[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4958 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4958

 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a sale of oil and 
gas leases on certain submerged lands of the outer Continental Shelf in 
                      the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 2004

   Mr. John introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a sale of oil and 
gas leases on certain submerged lands of the outer Continental Shelf in 
                      the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Energy Independence for a Strong 
America Act of 2004''.

SEC. 2. LEASE SALE REQUIRED.

    The Secretary of the Interior shall, as soon as practicable after 
the date of the enactment of this Act and under section 8 of the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337), conduct a sale of oil and 
gas leases on all submerged lands of the outer Continental Shelf in the 
Eastern Gulf of Mexico that--
            (1) are depicted as ``Leased or Deferred--Not Offered'' on 
        the Minerals Management Service document entitled ``Eastern 
        Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 181, December 2001 Lease Terms, 
        Economic Conditions, Stipulations, and Deferred Blocks for the 
        FINAL NOTICE OF SALE 181''; and
            (2) are not subject to a lease under that section.
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