 2012)), shall remain in effect without further modification or revision.</text> </clause><clause id="HC37EF3BEE50B495B9AB2BA22AB54B95B"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Challenges to rules</header><text>Nothing in this paragraph affects—</text> <subclause id="HBB6C5909172F441A8D527F7F907B67B7"><enum>(I)</enum><text>any challenge to the final rule described in clause (ii) that—</text> <item id="H5EC767D6D62344D7B5030B342BAD5D92"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>as of the date of enactment of this Act, is pending in court; or</text> </item><item id="HF31F958B53F5405F8B5A97D4452BF133"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>is filed after that date of enactment; or</text> </item></subclause><subclause id="HE81EB81F18FE41B88F0FDFBC7904940E"><enum>(II)</enum><text>any pending or future challenge to any current or future rules promulgated under the authority referred to in clause (i).</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2B9A9005BBB2411ABEE106C7EBAD2538"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Certain prior agency actions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (C), each rule promulgated and action taken by the Administrator before the date of enactment of this Act to regulate greenhouse gases for effects relating to atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (including climate change), shall have no force or effect.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H49A155557E704DFAB5C590EAB815FFF9"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Regulation under other provisions</header> <clause id="H57F82DC2886C4F53916937EDBCF035B7"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Neither the regulations referred to in subparagraph (C)(ii) nor any other provision of law (including a regulation) or action relating to greenhouse gases shall—</text> <subclause id="H8CC54C58784748EDB4E060EB8CC144B4"><enum>(I)</enum><text>have any impact on the regulation of stationary sources under title I of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.); or</text> </subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H9C5EFC3AF0B84777850B5F8D7CA8C131"><enum>(II)</enum><text>be considered to be the regulation of pollutants under that Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7401">42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.</external-xref>) for any purpose (other than for the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions for light-duty motor vehicles from model years 2012 and later, as required by the rules described in subparagraph (C)(ii)), including for the purpose of issuing permits or establishing regulatory standards.</text> </subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="H4597BF366ECC428E929E524D366FEAD5"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Requests for waivers</header><text>Section 209(b) of the Clean Air Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7543">42 U.S.C. 7543(b)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5BCE4F5E193F4B068B0B855952B21CC6" style="OLC"> <paragraph commented="no" id="H920B4A1E3D1541B2A32C4E4E9B46AE0D"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Requests for waivers</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other law—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H55C66C3BE0844052B3FC8A6FA98078A8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">no request for a waiver of the application of this section by any State for standards to control emissions of any air pollutant that is a greenhouse gas (as defined in section 301 of the Energy Security and Employment Act) from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines of model year 2017 or later may be granted by the Administrator; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H6B51B1BB5A594224997AF2B335736D11"><enum>(B)</enum><text>no grant of any waiver by the Administrator before the date of enactment of this paragraph shall be considered by the Administrator, the requesting State, or any court as waiving the application of subsection (a), or any other provision of this section, to standards adopted by the State for control of emissions of any air pollutant that is a greenhouse gas (as defined in section 301 of the Energy Security and Employment Act) from new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines of model year 2017 or later.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H65F670153D51455FA27BD07694A28DFA"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Impacts on State laws</header> <clause id="H0EA8B43B8CC54AEFB76176D92270BD16"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any provision of a State implementation plan designating greenhouse gases as pollutants that are subject to regulation or as regulated pollutants, or otherwise authorizing or requiring limitations on the emission of greenhouse gases under State law—</text> <subclause id="HF870A0C35AE64586AFEECB4CE0A628ED"><enum>(I)</enum><text>shall not be federally enforceable;</text> </subclause><subclause id="H47BD55852C5742C1B250682F8F69D0CC"><enum>(II)</enum><text>shall not be deemed to be Federal law; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H3B11A59EA8F042E39E2FEEB4BBF602D1"><enum>(III)</enum><text>shall be deemed to be stricken from the State implementation plan.</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="HC3B9DFAF296849AFA3F3B882ED36567E"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Authority of States</header> <subclause id="H34E30F87246C4B118DAA5F1216D0796A"><enum>(I)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to subclause (II), nothing in this section affects any State law (including a regulation) or the authority of any State to adopt a law or promulgate a regulation.</text> </subclause><subclause id="H26E8DBD0ABA049D2AEDD4CE96DAEEB4D"><enum>(II)</enum><header>Authority of Administrator</header><text>Notwithstanding subclause (I), the Administrator shall have no authority to approve or make federally enforceable any provision of a State implementation plan requiring the control of greenhouse gas emissions.</text> </subclause><subclause id="H601C3D428AA3428AADAFB3F41F70CDB2"><enum>(III)</enum><header>Amendment of existing laws</header><text>If, as a result of the regulations described in subparagraph (D), a State adopted any law (including a regulation) designating greenhouse gases as pollutants that are subject to regulation or as regulated pollutants, or authorizing or requiring limitations on the emission of greenhouse gases under State law, the State may amend the adopted law to remove any restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions.</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="HB2FF705112344863A4A9140E84AE16C2"><enum>(iii)</enum><header>Federalization of SIP requirements</header><text>The Administrator shall have no authority to approve or make federally enforceable any provision of a State implementation plan requiring the control of greenhouse gas emissions.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5F1E433038E2493EBD107F84F8390037"><enum>(G)</enum><header>Presidential findings and conclusions</header><text>Except as authorized by this paragraph or another Act of Congress, the President or the head of a Federal department or agency may not examine or make findings or conclusions, for purposes of promulgating or issuing policy, guidance, or regulations to address the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on climate change.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD58CBD47FEA241E1B9281CA8527C51F6"><enum>(H)</enum><header>Judicial review</header> <clause id="HB9E065A730754203805767949E42FEA9"><enum>(i)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In addition to any other remedies available, any person affected by a regulation, action, or consideration concerning the control of emissions of a greenhouse gas that fails to meet the criteria described in subparagraph (A) may challenge the regulation, action, or consideration.</text> </clause><clause id="HD35D2FEE9AFE4EE7AFB7DEEFFE2BC817"><enum>(ii)</enum><header>Jurisdiction</header><text>The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any review of any Federal, State, or other regulation, action, or consideration challenged under clause (i).</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HDBE0C97D20934BF9BA4C23D3CC733E3C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Actions at law</header><text>No cause of action, whether based on common law or civil tort (including nuisance) or any other legal or equitable theory, may be brought or maintained, and no liability, money damages, or injunctive relief arising from such an action may be imposed, for—</text> <subparagraph id="H8C31582ED22F4DE683EB91BF9F6BBF72"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any potential or actual contribution of a greenhouse gas to climate change; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEA789CC98EF049F08F10960FE1F5199E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any direct or indirect effect of potential or actual atmospheric concentrations of a greenhouse gas.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2424D30E146A497EB69BD54A46043308"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Allowances</header><text>No State shall have authority—</text> <subparagraph id="H973B204C1D204213B50869FC1F905F0D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>to require any entity to procure, hold, or surrender allowances for the emission of greenhouse gases that takes place outside of the State; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8D5DFCDE761E4B6DA9CD11485E77A673"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to otherwise—</text> <clause id="H23EFCD9CDB3D49E9BB62D8A6C644EE60"><enum>(i)</enum><text>regulate or tax, directly or indirectly, greenhouse gas emissions produced outside of the State; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBA409B8F738942CB8E64CABC2D86162F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>to otherwise limit the importation of products or electricity into the State based on greenhouse gas emissions occurring outside the State.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H240DB19AEB11488E9E8FD47AA31D6372"><enum>302.</enum><header>Repeal of Federal ban on synthetic fuels purchasing requirement</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/17142">42 U.S.C. 17142</external-xref>) is repealed.</text> </section><section id="H66BCDDBCBD2348ECAA3307BE866B6DA3"><enum>303.</enum><header>Elimination of boutique fuels</header> <subsection id="H1F1FE0A8F8C7427BB73E51AAF49D44F6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Elimination of Multiple Fuels</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 211(c)(4) of the Clean Air Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7545">42 U.S.C. 7545(c)(4)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2F027FB1CF1F48B7877B157337BECA4A" style="OLC"> <paragraph id="HCA73ECB2E7844AAF973B5C8D0DEFECB3" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">After the date of the enactment of the Energy Security and Employment Act no State (or political subdivision thereof) may prescribe or attempt to enforce any control or prohibition respecting any characteristic or component of a fuel or fuel additive in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine. Any such control or prohibition adopted before such date of enactment shall cease to have any force and effect on the date that is 3 years after such date of enactment.</text> </paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="HAC8E4ACD9745448D805EA2ED69CDBD63"><enum>(b)</enum><header> Conventional Gasoline</header><text>Section 211(k) of the Clean Air Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/7545">42 U.S.C. 7545(k)</external-xref>) is amended to read as follows:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H44C1EC6421C4495BAF9DF69FC14016F3" style="OLC"> <subsection id="H59EDFA95479A480D8882413D2EDFC556"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Conventional Gasoline Required Throughout Entire Nation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Administrator shall promulgate regulations under this subsection requiring that all gasoline sold or introduced into commerce in the United States (except the noncontiguous States and territories) after the date that is 3 years after the date of the enactment of the Energy Security and Employment Act for use in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine be conventional gasoline. As used in this section, the term <term>conventional gasoline</term> means a single blend of gasoline identified in regulations of the Administrator with a uniform chemical composition in all regions of the country that is identical to the chemical composition of the gasoline most widely sold in the United States before the date of the enactment of the Energy Security and Employment Act in areas other than nonattainment areas.</text> </subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="H7B85F818AE644ED78748FD2E9F7932D9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Oxygenated Fuels</header><text>Subsection (m) of section 211 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7545) is repealed.</text> </subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H942C53D1F4AC492EBC9E1B4987634BC4"><enum>B</enum><header>Refinery reform</header> <section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6F19603F6E7D4D7BB1AE19ED2E49C888"><enum>311.</enum><header>Refinery permitting process</header> <subsection commented="no" id="H381E8993EEB34E57A9565BE7AEA9E3FF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="H632D9A28D17248409B4F1742000B8387"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Administrator</header><text>The term <term>Administrator</term> means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H6F620AA572734AFE84816766D75075E8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Expansion</header><text>The term <term>expansion</term> means a physical change that results in an increase in the capacity of a refinery.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H3DFA6185A6324705BDD7454881D9029B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Indian tribe</header><text>The term <term>Indian tribe</term> has the meaning given the term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/25/450b">25 U.S.C. 450b</external-xref>).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HC1F3CDFD28FF4110B62C8A6E95113AE1"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Permit</header><text>The term <term>permit</term> means any permit, license, approval, variance, or other form of authorization that a refiner is required to obtain—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H0AE44FA77918438C852ECA7CC4804D26"><enum>(A)</enum><text>under any Federal law; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H964563DDDBC24E548D273723D7970786"><enum>(B)</enum><text>from a State or Indian tribal government agency delegated authority by the Federal Government, or authorized under Federal law, to issue permits.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA3E8AA36BFC747088CFC62BF4B008664"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Refiner</header><text>The term <term>refiner</term> means a person that—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H5602E2EA02A547CEA4A1E833BB790E21"><enum>(A)</enum><text>owns or operates a refinery; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H134FC4C35C324BFDB86B915839665FA5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>seeks to become an owner or operator of a refinery.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HB7D87E23BD0A4F1EABF7D1BBBD0E2FB6"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Refinery</header> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H6113A982AF0149AEA633349D4A328EBB"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The term <term>refinery</term> means—</text> <clause commented="no" id="H8D5D722E06504F73ACA2069AC095BCD3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a facility at which crude oil is refined into transportation fuel or other petroleum products; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" id="H2468A287388847D4B76878E75A36CCF9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a coal liquification or coal-to-liquid facility at which coal is processed into synthetic crude oil or any other fuel.</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HD916F00781604A09846ADF7E06AC8A3A"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Inclusions</header><text>The term <term>refinery</term> includes an expansion of a refinery.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HF2C13ECDFC554738BCC94C5AAE52FBF7"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Refinery permitting agreement</header><text>The term <term>refinery permitting agreement</term> means an agreement entered into between the Administrator and a State or Indian tribe under subsection (b).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H94D5A4B309924AB39AB7BD6D399322D0"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of Commerce.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA28786F8BCB44DFCA49081639B0F81A4"><enum>(9)</enum><header>State</header><text>The term <term>State</term> means—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H609002DBBDCA40D7A3A0ED28B5F2A64D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a State;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H330503E9CEEF40B5B72CAC1743087203"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the District of Columbia;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H6069E2688024459ABEF29062AA367EB9"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H77A4BDB0AD6241CC8E343AAFE535AFF5"><enum>(D)</enum><text>any other territory or possession of the United States.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H37CBBE3115634BEAB20F564AC15F3CA3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Streamlining of refinery permitting process</header> <paragraph commented="no" id="HE8747AD091D142F8896FB66CFE2DE889"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>At the request of the Governor of a State or the governing body of an Indian tribe, the Administrator shall enter into a refinery permitting agreement with the State or Indian tribe under which the process for obtaining all permits necessary for the construction and operation of a refinery shall be streamlined using a systematic interdisciplinary multimedia approach as provided in this section.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H4D81922AB39A479D82142F2E2E111512"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Authority of Administrator</header><text>Under a refinery permitting agreement the Administrator shall have authority, as applicable and necessary, to—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HD34137A5D8CC4E869753E7A60001EC97"><enum>(A)</enum><text>accept from a refiner a consolidated application for all permits that the refiner is required to obtain to construct and operate a refinery;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2EC1259033B34B4B8E6D882DB5313B02"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in consultation and cooperation with each Federal, State, or Indian tribal government agency that is required to make any determination to authorize the issuance of a permit, establish a schedule under which each agency shall—</text> <clause commented="no" id="H1C3CE7669F5247CAAFCCB9D6F6B9AAF2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>concurrently consider, to the maximum extent practicable, each determination to be made; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" id="H022E6434553E4FB381807FD75F0F24B8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>complete each step in the permitting process; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HA0465C9FC10B425EACC8886933138215"><enum>(C)</enum><text>issue a consolidated permit that combines all permits issued under the schedule established under subparagraph (B).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HCEE67853509043D9ACADFFCF194C0C39"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Agreement by the State</header><text>Under a refinery permitting agreement, a State or governing body of an Indian tribe shall agree that—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HBEC34E11C9364C04A469D92F252A0476"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Administrator shall have each of the authorities described in paragraph (2); and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HDB21296F16FB4FC6937D04AA26FF07A3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>each State or Indian tribal government agency shall—</text> <clause commented="no" id="H0BA56D816E0A420C9E51C70D1950A0EF"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in accordance with State law, make such structural and operational changes in the agencies as are necessary to enable the agencies to carry out consolidated project-wide permit reviews concurrently and in coordination with the Environmental Protection Agency and other Federal agencies; and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" id="H97D43A1F2F3944438A8F8A8D17C5E10B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>comply, to the maximum extent practicable, with the applicable schedule established under paragraph (2)(B).</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H7DF32F23D01A4392A8E34512CBF8BA91"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Deadlines</header> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H2021AA92B16C458CBCB1FF8DEEEDBABF"><enum>(A)</enum><header>New refineries</header><text>In the case of a consolidated permit for the construction of a new refinery, the Administrator and the State or governing body of an Indian tribe shall approve or disapprove the consolidated permit not later than—</text> <clause commented="no" id="HDE3E5FC557AD47A4A8B7D81D7F7B42A4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>360 days after the date of the receipt of the administratively complete application for the consolidated permit; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" id="HCE226E910B5D4BFBA27AA59643D5FCB9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>on agreement of the applicant, the Administrator, and the State or governing body of the Indian tribe, 90 days after the expiration of the deadline established under clause (i).</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H7448DDC2135A493D83C6FE68018E9006"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Expansion of existing refineries</header><text>In the case of a consolidated permit for the expansion of an existing refinery, the Administrator and the State or governing body of an Indian tribe shall approve or disapprove the consolidated permit not later than—</text> <clause commented="no" id="H29EA36275926441DB506E615AAAF2F8F"><enum>(i)</enum><text>120 days after the date of the receipt of the administratively complete application for the consolidated permit; or</text> </clause><clause commented="no" id="HB2338C5E09514E6EA4A783C826579952"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>on agreement of the applicant, the Administrator, and the State or governing body of the Indian tribe, 30 days after the expiration of the deadline established under clause (i).</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H38DF1E61559945BABEF362858144258C"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Federal agencies</header><text>Each Federal agency that is required to make any determination to authorize the issuance of a permit shall comply with the applicable schedule established under paragraph (2)(B).</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H61F14B4C2C54458599812600CC79FB3C"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Judicial review</header><text>Any civil action for review of any permit determination under a refinery permitting agreement shall be brought exclusively in the United States district court for the district in which the refinery is located or proposed to be located.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H5985DF094EC844F38A26E84ACFDB0002"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Efficient permit review</header><text>In order to reduce the duplication of procedures, the Administrator shall use State permitting and monitoring procedures to satisfy substantially equivalent Federal requirements under this subtitle.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H7136C9BD9C1344958E647AE3EF8DEE2A"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Severability</header><text>If 1 or more permits that are required for the construction or operation of a refinery are not approved on or before any deadline established under paragraph (4), the Administrator may issue a consolidated permit that combines all other permits that the refiner is required to obtain other than any permits that are not approved.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H974BA7BE3E64438C8ED3FFE615C8B82C"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Savings</header><text>Nothing in this subsection affects the operation or implementation of otherwise applicable law regarding permits necessary for the construction and operation of a refinery.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H62150B6FA8F942978EDFF839BDD9F317"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Consultation with local governments</header><text>Congress encourages the Administrator, States, and tribal governments to consult, to the maximum extent practicable, with local governments in carrying out this subsection.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H525844956F8B42B982ED1C03903AD87F"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Effect on local authority</header><text>Nothing in this subsection affects—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H4C76214FBAB541B7AE2440EE962CBFE0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the authority of a local government with respect to the issuance of permits; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H1E42ABAE9678449CBC37773A5056034D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any requirement or ordinance of a local government (such as a zoning regulation).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H5C3A035519EC4BEDA11F6EB950561849"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Fischer-Tropsch fuel</header> <paragraph commented="no" id="H2B0F2D93B9B040DE8B414FB380F22BCB"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In cooperation with the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Fischer-Tropsch industry representatives, the Administrator shall—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H71493B3B6ABE4CF789E6A4D1F64FAA26"><enum>(A)</enum><text>conduct a research and demonstration program to evaluate the air quality benefits of ultra-clean Fischer-Tropsch transportation fuel, including diesel and jet fuel;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H779852312B7446C1B856EEC28C186266"><enum>(B)</enum><text>evaluate the use of ultra-clean Fischer-Tropsch transportation fuel as a mechanism for reducing engine exhaust emissions; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HD3F174F7806340D28C4183D2C2E041BD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>submit recommendations to Congress on the most effective use and associated benefits of this ultra-clean fuel for reducing public exposure to exhaust emissions.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H6B3B75AFEFA64299A5C1204BB612579B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Guidance and technical support</header><text>The Administrator shall, to the extent necessary, issue any guidance or technical support documents that would facilitate the effective use and associated benefit of Fischer-Tropsch fuel and blends.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H91C0654CCD004DF4A02C257AB62A633B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>The program described in paragraph (1) shall consider—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H49EA7D4EE4FF45F5BE7B9BCE8627A9A4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the use of neat (100 percent) Fischer-Tropsch fuel and blends with conventional crude oil-derived fuel for heavy-duty and light-duty diesel engines and the aviation sector; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H5EB3FCCE57AB468592B60DC0D439F87D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the production costs associated with domestic production of this ultra-clean fuel and prices for consumers.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HD66298FBA96240DA95A9C4863F573E62"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Reports</header><text>The Administrator shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives—</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="HA8B92D0934F0472C9D68E27978BA3B18"><enum>(A)</enum><text>not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, an interim report on actions taken to carry out this subsection; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC2607A2755904768AC5E77A1EE7F4A90"><enum>(B)</enum><text>not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, a final report on actions taken to carry out this subsection.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5B54526FA1D8412FB65D21BFA98D02D5"><enum>312.</enum><header>Existing refinery permit application deadline</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law, applications for a permit for existing refinery applications shall not be considered to be timely if submitted after 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act.</text> </section></subtitle>