[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5513 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5513

 To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require payment of 
royalty on all oil and gas saved, removed, sold, or discharged under a 
             lease under that Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 10, 2010

Ms. Pingree of Maine introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require payment of 
royalty on all oil and gas saved, removed, sold, or discharged under a 
             lease under that Act, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Spilled Oil Royalty Collection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF ROYALTY TO OIL THAT IS SAVED, REMOVED, SOLD, OR 
              DISCHARGED UNDER OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASES.

    (a) In General.--Section 8(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph:
    ``(9)(A) Notwithstanding the terms of any bidding otherwise 
authorized by paragraph (1) and the authority of the Secretary to 
reduce or eliminate royalty or net profit share under paragraph (3), 
any royalty under a lease under this section, other than a deepwater 
lease, shall apply to all oil that is saved, removed, sold, or 
discharged, without regard to whether any of the oil is unavoidably 
lost or used on, or for the benefit of, the lease.
    ``(B) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (3)--
            ``(i) royalty shall apply to all oil that is discharged 
        under a deepwater lease, at a rate of not less than 12\1/2\ 
        percent fixed by the Secretary in amount or value of any oil 
        that is discharged; and
            ``(ii) such royalty shall apply without regard to whether 
        any of the oil is thereafter unavoidably lost.
    ``(C) In this paragraph--
            ``(i) the term `deepwater lease' means a lease for a tract 
        in water depths of 200 meters or greater; and
            ``(ii) the term `discharged' means any emission (other than 
        natural seepage), intentional or unintentional, and includes, 
        but is not limited to, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, 
        emitting, emptying, or dumping.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect April 15, 2010.
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