3.0.0 3492 2023-01-11T13:19:47Z 2023-01-11T13:19:47Z Senate S S 2010-06-15 111 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2010-06-15T20:58:16Z Emergency Relief Well Act 111 5666 HR 2010-07-07 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. Identical bill CRS 2010-06-15 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2010-06-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. N M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2010-06-17 False Energy Accidents Administrative law and regulatory procedures Department of the Interior Marine and coastal resources, fisheries Marine pollution Oil and gas Energy 00 2010-06-15 Introduced in Senate 2010-07-07T13:50:15Z Emergency Relief Well Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, with respect to geological and geophysical explorations as well as oil and gas development and production, to require an exploration plan submitted for approval to include a plan for drilling at least one emergency relief well concurrently with the drilling of the proposed well.

Requires any exploratory drilling in submerged lands of the outer Continental Shelf conducted under a lease (including drilling for oil and gas development and production) to be accompanied by the concurrent drilling of at least one emergency relief well, subject to any applicable requirements established by the Secretary of the Interior.

Authorizes the Secretary to require, as an alternative to such emergency relief well requirement, measures that would be at least as effective at stopping a major release from a proposed well.

]]> Emergency Relief Well Act Display Title Emergency Relief Well Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require the drilling of emergency relief wells, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Emergency Relief Well Act Introduced in Senate 2010-06-15T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s3492is/xml/BILLS-111s3492is.xml 2010-06-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.