Preserving the Gulf Test Range to Ensure Military Readiness Act

3.0.0 279 2025-12-05T09:08:33Z 2025-12-05T09:08:33Z Senate S S 2023-02-07 118 https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/279 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2023-02-07T21:16:34Z Preserving the Gulf Test Range to Ensure Military Readiness Act 118 970 HR 2023-02-21 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. Identical bill CRS 2023-02-07 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2023-02-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000595 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] Marco Rubio R FL N S001217 Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL] Rick Scott R FL 2023-02-07 True Energy Energy 2023-02-23T15:15:25Z

00 2023-02-07 Introduced in Senate 2023-06-14T18:11:31Z Preserving the Gulf Test Range to Ensure Military Readiness Act This bill establishes a moratorium on energy development (e.g., offshore wind development) in specified areas of the Gulf of Mexico until June 30, 2032. Until that date, the Department of the Interior may not conduct certain energy development activities in any area east of the Military Mission Line in the Gulf of Mexico. The moratorium also applies to other areas of the Outer Continental Shelf—the South Atlantic Planning Area, the Straits of Florida Planning Area, or any area west of the Military Mission Line in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Planning Area—if energy exploration, leasing, or development in that area has been identified as having any adverse effect on national security, military readiness, or the Department of Defense's testing capabilities. However, Interior may issue leases in those areas for environmental conservation purposes, including the purposes of shore protection, beach nourishment and restoration, wetlands restoration, and habitat protection.

Preserving the Gulf Test Range to Ensure Military Readiness Act Display Title 45 Preserving the Gulf Test Range to Ensure Military Readiness Act 2024-07-24T15:23:52Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Preserving the Gulf Test Range to Ensure Military Readiness Act 2024-05-24T13:42:39Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to establish a moratorium on energy development in certain areas of the Gulf of Mexico, and for other purposes. 2023-02-22T08:28:46Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-118s279is/xml/BILLS-118s279is.xml 2023-02-07 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.