1.Short title; table of
contents
(a)This Act may be cited
as the American Energy
Act
.
(b)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Title I—AMERICAN ENERGY
Subtitle A—OCS
Sec. 101. Short title.
Sec. 102. Policy.
Sec. 103. Leasing program considered approved.
Sec. 104. Lease sales.
Sec. 105. Prohibitions on surface occupancy.
Sec. 106. Definitions under the Submerged Lands
Act.
Sec. 107. Seaward boundaries of States.
Sec. 108. Exceptions from confirmation and establishment of
States’ title, power, and rights.
Sec. 109. Definitions under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands
Act.
Sec. 110. Determination of adjacent zones and planning
areas.
Sec. 111. Administration of leasing.
Sec. 112. Grant of leases by Secretary.
Sec. 113. Disposition of receipts.
Sec. 114. Reservation of lands and rights.
Sec. 115. Outer Continental Shelf leasing program.
Sec. 116. Coordination with Adjacent States.
Sec. 117. Environmental studies.
Sec. 118. Outer Continental Shelf incompatible use.
Sec. 119. Repurchase of certain leases.
Sec. 120. Offsite environmental mitigation.
Sec. 121. OCS regional headquarters.
Sec. 122. Leases for areas located within 12 nautical miles of
California or Florida.
Sec. 123. Coastal impact assistance.
Sec. 124. Repeal of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of
2006.
Subtitle B—ANWR
Sec. 141. Short title.
Sec. 142. Definitions.
Sec. 143. Leasing program for lands within the Coastal
Plain.
Sec. 144. Lease sales.
Sec. 145. Grant of leases by the Secretary.
Sec. 146. Lease terms and conditions.
Sec. 147. Coastal Plain environmental protection.
Sec. 148. Expedited judicial review.
Sec. 149. Federal and State distribution of
revenues.
Sec. 150. Rights-of-way across the Coastal Plain.
Sec. 151. Conveyance.
Sec. 152. Local government impact aid and community service
assistance.
Subtitle C—Oil Shale
Sec. 161. Oil shale.
Subtitle D—Refinery Permit Process Schedule
Sec. 171. Short title.
Sec. 172. Definitions.
Sec. 173. State assistance.
Sec. 174. Refinery process coordination and
procedures.
Sec. 175. Designation of closed military bases.
Sec. 176. Savings clause.
Sec. 177. Refinery revitalization repeal.
Title II—CONSERVATION AND EFFICIENCY
Subtitle A—Tax Incentives for Fuel Efficiency
Sec. 201. Extension of credit for alternative fuel
vehicles.
Sec. 202. Extension of alternative fuel vehicle refueling
property credit.
Sec. 203. Extension of credit for new qualified plug-in
electric drive motor vehicles.
Subtitle B—Tapping America’s Ingenuity and
Creativity
Sec. 211. Definitions.
Sec. 212. Statement of policy.
Sec. 213. Prize authority.
Sec. 214. Eligibility.
Sec. 215. Intellectual property.
Sec. 216. Waiver of liability.
Sec. 217. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 218. Next generation automobile prize program.
Sec. 219. Advanced battery manufacturing incentive
program.
Subtitle C—Home and Business Tax Incentives
Sec. 221. Extension of credit for energy efficient
appliances.
Sec. 222. Extension of credit for nonbusiness energy
property.
Sec. 223. Extension of credit for residential energy efficient
property.
Sec. 224. Extension of new energy efficient home
credit.
Sec. 225. Extension of energy efficient commercial buildings
deduction.
Sec. 226. Extension of special rule to implement FERC and State
electric restructuring policy.
Sec. 227. Home energy audits.
Sec. 228. Accelerated recovery period for depreciation of smart
meters.
Title III—NEW AND EXPANDING TECHNOLOGIES
Subtitle A—Alternative Fuels
Sec. 301. Repeal.
Sec. 302. Government auction of long-term put option contracts
on coal-to-liquid fuel produced by qualified coal-to-liquid
facilities.
Sec. 303. Standby loans for qualifying coal-to-liquids
projects.
Subtitle B—Tax Provisions
Sec. 311. Extension of renewable electricity, refined coal, and
Indian coal production credit.
Sec. 312. Extension of energy credit.
Sec. 313. Extension and modification of credit for clean
renewable energy bonds.
Sec. 314. Extension of credits for biodiesel and renewable
diesel.
Subtitle C—American Renewable and Alternative Energy Trust
Fund
Sec. 321. American Renewable and Alternative Energy Trust
Fund.
Title IV—Nuclear
Sec. 401. Streamline the regulatory process.
Sec. 402. Increase the supply of uranium.
Sec. 403. Recycle and safely store spent nuclear
fuel.
Sec. 404. Confidence in availability of waste
disposal.
Sec. 405. Preferential treatment for certain nuclear reactors
and related articles.
Sec. 406. National Nuclear Energy Council.
Sec. 407. Expansion of energy investment tax credit to include
nuclear and clean-coal equipment.
Title V—Environmental Review; Greenhouse Gases
Sec. 501. Environmental review for renewable energy
projects.
Sec. 502. Greenhouse gas regulation under Clean Air
Act.
Sec. 503. Prohibition of consideration of impact of greenhouse
gas.
Title VI—Legal Reform
Sec. 601. Findings.
Sec. 602. Exclusive jurisdiction over causes and claims
relating to covered energy projects.
Sec. 603. Time for filing complaint.
Sec. 604. District court for the District of Columbia
deadline.
Sec. 605. Ability to seek appellate review.
Sec. 606. Deadline for appeal to the Supreme Court.
Sec. 607. Limitation on scope of review and relief.
Sec. 608. Legal fees.
Sec. 609. Exclusion.
Sec. 610. Covered energy project defined.
<enum>I</enum><header>AMERICAN
ENERGY</header>
<subtitle id="H3C81986412D147D9ACD719BDE78ED1C3"><enum>A</enum><header>OCS</header>
<section id="H5BC9EAAE45D240FCB315E4C7BBAABDF9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle may be
cited as the <quote><short-title>Deep Ocean Energy
Resources Act of 2009</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H1DBC81D97AA0484CB95DF3A02EF6A4CA"><enum>102.</enum><header>Policy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the policy of the United States
that—</text>
<paragraph id="H0CB6F1BCF6424776A275589C5B0C8F7E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>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;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H876CCEF8658C473E85613EA8CA853DD0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>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; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB12592D85261453A89273FC60694F325"><enum>(3)</enum><text>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.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H82747126069F40A9A1CF483BBB081037"><enum>103.</enum><header>Leasing program
considered approved</header>
<subsection id="H84B73099BB0A47D1BEA1A8E681258583"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
General</header><text>The Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas
Leasing Program 2010–2015 released by the Secretary of the Interior (referred
to in this section as the <quote>Secretary</quote>) under section 18 of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344) is considered to have been
approved by the Secretary as a final oil and gas leasing program under that
section, and is considered to be in full compliance with and in accordance with
all requirements of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, National
Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air Act, Marine Mammals
Protection Act, the Oil Pollution Control Act, and all other applicable
laws.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H3DA4714959464EABADDA481D6BF69C2C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Final
Environmental Impact Statement</header><text>The Secretary is considered to
have issued a legally sufficient final environmental impact statement for the
program described in subsection (a) in accordance with all requirements under
section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C.
4332(2)(C)), and all other applicable laws.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HDDE0E4E9B4564DD2B0C2355BE3E19E2D"><enum>104.</enum><header>Lease
sales</header>
<subsection id="H4B02902106444A24ABACF596E5EF90E8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Outer
Continental Shelf</header>
<paragraph id="H03312F0ED4794DB9825B3C70F102EC95"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), not later than 30
days after the date of enactment of this Act and every 270 days thereafter, the
Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this section as the
<quote>Secretary</quote>) shall conduct a lease sale in each outer Continental
Shelf planning region for which the Secretary determines that there is a
commercial interest in purchasing Federal oil and gas leases for production on
the outer Continental Shelf.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7946E8565F1E4AFE8947235A9976D6C1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Subsequent
determinations and sales</header><text>If the Secretary determines that there
is not a commercial interest in purchasing Federal oil and gas leases for
production on the outer Continental Shelf in a planning area under this
subsection, not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of the
determination and every 2 years thereafter, the Secretary shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H71684C89A2F54681BF47DFE938932693"><enum>(A)</enum><text>solicit if there
is commercial interest in purchasing Federal oil and gas leases for production
on the outer Continental Shelf in the planning area; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H034EBC8608154A4C8408676A6A2C2B80"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if the Secretary
determines that there is a commercial interest described in subparagraph (A),
conduct a lease sale in the planning area.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1286191663E64FFCA742F621673997BD"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Renewable Energy
and Mariculture</header><text>The Secretary may conduct commercial lease sales
of resources—</text>
<paragraph id="HDE74770294A141DD8B9F29CD9DDA270E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to produce
renewable energy (as defined in section 203(b) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005
(42 U.S.C. 15852(b))); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H50FDA7A76FF444DBB0DF2AC9D1F2DBD9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to cultivate
marine organisms in the natural habitat of the organisms.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H3555CB4B1CF94320A78F115348FEAD7F"><enum>105.</enum><header>Prohibitions on
surface occupancy</header>
<subsection id="H5605CABE26694AB29361D79EE671229C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Regulations</header>
<paragraph id="HE01860633551449A97018E0F82A0F527"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary of the Interior shall promulgate
regulations that establish management of the surface occupancy of the portion
of the Outer Continental Shelf near the coastline to the effect that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC39787202FEF411CB8EC9C7F1962782E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the coastal State
shall have sole authority to restrict or allow surface facilities above the
waterline for the purpose of production of oil or gas resources in any area
that is within 12 nautical miles seaward from the coastline of any coastal
State, in any area of the Outer Continental Shelf that has not been made
available for oil and gas leasing after January 1, 2001, in a final notice of
sale;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3B466CBE18704A22A07F564D19EC8426"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">unless permanent surface occupancy is
authorized by the coastal State, only sub-surface production facilities may be
installed for areas that are located beyond 12 nautical miles but not more than
25 nautical miles seaward from the coastline of any coastal State, in any area
of the Outer Continental Shelf that has not been made available for oil and gas
leasing after January 1, 2001, in a final notice of sale; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD0AEAC0A2FE94555B067708219F8E7D5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>new offshore
production facilities are encouraged and the impacts on coastal vistas are
minimized, to the extent practical; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCB27DC475D2F4BEEA1E8DDA472BDADA7"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">onshore facilities that facilitate the
development and production of the resources of the Outer Continental Shelf
within 12 nautical miles seaward of the coastline are allowed.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H394A0C148BF8440ABB588C61D2761D41"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Temporary
activities not affected</header><text>Nothing in these regulations shall
restrict temporary surface activities related to operations associated with
Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leases.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H42B70343CD144F80B97AE7B8ED4B7345"><enum>106.</enum><header>Definitions
under the Submerged Lands Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2 of the Submerged Lands Act (43
U.S.C. 1301) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HCA4E06FD5C6C43B884CAAA4BA4B6D663"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(2) of paragraph (a) by striking all after <quote>seaward to a line</quote> and
inserting <quote>twelve nautical miles distant from the coast line of such
State;</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9466641FB3B24F108508DA97E66AE681"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking out
paragraph (b) and redesignating the subsequent paragraphs in order as
paragraphs (b) through (g);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC99366A4428A4F09A8304A188B8C3770"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking the
period at the end of paragraph (g) (as so redesignated) and inserting <quote>;
and</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE1B1CC3F887E4F6C8F3DFBAAB51256E2"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding the
following: <quote>(i) The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of
the Interior.</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9DB59EA9C87F40218020671CB227B376"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by defining
<quote>State</quote> as it is defined in section 2(r) of the Outer Continental
Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331(r)).</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H9D95CC882DF8484785884B24E46980C0"><enum>107.</enum><header>Seaward
boundaries of States</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4
of the Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1312) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HB91BC853902340C1BB1E6EC645ADBD17"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the first
sentence by striking <quote>original</quote>, and in the same sentence by
striking <quote>three geographical</quote> and inserting <quote>twelve
nautical</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2C9478CC53894ADCBBA9877B88D21D27"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking all
after the first sentence and inserting the following: <quote>Extension and
delineation of lateral offshore State boundaries under the provisions of this
Act shall follow the lines used to determine the Adjacent Zones of coastal
States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to the extent such lines
extend twelve nautical miles for the nearest coastline.</quote></text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H77F384E85C7D4BC19D3837A320C42FFC"><enum>108.</enum><header>Exceptions from
confirmation and establishment of States’ title, power, and
rights</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5 of the
Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1313) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H98580BA9845543EC9E519487B5E3F772"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (a) through (c) in order as paragraphs (1) through (3);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H90F573CBEC92495490FA2C6414F63D49"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(a)</quote> before <quote>There is excepted</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0671EF0A9C33431DA2E9D4C7C1C641BF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting at
the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HB130B9A25A10409F84CCEE0A0B38DC2C" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H289F2037F2B04B0B9B83A56AE5082D54"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exception of oil
and gas mineral rights</header><text>There is excepted from the operation of
sections 3 and 4 all of the oil and gas mineral rights for lands beneath the
navigable waters that are located within the expanded offshore State seaward
boundaries established under this Act. These oil and gas mineral rights shall
remain Federal property and shall be considered to be part of the Federal outer
Continental Shelf for purposes of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43
U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) and subject to leasing under the authority of that Act and
to laws applicable to the leasing of the oil and gas resources of the Federal
outer Continental Shelf. All existing Federal oil and gas leases within the
expanded offshore State seaward boundaries shall continue unchanged by the
provisions of this Act, except as otherwise provided herein. However, a State
may exercise all of its sovereign powers of taxation within the entire extent
of its expanded offshore State
boundaries.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="HDEB5258C0E4F477DB81087C72E7CBFFF"><enum>109.</enum><header>Definitions
under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2 of the Outer Continental Shelf
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H21236597DA1747C7A272E840A4B4387F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by amending
paragraph (f) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H487EA8A8F6944EF29A70D8CAECD08FB1" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HA74735E92FCB4E0CAA42575D3351DAC0"><enum>(f)</enum><text>The term
<term>affected State</term> means the <term>Adjacent
State</term>.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD72E99590EFA4A8C85B29A7070DDEC7D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking the
semicolon at the end of each of paragraphs (a) through (o) and inserting a
period;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1BDD59EC554D4620B1AD000DDF51239F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>; and</quote> at the end of paragraph (p) and inserting a period;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD2F350FFFA9347F896361D4CFDDB790A"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H7EE40CCD57994F86BAE43AA1497F4AC3" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H1DF954C388444A3C852EB6CD739F0A54"><enum>(r)</enum><text>The term
<term>Adjacent State</term> 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 <term>State</term> includes the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,
the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the other Territories of the
United States.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H74133C6777CF44FA953A658211602164"><enum>(s)</enum><text>The term
<term>Adjacent Zone</term> 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.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H396F93876FF044E4A6CF40347BAF0B82"><enum>(t)</enum><text>The term
<term>miles</term> means statute miles.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE177C84C12444E9FBA564CD25305661B"><enum>(u)</enum><text>The term
<term>coastline</term> has the same meaning as the term <term>coast line</term>
as defined in section 2(c) of the Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C.
1301(c)).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H7400B6A55CD44B9AA0B56A5CD5975EF4"><enum>(v)</enum><text>The term
<term>Neighboring State</term> means a coastal State having a common boundary
at the coastline with the Adjacent
State.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0641CFCFC5064FA587029B16AD91D245"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in paragraph (a),
by inserting after <quote>control</quote> the following: <quote>or lying within
the United States exclusive economic zone adjacent to the Territories of the
United States</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HE781A6E4698040518108FD8438BF4198"><enum>110.</enum><header>Determination
of adjacent zones and planning areas</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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 <quote>, and the President</quote> and all that follows through the
end of the sentence and inserting the following: <quote>. 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
<quote>Alaska OCS Region State Adjacent Zone and OCS Planning Areas</quote>,
<quote>Pacific OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning Areas</quote>,
<quote>Gulf of Mexico OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning
Areas</quote>, and <quote>Atlantic OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS
Planning Areas</quote>, all of which are dated September 2005 and on file in
the Office of the Director, Minerals Management Service.</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H2E0BE1D0A4FA46B5945F232F8D609EF8"><enum>111.</enum><header>Administration
of leasing</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 5 of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1334) is amended by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HD79E468933AE4FFE967D87A5E561791B" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HC48895298C92427DB345CBF718072D0F"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Voluntary
partial relinquishment of a lease</header><text>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
<short-title>Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of
2009</short-title>.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="HA05D8AAD7B9C4D39B25FA130FEA27DB3"><enum>112.</enum><header>Grant of leases
by Secretary</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8 of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H7C361FFDBF5D48548421DD124C7F81BF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by adding at the
end of subsection (b) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HEE7C0B4D64654BE38CB4C94FBC793417" style="OLC">
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">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.</text>
<after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3C9B447534834153BFF915F25FA6E4AA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending
subsection (p)(2)(B) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H9A7D6659FA0A416B9ED4A1B72C9220F3" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="H166632B03A60457C9AAAA5CEA0C3E7EB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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
<short-title>Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of
2009</short-title> 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.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDEDF1CB549A244439233ACB9E5A61E83"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H56E4D3322B354625B5D9E9E1374D6D5C" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H177D7F4A864B45F89FCCA66CC2B8A7DA"><enum>(q)</enum><header>Removal of
restrictions on joint bidding in certain areas of the outer continental
shelf</header><text>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 <quote>frontier tracts</quote> or
otherwise <quote>high cost tracts</quote> under final regulations that shall be
published by the Secretary by not later than 365 days after the date of the
enactment of the <short-title>Deep Ocean Energy Resources
Act of 2009</short-title>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HCAE0D2515C8247BF8AA34A7B81972914"><enum>(r)</enum><header>Royalty
suspension provisions</header><text>After the date of the enactment of the
<short-title>Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of
2009</short-title>, 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 (January 1, 2006, dollars) and $6.75 for natural gas (January 1, 2006,
dollars).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA8ACB71B8C1F433699928A7E33BC02CD"><enum>(s)</enum><header>Conservation of
resources fees</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of the <short-title>Deep Ocean Energy Resources
Act of 2009</short-title>, 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, 2009, and shall be treated as offsetting
receipts.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9F8015DAC37542DA979A8F27A8764DA2"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (a)(3)(A) and redesignating the subsequent subparagraphs as
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0D97958BD04D4DDCB874F15C6E021C36"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)(3)(A) (as so redesignated) by striking <quote>In the Western</quote> and
all that follows through <quote>the Secretary</quote> the first place it
appears and inserting <quote>The Secretary</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7C15B07AB88746ACA1D4F6C827E72F71"><enum>(6)</enum><text>effective October
1, 2009, in subsection (g)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H48DDC64062754BAFB98E56F6EB865336"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking all
after <quote>(g)</quote>, except paragraph (3);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H781C3A6CC5A944EE9AD537E637B627E4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the
last sentence of paragraph (3); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4DF9E38C8F3240F3A63BB6A55CDCB8C7"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>(3)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="H048B02C7BAED4218BC6F84DCD41B6D66"><enum>113.</enum><header>Disposition of
receipts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1338) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H714659353D8342EC8D3E17192F899B6B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by designating the
existing text as subsection (a);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4DFDBDA56A6845C0B134351E43D4E02B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a)
(as so designated) by inserting <quote>, if not paid as otherwise provided in
this title</quote> after <quote>receipts</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H13E0782319D04DB1B10178483F1ADE71"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HD211535E4E7A4382BDD37E969D57BB3B" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H75FD661478B94082A1188F892C80A69B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Treatment of OCS
Receipts From Tracts Completely Within 100 Miles of the Coastline</header>
<paragraph id="H65C9519DEF614042B68DB08621354D02"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deposit</header><text>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).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H296D9801EBF44221A09E9D6AB06FA3F1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Phased-in
receipts sharing</header>
<subparagraph id="H3139304E44904615BBB3A9C8B3C789B6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Beginning October
1, 2009, the Secretary shall share OCS Receipts derived from the following
areas:</text>
<clause id="H585C6307E6554FD9A41A1371D617EB2C"><enum>(i)</enum><text>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 were available for leasing under the 2002–2007 5-Year OCS Oil and Gas
Leasing Program.</text>
</clause><clause id="H0866FE71A4B0447FA8599BC2B00E9EF0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Lease tracts in
production prior to October 1, 2009, 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.</text>
</clause><clause id="H9F38EFCF65C24AB49710D71405D17343"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Lease tracts for
which leases are issued prior to October 1, 2009, located in the Alaska OCS
Region completely beyond 4 marine leagues from any coastline and completely
within 100 miles of the coastline.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H51769D8E47914A678A7AB6E3EFE3CB52"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The Secretary
shall share the following percentages of OCS Receipts from the leases described
in subparagraph (A) derived during the fiscal year indicated:</text>
<clause id="H4EFD3EF9ECD44D6A82C8625B6255B95D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2010, 5 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H87F0283C6BD649F2B94D4CD3B6638263"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2011, 8 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H4FC31B1D9A8541189E222C76742E14A5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2012, 11 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H39908D64F12A46F7AB86417E88EB1DB1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2013, 14 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H7F7979341D27488CBC3940A012F00A82"><enum>(v)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2014, 17 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H3163CD1929634313A41557A8EAFDDC14"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2015, 20 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="HA582DA4EABA94E9BB88748B724E8C3BD"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2016, 23 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H515AE4F8ED0C40F5816E5E745639330D"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2017, 26 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="HB92252031A1F49F68D7BCD68E5968A20"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2018, 29 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="HE105D6A30B2C4691B8E7D992001D39B7"><enum>(x)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2019, 32 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H9091CB306F04422B8978916D50BD61F9"><enum>(xi)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2020, 35 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H6E1596E08306471887D5B305BC46623A"><enum>(xii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2021 and each subsequent fiscal year, 37.5 percent.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H05F0A7E1985740BE84C6E0F74A3F538E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>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 106(2) of the
<short-title>Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of
2009</short-title>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HBBFE9E69EF4145A4A7D722C50835CE1D"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Immediate
receipts sharing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning
October 1, 2009, the Secretary shall share 37.50 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), and 90 percent of the balance of such OCS
Receipts shall be deposited into the American Renewable and Alternative Energy
Trust Fund established by section 321 of the <short-title>American Energy Act</short-title>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H42C2333DB3D84C7CA5F81D81F1E01DC9"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Receipts sharing
from tracts within 4 marine leagues of any coastline</header>
<subparagraph id="H58B0756945E44F2793823991C6D212E8"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Areas described
in paragraph <enum-in-header>(2)</enum-in-header></header><text>Beginning
October 1, 2009, and continuing through September 30, 2011, 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, 2011, 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 75 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF7F4D9E028A54704B2CCF8C9994C1C98"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Areas not
described in paragraph
<enum-in-header>(2)</enum-in-header></header><text>Beginning October 1, 2009,
the Secretary shall share 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).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB9E28EC0A4D7447DBD9FF19214B6541D"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Allocations</header><text>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:</text>
<subparagraph id="HC0B53E23074B4E8AA91EEFE877CF3EB0"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Bonus
bids</header><text>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.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9D1D7451A0FC42AF82759B1B9B61C8C8"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Royalties</header><text>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 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—</text>
<clause id="HA74E78E0220E4497BA0F850CF9EEB25A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>one-third to the
Adjacent State; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H70552F71D93C49378C08812BDB79061E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>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.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1CF3B4AE60174AB590FA5C91554FB9C9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Treatment of OCS
Receipts From Tracts Partially or Completely Beyond 100 Miles of the
Coastline</header>
<paragraph id="H764C69118D0A462692E6952511861ABC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deposit</header><text>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).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4DD1D9F4E06149D6B867F005FF6C9CFE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Phased-in
receipts sharing</header>
<subparagraph id="HE79435D03CE74CCCABA5108010F9BC77"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Beginning October
1, 2009, the Secretary shall share OCS Receipts derived from the following
areas:</text>
<clause id="H3A8E7D0F562B4278B5BF038F0D32A980"><enum>(i)</enum><text>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 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program.</text>
</clause><clause id="HB531E17BD9FA499C8A8EC43C51DFB5E2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Lease tracts in
production prior to October 1, 2009, 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.</text>
</clause><clause id="H69BA6A74D40849A5A8EBE905BC9202DF"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Lease tracts for
which leases are issued prior to October 1, 2009, located in the Alaska OCS
Region partially or completely beyond 100 miles of the coastline.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC5D5DBC9309F4179B22AE874B70DF176"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The Secretary
shall share the following percentages of OCS Receipts from the leases described
in subparagraph (A) derived during the fiscal year indicated:</text>
<clause id="H65F99BB443C74A538B2DD34FE30FEFF4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2010, 5 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="HDDD51603A5154F0C8C546A7D22429148"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2011, 8 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H95886A94E37547C8A76510E0506C028F"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2012, 11 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="HBB4866A126BE494FB9BD38609D6E1AB6"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2013, 14 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="HD853778822BF4DF3847F92BDB25962D3"><enum>(v)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2014, 17 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="HB7461F75268745A0B5BA0D41010F21C7"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2015, 20 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H3612F84AC1AF45DD8759D40C9056C50D"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2016, 23 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H721E0E5FA8324B4DA385F4147D7E3C7D"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2017, 26 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="H16341C757F43476384710E2837A834D4"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2018, 29 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="HC70C1F423A354EBAB0465DC4BA3E5869"><enum>(x)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2019, 32 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="HF69B7BB2736B465980B89A10141A7D65"><enum>(xi)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2020, 35 percent.</text>
</clause><clause id="HDDE1F7D99CBE4BACAB111B0008372977"><enum>(xii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2021 and each subsequent fiscal year, 37.5 percent.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9839A5CB4E1B4B5BA1A9000FD7089A34"><enum>(C)</enum><text>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 106(2) of the
<short-title>Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of
2009</short-title>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H82CDE280861E46D3952709EE3F211042"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Immediate
receipts sharing</header><text>Beginning October 1, 2009, the Secretary shall
share 37.5 percent of OCS Receipts derived on and after October 1, 2009, 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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H509F10C7969A48A4A869C3DD8E0523C0"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Allocations</header><text>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:</text>
<subparagraph id="H86D29970D63745779CA7974653B02BD3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Bonus
bids</header><text>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.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8AFB03C44E714D68A948C762394FC684"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Royalties</header><text>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—</text>
<clause id="H69905FF65CB94C4A815881296D21B849"><enum>(i)</enum><text>one-third to the
Adjacent State; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H5071A995A1994243B4D73EF93FAA3367"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>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.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H985EACB7868942FC958A86902067DC56"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Transmission of
Allocations</header>
<paragraph id="H5D3E02D5BBD143AEB830695C56EF56D5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year,
the Secretary shall transmit—</text>
<subparagraph id="H823D5B1C187D49729BCE7AB98A631E8A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>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;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD6EEFD7E20074ABEA0F5791362206E3C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB15E4C63E2544784B7EFF4E1D3CBAEE1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the remaining
allocations under subsections (b)(5) and (c)(4), together with all accrued
interest thereon.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF4ED44CE24204CDD99EDF7D9121C1C88"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Allocations to
coastal county-equivalent political subdivisions</header><text>The Secretary
shall make an initial allocation of the OCS Receipts to be shared under
paragraph (1)(B) as follows:</text>
<subparagraph id="H002AD12F148E497CAC88294A006F10D3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>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.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAA2A5221BA914718BA5008DEBDDF8DAB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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:</text>
<clause id="H7A2058283E534F5582433A7D44593A06"><enum>(i)</enum><text>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.</text>
</clause><clause id="HAE36F749A675425E89D64941D16A1794"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>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.</text>
</clause><clause id="HF8B6BDBB607346169DC2816A18A8B58D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>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.</text>
</clause><clause id="H20F0FFC04814472598C897435368819B"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>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 <term>outer Continental Shelf oil
and gas activities</term> 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.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD5930B30DB874B0EA28ECB6BFEB8B6E6"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Allocations to
coastal municipal political subdivisions</header><text>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:</text>
<subparagraph id="H04D5D870BFEA4D2BAD5764E43CF0357D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>One-third shall be
allocated to the coastal county-equivalent political subdivision.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4FD84A450A2D445B98FBC985321FF639"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H338400CFEEB0459DA20A377964D75AC1"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Investment of
deposits</header><text>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.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H31B11E9DA6AA41439711987376301E06"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Use of
funds</header><text>A recipient of funds under this section may use the funds
for one or more of the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H1ADEFEB0DC2941EB960C470CEBEFB572"><enum>(1)</enum><text>To reduce in-State
college tuition at public institutions of higher learning and otherwise support
public education, including career technical education.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAEE1A4F9CA4E442E820A6EE425F4683D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>To make
transportation infrastructure improvements.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H43749B98F5B549A48821F1AC694468FF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>To reduce
taxes.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE48DD14234114DCAAD2BC6A38F4DA710"><enum>(4)</enum><text>To promote, fund,
and provide for—</text>
<subparagraph id="H8924484826D54894AE47DC87D4460931"><enum>(A)</enum><text>coastal or
environmental restoration;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H96DE78B2F4444A7AA39A932D14078F1B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>fish, wildlife,
and marine life habitat enhancement;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H08283E4750384BC798373E246324A7B1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>waterways
construction and maintenance;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF66D2B06730D49359C3BC08E2848BDCF"><enum>(D)</enum><text>levee construction
and maintenance and shore protection; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H84A217896D8A49ACBB1FB9EF9C7590B8"><enum>(E)</enum><text>marine and
oceanographic education and research.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB80B7C60D5DA4AEFB3FC5CE381B67581"><enum>(5)</enum><text>To promote, fund,
and provide for—</text>
<subparagraph id="H80FBEB70935C48AD9CB330DFE2DE7E26"><enum>(A)</enum><text>infrastructure
associated with energy production activities conducted on the outer Continental
Shelf;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6DC6DDDEAC5A48D08779AE05FABC8267"><enum>(B)</enum><text>energy
demonstration projects;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6D01D081F8D140FA8D8F099A0A807343"><enum>(C)</enum><text>supporting
infrastructure for shore-based energy projects;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2F8BD3686A3F4897955493D70C870896"><enum>(D)</enum><text>State geologic
programs, including geologic mapping and data storage programs, and State
geophysical data acquisition;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2B4BAAF2852441728AED1E3057607295"><enum>(E)</enum><text>State seismic
monitoring programs, including operation of monitoring stations;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H19E8566C4AD74AED9D50B97FA5B77F3B"><enum>(F)</enum><text>development of oil
and gas resources through enhanced recovery techniques;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H40090942E45E444A9A1F6E3A5F577116"><enum>(G)</enum><text>alternative energy
development, including bio fuels, coal-to-liquids, oil shale, tar sands,
geothermal, geopressure, wind, waves, currents, hydro, solar, and other
renewable energy;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H45543755ABF14F21BC33FAB59CEF387E"><enum>(H)</enum><text>energy efficiency
and conservation programs; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H09A3ABB1BCAC4EC3BCE340819EB84EAE"><enum>(I)</enum><text>front-end
engineering and design for facilities that produce liquid fuels from
hydrocarbons and other biological matter.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H5BEE5B907DB74ACEA3CC59661DE5EDA4"><enum>(6)</enum><text>To promote, fund,
and provide for—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDA14360CE8D9433B8BD718BC4AA72E15"><enum>(A)</enum><text>historic
preservation programs and projects;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD243F98F216C490DB828D9FDA738DF51"><enum>(B)</enum><text>natural disaster
planning and response; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1B9FB0084DD04D63909985F02734FBAC"><enum>(C)</enum><text>hurricane and
natural disaster insurance programs.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H633B48F439994CF2AB76A16647319ACC"><enum>(7)</enum><text>For any other
purpose as determined by State law.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF04A4349531945CF9E66D9DBAEDC09A2"><enum>(g)</enum><header>No accounting
required</header><text>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.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H1613DB496BF242ADA391866DF28CAC01"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Effect of future
laws</header><text>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.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HBC79B067680B44FDA5B85F77A3EF22C6"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H08CAAA992E994EAC97CB2A763CA7C440"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Coastal
county-equivalent political subdivision</header><text>The term <term>coastal
county-equivalent political subdivision</term> 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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H20DF5A1C83C541B2A9B4B935170BBC82"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Coastal
municipal political subdivision</header><text>The term <term>coastal municipal
political subdivision</term> 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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H06AA81D4CCB344E3804BB598B68756EF"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Coastal
population</header><text>The term <term>coastal population</term> means the
population of all coastal county-equivalent political subdivisions, as
determined by the most recent official data of the Census Bureau.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2E5D78E4A3A44BDCA6453A7A7A8D8643"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Coastal
zone</header><text>The term <term>coastal zone</term> 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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5010BEE55A694EFC889E6187EB44A059"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Bonus
bids</header><text>The term <term>bonus bids</term> means all funds received by
the Secretary to issue an outer Continental Shelf minerals lease.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H203E977529E24A51AA607CA73D572471"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Royalties</header><text>The
term <term>royalties</term> 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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF16A12EA51C04D7CB8E5E3C54E1B0814"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Producing
state</header><text>The term <term>producing State</term> means an Adjacent
State having an Adjacent Zone containing leased tracts from which OCS Receipts
were derived.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAA19B6CBA58B4AFFAA1254572DF09AC0"><enum>(8)</enum><header>OCS
receipts</header><text>The term <term>OCS Receipts</term> means bonus bids,
royalties, and conservation of resources
fees.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="HAD162590655C44CC9F25CF7B9A51DB9F"><enum>114.</enum><header>Reservation of
lands and rights</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 12 of
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1341) is amended by adding at
the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFA798B98D7A6452399058C5B541FC03F" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H4313D7EDB46C4166B7986A886984F927"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Prohibition on
leasing east of the military mission line</header>
<paragraph id="H1BDBA67E149C402FB4A739FDA4240E2B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, from and after the enactment of the
<short-title>Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of
2009</short-title>, prior to January 1, 2022, 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 unless a waiver is issued by
the Secretary of Defense. If such a waiver is granted, 62.5 percent of the OCS
Receipts from a lease within such area issued because of such waiver shall be
paid annually to the National Guards of all States having a point within 1000
miles of such a lease, allocated among the States on a per capita basis using
the entire population of such States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H673D8A286BA348099C004E1D4DE2E2D7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In this
subsection, the term <term>military mission line</term> means a line located at
86 degrees, 41 minutes West Longitude, and extending south from the coast of
Florida to the outer boundary of United States territorial waters in the Gulf
of
Mexico.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H6D1039E3889944B9BC618802429108D6"><enum>115.</enum><header>Outer
Continental Shelf leasing program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H39EDEC02AFCB44D88932AC61F97C3978"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by adding at the end of paragraph (3) the following: <quote>The Secretary
shall, in each 5-Year Program, include lease sales that when viewed as a whole
propose to offer for oil and 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.</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEC13BFB10DE5496DA7077775C5B3C426"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by striking so much as precedes paragraph (3) and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H32B7D3FB6C81411787B42E6467DA568F" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HEEA5B5A3C4C944908E9779D841C387B7"><enum>(c)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H1BFD4F9EDCCD4B148649EEA72E799F07"><enum>(1)</enum><text>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 leasing. If the Secretaries are not able to
resolve all such conflicts, any unresolved issues shall be elevated to the
President for resolution.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD116AFD44E254F638163222C81CBBC54" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>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.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HADC7605727274617B309173A88F3E265"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HA1297017A8BE45AFBED786571C7734B1" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H377DF40613854D6297C9447ED5EC0095"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Projection of
state adjacent zone resources and state and local government shares of OCS
receipts</header><text>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—</text>
<paragraph id="HC77E22A470444F88A6DE61A2982CC939"><enum>(1)</enum><text>provide to each
Adjacent State a current estimate of proven and potential oil and gas resources
located within the State’s Adjacent Zone; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF9D62F07C18A483F8FE0CB4833F3BA14"><enum>(2)</enum><text>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.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="HAD4E5BE8F6D04FE08F52F7F50ED14E14"><enum>116.</enum><header>Coordination
with Adjacent States</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
19 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1345) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HA328B94E698646D6933511CAFD6419C6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a)
in the first sentence by inserting <quote>, for any tract located within the
Adjacent State’s Adjacent Zone,</quote> after <quote>government</quote>;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7A59DFFD77F343F7B94E0FA2DABC78A4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HCA28EE33BAAD418D946EAA2C1CFA6A48" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HBD83D5039B4146A0BFEC469EA4A83866"><enum>(f)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HCD4CEF49C1E34F3E89E6EAE7DC698DEA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>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
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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC007997A49A64AD8817D97EBD7D5C0BB" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>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.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H6DFA25086485429CB4F7C4E44B115970"><enum>117.</enum><header>Environmental
studies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 20(d) of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1346) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE551ACF040A5480BBFB611DFD7CF2CE0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(1)</quote> after <quote>(d)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H90298917DBEE4E929C25E873E65DB4FF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HFDF941AB81A345CA9210E77EE73A0B7F" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HB700E0A28D2D4692B19922504A254614"><enum>(2)</enum><text>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:</text>
<subparagraph id="HF263E9B0B0F64C72905258926792AE7F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>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.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1BF93F92CDE147ACA55AAAE9137DB18C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA127D277EDA14B1BBA213CF75C9ACBEA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>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.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8FAE5D75BCBC4FA791AC4B5536B93A43"><enum>(D)</enum><text>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.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="HF5D78626C250458BBC03A29FC67EE00A"><enum>118.</enum><header>Outer
Continental Shelf incompatible use</header>
<subsection id="HD8AC985EA5354260A8577AD63E49DA99"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>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 leasing and substantially full exploration and production
of tracts that are geologically prospective for oil or natural gas (or
both).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H4643D4B74E0D400691AAC5DD130655AC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text>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—</text>
<paragraph id="H81FF894E04544CAEB4CE6815519D7157"><enum>(1)</enum><text>located in an area
of the outer Continental Shelf that is unavailable for oil and gas leasing by
operation of law;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8F058C1A40A545819B7F02DC4C5879A2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>used for a
military readiness activity (as defined in section 315(f) of Public Law
107–314; 16 U.S.C. 703 note); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBF2DF19D872441D592164F375BEA8212"><enum>(3)</enum><text>required in the
national interest, as determined by the President.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H83F36543C36D4845AF501B345B201920"><enum>119.</enum><header>Repurchase of
certain leases</header>
<subsection id="HD4BDEBF678894928A9B687506F8259CE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority To
repurchase and cancel certain leases</header><text>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 were 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.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H164CBE8E8AC2480AAEFAC5E2238652FA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>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:</text>
<paragraph id="HE3FF7CC5FDE047FBA58DA47738B15963"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Secretary
shall repurchase and cancel a lease after written request by the lessee upon a
finding by the Secretary that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDC9B5FA11E5946EEBC63DC4062389F47"><enum>(A)</enum><text>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;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0502C865272048BF9559A53E48CDF8B2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>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</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H91A95ACB44494B44A781BABEFF725BE4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>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.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H94775B18FA594073AA47DE7BDA5072D3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2BA2EE1FA88049E0AAAAC86564B526AB"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The Secretary
shall make a final agency decision on a request by a lessee under this section
within 180 days of request.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H44B8800140594E648E423FD0E15860B5"><enum>(4)</enum><text>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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFE4C4F4CC95D4F2F8232353C584B8107"><enum>(5)</enum><text>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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H310133FA88F44596AA2834EFEA19F322"><enum>(6)</enum><text>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.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H29435818A495467B8073241642E47147"><enum>(c)</enum><header>No
prejudice</header><text>This section shall not be interpreted to prejudice any
other rights that the lessee would have in the absence of this section.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H30902EF32212439890584799EC01325F"><enum>120.</enum><header>Offsite
environmental mitigation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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.</text>
</section><section id="H2980138455FC498D8BA75F63067DEB9F"><enum>121.</enum><header>OCS regional
headquarters</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than
July 1, 2011, the Secretary of the Interior shall establish the headquarters
for the Atlantic OCS Region, the headquarters for the Gulf of Mexico OCS
Region, and the headquarters for the Pacific OCS Region within a State
bordering the Atlantic OCS Region, a State bordering the Gulf of Mexico OCS
Region, and a State bordering the Pacific OCS Region. Such Atlantic and Pacific
OCS Regions headquarters shall be located within 25 miles of the coastline and
each Minerals Management Service 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.</text>
</section><section id="H89EC492327484B548A8FEDD1D1C46906"><enum>122.</enum><header>Leases for
areas located within 12 nautical miles of California or Florida</header>
<subsection id="H447419A768264D31AEDE32E0DEA78A63"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authorization To
cancel and exchange certain existing oil and gas leases</header>
<paragraph id="HFB4B6483C9964F2983FEB60CA6EF7869"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Authority</header><text>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 12 nautical 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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDA8581DADDC14E6198368B87D0AFF890"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Administrative
process</header><text>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.).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H32FC2C06E55C46279EC951C6312C9B35"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Operating
restrictions</header><text>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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H57722E25DC2E4C5983474572265CB43D"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Priority</header><text>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.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H6A906EE08E9E4D9497CFFD738781216D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Further lease
cancellation and exchange provisions</header>
<paragraph id="H318B1DBDB37B41AEBA0BB4B57CA5A260"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Cancellation of
lease</header><text>As part of the lease exchange process under this section,
the Secretary shall cancel a lease that is exchanged under this section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1B79E26084314595AA735E1D06D7FBF1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Consent of
lessees</header><text>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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4794433361934C2CBCDDE4FBF5CE91B0"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Waiver of
rights</header><text>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.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2F02EF02AFC4492C991C87DB639AEC14"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Plugging and
abandonment</header><text>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.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB2888EEE04B1483A9BECFCB28D479AEA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Existing oil and
gas lease defined</header><text>In this section the term <term>existing oil and
gas lease</term> means an oil and gas lease in effect on the date of the
enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HE55C52A5ECBC428D8591CA959C91E9BA"><enum>123.</enum><header>Coastal impact
assistance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 31 of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1356a) is repealed.</text>
</section><section id="H532F6B27A42749EBA7FDFDB5F6712943"><enum>124.</enum><header>Repeal of the
Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The <short-title>Gulf
of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006</short-title> is repealed effective
October 1, 2009.</text>
</section></subtitle><subtitle id="H9C64756B8C9B4006B9F7DAEAA4F598A9"><enum>B</enum><header>ANWR</header>
<section id="H198886867DB442DDBDAD668026E68F38" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>141.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle may be
cited as the <quote><short-title>American Energy
Independence and Price Reduction Act</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H2834DB5DD74D4A8FA5E949CA9DDF3342"><enum>142.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle:</text>
<paragraph id="HE947EF0048AF4A91B8C0D33B3C0E78C2"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Coastal
Plain</header><text>The term <term>Coastal Plain</term> means that area
described in appendix I to part 37 of title 50, Code of Federal
Regulations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H29496EE6B1CF44CF86D2525C44AFA825"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The
term <term>Secretary</term>, except as otherwise provided, means the Secretary
of the Interior or the Secretary’s designee.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H868B8529277F46EBBD3076694CAD171D"><enum>143.</enum><header>Leasing program
for lands within the Coastal Plain</header>
<subsection id="H02004A734C6B43BAADFA295D769EC87F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall take such actions as are
necessary—</text>
<paragraph id="H69CC8FB44A42476CA688DBF2053AC420"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to establish and
implement, in accordance with this subtitle and acting through the Director of
the Bureau of Land Management in consultation with the Director of the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service, a competitive oil and gas leasing program
that will result in an environmentally sound program for the exploration,
development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H15A8A9F92982469A90DD5D1F7413142F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to administer the
provisions of this subtitle through regulations, lease terms, conditions,
restrictions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other provisions that ensure the
oil and gas exploration, development, and production activities on the Coastal
Plain will result in no significant adverse effect on fish and wildlife, their
habitat, subsistence resources, and the environment, including, in furtherance
of this goal, by requiring the application of the best commercially available
technology for oil and gas exploration, development, and production to all
exploration, development, and production operations under this subtitle in a
manner that ensures the receipt of fair market value by the public for the
mineral resources to be leased.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE77F20C4FC5D412098156EDD415FE909"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repeal</header>
<paragraph id="HE741C07A4BF8457EA6672DAAF2734945"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Repeal</header><text>Section
1003 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C.
3143) is repealed.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7B4DE0B8DC094545B78DB8C8D83F34EB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1 of such Act is
amended by striking the item relating to section 1003.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HACAF65398B884149A7E17E86A6439405"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Compliance with
requirements under certain other laws</header>
<paragraph id="H61224E33C70649969D22C0A47DFFA282"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Compatibility</header><text>For
purposes of the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 (16
U.S.C. 668dd et seq.), the oil and gas leasing program and activities
authorized by this section in the Coastal Plain are deemed to be compatible
with the purposes for which the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was
established, and no further findings or decisions are required to implement
this determination.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4118E8E47A0846A796412B47B978CC19"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Adequacy of the
Department of the Interior’s legislative environmental impact
statement</header><text>The <quote>Final Legislative Environmental Impact
Statement</quote> (April 1987) on the Coastal Plain prepared pursuant to
section 1002 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 (16
U.S.C. 3142) and section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)) is deemed to satisfy the requirements under the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 that apply with respect to prelease
activities, including actions authorized to be taken by the Secretary to
develop and promulgate the regulations for the establishment of a leasing
program authorized by this subtitle before the conduct of the first lease
sale.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9678D1B762274D648B10CD9779A2354F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Compliance with
NEPA for other actions</header><text>Before conducting the first lease sale
under this subtitle, the Secretary shall prepare an environmental impact
statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 with respect to
the actions authorized by this subtitle that are not referred to in paragraph
(2). Notwithstanding any other law, the Secretary is not required to identify
nonleasing alternative courses of action or to analyze the environmental
effects of such courses of action. The Secretary shall only identify a
preferred action for such leasing and a single leasing alternative, and analyze
the environmental effects and potential mitigation measures for those two
alternatives. The identification of the preferred action and related analysis
for the first lease sale under this subtitle shall be completed within 18
months after the date of enactment of this Act. The Secretary shall only
consider public comments that specifically address the Secretary’s preferred
action and that are filed within 20 days after publication of an environmental
analysis. Notwithstanding any other law, compliance with this paragraph is
deemed to satisfy all requirements for the analysis and consideration of the
environmental effects of proposed leasing under this subtitle.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HFA365B8348304D81914532478ACABDD4"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Relationship to
State and local authority</header><text>Nothing in this subtitle shall be
considered to expand or limit State and local regulatory authority.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HAE5810B912FA4BD3898F6186936EDDA1"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Special
areas</header>
<paragraph id="H0CB2657323054F7CA391C92F9C96BB07"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary, after consultation with the State of
Alaska, the city of Kaktovik, and the North Slope Borough, may designate up to
a total of 45,000 acres of the Coastal Plain as a Special Area if the Secretary
determines that the Special Area is of such unique character and interest so as
to require special management and regulatory protection. The Secretary shall
designate as such a Special Area the Sadlerochit Spring area, comprising
approximately 4,000 acres.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H04C0A1E6AE2E454D9B1F9B813E6C9467"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Management</header><text>Each
such Special Area shall be managed so as to protect and preserve the area’s
unique and diverse character including its fish, wildlife, and subsistence
resource values.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H79DC4E7C4C8249DFB65F01DF49F9ED36"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Exclusion from
leasing or surface occupancy</header><text>The Secretary may exclude any
Special Area from leasing. If the Secretary leases a Special Area, or any part
thereof, for purposes of oil and gas exploration, development, production, and
related activities, there shall be no surface occupancy of the lands comprising
the Special Area.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD541F9AA2EE8491ABEB57F76D27B0957"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Directional
drilling</header><text>Notwithstanding the other provisions of this subsection,
the Secretary may lease all or a portion of a Special Area under terms that
permit the use of horizontal drilling technology from sites on leases located
outside the Special Area.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H205F0095F37C42B691BE9CA1E25059B1"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Limitation on
closed areas</header><text>The Secretary’s sole authority to close lands within
the Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing and to exploration, development, and
production is that set forth in this subtitle.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H6E80F7FD98D14E1B9BC918E749E48D51"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Regulations</header>
<paragraph id="H196E253F54EE489A96BD9D415391A89C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as may be
necessary to carry out this subtitle, including rules and regulations relating
to protection of the fish and wildlife, their habitat, subsistence resources,
and environment of the Coastal Plain, by no later than 15 months after the date
of enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H994A1EE9F4A542C49B03D4F0483D4E36"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Revision of
regulations</header><text>The Secretary shall periodically review and, if
appropriate, revise the rules and regulations issued under subsection (a) to
reflect any significant biological, environmental, or engineering data that
come to the Secretary’s attention.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H4727B1DBBD9C41C08072304206083EB8"><enum>144.</enum><header>Lease
sales</header>
<subsection id="HA7B00C111E08486F90CB9931AB9446C3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Lands may be leased pursuant to this subtitle to any
person qualified to obtain a lease for deposits of oil and gas under the
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H8A147E82E4F045CBBCC9C68F5DF4684D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Procedures</header><text>The
Secretary shall, by regulation, establish procedures for—</text>
<paragraph id="H2CE1032C17734FA58A83F75B2A306390"><enum>(1)</enum><text>receipt and
consideration of sealed nominations for any area in the Coastal Plain for
inclusion in, or exclusion (as provided in subsection (c)) from, a lease
sale;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H82024CA88D134184B9D47A5FC550BAB2"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the holding of
lease sales after such nomination process; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAEF2B7DFDA8143F2B4B2044B6906A48A"><enum>(3)</enum><text>public notice of
and comment on designation of areas to be included in, or excluded from, a
lease sale.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF233E037051D4F44B8BFAFA104DD9491"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Lease sale
bids</header><text>Bidding for leases under this subtitle shall be by sealed
competitive cash bonus bids.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H1A486096726B4A2CBDB8A0A2AD51B695"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Acreage minimum
in first sale</header><text>In the first lease sale under this subtitle, the
Secretary shall offer for lease those tracts the Secretary considers to have
the greatest potential for the discovery of hydrocarbons, taking into
consideration nominations received pursuant to subsection (b)(1), but in no
case less than 200,000 acres.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H0584C6667E7B49BFA22CC15B677D5ABA"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Timing of lease
sales</header><text>The Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H863216B36B3E41DA963A97E490000A64"><enum>(1)</enum><text>conduct the first
lease sale under this subtitle within 22 months after the date of the enactment
of this Act;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6B4112BA234E4FF9ACD700A1E5190122"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">evaluate the bids in such sale and issue
leases resulting from such sale, within 90 days after the date of the
completion of such sale; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H61EDE2275FA64A05BF818AEB09533B3F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>conduct additional
sales so long as sufficient interest in development exists to warrant, in the
Secretary’s judgment, the conduct of such sales.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HA99A101F3D81421FA8952FF4A7C69846"><enum>145.</enum><header>Grant of leases
by the Secretary</header>
<subsection id="H3F50F78667D84DBDA11EEE25EF2478CE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary may grant to the highest responsible
qualified bidder in a lease sale conducted pursuant to section 144 any lands to
be leased on the Coastal Plain upon payment by the lessee of such bonus as may
be accepted by the Secretary.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD1ACBCE26B8948A5B272C36E885A0692"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Subsequent
transfers</header><text>No lease issued under this subtitle may be sold,
exchanged, assigned, sublet, or otherwise transferred except with the approval
of the Secretary. Prior to any such approval the Secretary shall consult with,
and give due consideration to the views of, the Attorney General.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H2A87ABCC765345A3906ED1CE4AB22CCF"><enum>146.</enum><header>Lease terms and
conditions</header>
<subsection id="HD501EB11AC4749B4BEA7BBA1E9F5A467"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>An oil or gas lease issued pursuant to this subtitle
shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H86CC6CFD1F654CA9A4D8658138FD3ADF"><enum>(1)</enum><text>provide for the
payment of a royalty of not less than 12½ percent in amount or value of the
production removed or sold from the lease, as determined by the Secretary under
the regulations applicable to other Federal oil and gas leases;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H04326D5C234F42D59C78A3B52E5E8CEF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provide that the
Secretary may close, on a seasonal basis, portions of the Coastal Plain to
exploratory drilling activities as necessary to protect caribou calving areas
and other species of fish and wildlife;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3FC5EF108C8441009A49D4FF78BEEDCA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>require that the
lessee of lands within the Coastal Plain shall be fully responsible and liable
for the reclamation of lands within the Coastal Plain and any other Federal
lands that are adversely affected in connection with exploration, development,
production, or transportation activities conducted under the lease and within
the Coastal Plain by the lessee or by any of the subcontractors or agents of
the lessee;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H87CAAB543F534CB79EA0FBC1053DFC37"><enum>(4)</enum><text>provide that the
lessee may not delegate or convey, by contract or otherwise, the reclamation
responsibility and liability to another person without the express written
approval of the Secretary;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF910706920354355A532981008343874"><enum>(5)</enum><text>provide that the
standard of reclamation for lands required to be reclaimed under this subtitle
shall be, as nearly as practicable, a condition capable of supporting the uses
which the lands were capable of supporting prior to any exploration,
development, or production activities, or upon application by the lessee, to a
higher or better use as approved by the Secretary;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H47A9FE39D2C448B0B0BF86D1E9E11E77"><enum>(6)</enum><text>contain terms and
conditions relating to protection of fish and wildlife, their habitat,
subsistence resources, and the environment as required pursuant to section
143(a)(2);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4F3A721941164780BC605328506EA89F"><enum>(7)</enum><text>provide that the
lessee, its agents, and its contractors use best efforts to provide a fair
share, as determined by the level of obligation previously agreed to in the
1974 agreement implementing section 29 of the Federal Agreement and Grant of
Right of Way for the Operation of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, of employment and
contracting for Alaska Natives and Alaska Native Corporations from throughout
the State;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAA1ACE78244D4CED9B87D3602C8127BC"><enum>(8)</enum><text>prohibit the
export of oil produced under the lease; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9692C4812AC04D63AC8BA04770D1BA88"><enum>(9)</enum><text>contain such other
provisions as the Secretary determines necessary to ensure compliance with the
provisions of this subtitle and the regulations issued under this
subtitle.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H65494A8D27C8489082CB71A291EB166D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Project labor
agreements</header><text>The Secretary, as a term and condition of each lease
under this subtitle and in recognizing the Government’s proprietary interest in
labor stability and in the ability of construction labor and management to meet
the particular needs and conditions of projects to be developed under the
leases issued pursuant to this subtitle and the special concerns of the parties
to such leases, shall require that the lessee and its agents and contractors
negotiate to obtain a project labor agreement for the employment of laborers
and mechanics on production, maintenance, and construction under the
lease.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HDCC433871F8B47DE8DD0A30829AA469D"><enum>147.</enum><header>Coastal Plain
environmental protection</header>
<subsection id="H042D8A48D4BD46B882CD9965328C115E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>No significant
adverse effect standard To govern authorized Coastal Plain
activities</header><text>The Secretary shall, consistent with the requirements
of section 143, administer the provisions of this subtitle through regulations,
lease terms, conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other
provisions that—</text>
<paragraph id="H8173B42C8F6A4E8786441DAF53C81E4A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>ensure the oil and
gas exploration, development, and production activities on the Coastal Plain
will result in no significant adverse effect on fish and wildlife, their
habitat, and the environment;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H081EDD56A5BA42A19EC2EF5C646A0EC7"><enum>(2)</enum><text>require the
application of the best commercially available technology for oil and gas
exploration, development, and production on all new exploration, development,
and production operations; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5CA3434460E441E2AB2A8FC356839184"><enum>(3)</enum><text>ensure that the
maximum amount of surface acreage covered by production and support facilities,
including airstrips and any areas covered by gravel berms or piers for support
of pipelines, does not exceed 2,000 acres on the Coastal Plain.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1E56B2F30872443284CA06FBF34B3C37"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Site-specific
assessment and mitigation</header><text>The Secretary shall also require, with
respect to any proposed drilling and related activities, that—</text>
<paragraph id="H0B240E8B02954287B2C60A3C6D040A8F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a
site-specific analysis be made of the probable effects, if any, that the
drilling or related activities will have on fish and wildlife, their habitat,
subsistence resources, and the environment;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H567988B257974878BA29F57F8098EC50"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a
plan be implemented to avoid, minimize, and mitigate (in that order and to the
extent practicable) any significant adverse effect identified under paragraph
(1); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB74186D2D6C14118881B5C372C61521D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the development of
the plan shall occur after consultation with the agency or agencies having
jurisdiction over matters mitigated by the plan.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7F00CEF395754BB1A480402D7B1F5F75"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Regulations To
protect coastal plain fish and wildlife resources, subsistence users, and the
environment</header><text>Before implementing the leasing program authorized by
this subtitle, the Secretary shall prepare and promulgate regulations, lease
terms, conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other measures
designed to ensure that the activities undertaken on the Coastal Plain under
this subtitle are conducted in a manner consistent with the purposes and
environmental requirements of this subtitle.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H5B3F189EE68B4165BE5A01E42164EAF0"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Compliance with
Federal and State environmental laws and other requirements</header><text>The
proposed regulations, lease terms, conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, and
stipulations for the leasing program under this subtitle shall require
compliance with all applicable provisions of Federal and State environmental
law, and shall also require the following:</text>
<paragraph id="HCDDEE2CFE324421086638B889DEFA4E4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Standards at least
as effective as the safety and environmental mitigation measures set forth in
items 1 through 29 at pages 167 through 169 of the <quote>Final Legislative
Environmental Impact Statement</quote> (April 1987) on the Coastal
Plain.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6058C7EFF2804242B828C20E10E54FCF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Seasonal
limitations on exploration, development, and related activities, where
necessary, to avoid significant adverse effects during periods of concentrated
fish and wildlife breeding, denning, nesting, spawning, and migration.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0753B19580D545A7A9A17BC1E4FB4608"><enum>(3)</enum><text>That exploration
activities, except for surface geological studies, be limited to the period
between approximately November 1 and May 1 each year and that exploration
activities shall be supported, if necessary, by ice roads, winter trails with
adequate snow cover, ice pads, ice airstrips, and air transport methods, except
that such exploration activities may occur at other times if the Secretary
finds that such exploration will have no significant adverse effect on the fish
and wildlife, their habitat, and the environment of the Coastal Plain.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5EB2719F55DC442E9E7CF91C26868439"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Design safety and
construction standards for all pipelines and any access and service roads,
that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H65C72D4DBEE14C2F81D191326CC5845D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>minimize, to the
maximum extent possible, adverse effects upon the passage of migratory species
such as caribou; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA74C59CBB0114D7299081DA9BE12116C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>minimize adverse
effects upon the flow of surface water by requiring the use of culverts,
bridges, and other structural devices.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H312F844510474224A3237131BEE08478"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Prohibitions on
general public access and use on all pipeline access and service roads.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFACEA6DD96924C4BA214BE5E0801EC14"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Stringent
reclamation and rehabilitation requirements, consistent with the standards set
forth in this subtitle, requiring the removal from the Coastal Plain of all oil
and gas development and production facilities, structures, and equipment upon
completion of oil and gas production operations, except that the Secretary may
exempt from the requirements of this paragraph those facilities, structures, or
equipment that the Secretary determines would assist in the management of the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and that are donated to the United States for
that purpose.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H72400D70A2BA41B1994FA789F2DFF953"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Appropriate
prohibitions or restrictions on access by all modes of transportation.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAE69F9838A0448A386888737233A9658"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Appropriate
prohibitions or restrictions on sand and gravel extraction.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD69F4BF54F014C989B5A4D2940D45C8A"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Consolidation of
facility siting.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H941CE5FE6F5C4BAF9ADD135388FF1020"><enum>(10)</enum><text>Appropriate
prohibitions or restrictions on use of explosives.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6EC4AE7C091B4B9D8C097F92141A46E5"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Avoidance, to the
extent practicable, of springs, streams, and river system; the protection of
natural surface drainage patterns, wetlands, and riparian habitats; and the
regulation of methods or techniques for developing or transporting adequate
supplies of water for exploratory drilling.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD567F37D4597420F90F836E334F6B2C6"><enum>(12)</enum><text>Avoidance or
minimization of air traffic-related disturbance to fish and wildlife.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H585F4292A11546F69196F895EF2BBD31"><enum>(13)</enum><text>Treatment and
disposal of hazardous and toxic wastes, solid wastes, reserve pit fluids,
drilling muds and cuttings, and domestic wastewater, including an annual waste
management report, a hazardous materials tracking system, and a prohibition on
chlorinated solvents, in accordance with applicable Federal and State
environmental law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF10F888AEC314A8F8F180D6C0BE7EAA6"><enum>(14)</enum><text>Fuel storage and
oil spill contingency planning.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB572C4E24B924627BB4B1A3C76CF0B26"><enum>(15)</enum><text>Research,
monitoring, and reporting requirements.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2C41929E62564FE682F0CEDA816AD8D1"><enum>(16)</enum><text>Field crew
environmental briefings.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H95FDFA2AC61445919C6FA0823D08979C"><enum>(17)</enum><text>Avoidance of
significant adverse effects upon subsistence hunting, fishing, and trapping by
subsistence users.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H76BAF88891EF43A3B2AF744DE0FD5783"><enum>(18)</enum><text>Compliance with
applicable air and water quality standards.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0DCCB92134B345F4B523EB83A9952487"><enum>(19)</enum><text>Appropriate
seasonal and safety zone designations around well sites, within which
subsistence hunting and trapping shall be limited.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6E54F34156854C4D80D200B3160FEA19"><enum>(20)</enum><text>Reasonable
stipulations for protection of cultural and archeological resources.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H804554FB125D4D53BA1C74ACCFDF256F"><enum>(21)</enum><text>All other
protective environmental stipulations, restrictions, terms, and conditions
deemed necessary by the Secretary.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HED1504AD2D0E45B1B711A52F4C86BCA0"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Considerations</header><text>In
preparing and promulgating regulations, lease terms, conditions, restrictions,
prohibitions, and stipulations under this section, the Secretary shall consider
the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H68FD10869C5B4E11BD0039655B100A2C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The stipulations
and conditions that govern the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska leasing
program, as set forth in the 1999 Northeast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
Final Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental Impact Statement.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H819AA21F22B6427098D4FD9EEF642DF9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The environmental
protection standards that governed the initial Coastal Plain seismic
exploration program under parts 37.31 to 37.33 of title 50, Code of Federal
Regulations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H89CA9F871EDC4868878241771239DFFE"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The land use
stipulations for exploratory drilling on the KIC–ASRC private lands that are
set forth in appendix 2 of the August 9, 1983, agreement between Arctic Slope
Regional Corporation and the United States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HEEC590D79A3A4A5C9DFFE183E063A663"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Facility
consolidation planning</header>
<paragraph id="H3EAB956CBA0E4E33ABA44DEE860BD825"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall, after providing for public notice
and comment, prepare and update periodically a plan to govern, guide, and
direct the siting and construction of facilities for the exploration,
development, production, and transportation of Coastal Plain oil and gas
resources.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4375EA956D4944E8A8E7349D6C47F456"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Objectives</header><text>The
plan shall have the following objectives:</text>
<subparagraph id="H46F9A85588D947BE93CE8461BAB3F65D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Avoiding
unnecessary duplication of facilities and activities.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HDEBE8BDBBA0741D79C936D5C4CA3C912"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Encouraging
consolidation of common facilities and activities.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAE5038EB89D64404836580E94639F15C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Locating or
confining facilities and activities to areas that will minimize impact on fish
and wildlife, their habitat, and the environment.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H65A9131D1BBE47B88D1B41FFF37758E4"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Utilizing existing
facilities wherever practicable.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H28CD5FEB2BCC4E7EA8D0FA981A3E69D1"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Enhancing
compatibility between wildlife values and development activities.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H597DD62526C84AE181709FF30D4B8E95"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Access to public
lands</header><text>The Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HA4CE59F8B1274102924369CBF4548A34"><enum>(1)</enum><text>manage public
lands in the Coastal Plain subject to subsections (a) and (b) of section 811 of
the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3121);
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2FAC94C7BC7A4D52B2629F2AD1C27EE8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ensure that local
residents shall have reasonable access to public lands in the Coastal Plain for
traditional uses.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H2C6105BEA4BF425EBEA4EF84DC8FF6BC"><enum>148.</enum><header>Expedited
judicial review</header>
<subsection id="H762D5CD7A90D4126BFABFE85D29B2E58"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Filing of
complaint</header>
<paragraph id="H49520ECD30844D429DCE4303CC3D15E5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deadline</header><text>Subject
to paragraph (2), any complaint seeking judicial review of any provision of
this subtitle or any action of the Secretary under this subtitle shall be
filed—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF92EFDD4FB29434FAFB7B7D0025396D2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>except as provided
in subparagraph (B), within the 60-day period beginning on the date of the
action being challenged; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H30C5296F8B684744A98FB33AB092CA4F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of a
complaint based solely on grounds arising after such period, within 60 days
after the complainant knew or reasonably should have known of the grounds for
the complaint.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2B3CA31682664C09B67BA2F6FE3C6A01"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Venue</header><text>Any
complaint seeking judicial review of any provision of this subtitle or any
action of the Secretary under this subtitle may be filed only in the United
States District Court for the District of Columbia.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEA59081907974899B20385034CF682AF"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limitation on
scope of certain review</header><text>Judicial review of a Secretarial decision
to conduct a lease sale under this subtitle, including the environmental
analysis thereof, shall be limited to whether the Secretary has complied with
the terms of this subtitle and shall be based upon the administrative record of
that decision. The Secretary’s identification of a preferred course of action
to enable leasing to proceed and the Secretary’s analysis of environmental
effects under this subtitle shall be presumed to be correct unless shown
otherwise by clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE9D8F0C75DBC45C2B7C93ADA80479FA6"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on
other review</header><text>Actions of the Secretary with respect to which
review could have been obtained under this section shall not be subject to
judicial review in any civil or criminal proceeding for enforcement.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H8DB53DFA88C04F1088EABC902974CFA9"><enum>149.</enum><header>Federal and
State distribution of revenues</header>
<subsection id="HF14AAF2C2EF94BB29541D367AB5E8772"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the amount
of adjusted bonus, rental, and royalty revenues from Federal oil and gas
leasing and operations authorized under this subtitle—</text>
<paragraph id="H9013EBDF8BF2449A99527F3FE7372549"><enum>(1)</enum><text>50 percent shall
be paid to the State of Alaska; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF3081B44247E423994201046C1F4A171"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">except as provided in section 152(d), 90
percent of the balance shall be deposited into the American Renewable and
Alternative Energy Trust Fund established by section 321.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H8F9EEBE28A224FE0A40391BD5BD5784E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Payments to
Alaska</header><text>Payments to the State of Alaska under this section shall
be made semiannually.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HE2B43A6377834D98B30783FA7D6A0F63"><enum>150.</enum><header>Rights-of-way
across the Coastal Plain</header>
<subsection id="HFF18C5CC48564D3D9DBE5FE5B6EEB470"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall issue rights-of-way and easements
across the Coastal Plain for the transportation of oil and gas—</text>
<paragraph id="H1D3A410127704EB8ABEF96A6834E1896"><enum>(1)</enum><text>except as provided
in paragraph (2), under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 185),
without regard to title XI of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation
Act (30 U.S.C. 3161 et seq.); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5F8E8D4A9BEC4BB79C659A54AECE041A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>under title XI of
the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (30 U.S.C. 3161 et seq.),
for access authorized by sections 1110 and 1111 of that Act (16 U.S.C. 3170 and
3171).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA3AD60F7DD3C4615A06DF83716D5DBF3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Terms and
conditions</header><text>The Secretary shall include in any right-of-way or
easement issued under subsection (a) such terms and conditions as may be
necessary to ensure that transportation of oil and gas does not result in a
significant adverse effect on the fish and wildlife, subsistence resources,
their habitat, and the environment of the Coastal Plain, including requirements
that facilities be sited or designed so as to avoid unnecessary duplication of
roads and pipelines.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HDF9C1C9D346744E99EE323B7C995B022"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The
Secretary shall include in regulations under section 143(g) provisions granting
rights-of-way and easements described in subsection (a) of this section.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H89914E81685F4C169C184530B868AF16"><enum>151.</enum><header>Conveyance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In order to maximize Federal revenues by
removing clouds on title to lands and clarifying land ownership patterns within
the Coastal Plain, the Secretary, notwithstanding the provisions of section
1302(h)(2) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C.
3192(h)(2)), shall convey—</text>
<paragraph id="H6028FAA7721C4297A61D2E955F59D2D4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to the Kaktovik
Inupiat Corporation the surface estate of the lands described in paragraph 1 of
Public Land Order 6959, to the extent necessary to fulfill the Corporation’s
entitlement under sections 12 and 14 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
(43 U.S.C. 1611 and 1613) in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
Agreement between the Department of the Interior, the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Kaktovik Inupiat
Corporation effective January 22, 1993; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBCC6A82036EF4BC1A0D8B932260ADF1F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to the Arctic
Slope Regional Corporation the remaining subsurface estate to which it is
entitled pursuant to the August 9, 1983, agreement between the Arctic Slope
Regional Corporation and the United States of America.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H258607A8963445B5BC3A737CD86045D3"><enum>152.</enum><header>Local
government impact aid and community service assistance</header>
<subsection id="HB25FB570FF2749DFBB9B21BB3D1B155C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Financial
assistance authorized</header>
<paragraph id="H174EA3C693F448E89AB346E8759C0EE4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary may use amounts available from the Coastal
Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund established by subsection (d)
to provide timely financial assistance to entities that are eligible under
paragraph (2) and that are directly impacted by the exploration for or
production of oil and gas on the Coastal Plain under this subtitle.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4B5F383182CE4C8EBF989DC1E670898C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible
entities</header><text>The North Slope Borough, the City of Kaktovik, and any
other borough, municipal subdivision, village, or other community in the State
of Alaska that is directly impacted by exploration for, or the production of,
oil or gas on the Coastal Plain under this subtitle, as determined by the
Secretary, shall be eligible for financial assistance under this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1897A43FDE884A41AB582E8F331FFDED"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Use of
assistance</header><text>Financial assistance under this section may be used
only for—</text>
<paragraph id="H50239D27446F42AF83CB0B0B3A11D308"><enum>(1)</enum><text>planning for
mitigation of the potential effects of oil and gas exploration and development
on environmental, social, cultural, recreational, and subsistence
values;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H32E307774740430A90DAC5C8BF68B853"><enum>(2)</enum><text>implementing
mitigation plans and maintaining mitigation projects;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1E92CB4D03B14A90A5CD170F8297FC23"><enum>(3)</enum><text>developing,
carrying out, and maintaining projects and programs that provide new or
expanded public facilities and services to address needs and problems
associated with such effects, including fire-fighting, police, water, waste
treatment, medivac, and medical services; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0EDF22B747124B478AB39ECF7A344BA7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>establishment of a
coordination office, by the North Slope Borough, in the City of Kaktovik, which
shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB898287D25454008A472AC1513B3D1B9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>coordinate with
and advise developers on local conditions, impact, and history of the areas
utilized for development; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7DC39C0DD3A2464BB71F2A6917A331B3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provide to the
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate an annual report on the
status of coordination between developers and the communities affected by
development.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H72BD3E1D1FB9400BAD1ABF3950580DA4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Application</header>
<paragraph id="H3485FF8AF00C4A549BA8C49EA12B9365"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Any community that is eligible for assistance under this
section may submit an application for such assistance to the Secretary, in such
form and under such procedures as the Secretary may prescribe by
regulation.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2CC645FB9E63498F83129DEF86B928C5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>North Slope
Borough communities</header><text>A community located in the North Slope
Borough may apply for assistance under this section either directly to the
Secretary or through the North Slope Borough.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA9ED4F8302D64F448FE71845F3D7BABF"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application
assistance</header><text>The Secretary shall work closely with and assist the
North Slope Borough and other communities eligible for assistance under this
section in developing and submitting applications for assistance under this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H2F5351894C7F4F62B6B9915F7DE49179"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Establishment of
fund</header>
<paragraph id="HEC22BD69E56248CDA86EF1593EF13E15"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>There is established in the Treasury the Coastal Plain
Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD520BE49ECD14356B59694F5B7039BE5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Use</header><text>Amounts
in the fund may be used only for providing financial assistance under this
section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD14783CEBFE048A9BE284335D69F0305"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Deposits</header><text>Subject
to paragraph (4), there shall be deposited into the fund amounts received by
the United States as revenues derived from rents, bonuses, and royalties from
Federal leases and lease sales authorized under this subtitle.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0193A7BD781E41BE9108B6FE72948C7F"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Limitation on
deposits</header><text>The total amount in the fund may not exceed
$11,000,000.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H25D5346369934AB3830EEC241F24DD70"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Investment of
balances</header><text>The Secretary of the Treasury shall invest amounts in
the fund in interest bearing government securities.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H94E28CA5A5C04E1196335D216E595F30"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>To provide financial assistance under this section
there is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary from the Coastal Plain
Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund $5,000,000 for each fiscal
year.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="HC2D92D4FE4764559B1055015CE915A6F"><enum>C</enum><header>Oil Shale</header>
<section id="H006706FA2DA840B5B05BFC53EBF6B613"><enum>161.</enum><header>Oil
shale</header>
<subsection id="H69F6090032AC4878BD0F4A40F2B3F222"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>Congress
finds that oil shale resources located within the United States—</text>
<paragraph id="H42D6FB773AD3455299FBB4FE457333B7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>total almost 2
trillion barrels of oil in place;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H54BF4375F65D475580009761E9C85262"><enum>(2)</enum><text>are a
strategically important domestic resource that should be developed on an
accelerated basis to reduce our growing reliance on politically and
economically unstable sources of foreign oil imports;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9CED18E06E0C4003B1C968F20956C738"><enum>(3)</enum><text>are one of the
best resources available for advancing American technology and creating
American jobs; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H70C81885FD1345EE9F27C076C496958A"><enum>(4)</enum><text>will be a
critically important component of the Nation’s transportation fuel sector in
particular, by providing a secure domestic source of aviation fuel for both
commercial and military uses.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H805D8EB85D3C4EF0865BFD6CCD5878D1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional
research and development lease sales</header><text>The Secretary of the
Interior shall hold a lease sale within 180 days after the date of enactment of
this Act offering an additional 10 parcels for lease for research, development,
and demonstration of oil shale resources, under the terms offered in the
solicitation of bids for such leases published on January 15, 2009 (74 Fed.
Reg. 10).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE4CD8F2276AA4A62A7B10015D496A592"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Application of
regulations</header><text>The oil shale management final rules published by the
Department of the Interior on November 18, 2008 (73 Fed. Reg. 223), shall apply
to all commercial leasing for the management of federally owned oil shale, and
any associated minerals, located on Federal lands.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H3C45ABEB339749F8A315A4C7399004D0"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Reduced payments
To ensure production</header><text>The Secretary of the Interior may
temporarily reduce royalties, fees, rentals, bonus, or other payments for
leases of Federal lands for the development and production of oil shale
resources as necessary to incentivize and encourage development of such
resources, if the Secretary determines that the royalties, fees, rentals, bonus
bids, and other payments otherwise authorized by law are hindering production
of such resources.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H749E8EF33BBC4DB59CB73A0F288332CB"><enum>D</enum><header>Refinery Permit
Process Schedule</header>
<section id="HD424F19C2E6643DDABF3611FA83892B2" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>171.</enum><header>Short
title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This subtitle may be
cited as the <quote><short-title>Refinery Permit Process
Schedule Act</short-title></quote>.</text>
</section><section id="HE1F7F11691984B0093B946AC6B89DA31"><enum>172.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For purposes of this subtitle—</text>
<paragraph id="H809A12B3F028433180A253E9AB185E0D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the term
<term>Administrator</term> means the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8ADBD03540C74052B79E39DCBAEA7C06"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>applicant</term> means a
person who (with the approval of the governor of the State, or in the case of
Native American tribes or tribal territories the designated leader of the tribe
or tribal community, where the proposed refinery would be located) is seeking a
Federal refinery authorization;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H593CC931F2374B939A5C2C28181D99F9"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the term
<term>biomass</term> has the meaning given that term in section 932(a)(1) of
the Energy Policy Act of 2005;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H17D879153A7141E289920B9720E9DBAC"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the term
<term>Federal refinery authorization</term>—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCA1CFA85B36A4D18B29948CF942214E1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>means any
authorization required under Federal law, whether administered by a Federal or
State administrative agency or official, with respect to siting, construction,
expansion, or operation of a refinery; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H642764F91617441BA029F5950375C13B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>includes any
permits, licenses, special use authorizations, certifications, opinions, or
other approvals required under Federal law with respect to siting,
construction, expansion, or operation of a refinery;</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H8CAA7549DDFE48D79FFB969F355E3950"><enum>(5)</enum><text>the term
<term>refinery</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="H5708C9B5B05A4C978B3CAC2F26D26C84"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a facility
designed and operated to receive, load, unload, store, transport, process, and
refine crude oil by any chemical or physical process, including distillation,
fluid catalytic cracking, hydrocracking, coking, alkylation, etherification,
polymerization, catalytic reforming, isomerization, hydrotreating, blending,
and any combination thereof, in order to produce gasoline or distillate;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H79885EA857304029A50FC3F651C3746D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a facility
designed and operated to receive, load, unload, store, transport, process, and
refine coal by any chemical or physical process, including liquefaction, in
order to produce gasoline or diesel as its primary output; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H816A7A6DB1A94902B6415EB320280585"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a facility designed and operated to
receive, load, unload, store, transport, process (including biochemical,
photochemical, and biotechnology processes), and refine biomass in order to
produce biofuel; and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB2403E5454134EE4822C17B7FA6D8E60"><enum>(6)</enum><text>the term
<term>State</term> means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, and any other territory or possession of the United States.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HADFF7786DFC64BABA82111524A46488E"><enum>173.</enum><header>State
assistance</header>
<subsection id="H31F0252090424DCBBC72B36DE2C3CFCC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>State
assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At the request of
a governor of a State, or in the case of Native American tribes or tribal
territories the designated leader of the tribe or tribal community, the
Administrator is authorized to provide financial assistance to that State or
tribe or tribal community to facilitate the hiring of additional personnel to
assist the State or tribe or tribal community with expertise in fields relevant
to consideration of Federal refinery authorizations.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H75DEBCB2AC974F9994A876BCC26709DA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Other
assistance</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At the request of
a governor of a State, or in the case of Native American tribes or tribal
territories the designated leader of the tribe or tribal community, a Federal
agency responsible for a Federal refinery authorization shall provide
technical, legal, or other nonfinancial assistance to that State or tribe or
tribal community to facilitate its consideration of Federal refinery
authorizations.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H582AB10A2B7946AA894F851DB54A18BB"><enum>174.</enum><header>Refinery
process coordination and procedures</header>
<subsection id="H52D1ED8A73B8432CAB0205D1A83A78D5"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Appointment of
federal coordinator</header>
<paragraph id="H26F0D8BCAB21440DAC66CC90411B5A21"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The President shall appoint a Federal coordinator to
perform the responsibilities assigned to the Federal coordinator under this
subtitle.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA6B1632344DA45A2A6CE30E2FAD439EA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Other
agencies</header><text>Each Federal and State agency or official required to
provide a Federal refinery authorization shall cooperate with the Federal
coordinator.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H39B3A29708F542CA9F9D5B63DA01B0B8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Federal refinery
authorizations</header>
<paragraph id="HD115F0E5E0DD4F3893F548B1E41AF0CC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Meeting
participants</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than
30 days after receiving a notification from an applicant that the applicant is
seeking a Federal refinery authorization pursuant to Federal law, the Federal
coordinator appointed under subsection (a) shall convene a meeting of
representatives from all Federal and State agencies responsible for a Federal
refinery authorization with respect to the refinery. The governor of a State
shall identify each agency of that State that is responsible for a Federal
refinery authorization with respect to that refinery.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF9CC049423084559815C132112A20821"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Memorandum of
agreement</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HDEDBBF6385D24FB2BFFD1DB37FA9A371"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after receipt of a
notification described in paragraph (1), the Federal coordinator and the other
participants at a meeting convened under paragraph (1) shall establish a
memorandum of agreement setting forth the most expeditious coordinated schedule
possible for completion of all Federal refinery authorizations with respect to
the refinery, consistent with the full substantive and procedural review
required by Federal law. If a Federal or State agency responsible for a Federal
refinery authorization with respect to the refinery is not represented at such
meeting, the Federal coordinator shall ensure that the schedule accommodates
those Federal refinery authorizations, consistent with Federal law. In the
event of conflict among Federal refinery authorization scheduling requirements,
the requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency shall be given
priority.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB0C8D683FDEB440487B118AA39944730" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Not later than 15 days after
completing the memorandum of agreement, the Federal coordinator shall publish
the memorandum of agreement in the Federal Register.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD999441F10FA4FA299A8CCB5A6EDE805" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Federal coordinator shall ensure that
all parties to the memorandum of agreement are working in good faith to carry
out the memorandum of agreement, and shall facilitate the maintenance of the
schedule established therein.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1B2448E965FC4705869F09483F4C3C43"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Consolidated
record</header><text>The Federal coordinator shall, with the cooperation of
Federal and State administrative agencies and officials, maintain a complete
consolidated record of all decisions made or actions taken by the Federal
coordinator or by a Federal administrative agency or officer (or State
administrative agency or officer acting under delegated Federal authority) with
respect to any Federal refinery authorization. Such record shall be the record
for judicial review under subsection (d) of decisions made or actions taken by
Federal and State administrative agencies and officials, except that, if the
Court determines that the record does not contain sufficient information, the
Court may remand the proceeding to the Federal coordinator for further
development of the consolidated record.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H0E564FE2DB1F448E99993DC584FA05B1"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Remedies</header>
<paragraph id="HB32F9EB65EA5409D8BD92D8F62FC2D1A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The United States District Court for the district in
which the proposed refinery is located shall have exclusive jurisdiction over
any civil action for the review of the failure of an agency or official to act
on a Federal refinery authorization in accordance with the schedule established
pursuant to the memorandum of agreement.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2DD349745D6648B9AA0F96B791DF8994"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Standing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If an applicant or a party to a memorandum
of agreement alleges that a failure to act described in paragraph (1) has
occurred and that such failure to act would jeopardize timely completion of the
entire schedule as established in the memorandum of agreement, such applicant
or other party may bring a cause of action under this subsection.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1DCC2D6A41F34F238C734A9D689AC9C2"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Court
action</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If an action is
brought under paragraph (2), the Court shall review whether the parties to the
memorandum of agreement have been acting in good faith, whether the applicant
has been cooperating fully with the agencies that are responsible for issuing a
Federal refinery authorization, and any other relevant materials in the
consolidated record. Taking into consideration those factors, if the Court
finds that a failure to act described in paragraph (1) has occurred, and that
such failure to act would jeopardize timely completion of the entire schedule
as established in the memorandum of agreement, the Court shall establish a new
schedule that is the most expeditious coordinated schedule possible for
completion of proceedings, consistent with the full substantive and procedural
review required by Federal law. The court may issue orders to enforce any
schedule it establishes under this paragraph.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB5ACED8D7E6E40869C4835949F19A330"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Federal
coordinator’s action</header><text>When any civil action is brought under this
subsection, the Federal coordinator shall immediately file with the Court the
consolidated record compiled by the Federal coordinator pursuant to subsection
(c).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF4EFB1969FBC41BA8C5C505C83D85F25"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Expedited
review</header><text>The Court shall set any civil action brought under this
subsection for expedited consideration.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H82F3BFE0E49C4FB7915B2E651FE8B957"><enum>175.</enum><header>Designation of
closed military bases</header>
<subsection id="H147F38D0A9A24A299BDD5EE752B3CD73"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Designation
requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90
days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall designate no
less than 3 closed military installations, or portions thereof, as potentially
suitable for the construction of a refinery. At least 1 such site shall be
designated as potentially suitable for construction of a refinery to refine
biomass in order to produce biofuel.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE6A4246A62DD4AAFA7C9A9782007D482"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Redevelopment
authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The redevelopment
authority for each installation designated under subsection (a), in preparing
or revising the redevelopment plan for the installation, shall consider the
feasibility and practicability of siting a refinery on the installation.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA6CBC200EB234B16A242F0E67A79ED31"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Management and
disposal of real property</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
Secretary of Defense, in managing and disposing of real property at an
installation designated under subsection (a) pursuant to the base closure law
applicable to the installation, shall give substantial deference to the
recommendations of the redevelopment authority, as contained in the
redevelopment plan for the installation, regarding the siting of a refinery on
the installation. The management and disposal of real property at a closed
military installation or portion thereof found to be suitable for the siting of
a refinery under subsection (a) shall be carried out in the manner provided by
the base closure law applicable to the installation.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB5A2DFBAE1CE463D8AC984B3F6F7AA1B"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For
purposes of this section—</text>
<paragraph id="H2C5781FF4FE841009E985393125C7611"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>base closure law</term>
means the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (part A of title
XXIX of Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) and title II of the Defense
Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public Law
100–526; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB33E2B6A901145C8AB6C2CF5AED0559C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>closed military
installation</term> means a military installation closed or approved for
closure pursuant to a base closure law.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H876AFB81A16A4A329CA415D943B961DF"><enum>176.</enum><header>Savings
clause</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Nothing in this
subtitle shall be construed to affect the application of any environmental or
other law, or to prevent any party from bringing a cause of action under any
environmental or other law, including citizen suits.</text>
</section><section id="HE291BAFFE8B6476898B85AB1FC19AF41"><enum>177.</enum><header>Refinery
revitalization repeal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subtitle
H of title III of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the items relating thereto
in the table of contents of such Act are repealed.</text>
</section></subtitle><enum>II</enum><header>CONSERVATION AND
EFFICIENCY</header>
<subtitle id="HC4916480C917469E940DB50832DFD7CE"><enum>A</enum><header>Tax Incentives for
Fuel Efficiency</header>
<section id="H9187DB76C4C1400DA2D4BFBDEF526352"><enum>201.</enum><header>Extension of
credit for alternative fuel vehicles</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Paragraph (4) of section 30B(j) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>December 31,
2010</quote> and inserting <quote>December 31, 2020</quote>.</text>
</section><section id="H2BB6BFAFBC454397BBA61BAF75C3967C"><enum>202.</enum><header>Extension of
alternative fuel vehicle refueling property credit</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Paragraph
(1) of section 30C(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HFB45F9CEBA5445B286F9C1BE8E4F409D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>hydrogen,</quote> and inserting <quote>hydrogen or alternative fuels (as
defined in section 30B(e)(4)(B)),</quote>, and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1C6B944949CF4A899ECEADB2EE4CBD26"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>December 31, 2014</quote> and inserting <quote>December 31,
2020</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HE27F2E78F98E416C973136C38AC1990B"><enum>203.</enum><header>Extension of
credit for new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles</header>
<subsection id="HC9C1C0114D4540088CC84C1B6370223E"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 30D of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H012D21C8B28A4737BE0ADDE8D2720AD2" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HCE0BF4BF241240E9974AF9D7FF7D359E"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Termination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section shall not apply to property
placed in service after December 31,
2020.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HE7F1F288E6174A1E952006C03C0F3745"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repeal of
limitation on number of new qualified plug-In electric drive motor vehicles
eligible for credit</header><text>Section 30D of such Code, as amended by
subsection (a), is amended by striking subsection (e) and redesignating
subsections (f) and (g) as subsections (e) and (f), respectively.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE3F9FCBEF5CB4403B57E4F409807A306"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming
amendments</header>
<paragraph id="H96125A465922469E985D75B87C759257"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section
1016(a)(37) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>section
30D(f)(1)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 30D(e)(1)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0E1A87FBEF5C4626977942AECAA88A79"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6501(m) of such Code is amended by
striking <quote>section 30D(e)(4)</quote> and inserting <quote>section
30D(e)(4)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H70F15E4C75524AAB942120794CB6E851"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to vehicles
acquired after December 31, 2009.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="HEDEB18ECF631469AA61C8574B495D95E"><enum>B</enum><header>Tapping America’s
Ingenuity and Creativity</header>
<section id="HBD65219E4D8E44C5AAF9C259B8761B72"><enum>211.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle:</text>
<paragraph id="H8D59432C97C94648AD25E4E41E73955F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Administering
entity</header><text>The term <term>administering entity</term> means the
entity with which the Secretary enters into an agreement under section
214(c).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD9A7683EC60B48B185BB2DBD99486975"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Department</header><text>The
term <term>Department</term> means the Department of Energy.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE5F52E188C004E51ADAF829A0DAA1D9F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The
term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of Energy.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H7E38B17AD77F47189D3224D63B1BB633"><enum>212.</enum><header>Statement of
policy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the policy of the
United States to provide incentives to encourage the development and
implementation of innovative energy technologies and new energy sources that
will reduce our reliance on foreign energy.</text>
</section><section id="H61CFF7553B3D4A938FB81C37F024CE23"><enum>213.</enum><header>Prize
authority</header>
<subsection id="HBDC340C73A4C4C738F06DA9DE490CC93"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall carry out a program to competitively
award cash prizes in conformity with this subtitle to advance the research,
development, demonstration, and commercial application of innovative energy
technologies and new energy sources.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H3A02F86A4300495B8CA657CF9B0FD3C8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Advertising and
Solicitation of Competitors</header>
<paragraph id="H065CD313207C46848AF9DCAFFB515996"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Advertising</header><text>The
Secretary shall widely advertise prize competitions to encourage broad
participation in the program carried out under subsection (a), including
individuals, universities, communities, and large and small businesses.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7C296A278BF34585BEC1D0BF780FC411"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Announcement
through federal register notice</header><text>The Secretary shall announce each
prize competition by publishing a notice in the Federal Register. This notice
shall include essential elements of the competition such as the subject of the
competition, the duration of the competition, the eligibility requirements for
participation in the competition, the process for participants to register for
the competition, the amount of the prize, and the criteria for awarding the
prize.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7046A6BB845340DEA9154F4C4E48709A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Administering
the Competition</header><text>The Secretary may enter into an agreement with a
private, nonprofit entity to administer the prize competitions, subject to the
provisions of this subtitle. The administering entity shall perform the
following functions:</text>
<paragraph id="HBDE710A7E5444EE28C7A579F533F7867"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Advertise the
competition and its results.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H24C33CC0AD574BB4A8DB1E07CC600891"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Raise funds from
private entities and individuals to pay for administrative costs and cash
prizes.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5B3A40AD27154C179E2CB4438D88ABA2"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Develop, in
consultation with and subject to the final approval of the Secretary, criteria
to select winners based upon the goal of safely and adequately storing nuclear
used fuel.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE020FC2312F94F71B27237F1B8AC5DEF"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Determine, in
consultation with and subject to the final approval of the Secretary, the
appropriate amount of the awards.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HECB9E0FE9F92473DA00AAC839F69FEA2"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Protect against
the administering entity’s unauthorized use or disclosure of a registered
participant’s intellectual property, trade secrets, and confidential business
information. Any information properly identified as trade secrets or
confidential business information that is submitted by a participant as part of
a competitive program under this subtitle may be withheld from public
disclosure.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE58DE445AEC145B1AADA490256A818CA"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Develop and
promulgate sufficient rules to define the parameters of designing and proposing
innovative energy technologies and new energy sources with input from industry,
citizens, and corporations familiar with such activities.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H267EF152547E4EFC9F5DB59E51AAD45C"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Funding
Sources</header><text>Prizes under this subtitle may consist of Federal
appropriated funds, funds provided by the administering entity, or funds raised
through grants or donations. The Secretary may accept funds from other Federal
agencies for such cash prizes and, notwithstanding section 3302(b) of title 31,
United States Code, may use such funds for the cash prize program. Other than
publication of the names of prize sponsors, the Secretary may not give any
special consideration to any private sector entity or individual in return for
a donation to the Secretary or administering entity.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HDDEF78479DE5472E9B51BA64CB14B7C0"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Announcement of
Prizes</header><text>The Secretary may not publish a notice required by
subsection (b)(2) until all the funds needed to pay out the announced amount of
the prize have been appropriated to the Department or the Department has
received from the administering entity a written commitment to provide all
necessary funds.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H3E59A2FF1C9C40D7879F971B03D7FE4B"><enum>214.</enum><header>Eligibility</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">To be eligible to win a prize under this
subtitle, an individual or entity—</text>
<paragraph id="HCBDA6EA5634342DD8D10B0261E5A1103"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall notify the
administering entity of intent to submit ideas and intent to collect the prize
upon selection;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H90D1E2CA184B4BE1A5C115BA798B5632"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall comply with
all the requirements stated in the Federal Register notice required under
section 213(b)(2);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC326BDC4830F42A7B9EE12C2F4410905"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in the case of a
private entity, shall be incorporated in and maintain a primary place of
business in the United States, and in the case of an individual, whether
participating singly or in a group, shall be a citizen of the United
States;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H71EB0FF4FDE9495A9A2089E2399DCCF3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>shall not be a
Federal entity, a Federal employee acting within the scope of his or her
employment, or an employee of a national laboratory acting within the scope of
employment;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE2B56890BDD84755B7AD83DF1CEA1A1B"><enum>(5)</enum><text>shall not use
Federal funding or other Federal resources to compete for the prize; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H91BB30C7D7124B568605A1E442483C53"><enum>(6)</enum><text>shall not be an
entity acting on behalf of any foreign government or agent.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HE16E276F6189496CA57BD051F44C193F"><enum>215.</enum><header>Intellectual
property</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Federal
Government shall not, by virtue of offering or awarding a prize under this
subtitle, be entitled to any intellectual property rights derived as a
consequence of, or in direct relation to, the participation by a registered
participant in a competition authorized by this subtitle. This section shall
not be construed to prevent the Federal Government from negotiating a license
for the use of intellectual property developed for a prize competition under
this subtitle. The Federal Government may seek assurances that technologies for
which prizes are awarded under this subtitle are offered for commercialization
in the event an award recipient does not take, or is not expected to take
within a reasonable time, effective steps to achieve practical application of
the technology.</text>
</section><section id="H843C2B66396D4D069491705D2941199B"><enum>216.</enum><header>Waiver of
liability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary may
require registered participants to waive claims against the Federal Government
and the administering entity (except claims for willful misconduct) for any
injury, death, damage, or loss of property, revenue, or profits arising from
the registered participants’ participation in a competition under this
subtitle. The Secretary shall give notice of any waiver required under this
section in the notice required by section 213(b)(2). The Secretary may not
require a registered participant to waive claims against the administering
entity arising out of the unauthorized use or disclosure by the administering
entity of the registered participant’s intellectual property, trade secrets, or
confidential business information.</text>
</section><section id="H937F4955B337430481EF49380DCE3205"><enum>217.</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header>
<subsection id="H88823660CF0D4C71BE78B867C09698E2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Awards</header><text>Forty
percent of amounts in the American Energy Trust Fund shall be available without
further appropriation to carry out specified provisions of this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H9EC61A13F51C42F2B8DF506F5F49560D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Treatment of
Awards</header><text>Amounts received pursuant to an award under this subtitle
may not be taxed by any Federal, State, or local authority.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE881DCB7119340ECBE4D04A2FCD1580C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Administration</header><text>In
addition to the amounts authorized under subsection (a), there are authorized
to be appropriated to the Secretary for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2020
$2,000,000 for the administrative costs of carrying out this subtitle.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H06C844E715474E6DB47C02546A034FB7"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Carryover of
Funds</header><text>Funds appropriated for prize awards under this subtitle
shall remain available until expended and may be transferred, reprogrammed, or
expended for other purposes only after the expiration of 11 fiscal years after
the fiscal year for which the funds were originally appropriated. No provision
in this subtitle permits obligation or payment of funds in violation of section
1341 of title 31, United States Code.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H0D5962BCDB304DF0A543175DFAAEF42B"><enum>218.</enum><header>Next generation
automobile prize program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The
Secretary of Energy shall establish a program to award a prize in the amount of
$500,000,000 to the first automobile manufacturer incorporated in the United
States to manufacture and sell in the United States 50,000 midsized sedan
automobiles which operate on gasoline and can travel 100 miles per
gallon.</text>
</section><section id="H4E582A48EC2B4E69907DCA2DC6B8BB60"><enum>219.</enum><header>Advanced
battery manufacturing incentive program</header>
<subsection id="H341DEF0B493E4466955ED4C3C8DF5EF6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="H0201D31A6DAA40EEAEAFF4905D02C459"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Advanced
battery</header><text>The term <term>advanced battery</term> means an
electrical storage device suitable for vehicle applications.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD2A23E5F3BA449B2AE353B446FE90C00"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Engineering
integration costs</header><text>The term <term>engineering integration
costs</term> includes the cost of engineering tasks relating to—</text>
<subparagraph id="H567DA98DD5A6442FB1D58C26E382B377"><enum>(A)</enum><text>incorporation of
qualifying components into the design of advanced batteries; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB32F617340E84BE395BD06DF5AB5547F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>design of tooling
and equipment and developing manufacturing processes and material suppliers for
production facilities that produce qualifying components or advanced
batteries.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA8344EC5F7964A2B80DDC62AB1807D53"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Advanced Battery
Manufacturing Facility</header><text>The Secretary shall provide facility
funding awards under this section to advanced battery manufacturers to pay not
more than 30 percent of the cost of reequipping, expanding, or establishing a
manufacturing facility in the United States to produce advanced
batteries.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H55A37D620E6B4216ACDB521A3EDF92FE"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Period of
Availability</header><text>An award under subsection (b) shall apply to—</text>
<paragraph id="HCCCC7308BE70498688EAAE63486E4EB3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>facilities and
equipment placed in service before December 30, 2020; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9BB7DC2773344BF8AABB6F51792A8A3D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>engineering
integration costs incurred during the period beginning on the date of enactment
of this Act and ending on December 30, 2020.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H0BAC393399B4402F894FE47EB5205371"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Direct Loan
Program</header>
<paragraph id="HB07E6E3E9C694BCE8C2B6316E835B06C"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this
subtitle, and subject to the availability of appropriated funds, the Secretary
shall carry out a program to provide a total of not more than $100,000,000 in
loans to eligible individuals and entities (as determined by the Secretary) for
the costs of activities described in subsection (b).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H008E303216F545139E50170176F6B02D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Selection of
eligible projects</header><text>The Secretary shall select eligible projects to
receive loans under this subsection in cases in which, as determined by the
Secretary, the award recipient—</text>
<subparagraph id="HF3021BAF36BB4658A781056618B2D165"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is financially
viable without the receipt of additional Federal funding associated with the
proposed project;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0C2D1D60477D46C194A12F73779F0977"><enum>(B)</enum><text>will provide
sufficient information to the Secretary for the Secretary to ensure that the
qualified investment is expended efficiently and effectively; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7CA21BFC948B43418B603AC5C1E3A2F8"><enum>(C)</enum><text>has met such other
criteria as may be established and published by the Secretary.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H11925DF14F3B4C7B8E7C35F78F9AB343"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Rates, terms,
and repayment of loans</header><text>A loan provided under this
subsection—</text>
<subparagraph id="H56FFC3F687C14411891EC2A14E4D484C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall have an
interest rate that, as of the date on which the loan is made, is equal to the
cost of funds to the Department of the Treasury for obligations of comparable
maturity;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE088C64CFAD94DDBAB9F87DF4EA51DA3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall have a term
equal to the lesser of—</text>
<clause id="HD2B5D50A4C2340B89DF0485950904E04"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the
projected life, in years, of the eligible project to be carried out using funds
from the loan, as determined by the Secretary; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HEBB9B3271D4B48E49A4EF12ED16BEFEE"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>25
years;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H238C5F5E11944D07B7F150E6DC6A2D18"><enum>(C)</enum><text>may be subject to
a deferral in repayment for not more than 5 years after the date on which the
eligible project carried out using funds from the loan first begins operations,
as determined by the Secretary; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEE58C1A9CA6548938EA3430E414047A8"><enum>(D)</enum><text>shall be made by
the Federal Financing Bank.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE72BE7746B464C2796DFEB76EADDFEAD"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Fees</header><text>The
cost of administering a loan made under this section shall not exceed
$100,000.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H01F1E835C21E4A9DBF72685E7BC5C84E"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Set Aside for
Small Manufacturers</header>
<paragraph id="H1E622E3C004B404DA69C6E50848C4337"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of
covered firm</header><text>In this subsection, the term <term>covered
firm</term> means a firm that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HCED320AB323F4CA1A33FB57FBA0DD05B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>employs fewer than
500 individuals; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H306BA1F6D5294B469F92F1E2EBDFEFD3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>manufactures
automobiles or components of automobiles.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H505C9627AAF545D989A4422EF48BDB34"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Set
aside</header><text>Of the amount of funds used to provide awards for each
fiscal year under subsection (b), the Secretary shall use not less than 10
percent to provide awards to covered firms or consortia led by a covered
firm.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H44D9BA7BB5F846A282908EA0C893351D"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Authorization of
Appropriations</header><text>There are authorized to be appropriated from the
American Energy Trust Fund such sums as are necessary to carry out this section
for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2013.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H9A95CC03B125415CA9B65F5DDCF870C6"><enum>C</enum><header>Home and Business
Tax Incentives</header>
<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEE73F349464B44BC89E0963683BCAA7E"><enum>221.</enum><header>Extension of
credit for energy efficient appliances</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H81953D336FB547BBBEC7FFB5583A61D2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subsection (b) of section 45M of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 (relating to applicable amount) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H2EA4F74E06BF41E9B46BD61B1FDCE795"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph
(1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H823469FAFC1F4015A1B47AD420C7DF1E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>2008 or 2009</quote> in subparagraph (A) and inserting <quote>2008,
2009, 2010, 2011, or 2012</quote>, and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF40A37E38751445A9D74DFA9AA3FE427"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>2008, 2009, or 2010</quote> in subparagraph (B) and inserting
<quote>2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, or 2013 </quote>,</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H41FE24A7B43549B288E14DC612A609A3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph
(2)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H08901DA3374046EEA3F842EEC9253F92"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>2008 or 2009</quote> in subparagraph (B) and inserting <quote>2008,
2009, 2010, 2011, or 2012</quote>,</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H10608E485C6947A4B1D89D34F7CF202C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>2008, 2009, or 2010</quote> in subparagraph (C) and inserting
<quote>2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, or 2013</quote>, and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7A87163DFCD54CEDBDF0F1C9A2EB02C4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>2008, 2009, or 2010</quote> in subparagraph (D) and inserting
<quote>2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, or 2013</quote>, and</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF26A28B9D0564D26BD31D1CA5A968F8C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in paragraph
(3)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H915B3B93E0074DD69671A5EB8F41A06E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>2008 or 2009</quote> in subparagraph (B) and inserting <quote>2008,
2009, 2010, 2011, or 2012</quote>,</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA25E6F462E764FCC9878E7A32561FB1A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>2008, 2009, or 2010</quote> in subparagraph (C) and inserting
<quote>2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, or 2013</quote>, and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCE9360EEEACA4C3284E0C6E6A621CC7F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>2008, 2009, or 2010</quote> in subparagraph (D) and inserting
<quote>2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, or 2013</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H95BD46BA1F4E4A93B814D40AFAB1D6D4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Increase in
aggregate credit amount allowed</header><text>Paragraph (1) of section 45M(e)
of such Code (relating to aggregate credit amount allowed) is amended by
striking <quote>$75,000,000</quote> and inserting
<quote>$100,000,000</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A6F8FBCB5EA4A4FB9CF55B549EA0B03"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to
appliances produced after December 31, 2009.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2E9079EED7D74A8B86DF858EC5B37799" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>222.</enum><header>Extension of credit
for nonbusiness energy property</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="HC6BDCBDB5A6646408E82C654D7F1BA9A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 25C(g) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to termination) is amended by striking
<quote>December 31, 2010</quote> and inserting <quote>December 31,
2020</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H90CB75CD01C34D6494FC827AED842DC2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendment made by this section shall apply to property
placed in service after December 31, 2007.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H56221CB545664139BD549A014A81443F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>223.</enum><header>Extension of credit
for residential energy efficient property</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 25D(g) of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 (relating to termination) is amended by striking <quote>December 31,
2016</quote> and inserting <quote>December 31, 2020</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H06D8B20FA99F4D8EB182A1620DB0D9EB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>224.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Extension of new energy efficient home
credit</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subsection (g) of
section 45L of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to termination) is
amended by striking <quote>December 31, 2009</quote> and inserting
<quote>December 31, 2020</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" id="H5050EA32AC6B486B94E44B473B70127C"><enum>225.</enum><header>Extension of
energy efficient commercial buildings deduction</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 179D(h) of the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 (relating to termination) is amended by striking <quote>December 31,
2013</quote> and inserting <quote>December 31, 2020</quote>.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H94B6CA0567614634AFC3847ACC4CADF6" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>226.</enum><header>Extension of special
rule to implement FERC and State electric restructuring policy</header>
<subsection id="H925ED80E9C1B49349EF3968114B52822"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Paragraph (3) of section 451(i) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>January 1, 2008</quote> and
inserting <quote>January 1, 2021</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H62025F3863C3406C92FF21526E01973A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
Date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to
transactions after December 31, 2008.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H881357EC96C549E49BB90622486E7671" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>227.</enum><header>Home energy
audits</header>
<subsection id="HAC3D116F602F4E63B917DE4A8D02703C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subpart A of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting after section 25D the
following new section:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5D60E96B56EE4597A26B865973606EB2" style="OLC">
<section id="H65B014C7725045BCB5EA9BE2175EE948"><enum>25E.</enum><header>Home energy
audits</header>
<subsection id="H36E3A7F686A6434DB13687120D2B7185"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
General</header><text>In the case of an individual, there shall be allowed as a
credit against the tax imposed by this chapter for the taxable year an amount
equal to 50 percent of the amount of qualified energy audit paid or incurred by
the taxpayer during the taxable year.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H439E6A05AF4B42A38936CC7CA064CDC8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitations</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H66416AE4D91C4517BEAC50892DA5FAA4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Dollar
limitation</header><text>The amount allowed as a credit under subsection (a)
with respect to a residence of the taxpayer for a taxable year shall not exceed
$400.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H296852A3B9C242F1A2B3253997BB86C5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation based
on amount of tax</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case
of any taxable year to which section 26(a)(2) does not apply, the credit
allowed under subsection (a) shall not exceed the excess of—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC5948650C8F74F5AB66E6A08D3EBAFF4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the sum of the regular tax liability (as
defined in section 26(b)) plus the tax imposed by section 55, over</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9B38C86EC9D148A68E753C7E566BA191"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the sum of the credits allowable under this
subpart (other than this section) and section 27 for the taxable year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H31034B1EEB134F8DA4E9F9803ECFCB4E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Qualified Energy
Audit</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this
section, the term <term>qualified energy audit</term> means an energy audit of
the principal residence of the taxpayer performed by a qualified energy auditor
through a comprehensive site visit. Such audit may include a blower door test,
an infra-red camera test, and a furnace combustion efficiency test. In
addition, such audit shall include such substitute tests for the tests
specified in the preceding sentence, and such additional tests, as the
Secretary may by regulation require. A principal residence shall not be taken
into consideration under this subparagraph unless such residence is located in
the United States.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H899C7BC090D8479BA0A4361D8FEF09AB"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Principal
residence</header><text>For purposes of this section, the term <term>principal
residence</term> has the same meaning as when used in section 121.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H848E57F74F144FEDBF555AEE00765FBB"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Qualified energy
auditor</header>
<paragraph id="HAC7F12A9CFFB480FBE1FE812CCB7CF34"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall specify by regulations the
qualifications required to be a qualified energy auditor for purposes of this
section. Such regulations shall include rules prohibiting
conflicts-of-interest, including the disallowance of commissions or other
payments based on goods or non-audit services purchased by the taxpayer from
the auditor.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD4B69720A82F44F98311723DFCBE1CD3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Certification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall prescribe the
procedures and methods for certifying that an auditor is a qualified energy
auditor. To the maximum extent practicable, such procedures and methods shall
provide for a variety of sources to obtain
certifications.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H1396C25C372948B386FF11B29124FB4B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendments</header>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA3DE7E196F5F4181ADA24099CB752C4E"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 23(b)(4)(B) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>section 25D</quote> and inserting
<quote>sections 25D and 25E</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6A93792E167F49AE98D7C885AE69E202"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 23(c)(1)
of such Code is amended by striking <quote>25D and</quote> and inserting
<quote>25D, 25E, and</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7763AA07FFB74F2E8D21DAB23DA9CDDC"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 24(b)(3)(B) of such Code is amended
by inserting <quote>25E,</quote> after <quote>25D,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6184425012C745E3B8BD3431C715E30B"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clauses (i) and (ii) of section 25(e)(1)(C)
of such Code are each amended by inserting <quote>25E,</quote> after
<quote>25D,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAC562C04C4C3424FADEAC831A12C48F5"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 25B(g)(2) of such Code is amended
by inserting <quote>25E,</quote> after <quote>25D,</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCA791A1111F4452DB78E2391381E47D8"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 25D(c)(1)(B) of such Code is
amended by inserting <quote>and section 25E</quote> after <quote>this
section</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4237F42A6D7D4F8BAB2DF3DC054179D0"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 25D(c)(2)(A) of such Code is
amended by inserting <quote>and section 25E</quote> after <quote>this
section</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H499DB39A602D4B96BE2C0BE3DB5452E4"><enum>(8)</enum><text>The table of
sections for subpart A of part IV of subchapter A chapter 1 of such Code is
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 25D the following new
item:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H77578287A34F41059B1B70C90AFFEFF5" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 25E. Home energy
audits.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC52F4E90A58440E1A0786B0A1A485529"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header>
<paragraph id="H23AB5BC8F6AA46188A395486F7A5F44E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to
amounts paid or incurred in taxable years beginning after the date of the
enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H830F44F617F74D5DAC44F63EED274A75"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application of
EGTRRA sunset</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments
made by paragraphs (1) and (3) of subsection (b) shall be subject to title IX
of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 in the same
manner as the provisions of such Act to which such amendments relate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H38BDA860708842D38BE7F2F9BE14B0D9" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>228.</enum><header>Accelerated recovery
period for depreciation of smart meters</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H1BFAECD024D047A6884F1213BDB99F66"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 168(e)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
is amended by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end of clause (vi), by
striking the period at the end of clause (vii) and inserting <quote>,
and</quote>, and by inserting after clause (vii) the following new
clause:</text>
<quoted-block id="H18123F6E37354C8AACA04CD9763D0963" style="OLC">
<clause commented="no" id="H008E7926970F43AB9E156B5899203C65"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>any qualified
smart electric
meter.</text>
</clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HDAAC259B888743798B8FE29921DAE8AB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section
168(e)(3)(D) of such Code is amended by striking clause (iii) and redesignating
clause (iv) as clause (iii).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HA8B59EDEE29B4C0EA3A911819AF8F96A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to property
placed in service after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><enum>III</enum><header>NEW
AND EXPANDING TECHNOLOGIES</header>
<subtitle id="H0575B1AF25154CC3846E20AABA6798A1"><enum>A</enum><header>Alternative
Fuels</header>
<section id="H83B450FB9C7E4086BC08367A62740F0A"><enum>301.</enum><header>Repeal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 526 of the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2007 (42 U.S.C. 17142) is repealed.</text>
</section><section id="H4BBDBBA394C54D0B98C7C01B22D970F9"><enum>302.</enum><header>Government
auction of long-term put option contracts on coal-to-liquid fuel produced by
qualified coal-to-liquid facilities</header>
<subsection id="HEFBD8923FA044829B22D6B7499D56899"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
General</header><text>The Secretary shall, from time to time, auction to the
public coal-to-liquid fuel put option contracts having expiration dates of 5
years, 10 years, 15 years, or 20 years.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HCA0E8CC7B8B444ECB50831768D94DFEE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Consultation
With Secretary of Energy</header><text>The Secretary shall consult with the
Secretary of Energy regarding—</text>
<paragraph id="H77C67895C6784C3D834FE749B19ACAA6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the frequency of
the auctions;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7FEE23DA204941E0BD20210218801A51"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the strike prices
specified in the contracts;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H44F8B9A3D25E41E9AED6642237A3D392"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the number of
contracts to be auctioned with a given strike price and expiration date;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD67693AF968E4A9DA2365BF0E3D06572"><enum>(4)</enum><text>the capacity of
existing or planned facilities to produce coal-to-liquid fuel.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H5CFDD6E5C0D5494FA126225F53E5602B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph id="HBF665F94446E49A7AD010199DC4A9699"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Coal-to-liquid
fuel</header><text>The term <term>coal-to-liquid fuel</term> means any
transportation-grade liquid fuel derived primarily from coal (including peat)
and produced at a qualified coal-to-liquid facility.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H617976BE725643D2899C63590AFD8FC8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Coal-to-liquid
put option contract</header><text>The term <term>coal-to-liquid put option
contract</term> means a contract, written by the Secretary, which—</text>
<subparagraph id="H239182C7EDA84C5E9E2B1EFFD3216E9C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>gives the holder
the right (but not the obligation) to sell to the Government of the United
States a certain quantity of a specific type of coal-to-liquid fuel produced by
a qualified coal-to-liquid facility specified in the contract, at a strike
price specified in the contract, on or before an expiration date specified in
the contract; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF9BBA3D998FB48D5873736C2D0CBE0CD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is transferable by
the holder to any other entity.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H2EB7E1D2579840CBA4C6FAC0790985B8"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Qualified
coal-to-liquid facility</header><text>The term <term>qualified coal-to-liquid
facility</term> means a manufacturing facility that has the capacity to produce
at least 10,000 barrels per day of transportation grade liquid fuels from a
feedstock that is primarily domestic coal (including peat and any property
which allows for the capture, transportation, or sequestration of by-products
resulting from such process, including carbon emissions).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFD081C208C3F463BAE998898558A33D1"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The
term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of the Treasury.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3D446270CCFE40E2AEA4038922D23FBD"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Strike
price</header><text>The term <term>strike price</term> means, with respect to a
put option contract, the price at which the holder of the contract has the
right to sell the fuel which is the subject of the contract.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H43A70583A9A241A6916F688B5F59CDAB"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The
Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out
this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD2692CB0CE3B4F29ACA8BA111D85D0D0"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective
Date</header><text>This section shall take effect 1 year after the date of the
enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H73DD52D15FDD48D099BD7D2244729587" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header>Standby loans for
qualifying coal-to-liquids projects</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 1702 of the Energy Policy Act of
2005 (42 U.S.C. 16512) is amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC27A543EA81A40158920944CE2CAC945" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H980359DEC9944833B66D47C096A965B3"><enum>(k)</enum><header>Standby Loans
for Qualifying CTL Projects</header>
<paragraph id="H70D1AA9ABEE449CABFCD33F15F979E19"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>For
purposes of this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph id="HFC6D036658514BD9A66DFA1190B207D8"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Cap
price</header><text>The term <term>cap price</term> means a market price
specified in the standby loan agreement above which the project is required to
make payments to the United States.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD36A203B92554F94BC4295DDC19E09B1"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Full
term</header><text>The term <term>full term</term> means the full term of a
standby loan agreement, as specified in the agreement, which shall not exceed
the lesser of 30 years or 90 percent of the projected useful life of the
project (as determined by the Secretary).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H03AF65A11F674DF3ADA66B28D7C2FE3B"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Market
price</header><text>The term <term>market price</term> means the average
quarterly price of a petroleum price index specified in the standby loan
agreement.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCE01CEBC941E4943A7616A846DF7BA62"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Minimum
price</header><text>The term <term>minimum price</term> means a market price
specified in the standby loan agreement below which the United States is
obligated to make disbursements to the project.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H122FB0C0482049AE81DC5DDE911E7741"><enum>(E)</enum><header>Output</header><text>The
term <term>output</term> means some or all of the liquid or gaseous
transportation fuels produced from the project, as specified in the loan
agreement.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD11BECB2522D44BB911A6A057B125EE5"><enum>(F)</enum><header>Primary
term</header><text>The term <term>primary term</term> means the initial term of
a standby loan agreement, as specified in the agreement, which shall not exceed
the lesser of 20 years or 75 percent of the projected useful life of the
project (as determined by the Secretary).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD575DF2C29624C22BB75D72A917033EB"><enum>(G)</enum><header>Qualifying ctl
project</header><text>The term <term>qualifying CTL project</term>
means—</text>
<clause id="HE169B27367A5434A82BF499037D28DBE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a
commercial-scale project that converts coal to one or more liquid or gaseous
transportation fuels; or</text>
</clause><clause id="H1D3A76A7E3DF46599588D25C9663DF6F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>not more than one
project at a facility that converts petroleum refinery waste products,
including petroleum coke, into one or more liquids or gaseous transportation
fuels,</text>
</clause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">that
demonstrates the capture, and sequestration or disposal or use of, the carbon
dioxide produced in the conversion process, and that, on the basis of a carbon
dioxide sequestration plan prepared by the applicant, is certified by the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the
Secretary, as producing fuel with life cycle carbon dioxide emissions at or
below the average life cycle carbon dioxide emissions for the same type of fuel
produced at traditional petroleum based facilities with similar annual
capacities.</continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB91593F8AE0546018243DAF40B01940D"><enum>(H)</enum><header>Standby loan
agreement</header><text>The term <term>standby loan agreement</term> means a
loan agreement entered into under paragraph (2).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H12987F9135B04F858CF2BD462292B223"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Standby
Loans</header>
<subparagraph id="H64C4B17B7C7048879E2D8ACE983E748B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Loan
Authority</header><text>The Secretary may enter into standby loan agreements
with not more than six qualifying CTL projects, at least one of which shall be
a project jointly or in part owned by two or more small coal producers. Such an
agreement—</text>
<clause id="HFEBECDCB4AA54B1097C3DBC545790BF0"><enum>(i)</enum><text>shall provide that
the Secretary will make a direct loan (within the meaning of section 502(1) of
the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990) to the qualifying CTL project;
and</text>
</clause><clause id="HF69006C824844045A194C2F8F2B0EF70"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>shall set a cap
price and a minimum price for the primary term of the agreement.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1650B11C8B5147AFA5DA6ACE16E4CFDF"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Loan
Disbursements</header><text>Such a loan shall be disbursed during the primary
term of such agreement whenever the market price falls below the minimum price.
The amount of such disbursements in any calendar quarter shall be equal to the
excess of the minimum price over the market price, times the output of the
project (but not more than a total level of disbursements specified in the
agreement).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA1320FC7FB8245799F0DA466B487A9A9"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Loan
Repayments</header><text>The Secretary shall establish terms and conditions,
including interest rates and amortization schedules, for the repayment of such
loan within the full term of the agreement, subject to the following
limitations:</text>
<clause id="HBF1DA79EC2F042528E97906B22663D9D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>If
in any calendar quarter during the primary term of the agreement the market
price is less than the cap price, the project may elect to defer some or all of
its repayment obligations due in that quarter. Any unpaid obligations will
continue to accrue interest.</text>
</clause><clause id="HE07D13901C6E46269F89C97586824906"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>If in any
calendar quarter during the primary term of the agreement the market price is
greater than the cap price, the project shall meet its scheduled repayment
obligation plus deferred repayment obligations, but shall not be required to
pay in that quarter an amount that is more than the excess of the market price
over the cap price, times the output of the project.</text>
</clause><clause id="HBF0392CEB0FC4496B4CB9D7D71D0D628"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>At the end of
the primary term of the agreement, the cumulative amount of any deferred
repayment obligations, together with accrued interest, shall be amortized (with
interest) over the remainder of the full term of the agreement.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3E0A5121067C46F7897034369DAFFB5F"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Profit-sharing</header><text>The
Secretary is authorized to enter into a profit-sharing agreement with the
project at the time the standby loan agreement is executed. Under such an
agreement, if the market price exceeds the cap price in a calendar quarter, a
profit-sharing payment shall be made for that quarter, in an amount equal
to—</text>
<subparagraph id="H09561BC2FFA44ACE90C445D8FFB5A084"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the excess of the
market price over the cap price, times the output of the project; less</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4C434EF0D57C4C4FB877B7ADB7DED589"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any loan
repayments made for the calendar quarter.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H0B966C6A0F7040EEB1FDF0DEA8A9D613"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Compliance with
Federal Credit Reform Act</header>
<subparagraph id="H1D59121633024301B8CD9A1B45E78094"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Upfront Payment
of Cost of Loan</header><text>No standby loan agreement may be entered into
under this subsection unless the project makes a payment to the United States
that the Office of Management and Budget determines is equal to the cost of
such loan (determined under 502(5)(B) of the Federal Credit Reform Act of
1990). Such payment shall be made at the time the standby loan agreement is
executed.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H58564E0932794348AAA00CEC35A9AD4E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Minimization of
Risk to the Government</header><text>In making the determination of the cost of
the loan for purposes of setting the payment for a standby loan under
subparagraph (A), the Secretary and the Office of Management and Budget shall
take into consideration the extent to which the minimum price and the cap price
reflect historical patterns of volatility in actual oil prices relative to
projections of future oil prices, based upon publicly available data from the
Energy Information Administration, and employing statistical methods and
analyses that are appropriate for the analysis of volatility in energy
prices.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H15BC72A283954C9A83451370B30F2FD9"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Treatment of
Payments</header><text>The value to the United States of a payment under
subparagraph (A) and any profit-sharing payments under paragraph (3) shall be
taken into account for purposes of section 502(5)(B)(iii) of the Federal Credit
Reform Act of 1990 in determining the cost to the Federal Government of a
standby loan made under this subsection. If a standby loan has no cost to the
Federal Government, the requirements of section 504(b) of such Act shall be
deemed to be satisfied.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB4C9F3AFD7E048F28DF9365E7115F767"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Other
Provisions</header>
<subparagraph id="H717F4285FCA848FC8A198B6C5F9BE599"><enum>(A)</enum><header>No Double
Benefit</header><text>A project receiving a loan under this subsection may not,
during the primary term of the loan agreement, receive a Federal loan guarantee
under subsection (a) of this section, or under other laws.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE67C1ECD33B441F6BAB00E6E31A79075"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Subrogation,
Etc</header><text>Subsections (g)(2) (relating to subrogation), (h) (relating
to fees), and (j) (relating to full faith and credit) shall apply to standby
loans under this subsection to the same extent they apply to loan
guarantees.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section></subtitle><subtitle id="H8FF9AB35A4AD45139CAD89A74769C0E1"><enum>B</enum><header>Tax
Provisions</header>
<section id="H8AA0318251A543EF8F46D00B4202A9EE"><enum>311.</enum><header>Extension of
renewable electricity, refined coal, and Indian coal production credit</header>
<subsection id="H028B5D9BC1444AA3B9221BE16C049476"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Credit made
permanent</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD73683882B60411F80C89B82610A8977"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsection (d) of
section 45 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to qualified
facilities) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HDA5807583182474CBE7634D4336EE208"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>and before January 1, 2014</quote> each place it occurs,</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HD94DB6676E2E44F8937CC164EB80B0BF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>, and before January 1, 2013</quote> in paragraph (1), and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA0DD6F06D4A34AC482A111F110CA6A4E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>before January 1, 2009</quote> in paragraph (10).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC107EF2C31414F25A640C883E77F9023"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Open-loop
biomass facilities</header><text>Subparagraph (A) of section 45(d)(3) of such
Code is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H691398D1649041C6AAB95F9B880F55D2" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="HF2EF76F388CD4292BC5C9378DE54EE5E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of a
facility using open-loop biomass to produce electricity, the term
<term>qualified facility</term> means any facility owned by the taxpayer which
is originally placed in service after October 22,
2004.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H65CE871B3BC44F7FA8D70E95215C7737"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this subsection shall apply to
electricity produced and sold after December 31, 2009, in taxable years ending
after such date.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H528E276E9E6548B8B5CD299FE74C74CC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Sales of net
electricity to regulated public utilities treated as sales to unrelated
persons</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (4) of
section 45(e) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new
sentence: <quote>The net amount of electricity sold by any taxpayer to a
regulated public utility (as defined in section 7701(a)(33)) shall be treated
as sold to an unrelated person.</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H721FA223A239438A87B71AA1C31F6920"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Allowance
against alternative minimum tax</header>
<paragraph id="H493ED126271747E1A47FFE6E8D11FC4D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clause (iii) of
section 38(c)(4)(B) of such Code (relating to specified credits) is amended by
striking <quote>produced—</quote> and all that follows and inserting
<quote>produced at a facility which is originally placed in service after the
date of the enactment of this paragraph.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB8770A76ED2B4CA49BE654694A25011A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply to taxable
years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8612CE9CDDCB4F198E299FB547E8CF7D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>312.</enum><header>Extension of energy
credit</header>
<subsection id="H64FD5AE2FA664A36839E39C407F99276"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Solar energy
property</header><text>Paragraphs (2)(A)(i)(II) and (3)(A)(ii) of section 48(a)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to energy credit) are each
amended by striking <quote>but only with respect to periods ending before
January 1, 2017</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HF71D103FAECA456EA8F9889F8138D1F4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Fuel cell
property</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 48(c)(1) of
such Code (relating to qualified fuel cell property) is amended by striking
subparagraph (D).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H8BBD8C86E6C44D4684FF94158BF900E8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Microturbine
property</header><text>Subparagraph (D) of section 48(c)(2) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to qualified microturbine property) is amended
by striking <quote>December 31, 2016</quote> and inserting <quote>December 31,
2020</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H49475450553E4810B9A8743E0F34F097" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>313.</enum><header>Extension and
modification of credit for clean renewable energy bonds</header>
<subsection id="H22216A3B315247E48B64A0E9B6528CA8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Extension</header><text>Section
54(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to termination) is amended
by striking <quote>December 31, 2009</quote> and inserting <quote>December 31,
2020</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H7D1EB3E4F47F4AFDB7CD23F60766D15F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Increase in
national limitation</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section
54(f) of such Code (relating to limitation on amount of bonds designated) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HFD02CD50FF994F15A59E616C630295E8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>$1,200,000,000</quote> in paragraph (1) and inserting
<quote>$1,600,000,000</quote>, and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H003831CB0690472F8B764ACE36592B53"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>$750,000,000</quote> in paragraph (2) and inserting
<quote>$1,000,000,000</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H843EAFA2FE9F466BABC1FEDD7E83FBED"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Modification of
ratable principal amortization requirement</header>
<paragraph id="H9DB9D9D49738413B9F728B733CC23B8A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (4) of
section 54(l) of such Code is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HACD66303A910431EAD28BE7EFE4860F1" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HFCDB2B76681742B39552B0319EDE498B"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Ratable
principal amortization required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A bond shall not be treated as a clean
renewable energy bond unless it is part of an issue which provides for an equal
amount of principal to be paid by the qualified issuer during each 12-month
period that the issue is outstanding (other than the first 12-month
period).</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H04985AA3713E45A1AD345A22855A6842"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Technical
amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The third sentence
of section 54(e)(2) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>subsection
(l)(6)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (l)(4)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE1343B21FA664EA184327CC76B524711"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to bonds
issued after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDA3C4FC7155F46C8B58474971362B769" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>314.</enum><header>Extension of credits
for biodiesel and renewable diesel</header>
<subsection id="HEF1E9AA083124F07B02E82A77BE1E5C9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sections 40A(g),
6426(c)(6), and 6427(e)(6)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 are each
amended by striking <quote>December 31, 2009</quote> and inserting
<quote>December 31, 2020</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H9EC99428E34847D4B414CA4A617F2492"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by
this section shall apply to fuel produced, and sold or used, after December 31,
2009.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="HA9E52AB6D436497B90EC55D734806CEC"><enum>C</enum><header>American Renewable
and Alternative Energy Trust Fund</header>
<section id="HFC59A5E2CB184BF78ED37BB7F454DFEA"><enum>321.</enum><header>American
Renewable and Alternative Energy Trust Fund</header>
<subsection id="H8252A77EA4924C6984C601087181EC46"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Establishment of
trust fund</header><text>There is established in the Treasury of the United
States a trust fund to be known as the <quote>American Renewable and
Alternative Energy Trust Fund</quote>, consisting of such amounts as may be
transferred to the American Renewable and Alternative Energy Trust Fund as
provided in section 149 and the amendments made by section 113 of this
Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H2479A089EDBB4AF791AE098270B2492D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Expenditures
from American Renewable and Alternative Energy Trust Fund</header>
<paragraph id="HDD2EC55ED0354DE58B1E539086C99DD4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Amounts in the American Renewable and Alternative Energy
Trust Fund shall be available without further appropriation to carry out
specified provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–58; in
this section referred to as <quote>EPAct2005</quote>) and the Energy
Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–140; in this section
referred to as <quote>EISAct2007</quote>), as follows:</text>
<subparagraph id="H70FC04D71E6F4D46BC01B79D86E5FAEB"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Grants to improve
the commercial value of forest biomass for electric energy, useful heat,
transportation fuels, and other commercial purposes, section 210 of EPAct2005,
3 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H36B847F95A184EAAB6B188125964D399"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Hydroelectric
production incentives, section 242 of EPAct2005, 2 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0BF6D53EDF5447CA8FA9EF2C9812E6C2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Oil shale, tar
sands, and other strategic unconventional fuels, section 369 of EPAct2005, 3
percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6429D00F1C764F6894E39728444F9F40"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Clean Coal Power
Initiative, section 401 of EPAct2005, 7 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBE2B9CB9EEEF49AB94ED36743F81BBAF"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Solar and wind
technologies, section 812 of EPAct2005, 7 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2264E2427F164A89BC87E4CBD9BB1FA1"><enum>(F)</enum><text>Renewable Energy,
section 931 of EPAct2005, 20 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H469AE73FBA2D4070B9A04D71976D04B3"><enum>(G)</enum><text>Production
incentives for cellulosic biofuels, section 942 of EPAct2005, 2.5
percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6CB2B7EB24BB4CDBB999402D5F4B3A2A"><enum>(H)</enum><text>Coal and related
technologies program, section 962 of EPAct2005, 4 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBADBD1A8FBCD468A862C957F995BEEC6"><enum>(I)</enum><text>Methane hydrate
research, section 968 of EPAct2005, 2.5 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H51C1DD3067EE413784D2369A740F9652"><enum>(J)</enum><text>Incentives for
Innovative Technologies, section 1704 of EPAct2005, 7 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H19078913185345148FCDFBCBA12E90F3"><enum>(K)</enum><text>Grants for
production of advanced biofuels, section 207 of EISAct2007, 16 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4D5547881015457C9496884B54D8A44E"><enum>(L)</enum><text>Photovoltaic
demonstration program, section 607 EISAct2007, 2.5 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H919B7974B1E64BDF8B1CF726AF181CB7"><enum>(M)</enum><text>Geothermal Energy,
title VI, subtitle B of EISAct2007, 4 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2BBB1A07D904472B8B980219ECE26531"><enum>(N)</enum><text>Marine and
Hydrokinetic Renewable Energy Technologies, title VI, subtitle C of EISAct2007,
2.5 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF479B66058C6433C93BB053F9CCCD6B9"><enum>(O)</enum><text>Energy storage
competitiveness, section 641 of EISAct2007, 10 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H83FA91D85F704BBCB2FCEDE42DB7C1C2"><enum>(P)</enum><text>Smart grid
technology research, development, and demonstration, section 1304 of
EISAct2007, 7 percent.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC60D276EAE304EB4AD314319D8C4CD09"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Apportionment of
excess amount</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding
paragraph (1), any amounts allocated under paragraph (1) that are in excess of
the amounts authorized in the applicable cited section or subtitle of EPAct2005
and EISAct2007 shall be reallocated to the remaining sections and subtitles
cited in paragraph (1), up to the amounts otherwise authorized by law to carry
out such sections and subtitles, in proportion to the amounts authorized by law
to be appropriated for such other sections and subtitles.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle><enum>IV</enum><header>Nuclear</header>
<section id="HFC184D8CD3584D77A8B2E4119574B022"><enum>401.</enum><header>Streamline the
regulatory process</header>
<subsection id="H87552A451FD043F583F21A1EEA46349D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Fast
track</header>
<paragraph id="HBF34F7D81E0B43A4A66EC8EDEA2DBFD7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Public health
and safety</header><text>Nothing in this subsection shall supersede, mitigate,
detract from, or in anyway decrease the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s ability
to maintain the highest possible levels of public health and safety standards
for nuclear facilities in the United States. No authority granted by this
subsection shall be executed in a manner that jeopardizes, minimizes, reduces,
or lessens public health and safety standards.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFEBAAAD3CE4643188E5C4F7E4ACBC96F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Streamlining
Combined Construction and Operating License</header>
<subparagraph id="HC04B39F85A404A04A20C80A0E9C222D3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Nuclear
Regulatory Commission shall establish and implement an expedited procedure for
issuing a Combined Construction and Operating License for qualified new
reactors.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD4E886A101B84470933FAF396F7AB0E3"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Qualifications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To qualify for the expedited procedure
under this paragraph, an applicant shall—</text>
<clause id="HF41245337606488AB1C33109E55A86AA"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">apply for construction of a reactor based
on a design approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission;</text>
</clause><clause id="HD910E7D11C61402F946D4335D167E529"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">construct the new reactor on a site where
an operating nuclear power plant already exists;</text>
</clause><clause id="H550F1B2FA5F9414EB26221134C41B886"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establish to the satisfaction of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission that there is broad local public support for the
project;</text>
</clause><clause id="H15AEAC3C3F2B4C07801F108FF02D3A59"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be an existing nuclear powerplant owner or
operator with a substantial record of safe operations and be in good standing
with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission;</text>
</clause><clause id="H158B15E016B840C48CD7E7E7AAA530C6"><enum>(v)</enum><text>submit a complete
Combined Construction and Operating License application; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H57999ECE8C474E67935426F119A9EE07"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">demonstrate sufficient financial commitment
to the project and preparedness to proceed in earnest once the permit is
issued, as demonstrated by—</text>
<subclause id="H290E80438A744DF5B7FFB77FB97D9540"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the purchase of, or contract to purchase,
long-lead materials; or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H4E7CFFE4A23A43A3B12668805E49EE1D"><enum>(II)</enum><text>assured
financing.</text>
</subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HED881B908C874DBB8B2FA0B4112B4CCE"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Expedited
procedure</header><text>With respect to a license for which the applicant has
satisfied the requirements of subparagraph (B) and seeks fast track
consideration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall follow the following
procedures:</text>
<clause id="HF21A594F0AF84E9F9D3CAFBC20989C41"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Undertake a one year expedited
environmental review process.</text>
</clause><clause id="HB62E0C99C8A04F88888D4032B48FF36A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Commence a one
year public comment period for comments on the application.</text>
</clause><clause id="H1221756073E344468719811252C65DBF"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Expedite the
technical review process to that amount of time which is necessary to
efficiently issue Combined Construction and Operating License permits without
sacrificing any aspect of public health or safety.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4DB58A058FC9464DBFDC40ED457613AE"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Goals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall
present recommendations to Congress within 90 days of the date of enactment of
this Act for procedures that would allow the Commission to pursue a
transparent, fact-based process in a nonadversarial environment where it can
make decisions based on sound science and engineering as expeditiously as
practicable. These recommendations shall encompass an efficient process that
allows those parties that have standing to participate in the proceedings to
raise legitimate concerns to be heard and resolved without undue delay.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H0C4A99F755F14F288A212B773E7BAFFB"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Nuclear Steam
Supply System design certification</header><text>The Nuclear Regulatory
Commission shall establish a schedule for certification of a Nuclear Steam
Supply System reactor that maintains the highest levels of public health and
safety. Such schedule shall seek to reduce by one half the time necessary to
certify a reactor design. Such a schedule shall be presented to Congress within
one year of date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H59740C87C67F4A959D84702F3C99BE59"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Technology
neutral plant design specifications</header><text>Within one year of the date
of enactment of this Act, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall outline to
the Congress an approach that will allow the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to
develop technology-neutral guidelines for nuclear plant licensing in the future
that would allow for the more seamless entry of new technologies into the
marketplace.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H43C55653BE564129BF4761403C8EDB56"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Additional
funding and personnel resources</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the
date of enactment of this Act, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall transmit
to the Congress a request for such additional funding and personnel resources
as are necessary to carry out paragraphs (1) through (4).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCF482F9D732E41F8A2EF426FDA8CCAED"><enum>(6)</enum><header>National
laboratory support</header><text>Each national laboratory with expertise in the
nuclear field shall, in coordination with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
dedicate personnel to supporting either or both of the expedited design
certification under paragraph (3) or the expedited licensing procedures under
paragraph (2).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H080B057D6A7445AEA0F7EA50CE7BAF49"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Educational
program funds</header><text>To both support the Nation’s effort to efficiently
license new nuclear power plants and build the expertise and workforce
necessary to regulate and operate those plants, the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission and the Department of Energy shall direct educational funding to
programs to enhance or directly support the activities authorized by this
subsection.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H3382F583DC5A4ED995B7921F7062F12B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>National policy
goal</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the policy goal of
the United States to license 100 new nuclear reactors, or the megawatt
equivalent, by 2030, if there are a sufficient number of applicants.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB70F1A7BFAD1431BA7357D483DA8B957"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Mandatory
Hearings for Uncontested License Applicants</header>
<paragraph id="HEE9D6A9854084292889CFDF5BC3EC0E0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Sections
189A(1)(A) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 is modified thus:</text>
<quoted-block id="H608296317BCE4028911FFA9C5A219FA5" style="OLC">
<subparagraph id="HB973D1C922F34CC78B270124A09AFC3D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>In any proceeding
under this Act, for the granting, suspending, revoking, or amending of any
license or construction permit, or application to transfer control, and in any
proceeding for the issuance or modification of rules and regulations dealing
with the activities of licensees, and in any proceeding for the payment of
compensation, an award, or royalties under section 153, 157, 186c., or 188, the
Commission shall grant a hearing upon the request of any person whose interest
may be affected by the proceeding, and shall admit any such person as a party
to such proceeding. The Commission may, in the absence of a request therefor by
any person whose interest may be affected, issue a construction permit, an
operating license or an amendment to a construction permit or an amendment to
an operating license without a hearing, but upon thirty days’ notice and
publication once in the Federal Register of its intent to do so. The Commission
may dispense with such thirty days’ notice and publication with respect to any
application for an amendment to a construction permit or an amendment to an
operating license upon a determination by the Commission that the amendment
involves no significant hazards
consideration.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H877D65702518423393113ABC6059D28D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 185b of
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 is modified thus:</text>
<quoted-block id="HC962520F2BCE4AFCB98AC46489B1A957" other-style="nuclear" style="other">
<subsection id="HCB0AECCAA46E4177BAE41002BBCAA1E3"><enum>b.</enum><text>After any public
hearing held under section 189a.(1)(A), the Commission shall issue to the
applicant a combined construction and operating license if the application
contains sufficient information to support the issuance of a combined license
and the Commission determines that there is reasonable assurance that the
facility will be constructed and will operate in conformity with the license,
the provisions of this Act, and the Commission's rules and regulations. The
Commission shall identify within the combined license the inspections, tests,
and analyses, including those applicable to emergency planning, that the
licensee shall perform, and the acceptance criteria that, if met, are necessary
and sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that the facility has been
constructed and will be operated in conformity with the license, the provisions
of this Act, and the Commission's rules and regulations. Following issuance of
the combined license, the Commission shall ensure that the prescribed
inspections, tests, and analyses are performed and, prior to operation of the
facility, shall find that the prescribed acceptance criteria are met. Any
finding made under this subsection shall not require a hearing except as
provided in section
189a.(1)(B).</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H8AF19740B1E54609AAC91F0E5F22468B"><enum>402.</enum><header>Increase the
supply of uranium</header>
<subsection id="HF0EE4787CF6747CE92A2CBEB6856AD69"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Supply
Disruption Mitigation Reserve</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Energy shall create a
uranium supply-disruption mitigation reserve. The Energy Department shall
undergo an audit to account for all unused materials in its system that could
be used to power commercial nuclear reactors. Once accounted for, some portion,
or all, of this resource shall be allocated to be a temporary reserve of
reactor fuel to protect against a foreign supplier attempt to deny American
energy producers access to uranium fuel.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H6537F9AEA3664F97B0A7F3CEC961A084"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Findings</header><text>The
Congress finds the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H74B9A34EBBD0467884AA1D65D52968C1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>It is necessary to
preserve access to domestic uranium reserves and resources in order to meet the
United States demand for clean noncarbon emitting energy. Doing so will
contribute to the Nation’s effort to seek energy independence and enhance our
national and economic security.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF9A4EB4F76484A02878F525F0D959A56"><enum>(2)</enum><text>United States
utilities currently use approximately 56,000,000 pounds of uranium each year.
Meanwhile, total United States uranium production is only approximately
3,000,000 to 4,000,000 pounds each year, or less than 10 percent of the
Nation’s annual need.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB6D2FB6D66D44D599133782999BA84C7"><enum>(3)</enum><text>To meet the United
States demand for uranium, the United States imports uranium from Russia,
Canada, Australia, and Kazakhstan. In 2004, nearly 50 percent of imported
uranium came from Russia.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H53E0AC0884EA40F99BCEB484C722B187"><enum>(4)</enum><text>American industry
can easily produce 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 pounds of uranium each year from
domestic resources.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H35841453C0D04306845FD50380C18CB8"><enum>(5)</enum><text>To produce those
resources we must preserve access to the Nation’s uranium reserves and
resources found within the northern Arizona strip, Northwestern New Mexico,
Wyoming, and other parts of the United States.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9E4D67394C7E4632A029FB3B1BD216E4"><enum>(6)</enum><text>The Arizona strip
region, located in the Utah-Arizona border region, is estimated to contain a
resource endowment of 375,000,000 pounds of uranium oxide (United States
Geological Survey Circular 1051), making it the second most important uranium
region in the United States after to Wyoming. The energy potential of this
quantity of uranium rivals the energy equivalence of the total recoverable oil
discovered at Prudhoe Bay Alaska, the largest oil field in North America. This
quantity of uranium comprises over 40 percent of the Nation’s estimated uranium
resource endowment, and Arizona Strip area uranium is by far the highest grade
uranium nationally. Development of these resources would promote energy
independence and protect our national security.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4CF34F59053D4DB39ED83AABDD0DF2A2"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Development of
these resources would prevent the United States from being over reliant on less
stable foreign sources of uranium.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H99C8752D1AC4424CBA4D6E99C3BC7E99"><enum>(8)</enum><text>The importance of
developing these resources is crucial as the rest of the world is embracing
nuclear power, including China, India, Russia, Europe, the Middle East, Japan,
and Korea, resulting in a exponential demand for known and undiscovered uranium
resources.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4C2032B8EB69449281E93B33C0AA0795"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Uranium policy
summit</header>
<paragraph id="H59548BC41E1746E7A070E64A49C137C7"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary of the Interior, working with the Secretary
of Energy, shall convene a national summit on uranium by no later than 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act, to produce a report for Congress
by no later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act that
includes an assessment of the Nation’s uranium resources and provides policy
recommendations to ensure access to these resources for private sector
development in an environmentally responsible manner. A principle policy
objective of the summit and report shall be to domestically produce enough
uranium to meet 30 percent of our national uranium demand by 2030.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF84F60E3C1994D3EA9DA3060D8BB9DB2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Participants</header><text>The
national summit on uranium shall include—</text>
<subparagraph id="H88289D8D0C2D4107BE14140BA08A5DC8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>representatives
from mining, enrichment, utility, and disposal sectors of the uranium industry;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBD9960945F2248EEAFFC48B6BDE97204"><enum>(B)</enum><text>experts in
hydrology, geology, mine reclamation, and safety.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H83EB2A67ED2A46529F1A757B9F526A70"><enum>403.</enum><header>Recycle and
safely store spent nuclear fuel</header>
<subsection id="H121DC4A3562D4D46BDD037E388392B3B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>High-level
nuclear waste repository</header>
<paragraph id="H9678BA56C7F946AAA0FC8428E856D5F3"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Federal Government remains obliged to
construct and operate at least one high-level nuclear materials geologic
repository for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive
waste.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDDB795C5DA024715BEFE7751C8E48B9F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The high-level nuclear waste repository
site at Yucca Mountain shall remain the site for the Nation’s nuclear waste
repository unless it is deemed technologically or scientifically unsuitable by
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission following full statutory review of the
Department of Energy’s license application to construct the Yucca Mountain
repository.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7206E760CF9A40278E9121807CCB8ED2"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The Nuclear
Regulatory Commission shall continue to review the Department of Energy’s
pending license application to construct the nuclear waste repository at Yucca
Mountain until a determination is made on the merits of the application.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE0E74C9E89974ABCB47C6950C4CF6A4F"><enum>(4)</enum><text>In addition to
pursuing approval of the license application referenced in paragraph (3), the
Secretary shall undertake the following activities:</text>
<subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEB45477F5ED5486E89D7459B6D72A87A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Seeking all other
necessary regulatory approvals and permits to construct and operate the Yucca
Mountain repository.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H794E9446A9FB41D199571E65E80572E3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Conducting all
necessary design and engineering work to support construction of the
repository.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H063C8072349642D3B598D72140AA3BAD"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Undertaking all
infrastructure activities necessary to support the construction or operation of
the repository or transportation to the site of spent nuclear fuel and
high-level radioactive waste. Infrastructure activities include, but are not
limited to, safety upgrades; site preparation; the construction of a rail line
to connect the Yucca Mountain site with the national rail network, including
any facilities to facilitate rail operations; and construction, upgrade,
acquisition, or operation of electrical grids or facilities, other utilities,
communication facilities, access roads, rail lines, and nonnuclear support
facilities.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB97104B450E0491B813AF19A245001E9"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All statutory limitations on the amount of
spent fuel that can be placed in Yucca Mountain shall be removed and replaced
with new limits based on scientific and technical analysis of the full capacity
of Yucca Mountain for the storage of spent nuclear fuel and high-level
radioactive waste.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H3DC05F0ED68B4E1DB40A096582DA3B7A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Temporary
nuclear fuel storage facilities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the Interior shall grant
all necessary rights of way and land use authorizations needed for a nuclear
fuel storage facility if the State and locality in which such facility is
located reach an agreement with a private entity. The Federal Government shall
take title of the contents of any such facility upon closure or
decommissioning.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA3432F2F97CD490AA9305EE8D316ED5E"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Recycling</header>
<paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5C60B789ED114A91A5D0655FE0858DED"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Amendment</header><text>Section
302 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10222) is
amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H56C1183F3A5B4124B10B57803C2B3F2D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (d),
by striking <quote>The Secretary may</quote> and inserting <quote>Except as
provided in subsection (f), the Secretary may</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1A45FC7E51BD4187AA49D452128CBFF1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following new subsection:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFF275F2115014F52887C33DC6D9091D9" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H102E3975F51F44EC9B746587C07E9037"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Recycling</header>
<paragraph id="HF4FB91227DF649388C5F43881BE03FCE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Amounts in the Waste
Fund shall be used by the Secretary of Energy to make grants to or enter into
long-term contracts with private sector entities for the recycling of spent
nuclear fuel.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE41E53058F794B09A3A4E82CBB289F45"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Competitive
selection</header><text>Grants and contracts authorized under paragraph (1)
shall be awarded on the basis a competitive bidding process that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2AE11E364BBE48D086D8BFA121E2F144"><enum>(A)</enum><text>maximizes the
competitive efficiency of the projects funded;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H955983F3A9214AF39FA63C9D3F8909AF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>best serves the
goal of reducing the amount of waste requiring disposal under this Act;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB54DFFFF792D4FE2BDA1F3C9088CDC23"><enum>(C)</enum><text>ensures adequate
protection against the proliferation of nuclear materials that could be used in
the manufacture of nuclear
weapons.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEAA29906930143ECBC40AE5D90BD3207"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Prohibition</header><text>The
Administration is prohibited from blocking or hindering spent nuclear fuel
recycling activities.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE87EED9EEDA143DBADFB429CD09DE5DB"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Rulemaking for
licensing of spent nuclear fuel recycling facilities</header>
<subparagraph id="H7265917E14E84AF1B0040ED88B94E223"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text>The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall, as expeditiously as possible, but in no
event later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, complete a
rulemaking establishing a process for the licensing by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, of facilities for the
recycling of spent nuclear fuel.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD221DDCC9ECB4779A9CAD25C5CF546D5"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Funding</header><text>Amounts
in the Nuclear Waste Fund established under section 302 of the Nuclear Waste
Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10222) shall be made available to the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission to cover the costs of carrying out subparagraph (A) of
this paragraph.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H1157CDF5BF484F97B301E9D71D2FD7CE"><enum>404.</enum><header>Confidence in
availability of waste disposal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
in deciding whether to permit the construction or operation of a nuclear
reactor or any related facilities, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall
deem, without further consideration, that sufficient capacity will be available
in a timely manner to dispose of spent nuclear fuel and high level radioactive
waste resulting from the operation of the reactor and any related
facilities.</text>
</section><section id="HFCFF6E88B20A4392B9FC1EECFAC1E979" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>405.</enum><header>Preferential
treatment for certain nuclear reactors and related articles</header>
<subsection id="HE3A51237D18F4A6198F1C46E71D10B14"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The President shall
proclaim duty-free treatment or other preferential treatment for any article
described in subsection (b) that is imported directly into the customs
territory of the United States if the President determines, after obtaining
advice from the International Trade Commission, that there is no domestic
production of such article.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HC189D8181E574AD19FBA0093247A095E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Article
described</header><text>An article described in this subsection is any article
provided for in heading 8401 or 9902.84 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of
the United States (relating to nuclear reactors; fuel elements (cartridges),
non-irradiated, for nuclear reactors; machinery and apparatus for isotopic
separation; parts thereof).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA14E75ADFFCE4E6D9F7F2B350D16922F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Withdrawal,
suspension, or limitation of preferential treatment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The President may withdraw, suspend, or
limit the application of duty-free treatment or other preferential treatment
under this section for any article described in subsection (b) with respect to
which duty-free treatment has been proclaimed under subsection (a).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H654711FAD36D48588FEC4B224ED47B37"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Termination of
preferential treatment</header><text>No duty-free treatment or other
preferential treatment extended under this section shall remain in effect after
5 years.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H088AEFEC1D7C4C809452FC3E4E0EE0CC" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>406.</enum><header>National Nuclear
Energy Council</header>
<subsection id="H0F635F6C37BB4B7AA6E297FB48FCA021"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
General</header>
<paragraph id="HE2172028A8D9419C83780EE642AEA8D2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Secretary of
Energy shall establish a National Nuclear Energy Council (hereinafter the
<quote>Council</quote>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H02ECADD38CD440CF9CFE3657E41D6A99"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The National
Nuclear Energy Council shall be subject to the requirements of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. appendix 2).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H23D80D2B62924403AB9D5DC95EF10FA9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Purpose</header><text>The
National Nuclear Energy Council shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HF8D7BFAB60364992BB20B4DA95322F64"><enum>(1)</enum><text>serve in an
advisory capacity to the Secretary of Energy regarding nuclear energy on
matters submitted to the Council by the Secretary of Energy;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HECE0CB7C72524B57A84AF4991B922E34"><enum>(2)</enum><text>advise, inform,
and make recommendations to the Secretary of Energy with respect to any matter
relating to nuclear energy;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7EDF2BECFF7C490C8980CC08DD393A3C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>help nuclear
energy related investors to navigate the Federal bureaucracy to efficiently
bring their products and services to the marketplace; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9D8AA5C8EDF640C5B610A2BB7B17FD85"><enum>(4)</enum><text>not participate in
any research and development or commercialization activities.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE4C5877C208D40038840A6AA14F9A862"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Membership and
Organization</header>
<paragraph id="HBABB3D33DD2543D59BB2767A754CC3A2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The members of the
Council shall be appointed by the Secretary of Energy.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H11B22B9AE1CE48869072021D33234EBC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Council may
establish such study and administrative committees as it may deem appropriate.
Study committees shall only assist the Council in preparing its advice,
information, or recommendations to the Secretary of Energy. Administrative
committees shall be formed solely for the purpose of assisting the Council or
its Chairman in the management of the internal affairs of the Council.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H81251DC577234E33972416F7DBBE4109"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The officers of
the Council shall consist of a Chairman, a Vice Chairman, and such other
officers as may be approved by the Council. The Chairman and Vice Chairman must
be members of the Council and shall receive no compensation for service as
officers of the Council.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4A7D61F376A54D41AFC8B387F994F1BF"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The Secretary of
Energy shall be Cochairman of the Council. If the Secretary of Energy
designates a full-time, salaried official of the Department of Energy as his
alternate, such alternate may exercise any duties of the Secretary of Energy
and may perform any function on the Council otherwise reserved for the
Secretary of Energy.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0231AD664FBB49CF909C6F55C7FC580A"><enum>(5)</enum><text>The Chairman and
the Vice Chairman shall be elected by the Council at its organizational meeting
to serve until their successors are elected at the next organizational meeting
of the Council.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF3250B0CBE264D138FC6194CB1776413"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Meetings</header>
<paragraph id="H20606F2DD5EB48CFA103638FC754B184"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Regular meetings
of the Council shall be held at least twice each year at times determined by
the Chairman and approved by the Government Cochairman.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7E49C969615D428FAD0BD939C7F1EF5C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>No meeting of the
Council shall be held unless the Government Cochairman approves the agenda
thereof, approves the calling thereof, and is present thereat.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFEFD296B08FD4B31A91A057733EE19EC"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The time and place
of all Council meetings shall be given general publicity and such meetings
shall be open to the public.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H12EEAB4F12DA4BEA89E81966F649515B"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Studies by the
Council</header>
<paragraph id="H670162FA5073440E99C0E69BE38FE041"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The Council may
establish study committees to prepare reports for the consideration of the
Council pursuant to requests from the Secretary of Energy for advice,
information, and recommendations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAFF65D1C777B491391E8623D61CD86DD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The Secretary of
Energy or a full-time employee of the Department of Energy designated by the
Secretary shall be the Cochairman of each study committee.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2BEB43B07AD34415A86BFE7AA57E6FB0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The members of
study committees shall be selected from the Council membership on the basis of
their training, experience, and general qualifications to deal with the matters
assigned.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HAAC8D62F33BA4EDCA0485D4C67232C5E"><enum>407.</enum><header>Expansion of
energy investment tax credit to include nuclear and clean-coal
equipment</header>
<subsection id="H0C9071D0029A405896CFAA70FBAC7DBD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Clause (i) of section
48C(c)((1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking
<quote>or</quote> at the end of subclause (VI), by striking <quote>and</quote>
at the end of subclause (VII), by inserting after subclause (VII) the following
new subclauses:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF0A44F77F8A244D48F41DE7A3E9CBE4D" style="OLC">
<subclause id="H6D005F47D8AB4353A9D4EBE575981C19"><enum>(VIII)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">property designed to be used to produce
energy from an advanced nuclear power facility (as defined in section 45J(d)),
or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H43E3BBE2B8F540309206E6C59C4F338B"><enum>(IX)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">property designed to be used to produce
energy from clean-coal equipment,
and</text>
</subclause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H71AB52C17CAC4CDC9139659CE6924F9D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Denial of double
benefit</header><text>Subsection (e) of section 48C of such Code is amended by
inserting <quote>45J,</quote> before <quote>48,</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H8CED5D21F00D4EA39C4C8B74BA289D67"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to property
placed in service after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>V</enum><header>Environmental
Review; Greenhouse Gases </header>
<section id="H232AD788103448AF8659AB5C38CDF42B"><enum>501.</enum><header>Environmental
review for renewable energy projects</header>
<subsection id="H0B2CABBB41824F6E94406EBDC4220211"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Compliance with
NEPA for renewable energy projects</header><text>Notwithstanding any other law,
in preparing an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement
required under section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4332) with respect to any action authorizing a renewable energy project
under the jurisdiction of a Federal agency—</text>
<paragraph id="HDC76DCA3546347ED8050FDAB20E5FE60"><enum>(1)</enum><text>no Federal agency
is required to identify alternative project locations or actions other than the
proposed action and the no action alternative; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8061D953B2C344A3B484AE416CE919D3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>no Federal agency
is required to analyze the environmental effects of alternative locations or
actions other than those submitted by the project proponent.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB4468731C4FA414E8FDF91F0E9E2D2B2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Consideration of
alternatives</header><text>In any environmental assessment or environmental
impact statement referred to in subsection (a), the Federal agency shall only
identify and analyze the environmental effects and potential mitigation
measures of—</text>
<paragraph id="H30776A30432346759615C29C9C8F7FAC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the proposed
action; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H37D307F9F64A4FEFA711CB59510A8A79"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the no action
alternative.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H429FFA4033AB44D6AE2F40F9C852A7A0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Public
comment</header><text>In preparing an environmental assessment or environmental
impact statement referred to in subsection (a), the Federal agency shall only
consider public comments that specifically address the preferred action and
that are filed within 20 days after publication of a draft environmental
assessment or draft environmental impact statement. Notwithstanding any other
law, compliance with this subsection is deemed to satisfy section 102(2) of the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)) and the
applicable regulations and administrative guidelines with respect to proposed
renewable energy projects.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H69CC066B42054A83A47FD0AD9FA6B6E2"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Renewable energy
project defined</header><text>For purposes of this section, the term
<term>renewable energy project</term>—</text>
<paragraph id="H70304944E5744F95AAB662EEFEA94400"><enum>(1)</enum><text>means any proposal
to utilize an energy source other than coal, oil, or natural gas; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCC00EE70273B4335B933FF537664AB25"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes the use of nuclear, wind, solar,
geothermal, biomass, hydro (including large, small-scale, and low head
conventional hydro), or tidal forces to generate energy.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HC56E232AEFF647139216042335F0A0EE" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>502.</enum><header>Greenhouse gas
regulation under Clean Air Act</header>
<subsection id="H456FD55C54344658AD0993CA4021B856"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 302(g) of the
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7602(g)) is amended by adding the following at the end
thereof: <quote>The term <term>air pollutant</term> shall not include carbon
dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons,
perfluorocarbons, or sulfur hexafluoride.</quote> .</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H553C04DD38B74B0E970A0B071573B577"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Climate change
not regulated by Clean Air Act</header><text>Nothing in the Clean Air Act shall
be treated as authorizing or requiring the regulation of climate change or
global warming.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H08E75280E01843F9AE85241CC8E1204D"><enum>503.</enum><header>Prohibition of
consideration of impact of greenhouse gas</header>
<subsection id="HABA43CE6F8F5400985ACB26190717984"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:</text>
<quoted-block id="HB1022AEE0EE64FD9BFB638269ACF58BA" style="OLC">
<section id="HDCDA3E7FCC9147D49AF00C1EB881DB68"><enum>19.</enum><header>Prohibition of
consideration of impact of greenhouse gas</header>
<subsection id="HB9BE1FEAA2AE4828BE74861CD438B5A1"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition of
Greenhouse</header><text>In this section, the term <term>greenhouse gas</term>
means any of—</text>
<paragraph id="HF7FFB0ADEF03412EB30E6758A828A409"><enum>(1)</enum><text>carbon
dioxide;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H14942A49216543D2A7B1A67FDAEE14A5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>methane;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF7B874B7E2A64ACF9906C5CA23C96EC8"><enum>(3)</enum><text>nitrous
oxide;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H27044C22020648ECB1DD88A96769477C"><enum>(4)</enum><text>sulfur
hexafluoride;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD7B8EB44732F4C178F6F882B0B2A5E4F"><enum>(5)</enum><text>a
hydrofluorocarbon;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7BE53B74EA344DF49D3F1C97112C2E08"><enum>(6)</enum><text>a perfluorocarbon;
or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA3B57B8B8A9747DA8CFE4E60E1C543DE"><enum>(7)</enum><text>any other
anthropogenic gas designated by the Secretary for purposes of this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H119BC8D6BF514F74AE4C40EAB699D3F5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Impact of
Greenhouse Gas</header><text>The impact of greenhouse gas on any species of
fish or wildlife or plant shall not be considered for any purpose in the
implementation of this
Act.</text>
</subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H1C973F3AE22541A5A184DCF08FACB595"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in the first section of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. prec. 1531) is amended by adding at
the end the following new items:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1909BDB84E474BC9B0B5055CF10A62E0" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 18. Annual cost analysis by the Fish
and Wildlife Service.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry level="section">Sec. 19. Prohibition of consideration of
impact of greenhouse
gas.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><enum>VI</enum><header>Legal
Reform</header>
<section id="H17C7D0B6461245CA922104A429EA6ACD" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>601.</enum><header>Findings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Congress finds that—</text>
<paragraph id="H8089A8C277CD48838B9C0D404784F38F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the United States
spends over $1 billion per day to import crude oil from foreign
countries;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7424D92C17CB4A8BB378FB1C87A36821"><enum>(2)</enum><text>such expenditure
represents the largest wealth transfer in history;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAF556429373240C386B8E71433BF3593"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the United States has at least 86 billion
barrels of oil and 420 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the outer
Continental Shelf;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC2732701C0304985A10FD63D7164B9B4"><enum>(4)</enum><text>environmental
groups have legally challenged every lease in the Alaskan Outer Continental
Shelf in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H22198CD38B894BB0947B09E49B44AA35"><enum>(5)</enum><text>environmental
groups have legally challenged the entire 2007–2012 5-year national outer
Continental Shelf leasing program;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H60C4E799221645989900FC5313634EF8"><enum>(6)</enum><text>such legal
challenges significantly delay or ultimately prevent energy resources from
reaching the American public;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC62B3157FC2C4E94B7DD155F087E8830"><enum>(7)</enum><text>these legal
challenges come at a high cost to the American public and the American economy;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE73E517E73AB4587AB6F132EB5A306E8"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Congress finds
that expedited judicial review is necessary to prevent this gross abuse of the
United States judicial system.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HA36EDD4B267941039A023DAD1428ED3B"><enum>602.</enum><header>Exclusive
jurisdiction over causes and claims relating to covered energy
projects</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the United States District Court for the District of
Columbia shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear all causes and claims under
this title or any other Act that arise from any covered energy project.</text>
</section><section id="H03249CB6FD9149B3BA2D6AFBB1D42F1E"><enum>603.</enum><header>Time for filing
complaint</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">All causes and
claims referred to in section 602 must be filed not later than the end of the
60-day period beginning on the date of the action or decision by a Federal
official that constitutes the covered energy project concerned. Any cause or
claim not filed within that time period shall be barred.</text>
</section><section id="H79B6C34A02C84A10A168DFF348B76BE4"><enum>604.</enum><header>District court
for the District of Columbia deadline</header>
<subsection id="H8DEED221D45B455B9BB5FA8F50CFB657"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>All proceedings that are subject to section 602—</text>
<paragraph id="H98D6EF329C38484BA661091E34593A3E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall be resolved
as expeditiously as possible, and in any event not more than 180 days after
such cause or claim is filed; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB105C55D51F34E2297FCA7FBB13B2AF5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall take
precedence over all other pending matters before the district court.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HADFA46616AB74DB897679FF7E7223186"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Failure To
comply with deadline</header><text>If an interlocutory or final judgment,
decree, or order has not been issued by the district court by the deadline
described under this section, the cause or claim shall be dismissed with
prejudice and all rights relating to such cause or claim shall be
terminated.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H6B13517B539A4040BACC6709052805F1"><enum>605.</enum><header>Ability to seek
appellate review</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An
interlocutory or final judgment, decree, or order of the district court may be
reviewed by no other court except the Supreme Court.</text>
</section><section id="HF6F7D62B0C484FDA98840821210C673A"><enum>606.</enum><header>Deadline for
appeal to the Supreme Court</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">If
a writ of certiorari has been granted by the Supreme Court pursuant to section
605, then—</text>
<paragraph id="HAD7145F0FE054054957A99F7AAB4E9EA"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the interlocutory
or final judgment, decree, or order of the district court shall be resolved as
expeditiously as possible and in any event not more than 180 days after such
interlocutory or final judgment, decree, order of the district court is issued;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5C752DC5AF3B4B2991DCDB5B8188791C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>all such
proceedings shall take precedence over all other matters then before the
Supreme Court.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HDF79D87DF8ED47978CC5C7A52BB1A691"><enum>607.</enum><header>Limitation on
scope of review and relief</header>
<subsection id="H3162CB4F307D429D9482212E10F5A190"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Administrative
Findings and Conclusions</header><text>In any judicial review of any Federal
action under this Act, any administrative findings and conclusions relating to
the challenged Federal action shall be presumed to be correct unless shown
otherwise by clear and convincing evidence contained in the administrative
record.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H6F69A150B20A4FADB2C3B5DC7FACA685"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on
Prospective Relief</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In any
judicial review of any action, or failure to act, under this Act, the Court
shall not grant or approve any prospective relief unless the Court finds that
such relief is narrowly drawn, extends no further than necessary to correct the
violation of a Federal law requirement, and is the least intrusive means
necessary to correct the violation concerned.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H142B16C9743644E5B5A810C2578702B6"><enum>608.</enum><header>Legal
fees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Any person filing a
petition seeking judicial review of any action, or failure to act, under this
Act who is not a prevailing party shall pay to the prevailing parties
(including intervening parties), other than the United States, fees and other
expenses incurred by that party in connection with the judicial review, unless
the Court finds that the position of the person was substantially justified or
that special circumstances make an award unjust.</text>
</section><section id="H5FAD5B46D82D4B9CAD3A250CA82CB557"><enum>609.</enum><header>Exclusion</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This title shall not apply with respect to
disputes between the parties to a lease issued pursuant to an authorizing
leasing statute regarding the obligations of such lease or the alleged breach
thereof.</text>
</section><section id="H879E7613272D4895B0A9C40CE3D3AEBB"><enum>610.</enum><header>Covered energy
project defined</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title,
the term <term>covered energy project</term> means any action or decision by a
Federal official regarding—</text>
<paragraph id="HD1F748F395E0431AB13DEA74465DAC03"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the leasing of
Federal lands (including submerged lands) for the exploration, development,
production, processing, or transmission of oil, natural gas, or any other
source or form of energy, including actions and decisions regarding the
selection or offering of Federal lands for such leasing; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6D3A25415D8549F8A7A4CD0A5E88226D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any action under
such a lease.</text>
</paragraph></section>