[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4755 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4755

 To provide for the collection and interpretation of state of the art, 
 non-intrusive 3-dimensional seismic data on certain federal lands in 
                    Alaska, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 8, 1998

 Mr. Young of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                     to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the collection and interpretation of state of the art, 
 non-intrusive 3-dimensional seismic data on certain federal lands in 
                    Alaska, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION FOR NON-INTRUSIVE SEISMIC TESTING.

    Section 1001 of Title X of the Alaska National Interest Lands 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3141) is amended by adding the following 
new subsection at the end:
    ``(g) Reassessment.--No later than 18 months after the enactment of 
this subsection, the Secretary shall revise the finding required by 
subsection (c)(1) for any of the lands identified in subsection (a) for 
which the United States Geological Survey has, within three years prior 
to enactment of this subsection, assessed the petroleum resources of 
these lands using two-dimensional seismic data that was originally 
collected and analysed more than 10 years prior to enactment of this 
subsection. The Secretary shall reassess the in-place petroleum 
resources of these lands using data obtained from three-dimensional 
seismic exploration to implement this subsection. Activities carried 
out in a conservation system unit under this subsection shall be 
subject to other provisions of this title, including regulations 
promulgated thereunder, applicable to that unit or an area within that 
unit.''.
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