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[H.R. 4761 Engrossed in House (EH)]


  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4761

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                                 AN ACT


 
To provide for exploration, development, and production activities for 
    mineral resources on the outer Continental Shelf, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 
2006''.

SEC. 2. POLICY.

    It is the policy of the United States that--
            (1) the United States is blessed with abundant energy 
        resources on the outer Continental Shelf and has developed a 
        comprehensive framework of environmental laws and regulations 
        and fostered the development of state-of-the-art technology 
        that allows for the responsible development of these resources 
        for the benefit of its citizenry;
            (2) adjacent States are required by the circumstances to 
        commit significant resources in support of exploration, 
        development, and production activities for mineral resources on 
        the outer Continental Shelf, and it is fair and proper for a 
        portion of the receipts from such activities to be shared with 
        Adjacent States and their local coastal governments;
            (3) the existing laws governing the leasing and production 
        of the mineral resources of the outer Continental Shelf have 
        reduced the production of mineral resources, have preempted 
        Adjacent States from being sufficiently involved in the 
        decisions regarding the allowance of mineral resource 
        development, and have been harmful to the national interest;
            (4) the national interest is served by granting the 
        Adjacent States more options related to whether or not mineral 
        leasing should occur in the outer Continental Shelf within 
        their Adjacent Zones;
            (5) it is not reasonably foreseeable that exploration of a 
        leased tract located more than 25 miles seaward of the 
        coastline, development and production of a natural gas 
        discovery located more than 25 miles seaward of the coastline, 
        or development and production of an oil discovery located more 
        than 50 miles seaward of the coastline will adversely affect 
        resources near the coastline;
            (6) transportation of oil from a leased tract might 
        reasonably be foreseen, under limited circumstances, to have 
        the potential to adversely affect resources near the coastline 
        if the oil is within 50 miles of the coastline, but such 
        potential to adversely affect such resources is likely no 
        greater, and probably less, than the potential impacts from 
        tanker transportation because tanker spills usually involve 
        large releases of oil over a brief period of time; and
            (7) among other bodies of inland waters, the Great Lakes, 
        Long Island Sound, Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Albemarle 
        Sound, San Francisco Bay, and Puget Sound are not part of the 
        outer Continental Shelf, and are not subject to leasing by the 
        Federal Government for the exploration, development, and 
        production of any mineral resources that might lie beneath 
        them.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS UNDER THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LANDS ACT.

    Section 2 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331) 
is amended--
            (1) by amending paragraph (f) to read as follows:
    ``(f) The term `affected State' means the Adjacent State.'';
            (2) by striking the semicolon at the end of each of 
        paragraphs (a) through (o) and inserting a period;
            (3) by striking ``; and'' at the end of paragraph (p) and 
        inserting a period;
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(r) The term `Adjacent State' means, with respect to any program, 
plan, lease sale, leased tract or other activity, proposed, conducted, 
or approved pursuant to the provisions of this Act, any State the laws 
of which are declared, pursuant to section 4(a)(2), to be the law of 
the United States for the portion of the outer Continental Shelf on 
which such program, plan, lease sale, leased tract or activity 
appertains or is, or is proposed to be, conducted. For purposes of this 
paragraph, the term `State' includes Puerto Rico and the other 
Territories of the United States.
    ``(s) The term `Adjacent Zone' means, with respect to any program, 
plan, lease sale, leased tract, or other activity, proposed, conducted, 
or approved pursuant to the provisions of this Act, the portion of the 
outer Continental Shelf for which the laws of a particular Adjacent 
State are declared, pursuant to section 4(a)(2), to be the law of the 
United States.
    ``(t) The term `miles' means statute miles.
    ``(u) The term `coastline' has the same meaning as the term `coast 
line' as defined in section 2(c) of the Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1301(c)).
    ``(v) The term `Neighboring State' means a coastal State having a 
common boundary at the coastline with the Adjacent State.''; and
            (5) in paragraph (a), by inserting after ``control'' the 
        following: ``or lying within the United States exclusive 
        economic zone adjacent to the Territories of the United 
        States''.

SEC. 4. DETERMINATION OF ADJACENT ZONES AND PLANNING AREAS.

    Section 4(a)(2)(A) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 
U.S.C. 1333(a)(2)(A)) is amended in the first sentence by striking ``, 
and the President'' and all that follows through the end of the 
sentence and inserting the following: ``. The lines extending seaward 
and defining each State's Adjacent Zone, and each OCS Planning Area, 
are as indicated on the maps for each outer Continental Shelf region 
entitled `Alaska OCS Region State Adjacent Zone and OCS Planning 
Areas', `Pacific OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning 
Areas', `Gulf of Mexico OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS 
Planning Areas', and `Atlantic OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS 
Planning Areas', all of which are dated September 2005 and on file in 
the Office of the Director, Minerals Management Service.''.

SEC. 5. ADMINISTRATION OF LEASING.

    Section 5 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1334) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(k) Voluntary Partial Relinquishment of a Lease.--Any lessee of a 
producing lease may relinquish to the Secretary any portion of a lease 
that the lessee has no interest in producing and that the Secretary 
finds is geologically prospective. In return for any such 
relinquishment, the Secretary shall provide to the lessee a royalty 
incentive for the portion of the lease retained by the lessee, in 
accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary to carry out 
this subsection. The Secretary shall publish final regulations 
implementing this subsection within 365 days after the date of the 
enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006.
    ``(l) Natural Gas Lease Regulations.--Not later than July 1, 2007, 
the Secretary shall publish a final regulation that shall--
            ``(1) establish procedures for entering into natural gas 
        leases;
            ``(2) ensure that natural gas leases are only available for 
        tracts on the outer Continental Shelf that are wholly within 
        100 miles of the coastline within an area withdrawn from 
        disposition by leasing on the day after the date of enactment 
        of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006;
            ``(3) provide that natural gas leases shall contain the 
        same rights and obligations established for oil and gas leases, 
        except as otherwise provided in the Deep Ocean Energy Resources 
        Act of 2006;
            ``(4) provide that, in reviewing the adequacy of bids for 
        natural gas leases, the value of any crude oil estimated to be 
        contained within any tract shall be excluded;
            ``(5) provide that any crude oil produced from a well and 
        reinjected into the leased tract shall not be subject to 
        payment of royalty, and that the Secretary shall consider, in 
        setting the royalty rates for a natural gas lease, the 
        additional cost to the lessee of not producing any crude oil; 
        and
            ``(6) provide that any Federal law that applies to an oil 
        and gas lease on the outer Continental Shelf shall apply to a 
        natural gas lease unless otherwise clearly inapplicable.''.

SEC. 6. GRANT OF LEASES BY SECRETARY.

    Section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1) by inserting after the first 
        sentence the following: ``Further, the Secretary may grant 
        natural gas leases in a manner similar to the granting of oil 
        and gas leases and under the various bidding systems available 
        for oil and gas leases.'';
            (2) by adding at the end of subsection (b) the following:
``The Secretary may issue more than one lease for a given tract if each 
lease applies to a separate and distinct range of vertical depths, 
horizontal surface area, or a combination of the two. The Secretary may 
issue regulations that the Secretary determines are necessary to manage 
such leases consistent with the purposes of this Act.'';
            (3) by amending subsection (p)(2)(B) to read as follows:
            ``(B) The Secretary shall provide for the payment to 
        coastal states, and their local coastal governments, of 75 
        percent of Federal receipts from projects authorized under this 
        section located partially or completely within the area 
        extending seaward of State submerged lands out to 4 marine 
        leagues from the coastline, and the payment to coastal states 
        of 50 percent of the receipts from projects completely located 
        in the area more than 4 marine leagues from the coastline. 
        Payments shall be based on a formula established by the 
        Secretary by rulemaking no later than 180 days after the date 
        of the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006 
        that provides for equitable distribution, based on proximity to 
        the project, among coastal states that have coastline that is 
        located within 200 miles of the geographic center of the 
        project.''.
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(q) Natural Gas Leases.--
            ``(1) Right to produce natural gas.--A lessee of a natural 
        gas lease shall have the right to produce the natural gas from 
        a field on a natural gas leased tract if the Secretary 
        estimates that the discovered field has at least 40 percent of 
        the economically recoverable Btu content of the field contained 
        within natural gas and such natural gas is economical to 
        produce.
            ``(2) Crude oil.--A lessee of a natural gas lease may not 
        produce crude oil from the lease.
            ``(3) Estimates of btu content.--The Secretary shall make 
        estimates of the natural gas Btu content of discovered fields 
        on a natural gas lease only after the completion of at least 
        one exploration well, the data from which has been tied to the 
        results of a three-dimensional seismic survey of the field. The 
        Secretary may not require the lessee to further delineate any 
        discovered field prior to making such estimates.
            ``(4) Definition of natural gas.--For purposes of a natural 
        gas lease, natural gas means natural gas and all substances 
        produced in association with gas, including, but not limited 
        to, hydrocarbon liquids (other than crude oil) that are 
        obtained by the condensation of hydrocarbon vapors and separate 
        out in liquid form from the produced gas stream.
    ``(r) Removal of Restrictions on Joint Bidding in Certain Areas of 
the Outer Continental Shelf.--Restrictions on joint bidders shall no 
longer apply to tracts located in the Alaska OCS Region. Such 
restrictions shall not apply to tracts in other OCS regions determined 
to be `frontier tracts' or otherwise `high cost tracts' under final 
regulations that shall be published by the Secretary by not later than 
365 days after the date of the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy 
Resources Act of 2006.
    ``(s) Royalty Suspension Provisions.--The Secretary shall agree to 
a request by any lessee to amend any lease issued for Central and 
Western Gulf of Mexico tracts during the period of January 1, 1998, 
through December 31, 1999, to incorporate price thresholds applicable 
to royalty suspension provisions, or amend existing price thresholds, 
in the amount of $40.50 per barrel (2006 dollars) for oil and for 
natural gas of $6.75 per million Btu (2006 dollars). Any amended lease 
shall impose the new or revised price thresholds effective October 1, 
2005. Existing lease provisions shall prevail through September 30, 
2005. After the date of the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy 
Resources Act of 2006, price thresholds shall apply to any royalty 
suspension volumes granted by the Secretary. Unless otherwise set by 
Secretary by regulation or for a particular lease sale, the price 
thresholds shall be $40.50 for oil (2006 dollars) and $6.75 for natural 
gas (2006 dollars).
    ``(t) Conservation of Resources Fees.--
            ``(1) Not later than one year after the date of the 
        enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006, the 
        Secretary by regulation shall establish a conservation of 
        resources fee for producing leases that will apply to new and 
        existing leases which shall be set at $9 per barrel for oil and 
        $1.25 per million Btu for gas. This fee shall only apply to 
        leases in production located in more than 200 meters of water 
        for which royalties are not being paid when prices exceed 
        $40.50 per barrel for oil and $6.75 per million Btu for natural 
        gas in 2006, dollars. This fee shall apply to production from 
        and after October 1, 2005, and shall be treated as offsetting 
        receipts.
            ``(2) Not later than one year after the date of the 
        enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006, the 
        Secretary by regulation shall establish a conservation of 
        resources fee for nonproducing leases that will apply to new 
        and existing leases which shall be set at $3.75 per acre per 
        year. This fee shall apply from and after October 1, 2005, and 
        shall be treated as offsetting receipts.'';
            (5) by striking subsection (a)(3)(A) and redesignating the 
        subsequent subparagraphs as subparagraphs (A) and (B), 
        respectively;
            (6) in subsection (a)(3)(A) (as so redesignated) by 
        striking ``In the Western'' and all that follows through ``the 
        Secretary'' the first place it appears and inserting ``The 
        Secretary''; and
            (7) effective October 1, 2006, in subsection (g)--
                    (A) by striking all after ``(g)'', except paragraph 
                (3);
                    (B) by striking the last sentence of paragraph (3); 
                and
                    (C) by striking ``(3)''.

SEC. 7. DISPOSITION OF RECEIPTS.

    Section 9 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1338) 
is amended--
            (1) by designating the existing text as subsection (a);
            (2) in subsection (a) (as so designated) by inserting ``, 
        if not paid as otherwise provided in this title'' after 
        ``receipts''; and
            (3) by adding the following:
    ``(b) Treatment of OCS Receipts From Tracts Completely Within 100 
Miles of the Coastline.--
            ``(1) Deposit.--The Secretary shall deposit into a separate 
        account in the Treasury the portion of OCS Receipts for each 
        fiscal year that will be shared under paragraphs (2), (3), and 
        (4).
            ``(2) Phased-in receipts sharing.--
                    ``(A) Beginning October 1, 2005, the Secretary 
                shall share OCS Receipts derived from the following 
                areas:
                            ``(i) Lease tracts located on portions of 
                        the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region completely beyond 
                        4 marine leagues from any coastline and 
                        completely within 100 miles of any coastline 
                        that are available for leasing under the 2002-
                        2007 5-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program in 
                        effect prior to the date of the enactment of 
                        the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006.
                            ``(ii) Lease tracts in production prior to 
                        October 1, 2005, completely beyond 4 marine 
                        leagues from any coastline and completely 
                        within 100 miles of any coastline located on 
                        portions of the OCS that were not available for 
                        leasing under the 2002-2007 5-Year OCS Oil and 
                        Gas Leasing Program in effect prior to the date 
                        of the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy 
                        Resources Act of 2006.
                            ``(iii) Lease tracts for which leases are 
                        issued prior to October 1, 2005, located in the 
                        Alaska OCS Region completely beyond 4 marine 
                        leagues from any coastline and completely 
                        within 100 miles of the coastline.
                    ``(B) The Secretary shall share the following 
                percentages of OCS Receipts from the leases described 
                in subparagraph (A) derived during the fiscal year 
                indicated:
                            ``(i) For fiscal year 2006, 4.6 percent.
                            ``(ii) For fiscal year 2007, 5.95 percent.
                            ``(iii) For fiscal year 2008, 6.8 percent.
                            ``(iv) For fiscal year 2009, 7.65 percent.
                            ``(v) For fiscal year 2010, 10.20 percent.
                            ``(vi) For fiscal year 2011, 12.75 percent.
                            ``(vii) For fiscal year 2012, 15.30 
                        percent.
                            ``(viii) For fiscal year 2013, 17.85 
                        percent.
                            ``(ix) For fiscal year 2014, 20.40 percent.
                            ``(x) For fiscal year 2015, 22.95 percent.
                            ``(xi) For fiscal year 2016, 25.50 percent.
                            ``(xii) For fiscal year 2017, 28.05 
                        percent.
                            ``(xiii) For fiscal year 2018, 30.60 
                        percent.
                            ``(xiv) For fiscal year 2019, 33.15 
                        percent.
                            ``(xv) For fiscal year 2020, 35.70 percent.
                            ``(xvi) For fiscal year 2021, 38.25 
                        percent.
                            ``(xvii) For fiscal year 2022 and each 
                        subsequent fiscal year, 42.50 percent.
                    ``(C) The provisions of this paragraph shall not 
                apply to leases that could not have been issued but for 
                section 5(k) of this Act or section 6(2) of the Deep 
                Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006.
            ``(3) Immediate receipts sharing.--Beginning October 1, 
        2005, the Secretary shall share 42.50 percent of OCS Receipts 
        derived from all leases located completely beyond 4 marine 
        leagues from any coastline and completely within 100 miles of 
        any coastline not included within the provisions of paragraph 
        (2).
            ``(4) Receipts sharing from tracts within 4 marine leagues 
        of any coastline.--
                    ``(A) Areas described in paragraph (2).--
                            ``(i) Beginning October 1, 2005, and 
                        continuing through September 30, 2010, the 
                        Secretary shall share 25 percent of OCS 
                        Receipts derived from all leases located within 
                        4 marine leagues from any coastline within 
                        areas described in paragraph (2). For each 
                        fiscal year after September 30, 2010, the 
                        Secretary shall increase the percent shared in 
                        5 percent increments each fiscal year until the 
                        sharing rate for all leases located within 4 
                        marine leagues from any coastline within areas 
                        described in paragraph (2) becomes 42.5 
                        percent.
                            ``(ii) During fiscal year 2016, the 
                        Secretary shall conduct an analysis of all of 
                        the areas described in paragraph (3) and 
                        subsection (c)(3) to determine the total of OCS 
                        Receipts derived from such areas during the 
                        period of fiscal year 2007 through fiscal year 
                        2016. The Secretary shall subtract the amount 
                        of $4 billion from the total of such OCS 
                        Receipts. If the result is a positive number, 
                        the Secretary shall divide such positive number 
                        by $4 billion. The resulting quotient, not to 
                        exceed 0.5, shall then be multiplied times 25. 
                        The product of such multiplication shall be 
                        added to 42.5 and the sum shall be the percent 
                        that the Secretary shall share for fiscal year 
                        2017 and all future years from OCS Receipts 
                        derived from all leases located within 4 marine 
                        leagues from any coastline within areas 
                        described in paragraph (2), unless increased by 
                        the provisions of (iii).
                            ``(iii) Beginning October 1, 2017, the 
                        Secretary shall share, in addition to the share 
                        established by (i), as modified by (ii) if any, 
                        amounts determined as follows, with the total 
                        of the amounts shared under this paragraph not 
                        to exceed in any fiscal year an amount equal to 
                        63.75 percent of total OCS Receipts derived 
                        from all leases located within 4 marine leagues 
                        from any coastline within areas described in 
                        paragraph (2)--25 percent of the total of OCS 
                        Receipts derived from areas described in 
                        paragraph (3) and subsection (c)(3) that exceed 
                        the following amounts for the fiscal year 
                        indicated: for fiscal year 2017 the amount of 
                        $900,000,000 and for each fiscal year 
                        thereafter add $100,000,000. Amounts added 
                        under this clause to be shared, if any, for any 
                        fiscal year shall be added to the sharing base 
                        for all subsequent years and shall be allocated 
                        among State Adjacent Zones on a basis 
                        proportional to the result from the calculation 
                        in clause (i).
                    ``(B) Areas not described in paragraph (2).--
                Beginning October 1, 2005, the Secretary shall share 
                63.75 percent of OCS receipts derived from all leases 
                located completely or partially within 4 marine leagues 
                from any coastline within areas not described paragraph 
                (2).
            ``(5) Allocations.--The Secretary shall allocate the OCS 
        Receipts deposited into the separate account established by 
        paragraph (1) that are shared under paragraphs (2), (3), and 
        (4) as follows:
                    ``(A) Bonus bids.--Deposits derived from bonus bids 
                from a leased tract, including interest thereon, shall 
                be allocated at the end of each fiscal year to the 
                Adjacent State.
                    ``(B) Royalties.--Deposits derived from royalties 
                from a leased tract, including interest thereon, shall 
                be allocated at the end of each fiscal year to the 
                Adjacent State and any other producing State or States 
                with a leased tract within its Adjacent Zone within 100 
                miles of its coastline that generated royalties during 
                the fiscal year, if the other producing or States have 
                a coastline point within 300 miles of any portion of 
                the leased tract, in which case the amount allocated 
                for the leased tract shall be--
                            ``(i) one-third to the Adjacent State; and
                            ``(ii) two-thirds to each producing State, 
                        including the Adjacent State, inversely 
                        proportional to the distance between the 
                        nearest point on the coastline of the producing 
                        State and the geographic center of the leased 
                        tract.
    ``(c) Treatment of OCS Receipts From Tracts Partially or Completely 
Beyond 100 Miles of the Coastline.--
            ``(1) Deposit.--The Secretary shall deposit into a separate 
        account in the Treasury the portion of OCS Receipts for each 
        fiscal year that will be shared under paragraphs (2) and (3).
            ``(2) Phased-in receipts sharing.--
                    ``(A) Beginning October 1, 2005, the Secretary 
                shall share OCS Receipts derived from the following 
                areas:
                            ``(i) Lease tracts located on portions of 
                        the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region partially or 
                        completely beyond 100 miles of any coastline 
                        that were available for leasing under the 2002-
                        2007 5-Year Oil and Gas Leasing Program in 
                        effect prior to the date of enactment of the 
                        Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006.
                            ``(ii) Lease tracts in production prior to 
                        October 1, 2005, partially or completely beyond 
                        100 miles of any coastline located on portions 
                        of the OCS that were not available for leasing 
                        under the 2002-2007 5-Year OCS Oil and Gas 
                        Leasing Program in effect prior to the date of 
                        enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources 
                        Act of 2006.
                            ``(iii) Lease tracts for which leases are 
                        issued prior to October 1, 2005, located in the 
                        Alaska OCS Region partially or completely 
                        beyond 100 miles of the coastline.
                    ``(B) The Secretary shall share the following 
                percentages of OCS Receipts from the leases described 
                in subparagraph (A) derived during the fiscal year 
                indicated:
                            ``(i) For fiscal year 2006, 4.6 percent.
                            ``(ii) For fiscal year 2007, 5.95 percent.
                            ``(iii) For fiscal year 2008, 6.80 percent.
                            ``(iv) For fiscal year 2009, 7.65 percent.
                            ``(v) For fiscal year 2010, 10.20 percent.
                            ``(vi) For fiscal year 2011, 12.75 percent.
                            ``(vii) For fiscal year 2012, 15.30 
                        percent.
                            ``(viii) For fiscal year 2013, 17.85 
                        percent.
                            ``(ix) For fiscal year 2014, 20.40 percent.
                            ``(x) For fiscal year 2015, 22.95 percent.
                            ``(xi) For fiscal year 2016, 25.50 percent.
                            ``(xii) For fiscal year 2017, 28.05 
                        percent.
                            ``(xiii) For fiscal year 2018, 30.60 
                        percent.
                            ``(xiv) For fiscal year 2019, 33.15 
                        percent.
                            ``(xv) For fiscal year 2020, 35.70 percent.
                            ``(xvi) For fiscal year 2021, 38.25 
                        percent.
                            ``(xvii) For fiscal year 2022 and each 
                        subsequent fiscal year, 42.50 percent.
                    ``(C) The provisions of this paragraph shall not 
                apply to leases that could not have been issued but for 
                section 5(k) of this Act or section 6(2) of the Deep 
                Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006.
            ``(3) Immediate receipts sharing.--Beginning October 1, 
        2005, the Secretary shall share 42.5 percent of OCS Receipts 
        derived on and after October 1, 2005, from all leases located 
        partially or completely beyond 100 miles of any coastline not 
        included within the provisions of paragraph (2), except that 
        the Secretary shall only share 25 percent of such OCS Receipts 
        derived from all such leases within a State's Adjacent Zone if 
        no leasing is allowed within any portion of that State's 
        Adjacent Zone located completely within 100 miles of any 
        coastline.
            ``(4) Allocations.--The Secretary shall allocate the OCS 
        Receipts deposited into the separate account established by 
        paragraph (1) that are shared under paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
        follows:
                    ``(A) Bonus bids.--Deposits derived from bonus bids 
                from a leased tract, including interest thereon, shall 
                be allocated at the end of each fiscal year to the 
                Adjacent State.
                    ``(B) Royalties.--Deposits derived from royalties 
                from a leased tract, including interest thereon, shall 
                be allocated at the end of each fiscal year to the 
                Adjacent State and any other producing State or States 
                with a leased tract within its Adjacent Zone partially 
                or completely beyond 100 miles of its coastline that 
                generated royalties during the fiscal year, if the 
                other producing State or States have a coastline point 
                within 300 miles of any portion of the leased tract, in 
                which case the amount allocated for the leased tract 
                shall be--
                            ``(i) one-third to the Adjacent State; and
                            ``(ii) two-thirds to each producing State, 
                        including the Adjacent State, inversely 
                        proportional to the distance between the 
                        nearest point on the coastline of the producing 
                        State and the geographic center of the leased 
                        tract.
    ``(d) Transmission of Allocations.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the end of 
        each fiscal year, the Secretary shall transmit--
                    ``(A) to each State 60 percent of such State's 
                allocations under subsections (b)(5)(A), (b)(5)(B), 
                (c)(4)(A), and (c)(4)(B) for the immediate prior fiscal 
                year;
                    ``(B) to each coastal county-equivalent and 
                municipal political subdivisions of such State a total 
                of 40 percent of such State's allocations under 
                subsections (b)(5)(A), (b)(5)(B), (c)(4)(A), and 
                (c)(4)(B), together with all accrued interest thereon; 
                and
                    ``(C) the remaining allocations under subsections 
                (b)(5) and (c)(4), together with all accrued interest 
                thereon.
            ``(2) Allocations to coastal county-equivalent political 
        subdivisions.--The Secretary shall make an initial allocation 
        of the OCS Receipts to be shared under paragraph (1)(B) as 
        follows:
                    ``(A) 25 percent shall be allocated to coastal 
                county-equivalent political subdivisions that are 
                completely more than 25 miles landward of the coastline 
                and at least a part of which lies not more than 75 
                miles landward from the coastline, with the allocation 
                among such coastal county-equivalent political 
                subdivisions based on population.
                    ``(B) 75 percent shall be allocated to coastal 
                county-equivalent political subdivisions that are 
                completely or partially less than 25 miles landward of 
                the coastline, with the allocation among such coastal 
                county-equivalent political subdivisions to be further 
                allocated as follows:
                            ``(i) 25 percent shall be allocated based 
                        on the ratio of such coastal county-equivalent 
                        political subdivision's population to the 
                        coastal population of all coastal county-
                        equivalent political subdivisions in the State.
                            ``(ii) 25 percent shall be allocated based 
                        on the ratio of such coastal county-equivalent 
                        political subdivision's coastline miles to the 
                        coastline miles of all coastal county-
                        equivalent political subdivisions in the State 
                        as calculated by the Secretary. In such 
                        calculations, coastal county-equivalent 
                        political subdivisions without a coastline 
                        shall be considered to have 50 percent of the 
                        average coastline miles of the coastal county-
                        equivalent political subdivisions that do have 
                        coastlines.
                            ``(iii) 25 percent shall be allocated to 
                        all coastal county-equivalent political 
                        subdivisions having a coastline point within 
                        300 miles of the leased tract for which OCS 
                        Receipts are being shared based on a formula 
                        that allocates the funds based on such coastal 
                        county-equivalent political subdivision's 
                        relative distance from the leased tract.
                            ``(iv) 25 percent shall be allocated to all 
                        coastal county-equivalent political 
                        subdivisions having a coastline point within 
                        300 miles of the leased tract for which OCS 
                        Receipts are being shared based on the relative 
                        level of outer Continental Shelf oil and gas 
                        activities in a coastal political subdivision 
                        compared to the level of outer Continental 
                        Shelf activities in all coastal political 
                        subdivisions in the State. The Secretary shall 
                        define the term `outer Continental Shelf oil 
                        and gas activities' for purposes of this 
                        subparagraph to include, but not be limited to, 
                        construction of vessels, drillships, and 
                        platforms involved in exploration, production, 
                        and development on the outer Continental Shelf; 
                        support and supply bases, ports, and related 
                        activities; offices of geologists, 
                        geophysicists, engineers, and other 
                        professionals involved in support of 
                        exploration, production, and development of oil 
                        and gas on the outer Continental Shelf; 
                        pipelines and other means of transporting oil 
                        and gas production from the outer Continental 
                        Shelf; and processing and refining of oil and 
                        gas production from the outer Continental 
                        Shelf. For purposes of this subparagraph, if a 
                        coastal county-equivalent political subdivision 
                        does not have a coastline, its coastal point 
                        shall be the point on the coastline closest to 
                        it.
            ``(3) Allocations to coastal municipal political 
        subdivisions.--The initial allocation to each coastal county-
        equivalent political subdivision under paragraph (2) shall be 
        further allocated to the coastal county-equivalent political 
        subdivision and any coastal municipal political subdivisions 
        located partially or wholly within the boundaries of the 
        coastal county-equivalent political subdivision as follows:
                    ``(A) One-third shall be allocated to the coastal 
                county-equivalent political subdivision.
                    ``(B) Two-thirds shall be allocated on a per capita 
                basis to the municipal political subdivisions and the 
                county-equivalent political subdivision, with the 
                allocation to the latter based upon its population not 
                included within the boundaries of a municipal political 
                subdivision.
    ``(e) Investment of Deposits.--Amounts deposited under this section 
shall be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury in securities backed 
by the full faith and credit of the United States having maturities 
suitable to the needs of the account in which they are deposited and 
yielding the highest reasonably available interest rates as determined 
by the Secretary of the Treasury.
    ``(f) Use of Funds.--A recipient of funds under this section may 
use the funds for one or more of the following:
            ``(1) To reduce in-State college tuition at public 
        institutions of higher learning and otherwise support public 
        education, including career technical education.
            ``(2) To make transportation infrastructure improvements.
            ``(3) To reduce taxes.
            ``(4) To promote, fund, and provide for--
                    ``(A) coastal or environmental restoration;
                    ``(B) fish, wildlife, and marine life habitat 
                enhancement;
                    ``(C) waterways construction and maintenance;
                    ``(D) levee construction and maintenance and shore 
                protection; and
                    ``(E) marine and oceanographic education and 
                research.
            ``(5) To promote, fund, and provide for --
                    ``(A) infrastructure associated with energy 
                production activities conducted on the outer 
                Continental Shelf;
                    ``(B) energy demonstration projects;
                    ``(C) supporting infrastructure for shore-based 
                energy projects;
                    ``(D) State geologic programs, including geologic 
                mapping and data storage programs, and state 
                geophysical data acquisition;
                    ``(E) State seismic monitoring programs, including 
                operation of monitoring stations;
                    ``(F) development of oil and gas resources through 
                enhanced recovery techniques;
                    ``(G) alternative energy development, including bio 
                fuels, coal-to-liquids, oil shale, tar sands, 
                geothermal, geopressure, wind, waves, currents, hydro, 
                and other renewable energy;
                    ``(H) energy efficiency and conservation programs; 
                and
                    ``(I) front-end engineering and design for 
                facilities that produce liquid fuels from hydrocarbons 
                and other biological matter.
            ``(6) To promote, fund, and provide for--
                    ``(A) historic preservation programs and projects;
                    ``(B) natural disaster planning and response; and
                    ``(C) hurricane and natural disaster insurance 
                programs.
            ``(7) For any other purpose as determined by State law.
    ``(g) No Accounting Required.--No recipient of funds under this 
section shall be required to account to the Federal Government for the 
expenditure of such funds, except as otherwise may be required by law. 
However, States may enact legislation providing for accounting for and 
auditing of such expenditures. Further, funds allocated under this 
section to States and political subdivisions may be used as matching 
funds for other Federal programs.
    ``(h) Effect of Future Laws.--Enactment of any future Federal 
statute that has the effect, as determined by the Secretary, of 
restricting any Federal agency from spending appropriated funds, or 
otherwise preventing it from fulfilling its pre-existing 
responsibilities as of the date of enactment of the statute, unless 
such responsibilities have been reassigned to another Federal agency by 
the statute with no prevention of performance, to issue any permit or 
other approval impacting on the OCS oil and gas leasing program, or any 
lease issued thereunder, or to implement any provision of this Act 
shall automatically prohibit any sharing of OCS Receipts under this 
section directly with the States, and their coastal political 
subdivisions, for the duration of the restriction. The Secretary shall 
make the determination of the existence of such restricting effects 
within 30 days of a petition by any outer Continental Shelf lessee or 
producing State.
    ``(i) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Coastal county-equivalent political subdivision.--The 
        term `coastal county-equivalent political subdivision' means a 
        political jurisdiction immediately below the level of State 
        government, including a county, parish, borough in Alaska, 
        independent municipality not part of a county, parish, or 
        borough in Alaska, or other equivalent subdivision of a coastal 
        State, that lies within the coastal zone.
            ``(2) Coastal municipal political subdivision.--The term 
        `coastal municipal political subdivision' means a municipality 
        located within and part of a county, parish, borough in Alaska, 
        or other equivalent subdivision of a State, all or part of 
        which coastal municipal political subdivision lies within the 
        coastal zone.
            ``(3) Coastal population.--The term `coastal population' 
        means the population of all coastal county-equivalent political 
        subdivisions, as determined by the most recent official data of 
        the Census Bureau.
            ``(4) Coastal zone.--The term `coastal zone' means that 
        portion of a coastal State, including the entire territory of 
        any coastal county-equivalent political subdivision at least a 
        part of which lies, within 75 miles landward from the 
        coastline, or a greater distance as determined by State law 
        enacted to implement this section.
            ``(5) Bonus bids.--The term `bonus bids' means all funds 
        received by the Secretary to issue an outer Continental Shelf 
        minerals lease.
            ``(6) Royalties.--The term `royalties' means all funds 
        received by the Secretary from production of oil or natural 
        gas, or the sale of production taken in-kind, from an outer 
        Continental Shelf minerals lease.
            ``(7) Producing state.--The term `producing State' means an 
        Adjacent State having an Adjacent Zone containing leased tracts 
        from which OCS Receipts were derived.
            ``(8) OCS receipts.--The term `OCS Receipts' means bonus 
        bids, royalties, and conservation of resources fees.''.

SEC. 8. RESERVATION OF LANDS AND RIGHTS.

    Section 12 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1341) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a) by adding at the end the following: 
        ``The President may partially or completely revise or revoke 
        any prior withdrawal made by the President under the authority 
        of this section. The President may not revise or revoke a 
        withdrawal that is extended by a State under subsection (h), 
        nor may the President withdraw from leasing any area for which 
        a State failed to prohibit, or petition to prohibit, leasing 
        under subsection (g). Further, in the area of the outer 
        Continental Shelf more than 100 miles from any coastline, not 
        more than 25 percent of the acreage of any OCS Planning Area 
        may be withdrawn from leasing under this section at any point 
        in time. A withdrawal by the President may be for a term not to 
        exceed 10 years. When considering potential uses of the outer 
        Continental Shelf, to the maximum extent possible, the 
        President shall accommodate competing interests and potential 
        uses.'';
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Availability for Leasing Within Certain Areas of the Outer 
Continental Shelf.--
            ``(1) Prohibition against leasing.--
                    ``(A) Unavailable for leasing without state 
                request.--Except as otherwise provided in this 
                subsection, from and after enactment of the Deep Ocean 
                Energy Resources Act of 2006, the Secretary shall not 
                offer for leasing for oil and gas, or natural gas, any 
                area within 50 miles of the coastline that was 
                withdrawn from disposition by leasing in the Atlantic 
                OCS Region or the Pacific OCS Region, or the Gulf of 
                Mexico OCS Region Eastern Planning Area, as depicted on 
                the maps referred to in this subparagraph, under the 
                `Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the 
                United States Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing 
                Disposition', 34 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 1111, dated 
                June 12, 1998, or any area within 50 miles of the 
                coastline not withdrawn under that Memorandum that is 
                included within the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern 
                Planning Area as indicated on the map entitled `Gulf of 
                Mexico OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning 
                Areas' or the Florida Straits Planning Area as 
                indicated on the map entitled `Atlantic OCS Region 
                State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning Areas', both of 
                which are dated September 2005 and on file in the 
                Office of the Director, Minerals Management Service.
                    ``(B) Areas between 50 and 100 miles from the 
                coastline.--Unless an Adjacent State petitions under 
                subsection (h) within one year after the date of the 
                enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 
                2006 for natural gas leasing or by June 30, 2009, for 
                oil and gas leasing, the Secretary shall offer for 
                leasing any area more than 50 miles but less than 100 
                miles from the coastline that was withdrawn from 
                disposition by leasing in the Atlantic OCS Region, the 
                Pacific OCS Region, or the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region 
                Eastern Planning Area, as depicted on the maps referred 
                to in this subparagraph, under the `Memorandum on 
                Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer 
                Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition', 34 Weekly 
                Comp. Pres. Doc. 1111, dated June 12, 1998, or any area 
                more than 50 miles but less than 100 miles of the 
                coastline not withdrawn under that Memorandum that is 
                included within the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Eastern 
                Planning Area as indicated on the map entitled `Gulf of 
                Mexico OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning 
                Areas' or within the Florida Straits Planning Area as 
                indicated on the map entitled `Atlantic OCS Region 
                State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning Areas', both of 
                which are dated September 2005 and on file in the 
                Office of the Director, Minerals Management Service.
            ``(2) Revocation of withdrawal.--The provisions of the 
        `Memorandum on Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States 
        Outer Continental Shelf from Leasing Disposition', 34 Weekly 
        Comp. Pres. Doc. 1111, dated June 12, 1998, are hereby revoked 
        and are no longer in effect. The 2002-2007 5-Year Outer 
        Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program is hereby amended 
        to include the areas added to the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region 
        Central Planning Area by this Act to the extent that such areas 
        were included within the original boundaries of proposed Lease 
        Sale 181. The amendment to such leasing program includes a sale 
        in such additional areas, which shall be held no later than 
        April 30, 2007. The Final Environmental Impact Statement 
        prepared for this area for Lease Sale 181 shall be deemed 
        sufficient for all purposes for each lease sale in which such 
        area is offered for lease during the 2002-2007 5-Year Outer 
        Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program without need for 
        supplementation. Any tract only partially added to the Gulf of 
        Mexico OCS Region Central Planning Area by this Act shall be 
        eligible for leasing of the part of such tract that is included 
        within the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Central Planning Area, and 
        the remainder of such tract that lies outside of the Gulf of 
        Mexico OCS Region Central Planning Area may be developed and 
        produced by the lessee of such partial tract using extended 
        reach or similar drilling from a location on a leased area. 
        Further, any area in the OCS withdrawn from leasing may be 
        leased, and thereafter developed and produced by the lessee 
        using extended reach or similar drilling from a location on a 
        leased area located in an area available for leasing.
            ``(3) Petition for leasing.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Governor of the State, upon 
                concurrence of its legislature, may submit to the 
                Secretary a petition requesting that the Secretary make 
                available any area that is within the State's Adjacent 
                Zone, included within the provisions of paragraph (1), 
                and that (i) is greater than 25 miles from any point on 
                the coastline of a Neighboring State for the conduct of 
                offshore leasing, pre-leasing, and related activities 
                with respect to natural gas leasing; or (ii) is greater 
                than 50 miles from any point on the coastline of a 
                Neighboring State for the conduct of offshore leasing, 
                pre-leasing, and related activities with respect to oil 
                and gas leasing. The Adjacent State may also petition 
                for leasing any other area within its Adjacent Zone if 
                leasing is allowed in the similar area of the Adjacent 
                Zone of the applicable Neighboring State, or if not 
                allowed, if the Neighboring State, acting through its 
                Governor, expresses its concurrence with the petition. 
                The Secretary shall only consider such a petition upon 
                making a finding that leasing is allowed in the similar 
                area of the Adjacent Zone of the applicable Neighboring 
                State or upon receipt of the concurrence of the 
                Neighboring State. The date of receipt by the Secretary 
                of such concurrence by the Neighboring State shall 
                constitute the date of receipt of the petition for that 
                area for which the concurrence applies. Except for any 
                area described in the last sentence of paragraph (2), a 
                petition for leasing any part of the Alabama Adjacent 
                Zone that is a part of the Gulf of Mexico Eastern 
                Planning Area, as indicated on the map entitled `Gulf 
                of Mexico OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS 
                Planning Areas' which is dated September 2005 and on 
                file in the Office of the Director, Minerals Management 
                Service, shall require the concurrence of both Alabama 
                and Florida.
                    ``(B) Limitations on leasing.--In its petition, a 
                State with an Adjacent Zone that contains leased tracts 
                may condition new leasing for oil and gas, or natural 
                gas for tracts within 25 miles of the coastline by--
                            ``(i) requiring a net reduction in the 
                        number of production platforms;
                            ``(ii) requiring a net increase in the 
                        average distance of production platforms from 
                        the coastline;
                            ``(iii) limiting permanent surface 
                        occupancy on new leases to areas that are more 
                        than 10 miles from the coastline;
                            ``(iv) limiting some tracts to being 
                        produced from shore or from platforms located 
                        on other tracts; or
                            ``(v) other conditions that the Adjacent 
                        State may deem appropriate as long as the 
                        Secretary does not determine that production is 
                        made economically or technically impracticable 
                        or otherwise impossible.
                    ``(C) Action by secretary.--Not later than 90 days 
                after receipt of a petition under subparagraph (A), the 
                Secretary shall approve the petition, unless the 
                Secretary determines that leasing the area would 
                probably cause serious harm or damage to the marine 
                resources of the State's Adjacent Zone. Prior to 
                approving the petition, the Secretary shall complete an 
                environmental assessment that documents the anticipated 
                environmental effects of leasing in the area included 
                within the scope of the petition.
                    ``(D) Failure to act.--If the Secretary fails to 
                approve or deny a petition in accordance with 
                subparagraph (C) the petition shall be considered to be 
                approved 90 days after receipt of the petition.
                    ``(E) Amendment of the 5-year leasing program.--
                Notwithstanding section 18, within 180 days of the 
                approval of a petition under subparagraph (C) or (D), 
                after the expiration of the time limits in paragraph 
                (1)(B), and within 180 days after the enactment of the 
                Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006 for the areas 
                made available for leasing under paragraph (2), the 
                Secretary shall amend the current 5-Year Outer 
                Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program to 
                include a lease sale or sales for at least 75 percent 
                of the associated areas, unless there are, from the 
                date of approval, expiration of such time limits, or 
                enactment, as applicable, fewer than 12 months 
                remaining in the current 5-Year Leasing Program in 
                which case the Secretary shall include the associated 
                areas within lease sales under the next 5-Year Leasing 
                Program. For purposes of amending the 5-Year Program in 
                accordance with this section, further consultations 
                with States shall not be required. For purposes of this 
                section, an environmental assessment performed under 
                the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act 
                of 1969 to assess the effects of approving the petition 
                shall be sufficient to amend the 5-Year Leasing 
                Program.
    ``(h) Option to Extend Withdrawal From Leasing Within Certain Areas 
of the Outer Continental Shelf.--A State, through its Governor and upon 
the concurrence of its legislature, may extend for a period of time of 
up to 5 years for each extension the withdrawal from leasing for all or 
part of any area within the State's Adjacent Zone located more than 50 
miles, but less than 100 miles, from the coastline that is subject to 
subsection (g)(1)(B). A State may extend multiple times for any 
particular area but not more than once per calendar year for any 
particular area. A State must prepare separate extensions, with 
separate votes by its legislature, for oil and gas leasing and for 
natural gas leasing. An extension by a State may affect some areas to 
be withdrawn from all leasing and some areas to be withdrawn only from 
one type of leasing. Extensions of the withdrawal from leasing of any 
part of the Alabama Adjacent Zone that is more than 50 miles, but less 
than 100 miles, from the coastline that is a part of the Gulf of Mexico 
OCS Region Eastern Planning Area, as indicated on the map entitled 
`Gulf of Mexico OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning Areas' 
which is dated September 2005 and on file in the Office of the 
Director, Minerals Management Service, may be made by either Alabama or 
Florida.
    ``(i) Effect of Other Laws.--Adoption by any Adjacent State of any 
constitutional provision, or enactment of any State statute, that has 
the effect, as determined by the Secretary, of restricting either the 
Governor or the Legislature, or both, from exercising full discretion 
related to subsection (g) or (h), or both, shall automatically (1) 
prohibit any sharing of OCS Receipts under this Act with the Adjacent 
State, and its coastal political subdivisions, and (2) prohibit the 
Adjacent State from exercising any authority under subsection (h), for 
the duration of the restriction. The Secretary shall make the 
determination of the existence of such restricting constitutional 
provision or State statute within 30 days of a petition by any outer 
Continental Shelf lessee or coastal State.
    ``(j) Prohibition on Leasing East of the Military Mission Line.--
            ``(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from and 
        after the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 
        2006, no area of the outer Continental Shelf located in the 
        Gulf of Mexico east of the military mission line may be offered 
        for leasing for oil and gas or natural gas.
            ``(2) In this subsection, the term `military mission line' 
        means a line located at 86 degrees, 41minutes West Longitude, 
        and extending south from the coast of Florida to the outer 
        boundary of United States territorial waters in the Gulf of 
        Mexico.''.

SEC. 9. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LEASING PROGRAM.

    Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1344) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end of paragraph 
        (3) the following: ``The Secretary shall, in each 5-year 
        program, include lease sales that when viewed as a whole 
        propose to offer for oil and gas or natural gas leasing at 
        least 75 percent of the available unleased acreage within each 
        OCS Planning Area. Available unleased acreage is that portion 
        of the outer Continental Shelf that is not under lease at the 
        time of the proposed lease sale, and has not otherwise been 
        made unavailable for leasing by law.'';
            (2) in subsection (c), by striking so much as precedes 
        paragraph (3) and inserting the following:
    ``(c)(1) During the preparation of any proposed leasing program 
under this section, the Secretary shall consider and analyze leasing 
throughout the entire Outer Continental Shelf without regard to any 
other law affecting such leasing. During this preparation the Secretary 
shall invite and consider suggestions from any interested Federal 
agency, including the Attorney General, in consultation with the 
Federal Trade Commission, and from the Governor of any coastal State. 
The Secretary may also invite or consider any suggestions from the 
executive of any local government in a coastal State that have been 
previously submitted to the Governor of such State, and from any other 
person. Further, the Secretary shall consult with the Secretary of 
Defense regarding military operational needs in the outer Continental 
Shelf. The Secretary shall work with the Secretary of Defense to 
resolve any conflicts that might arise regarding offering any area of 
the outer Continental Shelf for oil and gas or natural gas leasing. If 
the Secretaries are not able to resolve all such conflicts, any 
unresolved issues shall be elevated to the President for resolution.
    ``(2) After the consideration and analysis required by paragraph 
(1), including the consideration of the suggestions received from any 
interested Federal agency, the Federal Trade Commission, the Governor 
of any coastal State, any local government of a coastal State, and any 
other person, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a 
proposed leasing program accompanied by a draft environmental impact 
statement prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969. After the publishing of the proposed leasing program and during 
the comment period provided for on the draft environmental impact 
statement, the Secretary shall submit a copy of the proposed program to 
the Governor of each affected State for review and comment. The 
Governor may solicit comments from those executives of local 
governments in the Governor's State that the Governor, in the 
discretion of the Governor, determines will be affected by the proposed 
program. If any comment by such Governor is received by the Secretary 
at least 15 days prior to submission to the Congress pursuant to 
paragraph (3) and includes a request for any modification of such 
proposed program, the Secretary shall reply in writing, granting or 
denying such request in whole or in part, or granting such request in 
such modified form as the Secretary considers appropriate, and stating 
the Secretary's reasons therefor. All such correspondence between the 
Secretary and the Governor of any affected State, together with any 
additional information and data relating thereto, shall accompany such 
proposed program when it is submitted to the Congress.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) Projection of State Adjacent Zone Resources and State and 
Local Government Shares of OCS Receipts.--Concurrent with the 
publication of the scoping notice at the beginning of the development 
of each 5-year outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing program, or 
as soon thereafter as possible, the Secretary shall--
            ``(1) provide to each Adjacent State a current estimate of 
        proven and potential oil and gas resources located within the 
        State's Adjacent Zone; and
            ``(2) provide to each Adjacent State, and coastal political 
        subdivisions thereof, a best-efforts projection of the OCS 
        Receipts that the Secretary expects will be shared with each 
        Adjacent State, and its coastal political subdivisions, using 
        the assumption that the unleased tracts within the State's 
        Adjacent Zone are fully made available for leasing, including 
        long-term projected OCS Receipts. In addition, the Secretary 
        shall include a macroeconomic estimate of the impact of such 
        leasing on the national economy and each State's economy, 
        including investment, jobs, revenues, personal income, and 
        other categories.''.

SEC. 10. COORDINATION WITH ADJACENT STATES.

    Section 19 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1345) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a) in the first sentence by inserting 
        ``, for any tract located within the Adjacent State's Adjacent 
        Zone,'' after ``government''; and
            (2) by adding the following:
    ``(f)(1) No Federal agency may permit or otherwise approve, without 
the concurrence of the Adjacent State, the construction of a crude oil 
or petroleum products (or both) pipeline within the part of the 
Adjacent State's Adjacent Zone that is withdrawn from oil and gas or 
natural gas leasing, except that such a pipeline may be approved, 
without such Adjacent State's concurrence, to pass through such 
Adjacent Zone if at least 50 percent of the production projected to be 
carried by the pipeline within its first 10 years of operation is from 
areas of the Adjacent State's Adjacent Zone.
    ``(2) No State may prohibit the construction within its Adjacent 
Zone or its State waters of a natural gas pipeline that will transport 
natural gas produced from the outer Continental Shelf. However, an 
Adjacent State may prevent a proposed natural gas pipeline landing 
location if it proposes two alternate landing locations in the Adjacent 
State, acceptable to the Adjacent State, located within 50 miles on 
either side of the proposed landing location.''.

SEC. 11. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES.

    Section 20(d) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1346) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(d)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) For all programs, lease sales, leases, and actions under this 
Act, the following shall apply regarding the application of the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969:
            ``(A) Granting or directing lease suspensions and the 
        conduct of all preliminary activities on outer Continental 
        Shelf tracts, including seismic activities, are categorically 
        excluded from the need to prepare either an environmental 
        assessment or an environmental impact statement, and the 
        Secretary shall not be required to analyze whether any 
        exceptions to a categorical exclusion apply for activities 
        conducted under the authority of this Act.
            ``(B) The environmental impact statement developed in 
        support of each 5-year oil and gas leasing program provides the 
        environmental analysis for all lease sales to be conducted 
        under the program and such sales shall not be subject to 
        further environmental analysis.
            ``(C) Exploration plans shall not be subject to any 
        requirement to prepare an environmental impact statement, and 
        the Secretary may find that exploration plans are eligible for 
        categorical exclusion due to the impacts already being 
        considered within an environmental impact statement or due to 
        mitigation measures included within the plan.
            ``(D) Within each OCS Planning Area, after the preparation 
        of the first development and production plan environmental 
        impact statement for a leased tract within the Area, future 
        development and production plans for leased tracts within the 
        Area shall only require the preparation of an environmental 
        assessment unless the most recent development and production 
        plan environmental impact statement within the Area was 
        finalized more than 10 years prior to the date of the approval 
        of the plan, in which case an environmental impact statement 
        shall be required.''.

SEC. 13. FEDERAL ENERGY NATURAL RESOURCES ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2006.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) Energy and minerals exploration, development, and 
        production on Federal onshore and offshore lands, including 
        bio-based fuel, natural gas, minerals, oil, geothermal, and 
        power from wind, waves, currents, and thermal energy, involves 
        significant outlays of funds by Federal and State wildlife, 
        fish, and natural resource management agencies for 
        environmental studies, planning, development, monitoring, and 
        management of wildlife, fish, air, water, and other natural 
        resources.
            (2) State wildlife, fish, and natural resource management 
        agencies are funded primarily through permit and license fees 
        paid to the States by the general public to hunt and fish, and 
        through Federal excise taxes on equipment used for these 
        activities.
            (3) Funds generated from consumptive and recreational uses 
        of wildlife, fish, and other natural resources currently are 
        inadequate to address the natural resources related to energy 
        and minerals development on Federal onshore and offshore lands.
            (4) Funds available to Federal agencies responsible for 
        managing Federal onshore and offshore lands and Federal-trust 
        wildlife and fish species and their habitats are inadequate to 
        address the natural resources related to energy and minerals 
        development on Federal onshore and offshore lands.
            (5) Receipts derived from sales, bonus bids, and royalties 
        under the mineral leasing laws of the United States are paid to 
        the Treasury through the Minerals Management Service of the 
        Department of the Interior.
            (6) None of the receipts derived from sales, bonus bids, 
        and royalties under the minerals leasing laws of the United 
        States are paid to the Federal or State agencies to examine, 
        monitor, and manage wildlife, fish, air, water, and other 
        natural resources related to natural gas, oil, and mineral 
        exploration and development.
    (b) Purposes.--It is the purpose of this section to--
            (1) authorize expenditures for the monitoring and 
        management of wildlife and fish, and their habitats, and air, 
        water, and other natural resources related to energy and 
        minerals development on Federal onshore and offshore lands;
            (2) authorize expenditures for each fiscal year to the 
        Secretary of the Interior and the States; and
            (3) use the appropriated funds to secure the necessary 
        trained workforce or contractual services to conduct 
        environmental studies, planning, development, monitoring, and 
        post-development management of wildlife and fish and their 
        habitats and air, water, and other natural resources that may 
        be related to bio-based fuel, gas, mineral, oil, wind, or other 
        energy exploration, development, transportation, transmission, 
        and associated activities on Federal onshore and offshore 
        lands, including, but not limited to--
                    (A) pertinent research, surveys, and environmental 
                analyses conducted to identify any impacts on wildlife, 
                fish, air, water, and other natural resources from 
                energy and mineral exploration, development, 
                production, and transportation or transmission;
                    (B) projects to maintain, improve, or enhance 
                wildlife and fish populations and their habitats or 
                air, water, or other natural resources, including 
                activities under the Endangered Species Act of 1973;
                    (C) research, surveys, environmental analyses, and 
                projects that assist in managing, including mitigating 
                either onsite or offsite, or both, the impacts of 
                energy and mineral activities on wildlife, fish, air, 
                water, and other natural resources; and
                    (D) projects to teach young people to live off the 
                land.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Enhancement program.--The term ``Enhancement Program'' 
        means the Federal Energy Natural Resources Enhancement Program 
        established by this section.
            (2) State.--The term ``State'' means the Governor of the 
        State.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out the Enhancement Program $150,000,000 for each 
of fiscal years 2007 through 2017.
    (e) Establishment of Federal Energy Natural Resources Enhancement 
Program.--
            (1) In general.--There is established the Federal Energy 
        Natural Resources Enhancement Program.
            (2) Payment to secretary of the interior.--Beginning with 
        fiscal year 2007, and in each fiscal year thereafter, one-third 
        of amounts appropriated for the Enhancement Program shall be 
        available to the Secretary of the Interior for use for the 
        purposes described in subsection (b)(3).
            (3) Payment to states.--
                    (A) In general.--Beginning with fiscal year 2007, 
                and in each fiscal year thereafter, two-thirds of 
                amounts appropriated for the Enhancement Program shall 
                be available to the States for use for the purposes 
                described in (b)(3).
                    (B) Use of payments by state.--Each State shall use 
                the payments made under this paragraph only for 
                carrying out projects and programs for the purposes 
                described in (b)(3).
                    (C) Encourage use of private funds by state.--Each 
                State shall use the payments made under this paragraph 
                to leverage private funds for carrying out projects for 
                the purposes described in (b)(3).
    (f) Limitation on Use.--Amounts made available under this section 
may not be used for the purchase of any interest in land.
    (g) Reports to Congress.--
            (1) In general.--Beginning in fiscal year 2008 and 
        continuing for each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of 
        the Interior and each State receiving funds from the 
        Enhancement Fund shall submit a report to the Committee on 
        Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on 
        Resources of the House of Representatives.
            (2) Required information.--Reports submitted to the 
        Congress by the Secretary of the Interior and States under this 
        subsection shall include the following information regarding 
        expenditures during the previous fiscal year:
                    (A) A summary of pertinent scientific research and 
                surveys conducted to identify impacts on wildlife, 
                fish, and other natural resources from energy and 
                mineral developments.
                    (B) A summary of projects planned and completed to 
                maintain, improve or enhance wildlife and fish 
                populations and their habitats or other natural 
                resources.
                    (C) A list of additional actions that assist, or 
                would assist, in managing, including mitigating either 
                onsite or offsite, or both, the impacts of energy and 
                mineral development on wildlife, fish, and other 
                natural resources.
                    (D) A summary of private (non-Federal) funds used 
                to plan, conduct, and complete the plans and programs 
                identified in paragraphs (2)(A) and (2)(B).

SEC. 14. TERMINATION OF EFFECT OF LAWS PROHIBITING THE SPENDING OF 
              APPROPRIATED FUNDS FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES.

    All provisions of existing Federal law prohibiting the spending of 
appropriated funds to conduct oil and natural gas leasing and 
preleasing activities, or to issue a lease to any person, for any area 
of the outer Continental Shelf shall have no force or effect.

SEC. 15. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF INCOMPATIBLE USE.

    (a) In General.--No Federal agency may permit construction or 
operation (or both) of any facility, or designate or maintain a 
restricted transportation corridor or operating area on the Federal 
outer Continental Shelf or in State waters, that will be incompatible 
with, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, oil and gas or 
natural gas leasing and substantially full exploration and production 
of tracts that are geologically prospective for oil or natural gas (or 
both).
    (b) Exceptions.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to any facility, 
transportation corridor, or operating area the construction, operation, 
designation, or maintenance of which is or will be--
            (1) located in an area of the outer Continental Shelf that 
        is unavailable for oil and gas or natural gas leasing by 
        operation of law;
            (2) used for a military readiness activity (as defined in 
        section 315(f) of Public Law 107-314; 16 U.S.C. 703 note); or
            (3) required in the national interest, as determined by the 
        President.

SEC. 16. REPURCHASE OF CERTAIN LEASES.

    (a) Authority to Repurchase and Cancel Certain Leases.--The 
Secretary of the Interior shall repurchase and cancel any Federal oil 
and gas, geothermal, coal, oil shale, tar sands, or other mineral 
lease, whether onshore or offshore, but not including any outer 
Continental Shelf oil and gas leases that are subject to litigation in 
the Court of Federal Claims on January 1, 2006, if the Secretary finds 
that such lease qualifies for repurchase and cancellation under the 
regulations authorized by this section.
    (b) Regulations.--Not later than 365 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish a final regulation 
stating the conditions under which a lease referred to in subsection 
(a) would qualify for repurchase and cancellation, and the process to 
be followed regarding repurchase and cancellation. Such regulation 
shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
            (1) The Secretary shall repurchase and cancel a lease after 
        written request by the lessee upon a finding by the Secretary 
        that--
                    (A) a request by the lessee for a required permit 
                or other approval complied with applicable law, except 
                the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1451 
                et seq.), and terms of the lease and such permit or 
                other approval was denied;
                    (B) a Federal agency failed to act on a request by 
                the lessee for a required permit, other approval, or 
                administrative appeal within a regulatory or statutory 
                time-frame associated with the requested action, 
                whether advisory or mandatory, or if none, within 180 
                days; or
                    (C) a Federal agency attached a condition of 
                approval, without agreement by the lessee, to a 
                required permit or other approval if such condition of 
                approval was not mandated by Federal statute or 
                regulation in effect on the date of lease issuance, or 
                was not specifically allowed under the terms of the 
                lease.
            (2) A lessee shall not be required to exhaust 
        administrative remedies regarding a permit request, 
        administrative appeal, or other required request for approval 
        for the purposes of this section.
            (3) The Secretary shall make a final agency decision on a 
        request by a lessee under this section within 180 days of 
        request.
            (4) Compensation to a lessee to repurchase and cancel a 
        lease under this section shall be the amount that a lessee 
        would receive in a restitution case for a material breach of 
        contract.
            (5) Compensation shall be in the form of a check or 
        electronic transfer from the Department of the Treasury from 
        funds deposited into miscellaneous receipts under the authority 
        of the same Act that authorized the issuance of the lease being 
        repurchased.
            (6) Failure of the Secretary to make a final agency 
        decision on a request by a lessee under this section within 180 
        days of request shall result in a 10 percent increase in the 
        compensation due to the lessee if the lease is ultimately 
        repurchased.
    (c) No Prejudice.--This section shall not be interpreted to 
prejudice any other rights that the lessee would have in the absence of 
this section.

SEC. 17. OFFSITE ENVIRONMENTAL MITIGATION.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person conducting 
activities under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), the 
Geothermal Steam Act (30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), the Mineral Leasing Act 
for Acquired Lands (30 U.S.C. 351 et seq.), the Weeks Act (16 U.S.C. 
552 et seq.), the General Mining Act of 1872 (30 U.S.C. 22 et seq.), 
the Materials Act of 1947 (30 U.S.C. 601 et seq.), or the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), may in satisfying 
any mitigation requirements associated with such activities propose 
mitigation measures on a site away from the area impacted and the 
Secretary of the Interior shall accept these proposed measures if the 
Secretary finds that they generally achieve the purposes for which 
mitigation measures appertained.

SEC. 18. MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE.

    The bureau known as the ``Minerals Management Service'' in the 
Department of the Interior shall be known as the ``National Ocean 
Resources and Royalty Service''.

SEC. 19. AUTHORITY TO USE DECOMMISSIONED OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS PLATFORMS 
              AND OTHER FACILITIES FOR ARTIFICIAL REEF, SCIENTIFIC 
              RESEARCH, OR OTHER USES.

    (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``Rigs to Reefs 
Act of 2006''.
    (b) In General.--The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1301 et seq.) is amended by inserting after section 9 the following:

``SEC. 10. USE OF DECOMMISSIONED OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS PLATFORMS AND 
              OTHER FACILITIES FOR ARTIFICIAL REEF, SCIENTIFIC 
              RESEARCH, OR OTHER USES.

    ``(a) In General.--The Secretary shall issue regulations under 
which the Secretary may authorize use of an offshore oil and gas 
platform or other facility that is decommissioned from service for oil 
and gas purposes for an artificial reef, scientific research, or any 
other use authorized under section 8(p) or any other applicable Federal 
law.
    ``(b) Transfer Requirements.--The Secretary shall not allow the 
transfer of a decommissioned offshore oil and gas platform or other 
facility to another person unless the Secretary is satisfied that the 
transferee is sufficiently bonded, endowed, or otherwise financially 
able to fulfill its obligations, including but not limited to--
            ``(1) ongoing maintenance of the platform or other 
        facility;
            ``(2) any liability obligations that might arise;
            ``(3) removal of the platform or other facility if 
        determined necessary by the Secretary; and
            ``(4) any other requirements and obligations that the 
        Secretary may deem appropriate by regulation.
    ``(c) Plugging and Abandonment.--The Secretary shall ensure that 
plugging and abandonment of wells is accomplished at an appropriate 
time.
    ``(d) Potential to Petition to Opt-Out of Regulations.--An Adjacent 
State acting through a resolution of its legislature, with concurrence 
of its Governor, may preliminarily petition to opt-out of the 
application of regulations promulgated under this section to platforms 
and other facilities located in the area of its Adjacent Zone within 12 
miles of the coastline. Upon receipt of the preliminary petition, the 
Secretary shall complete an environmental assessment that documents the 
anticipated environmental effects of approving the petition. The 
Secretary shall provide the environmental assessment to the State, 
which then has the choice of no action or confirming its petition by 
further action of its legislature, with the concurrence of its 
Governor. The Secretary is authorized to except such area from the 
application of such regulations, and shall approve any confirmed 
petition.
    ``(e) Limitation on Liability.--A person that had used an offshore 
oil and gas platform or other facility for oil and gas purposes and 
that no longer has any ownership or control of the platform or other 
facility shall not be liable under Federal law for any costs or damages 
arising from such platform or other facility after the date the 
platform or other facility is used for any purpose under subsection 
(a), unless such costs or damages arise from--
            ``(1) use of the platform or other facility by the person 
        for development or production of oil or gas; or
            ``(2) another act or omission of the person.
    ``(f) Other Leasing and Use not Affected.--This section, and the 
use of any offshore oil and gas platform or other facility for any 
purpose under subsection (a), shall not affect--
            ``(1) the authority of the Secretary to lease any area 
        under this Act; or
            ``(2) any activity otherwise authorized under this Act.''.
    (c) Deadline for Regulations.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
issue regulations under subsection (b) by not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (d) Study and Report on Effects of Removal of Platforms.--Not later 
than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
the Interior, in consultation with other Federal agencies as the 
Secretary deems advisable, shall study and report to the Congress 
regarding how the removal of offshore oil and gas platforms and other 
facilities from the outer Continental Shelf would affect existing fish 
stocks and coral populations.

SEC. 20. REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT TO CONDUCT COMPREHENSIVE INVENTORY OF 
              OCS OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESOURCES.

    The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58) is amended--
            (1) by repealing section 357 (119 Stat. 720; 42 U.S.C. 
        15912); and
            (2) in the table of contents in section 1(b), by striking 
        the item relating to such section 357.

SEC. 21. MINING AND PETROLEUM SCHOOLS.

    (a) Maintenance and Restoration of Existing and Historic Petroleum 
and Mining Engineering Programs.--Public Law 98-409 (30 U.S.C. 1221 et 
seq.) is amended to read as follows:

``SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    ``This Act may be cited as the `Energy and Mineral Schools 
Reinvestment Act'.

``SEC. 2. POLICY.

    ``It is the policy of the United States to maintain the human 
capital needed to preserve and foster the economic, energy, and mineral 
resources security of the United States. The petroleum and mining 
engineering programs and the applied geology and geophysics programs at 
State chartered schools, universities, and institutions that produce 
human capital are national assets and should be assisted with Federal 
funds to ensure their continued health and existence.

``SEC. 3. MAINTAINING AND RESTORING HISTORIC AND EXISTING PETROLEUM AND 
              MINING ENGINEERING EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

    ``(a) The Secretary of the Interior (in this Act referred to as the 
`Secretary') shall provide funds to historic and existing State-
chartered recognized petroleum or mining schools to assist such 
schools, universities, and institutions in maintaining programs in 
petroleum, mining, and mineral engineering education and research. All 
funds shall be directed only to these programs and shall be subject to 
the conditions of this section. Such funds shall not be less than 25 
percent of the annual outlay of funds authorized by section 23(d) of 
the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006.
    ``(b) In this Act the term `historic and existing State-chartered 
recognized petroleum or mining school' means a school, university, or 
educational institution with the presence of an engineering program 
meeting the specific program criteria, established by the member 
societies of ABET, Inc., for petroleum, mining, or mineral engineering 
and that is accredited on the date of enactment of the Deep Ocean 
Energy Resources Act of 2006 by ABET, Inc.
    ``(c) It shall be the duty of each school, university, or 
institution receiving funds under this section to provide for and 
enhance the training of undergraduate and graduate petroleum, mining, 
and mineral engineers through research, investigations, demonstrations, 
and experiments. All such work shall be carried out in a manner that 
will enhance undergraduate education.
    ``(d) Each school, university, or institution receiving funds under 
this Act shall maintain the program for which the funds are provided 
for 10 years after the date of the first receipt of such funds and take 
steps described in its application for funding to increase the number 
of undergraduate students enrolled in and completing the programs of 
study in petroleum, mining, and mineral engineering.
    ``(e) The research, investigation, demonstration, experiment, and 
training authorized by this section may include development and 
production of conventional and non-conventional fuel resources, the 
production of metallic and non-metallic mineral resources including 
industrial mineral resources, and the production of stone, sand, and 
gravel. In all cases the work carried out with funds made available 
under this Act shall include a significant opportunity for 
participation by undergraduate students.
    ``(f) Research funded by this Act related to energy and mineral 
resource development and production may include--
            ``(1) studies of petroleum, mining, and mineral extraction 
        and immediately related beneficiation technology;
            ``(2) mineral economics, reclamation technology, and 
        practices for active operations;
            ``(3) the development of re-mining systems and technologies 
        to facilitate reclamation that fosters the ultimate recovery of 
        resources at abandoned petroleum, mining, and aggregate 
        production sites; and
            ``(4) research on ways to extract petroleum and mineral 
        resources that reduce the environmental impact of those 
        activities.
    ``(g) Grants for basic science and engineering studies and research 
shall not require additional participation by funding partners. Grants 
for studies to demonstrate the proof of concept for science and 
engineering or the demonstration of feasibility and implementation 
shall include participation by industry and may include funding from 
other Federal agencies.
    ``(h)(1) No funds made available under this section shall be 
applied to the acquisition by purchase or lease of any land or 
interests therein, or the rental, purchase, construction, preservation, 
or repair of any building.
    ``(2) Funding made available under this section may be used with 
the express approval of the Secretary for proposals that will provide 
for maintaining or upgrading of existing laboratories and laboratory 
equipment. Funding for such maintenance shall not be used for 
university overhead expenses.
    ``(3) Funding made available under this Act may be used for 
maintaining and upgrading mines and oil and gas drilling rigs owned by 
a school, university, or institution described in this section that are 
used for undergraduate and graduate training and worker safety 
training. All requests for funding such mines and oil and gas drilling 
rigs must demonstrate that they have been owned by the school, 
university, or institution for 5 years prior to the date of enactment 
of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006 and have been actively 
used for instructional or training purposes during that time.
    ``(4) Any funding made available under this section for research, 
investigation, demonstration, experiment, or training shall not be used 
for university overhead charges in excess of 10 percent of the amount 
authorized by the Secretary.

``SEC. 4. FORMER AND NEW PETROLEUM AND MINING ENGINEERING PROGRAMS.

    ``(a) A school, university, or educational institution that 
formerly met the requirements of section 3(b) immediately before the 
date of the enactment of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006, 
or that seeks to establish a new program described in section 3(b), 
shall be eligible for funding under this Act only if it--
            ``(1) establishes a petroleum, mining, or mineral 
        engineering program that meets the specific program criteria 
        and is accredited as such by ABET, Inc., with particular 
        consideration awarded to establishing programs and minority 
        serving institutions;
            ``(2) agrees to the conditions of subsections (c) through 
        (h) of section 3 and the Secretary determines that the program 
        will strengthen and increase the number of nationally 
        available, well-qualified faculty members in petroleum, mining, 
        and mineral engineering; and
            ``(3) agrees to maintain the accredited program for 10 
        years after the date of the first receipt of funds under this 
        Act.
    ``(b) The Secretary shall seek the advice of the Committee 
established pursuant to section 11 in determining the criteria used to 
carry out this section.

``SEC. 5. FUNDING OF CONSORTIA OF HISTORIC AND EXISTING SCHOOLS.

    ``Where appropriate, the Secretary may make funds available to 
consortia of schools, universities, or institutions described in 
sections 3, 4, and 6, including those consortia that include schools, 
universities, or institutions that are ineligible for funds under this 
Act if those schools, universities, or institutions, respectively, have 
skills, programs, or facilities specifically identified as needed by 
the consortia to meet the necessary expenses for purposes of--
            ``(1) specific energy and mineral research projects of 
        broad application that could not otherwise be undertaken, 
        including the expenses of planning and coordinating regional 
        petroleum, geothermal, mining, and mineral engineering or 
        beneficiation projects by two or more schools; and
            ``(2) research into any aspects of petroleum, geothermal, 
        mining, or mineral engineering or beneficiation problems, 
        including but not limited to exploration, that are related to 
        the mission of the Department of the Interior.

``SEC. 6. SUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS WITH ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCE PROGRAMS 
              IN PETROLEUM AND MINERAL EXPLORATION GEOLOGY, PETROLEUM 
              GEOPHYSICS, OR MINING GEOPHYSICS.

    ``(a) Twelve percent of the annual outlay of funds authorized by 
section 23(d) of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006 may be 
granted to schools, universities, and institutions other than those 
described in sections 3 and 4, with particular consideration awarded to 
minority serving institutions.
    ``(b) The Secretary shall determine the eligibility of a college or 
university to receive funding under this Act using criteria that 
include--
            ``(1) the presence of a substantial program of 
        undergraduate and graduate geoscience instruction and research 
        in one or more of the following specialties: petroleum geology, 
        geothermal geology, mineral exploration geology, economic 
        geology, industrial minerals geology, mining geology, petroleum 
        geophysics, mining geophysics, geological engineering, or 
        geophysical engineering that has a demonstrated history of 
        achievement;
            ``(2) evidence of institutional commitment for the purposes 
        of this Act that includes a significant opportunity for 
        participation by undergraduate students in research;
            ``(3) evidence that such school, university, or institution 
        has or can obtain significant industrial cooperation in 
        activities within the scope of this Act;
            ``(4) agreement by the school, university, or institution 
        to maintain the programs for which the funding is sought for 
        the 10-year period beginning on the date the school, 
        university, or institution first receives such funds; and
            ``(5) requiring that such funding shall be for the purposes 
        set forth in subsections (c) through (h) of section 3 and 
        subject to the conditions set forth in section 3(h).
    ``(c) The Secretary shall seek the advice of the Committee 
established pursuant to section 11 in determining the criteria used to 
carry out this section.

``SEC. 7. DESIGNATION OF FUNDS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS.

    ``(a) The Secretary shall utilize 10 percent of the annual outlay 
of funds authorized by section 23(d) of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources 
Act of 2006 for the purpose of providing merit-based scholarships for 
undergraduate education, graduate fellowships, and postdoctoral 
fellowships.
    ``(b) In order to receive a scholarship or a graduate fellowship, 
an individual student must be a lawful permanent resident of the United 
States or a United States citizen and must agree in writing to complete 
a course of studies and receive a degree in petroleum, mining, or 
mineral engineering, petroleum geology, geothermal geology, mining and 
economic geology, petroleum and mining geophysics, or mineral 
economics.
    ``(c) The regulations required by section 9 shall require that an 
individual, in order to retain a scholarship or graduate fellowship, 
must continue in one of the course of studies listed in subsection (b) 
of this section, must remain in good academic standing, as determined 
by the school, institution, or university and must allow for 
reinstatement of the scholarship or graduate fellowship by the 
Secretary, upon the recommendation of the school or institution. Such 
regulations may also provide for recovery of funds from an individual 
who fails to complete any of the courses of study listed in subsection 
(b) of this section after notice that such completion is a requirement 
of receipt funding under this Act.
    ``(d) To carry out this section, the Secretary shall award grants 
to schools, universities, and institutions that are eligible to receive 
funding under section 3, 4 or 6. A school, university, or institution 
receiving funding under this subsection shall be responsible for 
enforcing the requirements of this section for scholarship or 
fellowship students and shall return to the Secretary any funds 
recovered from an individual under subsection (c). An institution 
seeking funds under this subsection shall describe, in its application 
to the Secretary for funding, the number of students that would be 
awarded scholarships or fellowships if the application is approved, how 
such students would be selected, and how the provisions of this section 
will be enforced.

``SEC. 8. FUNDING CRITERIA FOR INSTITUTIONS.

    ``(a) Each application to the Secretary for funds under this Act 
shall state, among other things, the nature of the project to be 
undertaken; the period during which it will be pursued; the 
qualifications of the personnel who will direct and conduct it; the 
estimated costs; the importance of the project to the Nation, region, 
or States concerned; its relation to other known research projects 
theretofore pursued or being pursued; the extent to which the proposed 
project will maximize the opportunity for the training of undergraduate 
petroleum, mining, and mineral engineers; geologists and geophysicists; 
and the extent of participation by nongovernmental sources in the 
project.
    ``(b) No funds shall be made available under this Act except for an 
application approved by the Secretary. All funds shall be made 
available upon the basis of merit of the application, the need for the 
knowledge that it is expected to produce when completed, and the 
opportunity it provides for the undergraduate training of individuals 
as petroleum, mining, and mineral engineers, geologists, and 
geophysicists. The Secretary may use competitive review by 
nongovernmental experts in relevant fields to determine which 
applications to approve, to the extent practicable.
    ``(c) Funds available under this Act shall be paid at such times 
and in such amounts during each fiscal year as determined by the 
Secretary, and upon vouchers approved by the Secretary. Each school, 
university, or institution that receives funds under this Act shall--
            ``(1) establish its plan to provide for the training of 
        individuals as petroleum, mining, and mineral engineers, 
        geologists, and geophysicists under a curriculum appropriate to 
        the field of mineral resources and mineral engineering and 
        related fields;
            ``(2) establish policies and procedures that assure that 
        Federal funds made available under this Act for any fiscal year 
        will supplement and, to the extent practicable, increase the 
        level of funds that would, in the absence of such Federal 
        funds, be made available for purposes of this Act, and in no 
        case supplant such funds; and
            ``(3) have an officer appointed by its governing authority 
        who shall receive and account for all funds paid under this Act 
        and shall make an annual report to the Secretary on or before 
        the first day of September of each year, on work accomplished 
        and the status of projects underway, together with a detailed 
        statement of the amounts received under this Act during the 
        preceding fiscal year, and of its disbursements on schedules 
        prescribed by the Secretary.
    ``(d) If any of the funds received by the authorized receiving 
officer of a program under this Act are found by the Secretary to have 
been improperly diminished, lost, or misapplied, such funds shall be 
recovered by the Secretary.
    ``(e) Schools, universities, and institutions receiving funds under 
this Act are authorized and encouraged to plan and conduct programs 
under this Act in cooperation with each other and with such other 
agencies, business enterprises and individuals.

``SEC. 9. DUTIES OF SECRETARY.

    ``(a) The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for 
Land and Minerals Management, shall administer this Act and shall 
prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out 
its provisions not later than 1 year after the enactment of the Deep 
Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006.
    ``(b)(1) There is established in the Department of the Interior, 
under the supervision of the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals 
Management, an office to be known as the Office of Petroleum and Mining 
Schools (hereafter in this Act referred to as the `Office') to 
administer the provisions of this Act. There shall be a Director of the 
Office who shall be a member of the Senior Executive Service. The 
position of the Director shall be allocated from among the existing 
Senior Executive Service positions at the Department of the Interior 
and shall be a career reserved position as defined in section 
3132(a)(8) of title 5, United States Code.
    ``(2) The Director is authorized to appoint a Deputy Director and 
to employ such officers and employees as may be necessary to enable the 
Office to carry out its functions. Such appointments shall be made from 
existing positions at the Department of the Interior, and shall be 
subject to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing 
appointments in the competitive service. Such positions shall be paid 
in accordance with the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of 
chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General 
Schedule pay rates.
    ``(3) In carrying out his or her functions, the Director shall 
assist and advise the Secretary and the Committee pursuant to section 
11 of this Act by--
            ``(A) providing professional and administrative staff 
        support for the Committee including recordkeeping and 
        maintaining minutes of all Committee and subcommittee meetings;
            ``(B) coordinating the activities of the Committee with 
        Federal agencies and departments, and the schools, 
        universities, and institutions to which funds are provided 
        under this Act;
            ``(C) maintaining accurate records of funds disbursed for 
        all scholarship and fellowship grants, research grants, and 
        grants for career technical education purposes;
            ``(D) preparing any regulations required to implement this 
        Act;
            ``(E) conducting site visits at schools, universities, and 
        institutions receiving funding under this Act; and
            ``(F) serving as a central repository for reports and 
        clearing house for public information on research funded by 
        this Act.
    ``(4) The Director or an employee of the Office shall be present at 
each meeting of the Committee pursuant to section 11 or a subcommittee 
of such Committee.
    ``(5) The Director is authorized to contract with public or private 
agencies, institutions, and organizations and with individuals without 
regard to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31, United States Code, and 
section 5 of title 41, United States Code, in carrying out his or her 
functions.
    ``(6) As needed the Director shall ascertain whether the 
requirements of this Act have been met by schools, universities, 
institutions, and individuals.
    ``(c) The Secretary, acting through the Office of Petroleum and 
Mining Schools, shall furnish such advice and assistance as will best 
promote the purposes of this Act, shall participate in coordinating 
research, investigations, demonstrations, and experiments initiated 
under this Act, shall indicate to schools, universities, and 
institutions receiving funds under this Act such lines of inquiry that 
seem most important, and shall encourage and assist in the 
establishment and maintenance of cooperation between such schools, 
universities, and institutions, other research organizations, the 
Department of the Interior, and other Federal agencies.
    ``(d) The Secretary shall establish procedures--
            ``(1) to ensure that each employee and contractor of the 
        Office established by this section and each member of the 
        Committee pursuant to section 11 of this Act shall disclose to 
        the Secretary any financial interests in or financial 
        relationships with schools, universities, institutions or 
        individuals receiving funds, scholarships or fellowships under 
        this Act;
            ``(2) to require any employee, contractor, or member of the 
        Committee with a financial relationship disclosed under 
        paragraph (1) to recuse themselves from--
                    ``(A) any recommendation or decision regarding the 
                awarding of funds, scholarships or fellowships; or
                    ``(B) any review, report, analysis or investigation 
                regarding compliance with the provisions of this Act by 
                a school, university, institution or any individual.
    ``(e) On or before the first day of July of each year beginning 
after the date of enactment of this sentence, schools, universities, 
and institutions receiving funds under this Act shall certify 
compliance with this Act and upon request of the Director of the office 
established by this section provide documentation of such compliance.
    ``(f) An individual granted a scholarship or fellowship with funds 
provided under this Act shall through their respective school, 
university, or institution, advise the Director of the office 
established by this Act of progress towards completion of the course of 
studies and upon the awarding of the degree within 30 days after the 
award.
    ``(g) The regulations required by this section shall include a 
preference for veterans and service members who have received or will 
receive either the Afghanistan Campaign Medal or the Iraq Campaign 
Medal as authorized by Public Law 108-234, and Executive Order No. 
13363.

``SEC. 10. COORDINATION.

    ``(a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to impair or modify 
the legal relationship existing between any of the schools, 
universities, and institutions under whose direction a program is 
established with funds provided under this Act and the government of 
the State in which it is located. Nothing in this Act shall in any way 
be construed to authorize Federal control or direction of education at 
any school, university, or institution.
    ``(b) The programs authorized by this Act are intended to enhance 
the Nation's petroleum, mining, and mineral engineering education 
programs and to enhance educational programs in petroleum and mining 
exploration and to increase the number of individuals enrolled in and 
completing these programs. To achieve this intent, the Secretary and 
the Committee pursuant to section 11 shall receive the continuing 
advice and cooperation of all agencies of the Federal Government 
concerned with the identification, exploration, and development of 
energy and mineral resources.
    ``(c) Nothing in this Act is intended to give or shall be construed 
as giving the Secretary any authority over mining and mineral resources 
research conducted by any agency of the Federal Government, or as 
repealing or diminishing existing authorities or responsibilities of 
any agency of the Federal Government to plan and conduct, contract for, 
or assist in research in its area of responsibility and concern with 
regard to mining and mineral resources.
    ``(d) The schools, universities, and institutions receiving funding 
under this Act shall make detailed reports to the Office of Petroleum 
and Mining Schools on projects completed, in progress, or planned with 
funds provided under this Act. All such reports shall be available to 
the public on not less than an annual basis through the Office of 
Petroleum and Mining Schools. All uses, products, processes, and other 
developments resulting from any research, demonstration, or experiment 
funded in whole or in part under this Act shall be made available 
promptly to the general public, subject to exception or limitation, if 
any, as the Secretary may find necessary in the interest of national 
security, and subject to the applicable Federal law governing patents.

``SEC. 11. COMMITTEE ON PETROLEUM, MINING, AND MINERAL ENGINEERING AND 
              ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCE EDUCATION.

    ``(a) The Secretary shall appoint a Committee on Petroleum, Mining, 
and Mineral Engineering and Energy and Mineral Resource Education 
composed of--
            ``(1) the Assistant Secretary of the Interior responsible 
        for land and minerals management and not more than 16 other 
        persons who are knowledgeable in the fields of mining and 
        mineral resources research, including 2 university 
        administrators one of whom shall be from historic and existing 
        petroleum and mining schools; a community, technical, or tribal 
        college administrator; a career technical education educator; 6 
        representatives equally distributed from the petroleum, mining, 
        and aggregate industries; a working miner; a working oilfield 
        worker; a representative of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact 
        Commission; a representative from the Interstate Mining Compact 
        Commission; a representative from the Western Governors 
        Association; a representative of the State geologists, and a 
        representative of a State mining and reclamation agency. In 
        making these 16 appointments, the Secretary shall consult with 
        interested groups.
            ``(2) The Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals 
        Management, in the capacity of the Chairman of the Committee, 
        may have present during meetings of the Committee 
        representatives of Federal agencies with responsibility for 
        energy and minerals resources management, energy and mineral 
        resource investigations, energy and mineral commodity 
        information, international trade in energy and mineral 
        commodities, mining safety regulation and mine safety research, 
        and research into the development, production, and utilization 
        of energy and mineral commodities. These representatives shall 
        serve as technical advisors to the committee and shall have no 
        voting responsibilities.
    ``(b) The Committee shall consult with, and make recommendations 
to, the Secretary on policy matters relating to carrying out this Act. 
The Secretary shall consult with and carefully consider recommendations 
of the Committee in such matters.
    ``(c) Committee members, other than officers or employees of 
Federal, State, or local governments, shall be, for each day (including 
traveltime) during which they are performing Committee business, paid 
at a rate fixed by the Secretary but not in excess of the daily 
equivalent of the maximum rate of pay for level IV of the Executive 
Schedule under section 5136 of title 5, United States Code, and shall 
be fully reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and related expenses.
    ``(d) The Committee shall be chaired by the Assistant Secretary of 
the Interior responsible for land and minerals management. There shall 
also be elected a Vice Chairman by the Committee from among the members 
referred to in this section. The Vice Chairman shall perform such 
duties as are determined to be appropriate by the committee, except 
that the Chairman of the Committee must personally preside at all 
meetings of the full Committee. The Committee may organize itself into 
such subcommittees as the Committee may deem appropriate.
    ``(e) Following completion of the report required by section 385 of 
the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the Committee shall consider the 
recommendations of the report, ongoing efforts in the schools, 
universities, and institutions receiving funding under this Act, the 
Federal and State Governments, and the private sector, and shall 
formulate and recommend to the Secretary a national plan for a program 
utilizing the fiscal resources provided under this Act. The Committee 
shall submit such plan to the Secretary for approval. Upon approval, 
the plan shall guide the Secretary and the Committee in their actions 
under this Act.
    ``(f) Section 10 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 
App. 2) shall not apply to the Committee.

``SEC. 12. CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

    ``(a) Up to 25 percent of the annual outlay of funds authorized by 
section 23(d) of the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006 may be 
granted to schools or institutions including, but not limited to, 
colleges, universities, community colleges, tribal colleges and 
universities, technical institutes, secondary schools, other than those 
described in sections 3, 4, 5, and 6, and jointly sponsored 
apprenticeship and training programs that are authorized by Federal 
law.
    ``(b) The Secretary shall determine the eligibility of a school or 
institution to receive funding under this section using criteria that 
include--
            ``(1) the presence of a State-approved program in mining 
        engineering technology, petroleum engineering technology, 
        industrial engineering technology, or industrial technology 
        that--
                    ``(A) is focused on technology and its use in 
                energy and mineral production and related maintenance, 
                operational safety, or energy infrastructure protection 
                and security;
                    ``(B) prepares students for advanced or supervisory 
                roles in the mining industry or the petroleum industry; 
                and
                    ``(C) grants either an associate's degree or a 
                baccalaureate degree in one of the subjects listed in 
                subparagraph (A);
            ``(2) the presence of a program, including a secondary 
        school vocational education program or career academy, that 
        provides training for individuals entering the petroleum, coal 
        mining, or mineral mining industries; or
            ``(3) the presence of a State-approved program of career 
        technical education at a secondary school, offered 
        cooperatively with a community college in one of the industrial 
        sectors of--
                    ``(A) agriculture, forestry, or fisheries;
                    ``(B) utilities;
                    ``(C) construction;
                    ``(D) manufacturing; and
                    ``(E) transportation and warehousing.
    ``(c) Schools or institutions receiving funds under this section 
must show evidence of an institutional commitment for the purposes of 
career technical education and provide evidence that the school or 
institution has received or will receive industry cooperation in the 
form of equipment, employee time, or donations of funds to support the 
activities that are within the scope of this section.
    ``(d) Schools or institutions receiving funds under this section 
must agree to maintain the programs for which the funding is sought for 
a period of 10 years beginning on the date the school or institution 
receives such funds, unless the Secretary finds that a shorter period 
of time is appropriate for the local labor market or is required by 
State authorities.
    ``(e) Schools or institutions receiving funds under this section 
may combine these funds with State funds, and other Federal funds where 
allowed by law, to carry out programs described in this section, 
however the use of the funds received under this section must be 
reported to the Secretary not less than annually.
    ``(f) The Secretary shall seek the advice of the Committee 
established pursuant to section 11 in determining the criteria used to 
carry out this section.

``SEC. 13. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WORKFORCE ENHANCEMENT.

    ``(a) Physical Science, Engineering and Technology Scholarship 
Program.--
            ``(1) From the amount of funds available to carry out this 
        section, the Secretary shall use 30 percent of that amount to 
        provide financial assistance for education in physical 
        sciences, engineering, and engineering or industrial technology 
        and disciplines that, as determined by the Secretary, are 
        critical to the functions of the Department of the Interior and 
        are needed in the Department of the Interior workforce.
            ``(2) The Secretary of the Interior may award a scholarship 
        in accordance with this section to a person who--
                    ``(A) is a citizen of the United States;
                    ``(B) is pursuing an undergraduate or advanced 
                degree in a critical skill or discipline described in 
                paragraph (1) at an institution of higher education; 
                and
                    ``(C) enters into a service agreement with the 
                Secretary of the Interior as described in subsection 
                (e).
            ``(3) The amount of the financial assistance provided under 
        a scholarship awarded to a person under this subsection shall 
        be the amount determined by the Secretary of the Interior as 
        being necessary to pay all educational expenses incurred by 
        that person, including tuition, fees, cost of books, laboratory 
        expenses, and expenses of room and board. The expenses paid, 
        however, shall be limited to those educational expenses 
        normally incurred by students at the institution of higher 
        education involved.
    ``(b) Scholarship Program for Students Attending Minority Serving 
Higher Education Institutions.--
            ``(1) From the amount of funds available to carry out this 
        section, the Secretary shall use 35 percent of that amount to 
        award scholarships in accordance with this section to persons 
        who--
                    ``(A) are enrolled in a Minority Serving Higher 
                Education Institutions.
                    ``(B) are citizens or nationals of the United 
                States;
                    ``(C) are pursuing an undergraduate or advanced 
                degree in agriculture, engineering, engineering or 
                industrial technology, or physical sciences, or other 
                discipline that is found by the Secretary to be 
                critical to the functions of the Department of the 
                Interior and are needed in the Department of the 
                Interior workforce; and
                    ``(D) enter into a service agreement with the 
                Secretary of the Interior as described in subsection 
                (e).
            ``(2) The amount of the financial assistance provided under 
        a scholarship awarded to a person under this subsection shall 
        be the amount determined by the Secretary of the Interior as 
        being necessary to pay all educational expenses incurred by 
        that person, including tuition, fees, cost of books, laboratory 
        expenses, and expenses of room and board. The expenses paid, 
        however, shall be limited to those educational expenses 
        normally incurred by students at the institution of higher 
        education involved.
    ``(c) Education Partnerships With Minority Serving Higher Education 
Institutions.--
            ``(1) The Secretary shall require the director of each 
        Bureau and Office, to foster the participation of Minority 
        Serving Higher Education Institutions in any regulatory 
        activity, land management activity, science activity, 
        engineering or industrial technology activity, or engineering 
        activity carried out by the Department of the Interior.
            ``(2) From the amount of funds available to carry out this 
        section, the Secretary shall use 35 percent of that amount to 
        support activities at Minority Serving Higher Education 
        Institutions by--
                    ``(A) funding faculty and students in these 
                institutions in collaborative research projects that 
                are directly related to the Departmental or Bureau 
                missions;
                    ``(B) allowing equipment transfer to Minority 
                Serving Higher Education Institutions as a part of a 
                collaborative research program directly related to a 
                Departmental or Bureau mission;
                    ``(C) allowing faculty and students at these 
                Minority Serving Higher Education Institutions to 
                participate Departmental and Bureau training 
                activities;
                    ``(D) funding paid internships in Departmental and 
                Bureau facilities for students at Minority Serving 
                Higher Education Institutions;
                    ``(E) assigning Departmental and Bureau personnel 
                to positions located at Minority Serving Higher 
                Educational Institutions to serve as mentors to 
                students interested in a science, technology or 
                engineering disciplines related to the mission of the 
                Department or the Bureaus.
    ``(d) Service Agreement for Recipients of Assistance.--
            ``(1) To receive financial assistance under subsection (a) 
        or (b) of this section--
                    ``(A) in the case of an employee of the Department 
                of the Interior, the employee shall enter into a 
                written agreement to continue in the employment of the 
                department for the period of obligated service 
                determined under paragraph (2); and
                    ``(B) in the case of a person not an employee of 
                the Department of the Interior, the person shall enter 
                into a written agreement to accept and continue 
                employment in the Department of the Interior for the 
                period of obligated service determined under paragraph 
                (2).
            ``(2) For the purposes of this section, the period of 
        obligated service for a recipient of a scholarship under this 
        section shall be the period determined by the Secretary of the 
        Interior as being appropriate to obtain adequate service in 
        exchange for the financial assistance provided under the 
        scholarship. In no event may the period of service required of 
        a recipient be less than the total period of pursuit of a 
        degree that is covered by the scholarship. The period of 
        obligated service is in addition to any other period for which 
        the recipient is obligated to serve in the civil service of the 
        United States.
            ``(3) An agreement entered into under this subsection by a 
        person pursuing an academic degree shall include any terms and 
        conditions that the Secretary of the Interior determines 
        necessary to protect the interests of the United States or 
        otherwise appropriate for carrying out this section.
    ``(e) Refund for Period of Unserved Obligated Service.--
            ``(1) A person who voluntarily terminates service before 
        the end of the period of obligated service required under an 
        agreement entered into under subsection (d) shall refund to the 
        United States an amount determined by the Secretary of the 
        Interior as being appropriate to obtain adequate service in 
        exchange for financial assistance.
            ``(2) An obligation to reimburse the United States imposed 
        under paragraph (1) is for all purposes a debt owed to the 
        United States.
            ``(3) The Secretary of the Interior may waive, in whole or 
        in part, a refund required under paragraph (1) if the Secretary 
        determines that recovery would be against equity and good 
        conscience or would be contrary to the best interests of the 
        United States.
            ``(4) A discharge in bankruptcy under title 11, United 
        States Code, that is entered less than five years after the 
        termination of an agreement under this section does not 
        discharge the person signing such agreement from a debt arising 
        under such agreement or under this subsection.
    ``(f) Relationship to Other Programs.--The Secretary of the 
Interior shall coordinate the provision of financial assistance under 
the authority of this section with the provision of financial 
assistance under the authorities provided in this Act in order to 
maximize the benefits derived by the Department of Interior from the 
exercise of all such authorities.
    ``(g) Report.--Not later than September 1 of each year, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the Congress a report on the 
status of the assistance program carried out under this section. The 
report shall describe the programs within the Department designed to 
recruit and retain a workforce on a short-term basis and on a long-term 
basis.
    ``(h) Definitions.--As used in this section:
            ``(1) The term `Minority Serving Higher Education 
        Institutions' means a Hispanic-serving institution, 
        historically Black college or university, Alaska Native-serving 
        institution, tribal college or university, or insular area 
        school.
            ``(2) The term `Hispanic-serving institution' has the 
        meaning given the term in section 502(a) of the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a(a)).
            ``(3) The term `historically Black college or university' 
        has the meaning given the term `part B institution' in section 
        322 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061).
            ``(4) The term `tribal college or university' has the 
        meaning given the term `Tribal College or University' in 
        section 316(b)(3) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
        U.S.C. 1059c).
            ``(5) The term `institution of higher education' has the 
        meaning given such term in section 101 of the Higher Education 
        Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).
            ``(6) The term `Alaska Native-serving institution' has the 
        meaning given the term in section 317 of the Higher Education 
        Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059d).
            ``(7) The term `insular area school' means an academic 
        institution or university in American Samoa, Guam, The Northern 
        Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, or any 
        other territory or possession of the United States.
    ``(i) Funding.--To implement this section, the Secretary shall use 
3 percent of the annual outlay authorized by section 23(d) of the Deep 
Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2006.''.
    (b) Funding for Energy Research.--
            (1) Using 20 percent of the funds authorized by subsection 
        (d), the Secretary of Energy, through the energy supply 
        research and development programs of the Department of Energy, 
        and in consultation with the Office of Science of the 
        Department of Energy, shall carry out a program to award grants 
        to institutions of higher education on the basis of 
        competitive, merit-based review, for the purpose of conducting 
        research on advanced energy technologies with the potential to 
        transform the energy systems of the United States so as to--
                    (A) reduce dependence on foreign energy supplies;
                    (B) reduce or eliminate emissions of greenhouse 
                gases;
                    (C) reduce negative environmental effects 
                associated with energy production, storage, and use; 
                and
                    (D) enhance the competitiveness of United States 
                energy technology exports.
            (2) Awards made under this subsection may include funding 
        for--
                    (A) energy efficiency;
                    (B) renewable energy, including solar, wind, and 
                biofuels; and
                    (C) nuclear, hydrogen, and any other energy 
                research that could accomplish the purpose set forth in 
                paragraph (1).
            (3) The Secretary of Energy may require or authorize 
        grantees under this subsection to partner with industry, but 
        only to the extent that such a requirement does not prevent 
        long-range, potentially pathbreaking research from being funded 
        under this subsection.
            (4) An institution of higher education seeking funding 
        under this subsection shall submit an application at such time, 
        in such manner, and containing such information as the 
        Secretary of Energy may require.
            (5) In this subsection, the term ``institution of higher 
        education'' has the meaning given that term in section 101(a) 
        of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
    (c) Funding for Energy Scholarships.--
            (1) Using 5 percent of the funds authorized by subsection 
        (d), the Secretary of Energy, through the energy supply 
        research and development programs of the Department of Energy, 
        and in consultation with the Office of Science of the 
        Department of Energy, shall carry out a program to award grants 
        to institutions of higher education on the basis of 
        competitive, merit-based review, to grant graduate traineeships 
        to Ph.D. students who are citizens of the United States who 
        will carry out research on advanced energy technologies to 
        accomplish the purpose set forth in subsection (c)(1).
            (2) Awards made under this subsection may include funding 
        for--
                    (A) energy efficiency;
                    (B) renewable energy, including solar, wind, and 
                biofuels; and
                    (C) nuclear, hydrogen, and any other energy 
                research that would accomplish the purpose set forth in 
                subsection (c)(1) that is not eligible for funding 
                under section 7 of the Energy and Mineral Schools 
                Reinvestment Act.
            (3) An institution of higher education seeking funding 
        under this subsection shall submit an application at such time, 
        in such manner, and containing such information as the 
        Secretary of Energy may require.
            (4) In this subsection, the term ``institution of higher 
        education'' has the meaning given that term in section 101(a) 
        of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out this section $150,000,000 for each of fiscal 
years 2007 through 2017.

SEC. 22. ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE MINERAL LEASE FEES.

    Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the Department of the 
Interior is prohibited from charging fees applicable to actions on 
Federal onshore and offshore oil and gas, coal, geothermal, and other 
mineral leases, including transportation of any production from such 
leases, if such fees were not established in final regulations prior to 
the date of issuance of the lease.

SEC. 23. OCS REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS.

    The headquarters for the Gulf of Mexico Region shall permanently be 
located within the State of Louisiana within 25 miles of the center of 
Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana. Further, not later than July 1, 
2008, the Secretary of the Interior shall establish the headquarters 
for the Atlantic OCS Region and the headquarters for the Pacific OCS 
Region within a State bordering the Atlantic OCS Region and a State 
bordering the Pacific OCS Region, respectively, from among the States 
bordering those Regions, that petitions by no later than January 1, 
2008, for leasing, for oil and gas or natural gas, covering at least 40 
percent of the area of its Adjacent Zone within 100 miles of the 
coastline. Such Atlantic and Pacific OCS Regions headquarters shall be 
located within 25 miles of the coastline and each MMS OCS regional 
headquarters shall be the permanent duty station for all Minerals 
Management Service personnel that on a daily basis spend on average 60 
percent or more of their time in performance of duties in support of 
the activities of the respective Region, except that the Minerals 
Management Service may house regional inspection staff in other 
locations. Each OCS Region shall each be led by a Regional Director who 
shall be an employee within the Senior Executive Service.

SEC. 24. NATIONAL GEO FUND ACT OF 2006.

    (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``National Geo 
Fund Act of 2006''.
    (b) Purposes.--The purpose of this section is to provide for the 
management of geologic programs, geologic mapping, geophysical and 
other seismic studies, seismic monitoring programs, and the 
preservation and use of geologic and geophysical data, geothermal and 
geopressure energy resource management, unconventional energy resources 
management, and renewable energy management associated with ocean wave, 
current, and thermal resources.
    (c) State Defined.--In this section the term ``State'' means the 
agency of a State designated by its Governor or State law to perform 
the functions and activities described in subsection (b).
    (d) Strategic Unconventional Resources.--
            (1) Program.--The Secretary of the Interior shall establish 
        a program for production of fuels from strategic unconventional 
        resources, and production of oil and gas resources using CO2 
        enhanced recovery. The program shall focus initially on 
        activities and domestic resources most likely to result in 
        significant production in the near future, and shall include 
        work necessary to improve extraction techniques, including 
        surface and in situ operations. The program shall include 
        characterization and assessment of potential resources, a 
        sampling program, appropriate laboratory and other analyses and 
        testing, and assessment of methods for exploration and 
        development of these strategic unconventional resources.
            (2) Pilot projects.--The program created in paragraph (1) 
        shall include, but not be limited to, pilot projects on (A) the 
        Maverick Basin heavy oil and tar sands formations of Texas, 
        including the San Miguel deposits, (B) the Greater Green River 
        Basin heavy oil, oil shale, tar sands, and coal deposits of 
        Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, (C) the shale, tar sands, heavy 
        oil, and coal deposits in the Alabama-Mississippi-Tennessee 
        region, (D) the shale, tar sands, heavy oil, and coal deposits 
        in the Ohio River valley, and (E) strategic unconventional 
        resources in California. The Secretary shall identify and 
        report to Congress on feasible incentives to foster recovery of 
        unconventional fuels by private industry within the United 
        States. Such incentives may include, but are not limited to, 
        long-term contracts for the purchase of unconventional fuels 
        for defense purposes, Federal grants and loan guarantees for 
        necessary capital expenditures, and favorable terms for the 
        leasing of Government lands containing unconventional 
        resources.
            (3) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    (A) Strategic unconventional resources.--The term 
                ``strategic unconventional resources'' means 
                hydrocarbon resources, including heavy oil, oil shale, 
                tar sands, and coal deposits, from which liquid fuels 
                may be produced.
                    (B) In situ extraction methods.--The term ``in situ 
                extraction methods'' means recovery techniques that are 
                applied to the resources while they are still in the 
                ground, and are in commercial use or advanced stages of 
                development. Such techniques include, but are not 
                limited to, steam flooding, steam-assisted gravity 
                drainage (including combination with electric power 
                generation where appropriate), cyclic steam 
                stimulation, air injection, and chemical treatment.
            (4) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this subsection for each of 
        fiscal years 2007 through 2011 not less than $35,000,000. Each 
        pilot project shall be allocated not less than $4,000,000 per 
        year in each of fiscal years 2007 through 2011.
    (e) Support of Geothermal and Geopressure Oil and Gas Energy 
Production.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary shall carry out a grant 
        program in support of geothermal and geopressure oil and gas 
        energy production. The program shall include grants for a total 
        of not less than three assessments of the use of innovative 
        geothermal techniques such as organic rankine cycle systems at 
        marginal, unproductive, and productive oil and gas wells, and 
        not less than one assessment of the use of innovative 
        geopressure techniques. The Secretary shall, to the extent 
        practicable and in the public interest, make awards that--
                    (A) include not less than five oil or gas well 
                sites per project award;
                    (B) use a range of oil or gas well hot water source 
                temperatures from 150 degrees Fahrenheit to 300 degrees 
                Fahrenheit;
                    (C) use existing or new oil or gas wells;
                    (D) cover a range of sizes from 175 kilowatts to 
                one megawatt;
                    (E) are located at a range of sites including 
                tribal lands, Federal lease, State, or privately owned 
                sites;
                    (F) can be replicated at a wide range of sites;
                    (G) facilitate identification of optimum techniques 
                among competing alternatives;
                    (H) include business commercialization plans that 
                have the potential for production of equipment at high 
                volumes and operation and support at a large number of 
                sites; and
                    (I) satisfy other criteria that the Secretary 
                determines are necessary to carry out the program.
        The Secretary shall give preference to assessments that address 
        multiple elements contained in subparagraphs (A) through (I).
            (2) Grant awards.--
                    (A) In general.--Each grant award for assessment of 
                innovative geothermal or geopressure technology such as 
                organic rankine cycle systems at oil and gas wells made 
                by the Secretary under this section shall include--
                            (i) necessary and appropriate site 
                        engineering study;
                            (ii) detailed economic assessment of site 
                        specific conditions;
                            (iii) appropriate feasibility studies to 
                        determine ability for replication;
                            (iv) design or adaptation of existing 
                        technology for site specific circumstances or 
                        conditions;
                            (v) installation of equipment, service, and 
                        support; and
                            (vi) monitoring for a minimum of one year 
                        after commissioning date.
            (3) Competitive grant selection.--Not less than 180 days 
        after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
        shall conduct a national solicitation for applications for 
        grants under the program. Grant recipients shall be selected on 
        a competitive basis based on criteria in subsection (b).
            (4) Federal share.--The Federal share of costs of grants 
        under this subsection shall be provided from funds made 
        available to carry out this section. The Federal share of the 
        cost of a project carried out with such a grant shall not 
        exceed 50 percent of such cost.
            (5) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this subsection for each of 
        fiscal years 2007 through 2011 not less than $5,000,000. No 
        funds authorized under this section may be used for the 
        purposes of drilling new wells.
            (6) Amendment.--Section 4 of the Geothermal Steam Act of 
        1970 (30 USC 1003) is amended by adding at the end the 
        following:
    ``(h) Geothermal Resources Co-Produced With the Minerals.--Any 
person who holds a lease or who operates a cooperative or unit plan 
under the Mineral Leasing Act, in the absence of an existing lease for 
geothermal resources under this Act, shall upon notice to the Secretary 
have the right to utilize any geothermal resources co-produced with the 
minerals for which the lease was issued during the operation of that 
lease or cooperative or unit plan, for the generating of electricity to 
operate the lease. Any electricity that is produced in excess of that 
which is required to operate the lease and that is sold for purposes 
outside of the boundary of the lease shall be subject to the 
requirements of section 5.''.
    (f) Liquid Fuels Grant Program.--
            (1) Program.--The Secretary of the Interior shall establish 
        a grant program for facilities for coal-to-liquids, petroleum 
        coke-to-liquids, oil shale, tar sands, heavy oil, and Alaska 
        natural gas-to-liquids and to assess the production of low-rank 
        coal water fuel (in this subsection referred to as ``LRCWF'').
            (2) LRCWF.--The LRCWF grant project location shall use 
        lignite coal from fields near the Tombigbee River within 60 
        miles of a land-grant college and shall be allocated 
        $15,000,000 for expenditure during fiscal year 2007.
            (3) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    (A) Coal-to-liquids front-end engineering and 
                design.--The terms ``coal-to-liquids front-end 
                engineering and design'' and ``FEED'' mean those 
                expenditures necessary to engineer, design, and obtain 
                permits for a facility for a particular geographic 
                location which will utilize a process or technique to 
                produce liquid fuels from coal resources.
                    (B) Low-rank coal water fuel.--In this subsection 
                the term ``low-rank coal water fuel'' means a liquid 
                fuel produced from hydrothermal treatment of lignite 
                and sub-bituminous coals.
            (4) Grant provisions.--All grants shall require a 50 
        percent non-Federal cost share. The first 4 FEED grant 
        recipients who receive full project construction financing 
        commitments, based on earliest calendar date, shall not be 
        required to repay any of their grants. The next 4 FEED grant 
        recipients who receive such commitments shall be required to 
        repay 25 percent of the grant. The next 4 FEED grant recipients 
        who receive such commitments shall be required to repay 50 
        percent of the grant, and the remaining FEED grant recipients 
        shall be required to repay 75 percent of the grant. The LRCWF 
        recipient shall not be required to repay the grant. Any 
        required repayment shall be paid as part of the closing process 
        for any construction financing relating to the grant. No 
        repayment shall require the payment of interest if repaid 
        within 5 years of the issuance of the grant. FEED grants shall 
        be limited to a maximum of $1,000,000 per 1,000 barrels per day 
        of liquid fuels production capacity, not to exceed $25 million 
        per year.
            (5) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this subsection--
                    (A) $65,000,000 for fiscal year 2007; and
                    (B) $37,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 
                through 2013.
    (g) Renewable Energy From Ocean Wave, Current, and Thermal 
Resources.--
            (1) Program.--The Secretary of the Interior shall establish 
        a grant program for the production of renewable energy from 
        ocean waves, currents, and thermal resources.
            (2) Grant provisions.--All grants under this subsection 
        shall require a 50 percent non-Federal cost share.
            (3) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to carry out this subsection funds for each 
        of fiscal years 2007 through 2011 in the amount of not less 
        than $20,000,000 each year, and thereafter in such amounts as 
        the Secretary may find appropriate.
    (h) Amendment to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977.--Section 507 of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977 (30 U.S.C. 1267) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(i) Any person who provides the regulatory authority with a map 
under subsection (b)(13) or (b)(14) shall not be liable to any other 
person in any way for the accuracy or completeness of any such map 
which was not prepared and certified by or on behalf of such person.''.

SEC. 25. LEASES FOR AREAS LOCATED WITHIN 100 MILES OF CALIFORNIA OR 
              FLORIDA.

    (a) Authorization to Cancel and Exchange Certain Existing Oil and 
Gas Leases; Prohibition on Submittal of Exploration Plans for Certain 
Leases Prior to June 30, 2010.--
            (1) Authority.--Within 2 years after the date of enactment 
        of this Act, the lessee of an existing oil and gas lease for an 
        area located completely within 100 miles of the coastline 
        within the California or Florida Adjacent Zones shall have the 
        option, without compensation, of exchanging such lease for a 
        new oil and gas lease having a primary term of 5 years. For the 
        area subject to the new lease, the lessee may select any 
        unleased tract on the outer Continental Shelf that is in an 
        area available for leasing. Further, with the permission of the 
        relevant Governor, such a lessee may convert its existing oil 
        and gas lease into a natural gas lease having a primary term of 
        5 years and covering the same area as the existing lease or 
        another area within the same State's Adjacent Zone within 100 
        miles of the coastline.
            (2) Administrative process.--The Secretary of the Interior 
        shall establish a reasonable administrative process to 
        implement paragraph (1). Exchanges and conversions under 
        subsection (a), including the issuance of new leases, shall not 
        be considered to be major Federal actions for purposes of the 
        National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 
        seq.). Further, such actions conducted in accordance with this 
        section are deemed to be in compliance all provisions of the 
        Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.).
            (3) Operating restrictions.--A new lease issued in exchange 
        for an existing lease under this section shall be subject to 
        such national defense operating stipulations on the OCS tract 
        covered by the new lease as may be applicable upon issuance.
            (4) Priority.--The Secretary shall give priority in the 
        lease exchange process based on the amount of the original 
        bonus bid paid for the issuance of each lease to be exchanged. 
        The Secretary shall allow leases covering partial tracts to be 
        exchanged for leases covering full tracts conditioned upon 
        payment of additional bonus bids on a per-acre basis as 
        determined by the average per acre of the original bonus bid 
        per acre for the partial tract being exchanged.
            (5) Exploration plans.--Any exploration plan submitted to 
        the Secretary of the Interior after the date of the enactment 
        of this Act and before July 1, 2010, for an oil and gas lease 
        for an area wholly within 100 miles of the coastline within the 
        California Adjacent Zone or Florida Adjacent Zone shall not be 
        treated as received by the Secretary until the earlier of July 
        1, 2010, or the date on which a petition by the Adjacent State 
        for oil and gas leasing covering the area within which is 
        located the area subject to the oil and gas lease was approved.
    (b) Further Lease Cancellation and Exchange Provisions.--
            (1) Cancellation of lease.--As part of the lease exchange 
        process under this section, the Secretary shall cancel a lease 
        that is exchanged under this section.
            (2) Consent of lessees.--All lessees holding an interest in 
        a lease must consent to cancellation of their leasehold 
        interests in order for the lease to be cancelled and exchanged 
        under this section.
            (3) Waiver of rights.--As a prerequisite to the exchange of 
        a lease under this section, the lessee must waive any rights to 
        bring any litigation against the United States related to the 
        transaction.
            (4) Plugging and abandonment.--The plugging and abandonment 
        requirements for any wells located on any lease to be cancelled 
        and exchanged under this section must be complied with by the 
        lessees prior to the cancellation and exchange.
    (c) Area Partially Within 100 Miles of Florida.--An existing oil 
and gas lease for an area located partially within 100 miles of the 
coastline within the Florida n Adjacent Zone may only be developed and 
produced using wells drilled from well-head locations at least 100 
miles from the coastline to any bottom-hole location on the area of the 
lease. This subsection shall not apply if Florida has petitioned for 
leasing closer to the coastline than 100 miles.
    (d) Existing Oil and Gas Lease Defined.--In this section the term 
``existing oil and gas lease'' means an oil and gas lease in effect on 
the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 26. COASTAL IMPACT ASSISTANCE.

     Section 31 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1356a) is repealed.

SEC. 27. OIL SHALE AND TAR SANDS AMENDMENTS.

    (a) Repeal of Requirement to Establish Payments.--Section 369(o) of 
the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58; 119 Stat. 728; 42 
U.S.C. 15927) is repealed.
    (b) Treatment of Revenues.--Section 21 of the Mineral Leasing Act 
(30 U.S.C. 241) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Revenues.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding the provisions of 
        section 35, all revenues received from and under an oil shale 
        or tar sands lease shall be disposed of as provided in this 
        subsection.
            ``(2) Royalty rates for commercial leases.--
                    ``(A) Royalty rates.--The Secretary shall model the 
                royalty schedule for oil shale and tar sands leases 
                based on the royalty program currently in effect for 
                the production of synthetic crude oil from oil sands in 
                the Province of Alberta, Canada.
                    ``(B) Reduction.--The Secretary shall reduce any 
                royalty otherwise required to be paid under 
                subparagraph (A) under any oil shale or tar sands lease 
                on a sliding scale based upon market price, with a 10 
                percent reduction if the average futures price of NYMEX 
                Light Sweet Crude, or a similar index, drops, for the 
                previous quarter year, below $50 (in January 1, 2006, 
                dollars), and an 80 percent reduction if the average 
                price drops below $30 (in January 1, 2006, dollars) for 
                the quarter previous to the one in which the production 
                is sold.
            ``(3) Disposition of revenues.--
                    ``(A) Deposit.--The Secretary shall deposit into a 
                separate account in the Treasury all revenues derived 
                from any oil shale or tar sands lease.
                    ``(B) Allocations to states and local political 
                subdivisions.--The Secretary shall allocate 50 percent 
                of the revenues deposited into the account established 
                under subparagraph (A) to the State within the 
                boundaries of which the leased lands are located, with 
                a portion of that to be paid directly by the Secretary 
                to the State's local political subdivisions as provided 
                in this paragraph.
                    ``(C) Transmission of allocations.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Not later than the last 
                        business day of the month after the month in 
                        which the revenues were received, the Secretary 
                        shall transmit--
                                    ``(I) to each State two-thirds of 
                                such State's allocations under 
                                subparagraph (B), and in accordance 
                                with clauses (ii) and (iii) to certain 
                                county-equivalent and municipal 
                                political subdivisions of such State a 
                                total of one-third of such State's 
                                allocations under subparagraph (B), 
                                together with all accrued interest 
                                thereon; and
                                    ``(II) the remaining balance of 
                                such revenues deposited into the 
                                account that are not allocated under 
                                subparagraph (B), together with 
                                interest thereon, shall be transmitted 
                                to the miscellaneous receipts account 
                                of the Treasury, except that until a 
                                lease has been in production for 20 
                                years 50 percent of such remaining 
                                balance derived from a lease shall be 
                                paid in accordance with subclause (I).
                            ``(ii) Allocations to certain county-
                        equivalent political subdivisions.--The 
                        Secretary shall under clause (i)(I) make 
                        equitable allocations of the revenues to 
                        county-equivalent political subdivisions that 
                        the Secretary determines are closely associated 
                        with the leasing and production of oil shale 
                        and tar sands, under a formula that the 
                        Secretary shall determine by regulation.
                            ``(iii) Allocations to municipal political 
                        subdivisions.--The initial allocation to each 
                        county-equivalent political subdivision under 
                        clause (ii) shall be further allocated to the 
                        county-equivalent political subdivision and any 
                        municipal political subdivisions located 
                        partially or wholly within the boundaries of 
                        the county-equivalent political subdivision on 
                        an equitable basis under a formula that the 
                        Secretary shall determine by regulation.
                    ``(D) Investment of deposits.--The deposits in the 
                Treasury account established under this section shall 
                be invested by the Secretary of the Treasury in 
                securities backed by the full faith and credit of the 
                United States having maturities suitable to the needs 
                of the account and yielding the highest reasonably 
                available interest rates as determined by the Secretary 
                of the Treasury.
                    ``(E) Use of funds.--A recipient of funds under 
                this subsection may use the funds for any lawful 
                purpose as determined by State law. Funds allocated 
                under this subsection to States and local political 
                subdivisions may be used as matching funds for other 
                Federal programs without limitation. Funds allocated to 
                local political subdivisions under this subsection may 
                not be used in calculation of payments to such local 
                political subdivisions under programs for payments in 
                lieu of taxes or other similar programs.
                    ``(F) No accounting required.--No recipient of 
                funds under this subsection shall be required to 
                account to the Federal Government for the expenditure 
                of such funds, except as otherwise may be required by 
                law.
            ``(4) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) County-equivalent political subdivision.--The 
                term `county-equivalent political subdivision' means a 
                political jurisdiction immediately below the level of 
                State government, including a county, parish, borough 
                in Alaska, independent municipality not part of a 
                county, parish, or borough in Alaska, or other 
                equivalent subdivision of a State.
                    ``(B) Municipal political subdivision.--The term 
                `municipal political subdivision' means a municipality 
                located within and part of a county, parish, borough in 
                Alaska, or other equivalent subdivision of a State.''.

SEC. 28. AVAILABILITY OF OCS RECEIPTS TO PROVIDE PAYMENTS UNDER SECURE 
              RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION ACT OF 
              2000.

    Section 9 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1338) 
is amended by inserting after subsection (i), as added by section 7 of 
this Act, the following new subsection:
    ``(j) Conditional Availability of Funds for Payments Under Secure 
Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000.--
            ``(1) Availability of funds.--Subject to paragraph (2), but 
        notwithstanding any other provision of this section, 
        $50,000,000 of OCS Receipts shall be available to the Secretary 
        of the Treasury for each of fiscal years 2007 through 2012 to 
        make payments under sections 102 and 103 of the Secure Rural 
        Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Public 
        Law 106-393; 16 U.S.C. 500 note). The Secretary of the Treasury 
        shall use the funds made available by this subsection to make 
        such payments in lieu of using funds in the Treasury not 
        otherwise appropriated, as otherwise authorized by sections 
        102(b)(3) and 103(b)(2) of such Act.
            ``(2) Condition on availability.--OCS Receipts shall be 
        available under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year only if--
                    ``(A) title I of the Secure Rural Schools and 
                Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 has been 
                reauthorized through at least that fiscal year; and
                    ``(B) the authority to initiate projects under 
                titles II and III of such Act has been extended through 
                at least that fiscal year.''.

SEC. 29. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS TO BUY AND BUILD AMERICAN.

    (a) Buy and Build American.--It is the intention of the Congress 
that this Act, among other things, result in a healthy and growing 
American industrial, manufacturing, transportation, and service sector 
employing the vast talents of America's workforce to assist in the 
development of affordable energy from the Outer Continental Shelf. 
Moreover, the Congress intends to monitor the deployment of personnel 
and material in the Outer Continental Shelf to encourage the 
development of American technology and manufacturing to enable United 
States workers to benefit from this Act by good jobs and careers, as 
well as the establishment of important industrial facilities to support 
expanded access to American resources.
    (b) Safeguard for Extraordinary Ability.--Section 30(a) of the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1356(a)) is amended in the 
matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking ``regulations which'' and 
inserting ``regulations that shall be supplemental and complimentary 
with and under no circumstances a substitution for the provisions of 
the Constitution and laws of the United States extended to the subsoil 
and seabed of the outer Continental Shelf pursuant to section 4(a)(1) 
of this Act, except insofar as such laws would otherwise apply to 
individuals who have extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, 
education, or business, which has been demonstrated by sustained 
national or international acclaim, and that''.

SEC. 30. AVAILABILITY OF OCS RECEIPTS TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR 
              TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL.

    Section 9 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43. U.S.C. 
1338) is further amended by adding at the end the following new 
subsection:
    ``(k) Availability of Funds for Improvements to the Transportation 
Infrastructure of the Nation's Capital.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of this section, $150,000,000 of OCS Receipts shall be 
available to the Secretary of the Treasury for each of fiscal years 
2007 through 2016 to make payments, subject to appropriations, to the 
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (as defined in the 
National Capital Transportation Act of 1969) (sec. 9--1111.01 et seq., 
D.C. Official Code) to finance in part the capital and preventive 
maintenance projects included in the Capital Improvement Program 
approved by the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area 
Transit Authority.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 29, 2006.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
109th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 4761

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                                 AN ACT

To provide for exploration, development, and production activities for 
    mineral resources on the outer Continental Shelf, and for other 
                               purposes.