[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5058 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5058

To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from selling any oil and gas 
  lease for any tract in the Lease Sale 193 Area of the Alaska Outer 
Continental Shelf Region until the Secretary determines whether to list 
 the polar bear as a threatened species or an endangered species under 
      the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 17, 2008

  Mr. Markey (for himself, Mr. Inslee, Mr. Hinchey, and Mr. Larson of 
 Connecticut) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from selling any oil and gas 
  lease for any tract in the Lease Sale 193 Area of the Alaska Outer 
Continental Shelf Region until the Secretary determines whether to list 
 the polar bear as a threatened species or an endangered species under 
      the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 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. SCHEDULE FOR SALE OF OIL AND GAS LEASES FOR TRACTS WITHIN 
              THE LEASE SALE 193 AREA.

    (a) Schedule.--The Secretary of the Interior may not sell any oil 
and gas lease for any tract located in the Lease Sale 193 Area of the 
Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region before the earlier of--
            (1) the effective date of--
                    (A) the listing of the polar bear as a threatened 
                species or an endangered species under the Endangered 
                Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); and
                    (B) the final decision regarding the determination 
                of critical habitat for such species under that Act; or
            (2) the date the Secretary publishes a determination that 
        such listing is not warranted.
    (b) Lease Sale 193 Area Defined.--In this section the term ``Lease 
Sale 193 Area'' means the area offered for lease in the Final Notice of 
Sale (FNOS), OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193, Chukchi Sea published in 
the Federal Register by the Minerals Management Service on January 2, 
2008 (73 Fed Reg. 209).
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