[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2360 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2360


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 8, 2011

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
     To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to extend the 
     Constitution, laws, and jurisdiction of the United States to 
     installations and devices attached to the seabed of the Outer 
   Continental Shelf for the production and support of production of 
  energy from sources other than oil and gas, 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 ``Providing for Our Workforce and 
Energy Resources Act'' or the ``POWER Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF CONSTITUTION, LAWS, AND JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED 
              STATES TO ENERGY FACILITIES AND DEVICES ON THE OUTER 
              CONTINENTAL SHELF.

    Section 4(a)(1) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1333(a)(1)) is amended by--
            (1) inserting ``or producing or supporting production of 
        energy from sources other than oil and gas'' after 
        ``therefrom'';
            (2) inserting ``or transmitting such energy'' after 
        ``transporting such resources''; and
            (3) inserting ``and other energy'' after ``That mineral''.

            Passed the House of Representatives December 7, 2011.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.