[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2566 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2566

To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to establish and collect fees for inspections of Outer 
         Continental Shelf facilities, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 2011

 Mr. Markey (for himself and Mr. Holt) 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 direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to establish and collect fees for inspections of Outer 
         Continental Shelf facilities, 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 ``No Free Inspections for Oil 
Companies Act''.

SEC. 2. OCS FACILITY INSPECTION FEES.

    Section 22 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1348) is amended by adding at the end of the section the following:
    ``(g) Inspection Fees.--
            ``(1) Establishment.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
        establish, by rule, and collect from the operators of 
        facilities subject to inspection under subsection (c) non-
        refundable fees for such inspections--
                    ``(A) at an aggregate level equal to the amount 
                necessary to offset the annual expenses of inspections 
                of outer Continental Shelf facilities (including mobile 
                offshore drilling units) by the Department of the 
                Interior; and
                    ``(B) using a schedule that reflects the 
                differences in complexity among the classes of 
                facilities to be inspected.
            ``(2) Ocean energy enforcement fund.--There is established 
        in the Treasury a fund, to be known as the `Ocean Energy 
        Enforcement Fund' (referred to in this subsection as the 
        `Fund'), into which shall be deposited amounts collected as 
        fees under paragraph (1) and which shall be available as 
        provided under paragraph (3).
            ``(3) Availability of fees.--Notwithstanding section 3302 
        of title 31, United States Code, all amounts collected by the 
        Secretary under this section--
                    ``(A) shall be credited as offsetting collections;
                    ``(B) shall be available for expenditure only for 
                purposes of carrying out inspections of outer 
                Continental Shelf facilities (including mobile offshore 
                drilling units) and the administration of the 
                inspection program under this section;
                    ``(C) shall be available only to the extent 
                provided for in advance in an appropriations Act; and
                    ``(D) shall remain available until expended.
            ``(4) Annual reports.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the 
                end of each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 
                2011, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on 
                Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the 
                Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
                Representatives a report on the operation of the Fund 
                during the fiscal year.
                    ``(B) Contents.--Each report shall include, for the 
                fiscal year covered by the report, the following:
                            ``(i) A statement of the amounts deposited 
                        into the Fund.
                            ``(ii) A description of the expenditures 
                        made from the Fund for the fiscal year, 
                        including the purpose of the expenditures.
                            ``(iii) Recommendations for additional 
                        authorities to fulfill the purpose of the Fund.
                            ``(iv) A statement of the balance remaining 
                        in the Fund at the end of the fiscal year.''.
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