[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3304 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3304

     To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to allow State 
           disapproval of Federal offshore leasing decisions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 19, 1993

 Mr. Cox (for himself, Mr. Johnston of Florida, Mr. Goss, Mr. Ravenel, 
 and Mr. Zimmer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to allow State 
           disapproval of Federal offshore leasing decisions.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 19(d) of 
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1345(d)) is amended to 
read as follows:
    ``(d) Any decision by the Secretary to approve a proposed lease 
sale under section 8, a proposed exploration plan under section 
11(c)(1), or a proposed development and production plan under section 
25(h)(1) shall be transmitted to the Governor of each affected State, 
and shall not become effective until the passage of--
            ``(1) in the case of a State that permits action under this 
        subsection by initiative, such time as the State by law shall 
        prescribe, not to exceed 2 years; or
            ``(2) in all other cases, 6 months,
after such transmittal without such affected State, under appropriate 
provisions of State law, acting to disapprove such decision.''.

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