[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5436 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5436

  To prohibit the Minerals Management Service from issuing permits or 
 environmental or safety waivers for any deepwater drilling rig in the 
   Gulf of Mexico until the discharge of oil from the last Deepwater 
  Horizon well has stopped and a congressional committee has issued a 
    report finding the cause of the explosion on and sinking of the 
                           Deepwater Horizon.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 27, 2010

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the Minerals Management Service from issuing permits or 
 environmental or safety waivers for any deepwater drilling rig in the 
   Gulf of Mexico until the discharge of oil from the last Deepwater 
  Horizon well has stopped and a congressional committee has issued a 
    report finding the cause of the explosion on and sinking of the 
                           Deepwater Horizon.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON ISSUANCE OF PERMITS AND WAIVERS FOR DEEPWATER 
              OIL DRILLING IN GULF OF MEXICO.

    (a) Prohibition.--The Minerals Management Service may not issue any 
permit or grant any waiver of any environmental or safety requirement 
or restriction under any Federal law for any deepwater drilling rig in 
the Gulf of Mexico before the date on which--
            (1) the discharge of oil from the last well drilled by the 
        semi-submersible drilling rig Deepwater Horizon has stopped; 
        and
            (2) a Committee of the House of Representatives or the 
        Senate has issued a report that includes a finding of the cause 
        of the explosion on and sinking of the semi-submersible 
        drilling rig Deepwater Horizon.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``deepwater drilling rig'' means an offshore 
        facility used for drilling in, exploring for, developing, or 
        producing oil in water that is greater than 1,000 feet in 
        depth; and
            (2) the term ``offshore facility'' has the meaning that 
        term has in the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et 
        seq.).
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