1.Short title; table of
contents
(a)This Act may be cited as the Rebuilding American Roads
Act
.
(b)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Title I—Offshore Leasing and Other Energy Provisions
Subtitle A—Offshore Leasing
Sec. 101. Leasing program considered approved.
Sec. 102. Lease sales.
Sec. 103. Seaward boundaries of States.
Sec. 104. Military operations.
Sec. 105. Coordination with Adjacent States.
Sec. 106. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas.
Sec. 107. Use of revenues.
Sec. 108. Inventory of offshore energy resources.
Sec. 109. Prohibitions on surface occupancy and other
appropriate environmental safeguards.
Subtitle B—Expedited Judicial Review
Sec. 121. Definitions.
Sec. 122. Exclusive jurisdiction over causes and claims
relating to covered oil and natural gas activities.
Sec. 123. Time for filing petition; standing.
Sec. 124. Timetable.
Sec. 125. Limitation on scope of review and relief.
Sec. 126. Presidential waiver.
Sec. 127. Legal fees.
Sec. 128. Exclusion.
Subtitle C—Other Energy Provisions
Sec. 131. Policies regarding buying and building
American.
<enum>I</enum><header>Offshore Leasing
and Other Energy Provisions</header>
<subtitle id="HA418A04C24B44611BC594713CD3BB914"><enum>A</enum><header>Offshore
Leasing</header>
<section id="H86D0C967103646D1BB398BC6810487C4"><enum>101.</enum><header>Leasing program
considered approved</header>
<subsection id="H8D9087C14CD54AA6819AEDF1B41EE392"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas
Leasing Program 2010–2015 issued 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.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD8CF9A83F3C640BFA1C0F9B5AD884840"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Final
environmental impact statement</header><text>The Secretary is considered to
have issued a 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)).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HFFBF68AC01634F30B01120B14C76D59F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Correction of
dates</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of the
Interior shall update the dates and deadlines proscribed in the program
described in subsection (a) to reflect the time that has passed between the
date the program was issued and the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H003B1453607F4EB6A5DB55AD0955DD94"><enum>102.</enum><header>Lease
sales</header>
<subsection id="H376148DF249043E682692965FA037761"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Outer
Continental Shelf</header>
</subsection><subsection id="H1CB75C36B6184680A61F3D2AF0571FEF"><enum>(b)</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 area 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>
</subsection><subsection id="H279CD386FC974C6C83BA2F52E7244DA3"><enum>(c)</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>
<paragraph id="H5F0EBA1E10174FF0BEA3E972003F4EAE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>determine whether
there is a commercial interest in purchasing Federal oil and gas leases for
production on the outer Continental Shelf in the planning area; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD4DE0AA27AD44FA0A3B095F32A77F260"><enum>(2)</enum><text>if the Secretary
determines that there is a commercial interest described in paragraph (1),
conduct a lease sale in the planning area.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H656BF2D5414E4AD0B02AC635EA0454FE"><enum>103.</enum><header>Seaward
boundaries of States</header>
<subsection id="H6E7DFFF1294147D3BA12CC224E136BE4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Seaward
boundaries</header><text>Section 4 of the Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1312)
is amended by striking <quote>three geographical miles</quote> each place it
appears and inserting <quote>9 nautical miles</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H6435AA3D57E643198D08B99504B9CEFC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendments</header><text>Section 2 of the Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1301)
is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE1955E36DDA947ECB322B414BBF8E500"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)(2), by striking <quote>three geographical miles</quote> and inserting
<quote>9 nautical miles</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H90B7D39244494823BE28EFFF2FEF5E9C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HB58BE015D34A49729196227E7AF96CE5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>three geographical miles</quote> and inserting <quote>9 nautical
miles</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2C7BB362961F4838BF6FA9F9439FFBD2"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>three marine leagues</quote> and inserting <quote>9 nautical
miles</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H97E6C62281B34573B0F72D35CD6A46F0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effect of
amendments</header>
<paragraph id="H51E17E2AB93E4564948DBE3E7A19E63F"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Subject to paragraphs (2) through (4), the amendments
made by this section shall not effect Federal oil and gas mineral rights and
should not effect the States’ current authority within existing State
boundaries.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4278D061DD374666B4318410092A8A4D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Existing
leases</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall not affect any
Federal oil and gas lease in effect on the date of enactment of this
Act.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBED17BC362F3492BA76DF0C003690793"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Taxation</header>
<subparagraph id="H1ECECB3DB0AD4EA3A0465239A1A5486B"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>A State may exercise all of the sovereign powers of
taxation of the State within the entire extent of the seaward boundaries of the
State (as extended by the amendments made by this section).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7053886C937847E495F50FE042C8218C"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>Nothing
in this paragraph affects the authority of a State to tax any Federal oil and
gas lease in effect on the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HCEEEACB8134347CA8B7A899DE20948DC"><enum>104.</enum><header>Military
operations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary shall
consult with the Secretary of Defense regarding military operations needs in
the Outer Continental Shelf. The Secretary shall work with the Secretary of
Defense to resolve any conflicts that might arise between such operations and
leasing under this title. If the Secretaries are unable to resolve all such
conflicts, any unresolved issues shall be referred by the Secretaries to the
President in a timely fashion for immediate resolution.</text>
</section><section id="HD305D3B7FF2D498CB6B0FAE72EF0E810"><enum>105.</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="H8D204DB24BD743E095EFDD33E6CC35A6"><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="HC5000FB4C86544FAB483DF5C3A283AF1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H5DC94F7ED01640F89365FA330429CE19" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H2B77895CEE17425C87D5ECE7D008A4FF"><enum>(f)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H225C737920634400A24A4E95EE735A0F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Prior to issuing a
permit or approval for the construction of a pipeline to transport crude oil,
natural gas or associated liquids production withdrawn from oil and gas leases
on the outer Continental Shelf, a Federal agency must seek the concurrence of
the Adjacent State if the pipeline is to transit the Adjacent State’s Adjacent
Zone between the outer Continental Shelf and landfall. No State may prohibit
construction of such a pipeline within its Adjacent Zone or its State waters.
However, an Adjacent State may require routing of such a pipeline to one of two
alternate landfall locations in the Adjacent State, designated by the Adjacent
State, located within 60 miles on either side of a proposed landfall
location.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6BD047A5D567498DB57F68C2D6707542" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In this subsection:</text>
<subparagraph id="HCD93B78422BF46B3A0D0E4C7214A2F62"><enum>(A)</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 subparagraph, 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>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3CBFE5AD1FC04631BDA24F076FCFBFD7"><enum>(B)</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>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H79B74CC81CC849B8A51FC7DD8D72CA9B"><enum>106.</enum><header>Gulf of Mexico
oil and gas</header>
<subsection id="HC3E964101198406C918B512EF3624F1A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Repeal</header><text>Section
104 of division C of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 (Public Law
109–432; 120 Stat. 3003) is repealed.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H97DB25B0B4C64014AAFA5B85C5C024D2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>leasing plan for
the Eastern Gulf of Mexico</header><text>Pursuant to sections 101 and 102 of
this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall issue a final leasing plan for
the Eastern Gulf of Mexico within 180 days after the date of enactment of this
Act for all areas where there exists commercial interest in purchasing Federal
oil and gas leases for production.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" id="H80791D888546413BB2FD4F36BFBD3D06"><enum>107.</enum><header>Use of
revenues</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H810964736CCC4095B0E032DB0BF4F6C9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Section 8(g) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43
U.S.C. 1337(g)) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HACC527F830B144DA86AAB6CF156719F0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)
by striking <quote>Notwithstanding</quote> and inserting <quote>Except as
provided in paragraph (6), and notwithstanding</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HF8E1D4DFE265468981CA6BD5B4F23CBA"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraphs (6) and (7) as paragraphs (7) and (8); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HFE49256D68CC4B7C85444FFCEC13FD4D"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (5) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H62A557F6A7804706A8E0ED55811E3DEA" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="HBD34392C2CE047769B434ED39227F21F"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Bonus bids,
royalties, rentals, and other sums under qualified leases</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HFFE85DE2188D43C18F232F01B5C2E653"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Of the amounts received by the United States as bonus
bids, royalties, rentals, and other sums collected under any new qualified
lease on submerged lands made available for leasing under this Act by the
enactment of the <short-title>Rebuilding American Roads
Act</short-title>—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H8A4BFB6FBEF24DF8825FC48009E393AD"><enum>(i)</enum><text>4 percent shall be
available to the Secretary of the Interior for coordination of cleanup and
inspection of tracts leased under this Act;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HC78D69A88AE24C6DBDA9860E4B2B0CC2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">$500,000,000 shall be deposited each fiscal
year into the Inland Waterways Trust Fund for maintenance and construction
along the inland waterway system; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H2ADC3922E9414121B539D84D326AD5AF"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the remainder
shall be deposited into the Highway Trust Fund and used for maintenance and
construction of highways, bridges, and tunnels.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H540A410481F44599918A3898D45B9A01"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Qualified lease
defined</header><text>In this paragraph the term <term>qualified lease</term>
means a natural gas or oil lease made available under this Act granted after
the date of the enactment of the <short-title>Rebuilding
American Roads Act</short-title>, for an area that is available for leasing as
a result of enactment of section 101 of that Act.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H38ABDFA4C0F64F5BBEF1B8C869E251D7"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Application</header><text>This
paragraph shall apply to bonus bids and royalties received by the United States
under qualified leases after implementation of sections 105 and 106 of the
<short-title>Rebuilding American Roads
Act</short-title>.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H552E39D8DA8549188B95E29682557F1F"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Existing
revenues</header><text>All revenues, including bonus bids, royalties, rentals,
and other sums, collected from leases issued under this Act prior to the
enactment <short-title>Rebuilding American Roads
Act</short-title>, shall not be affected by the provisions of that
Act.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H73C02547DD3D4C8CB71C85439C8A2750"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Establishment of
State Seaward Boundaries</header><text>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>. Such
extended lines are deemed to be as indicated on the maps for each Outer
Continental Shelf region entitled <quote>Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Region
State Adjacent Zone and Outer Continental Shelf Planning Areas</quote>,
<quote>Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region State Adjacent Zones and Outer
Continental Shelf Planning Areas</quote>, <quote>Gulf of Mexico Outer
Continental Shelf Region State Adjacent Zones and Outer Continental Shelf
Planning Areas</quote>, and <quote>Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf Region
State Adjacent Zones and Outer Continental Shelf Planning Areas</quote>, all of
which are dated September 2005 and on file in the Office of the Director,
Minerals Management Service. The preceding sentence shall not apply with
respect to the treatment under section 105 of the Gulf of Mexico Energy
Security Act of 2006 (title I of division C of Public Law 109–432) of qualified
outer Continental Shelf revenues deposited and disbursed under subsection
(a)(2) of that section.</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HF819F0BC6B794CDA85BD7CE26DBE6E70"><enum>108.</enum><header>Inventory of
offshore energy resources</header>
<subsection id="H54855C98D9F3442A8B036E00AD23040A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary of the Interior (in this section referred
to as the <quote>Secretary</quote>) shall promptly prepare an inventory of
offshore energy resources of the United States, including through conduct of
geological and geophysical explorations by private industry in all of the
United States outer Continental Shelf areas of the Atlantic Ocean and the
Pacific Ocean under part 251 of title 30, Code of Federal Regulations (or
successor regulations).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H3B56C4CB46BB4C6F9B52F781FFF12AA9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Environmental
studies</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Secretary shall complete any environmental studies necessary to
gather information essential to an accurate inventory, including geological and
geophysical explorations under part 251 of title 30, Code of Federal
Regulations (or successor regulations).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HD42B2ADF28464064A1E7C252114A8A1F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effect on oil
and gas leasing</header><text>No inventory that is conducted under this section
or any other Federal law (including regulations) shall restrict, limit, delay,
or otherwise adversely affect—</text>
<paragraph id="H8B670A37910A41CE92D24B5E37788A48"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the development of
any Outer Continental Shelf leasing program under section 18 of the Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE9674AC24D304F7A8E2EC7F3BA3B07D3"><enum>(2)</enum><text>any leasing,
exploration, development, or production of any Federal offshore oil and gas
leases.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H745ED03D9DF746AF8A6CE5B02392788E"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Funding</header>
<paragraph id="H1E24310058544FCBB6D2562540C18CD3"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Notwithstanding paragraph (6) of section 8(g) of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(g)), as amended by this Act,
the Secretary of the Treasury shall make a 1-time transfer to the Secretary,
without further appropriation and from royalties collected by the United States
in conjunction with the production of oil and gas, of such sums as are
necessary for the Secretary to carry out this section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H567B9AE40FD7482DB05311C537CDD387"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Limitation</header><text>The
amount transferred under paragraph (1) shall not exceed $50,000,000.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H16A3F7ED540E4D98A56B300CFFE80787"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Relationship to
other law</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (6) of
section 8(g) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(g)), as
amended by this Act, shall be applied with respect to amounts remaining after
the transfer required by this subsection.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H2769EA2DEC3B46879DAB7C1172BFB1D2"><enum>109.</enum><header>Prohibitions on
surface occupancy and other appropriate environmental safeguards</header>
<subsection id="HE57E710EFB9E48B4AAA80F8FECF85D3B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Regulations</header>
<paragraph id="H462E679408F342788B32BC9D7DF05241"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header>
<subparagraph id="HA01962C637E444EFADCC21F06E58C335"><enum>(A)</enum><header>environmental
safeguards</header><text>The Secretary of the Interior shall promulgate
regulations that establish appropriate environmental safeguards for the
exploration and production of oil and natural gas on the outer Continental
Shelf.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H2F227EBC0C864222BBBE682389A17D16"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Safety
protocols</header><text>All operations, including under any permit issued
pursuant to an application for a permit to drill or an application for a permit
to sidetrack, that has been approved by the Minerals Management Service or the
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, for purposes of
outer Continental Shelf energy exploration or development and production, shall
be carried out in accordance with the safety protocols contained in part 250 of
title 30, Code of Federal Regulations.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H36294B7ED2314A21AB90C58B025A3428"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>The
regulations shall include provisions ensuring that—</text>
<subparagraph id="HDE98B94E91A54D79B9C747122DA2610D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>no surface
facility shall be installed for the purpose of production of oil or gas
resources in any area that is within 10 miles from the shore of any coastal
State, in any area of the outer Continental Shelf that has not previously been
made available for oil and gas leasing;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1CC7E24581514A6995A4C0106A697A0C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>only temporary
surface facilities are installed for areas that are located—</text>
<clause id="H104BE590BAEC41A383793C7AC3F37019"><enum>(i)</enum><text>beyond 10 miles
from the shore from the shore of any coastal State, in any area of the Outer
Continental Shelf that has not previously been made available for oil and gas
leasing; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H6DC66D7E77BC484B84AD572AE0CCCBBC"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>not
more than 20 miles from the shore;</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0425A3365E9348A2A1EF3958DD585F1F"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the impact of
offshore production facilities on coastal vistas is otherwise mitigated;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H34D33E3DFD4B479E8BFF617981FA0670"><enum>(D)</enum><text>onshore facilities
that are able to draw upon the resources of the outer Continental Shelf within
10 miles of shore are allowed.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HECD35122A7E142B2810A9F2866DEC782"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>Section 105 of the Department of the Interior,
Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109–54;
119 Stat. 521) (as amended by section 103(d) of the Gulf of Mexico Energy
Security Act of 2006 (43 U.S.C. 1331 note; Public Law 109–432)) is amended by
inserting <quote>and any other area that the Secretary of the Interior may
offer for leasing, preleasing, or any related activity under section 104 of
that Act</quote> after <quote>2006)</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H0DF79BF686464BECA75FAB7EBC7619AC"><enum>B</enum><header>Expedited Judicial
Review</header>
<section id="H80A7DFCFDDA4496FB5DE353414778E71"><enum>121.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle:</text>
<paragraph id="H02024B7437BC4455863E093E7119A607"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Authorizing
leasing statute</header><text>The term <term>authorizing leasing statute</term>
means the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), the
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), the Mineral Leasing Act for
Acquired Lands (30 U.S.C. 351 et seq.), and any other law of the United States
directing or authorizing the leasing of Federal lands for oil and gas
production or transmission.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE3D847A119B24C98B4DE6C2DFD6ED74F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Covered oil and
natural gas activity</header><text>The term <term>covered oil and natural gas
activity</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1A855F6DCA2D4C5F8C2EBEBE5E1A47FE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the leasing of any
lands pursuant to an authorizing leasing statute for the exploration,
development, production, processing, or transmission of oil, natural gas, or
associated hydrocarbons, including actions or decisions relating to the
selection of which lands may or shall be made available for such leasing;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4C91DB92C1B741809B7135ABAFD9B814"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any activity taken
or proposed to be taken pursuant or in relation to such leases, including their
suspension, and any environmental analyses relating to such activity.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="HF66FB658C12B4C5EAAF5BAAA93EA1C80"><enum>122.</enum><header>Exclusive
jurisdiction over causes and claims relating to covered oil and natural gas
activities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, any Federal action approving any covered oil and
natural gas activity shall be subject to judicial review only—</text>
<paragraph id="H8428F5E90B78435BA567FB4A94C8B76A"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the United
States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8847A94F0ABA4DCC9ED5582C8DC9B5F1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>after the person
filing a petition seeking such judicial review has exhausted all available
administrative remedies with respect to such Federal action.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HE240C7E438FC428D8A7285DFFC1F7FF3"><enum>123.</enum><header>Time for filing
petition; standing</header>
<subsection id="HA8C3BAA307C348B0B9670941D6ADBC4F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>All petitions referred to in section 122 must be filed
within 30 days after the latter of the challenged Federal action or the
exhaustion of all available administrative remedies with respect to such
Federal action. A claim or challenge shall be barred unless it is filed within
the time specified.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H29DE51DDCB3343D4A0856DD08E5B041D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Standing</header><text>No
person whose legal rights will not be directly and adversely affected by the
challenged action, and who is not within the zone of interest protected by each
Act under which the challenge is brought, shall have standing to file any
petition referred to in section 122.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H5F3887EE885B4B15950CE80F446EAF96"><enum>124.</enum><header>Timetable</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit shall complete all judicial review, including
rendering a judgment, before the end of the 120-day period beginning on the
date on which a petition referred to in section 122 is filed, unless all
parties to such proceeding agree to an extension of such period.</text>
</section><section id="H7DAD13D2D7F84BD28D45E5AE0E620800"><enum>125.</enum><header>Limitation on
scope of review and relief</header>
<subsection id="H27AF811E60FD4852BC481EC2B94236B8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Administrative
findings and conclusions</header><text>In any judicial review referred to in
section 122, 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="H34894FE5A6A74405A099F131BF8C6267"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on
prospective relief</header><text>In any judicial review referred to in section
122, 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="H60B64B0E469D455096A89884E75621B7"><enum>126.</enum><header>Presidential
waiver</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the President may waive any legal requirement relating
to the approval of any covered oil and natural gas activity if the President
determines in the President’s sole discretion that such activity is important
to the national interest and outweighs such legal requirement.</text>
</section><section id="H1F1D522A87DA4B608F32F5D4FD38CC82"><enum>127.</enum><header>Legal
fees</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Any person filing a
petition referred to in section 122 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="H1981685F63E94A919265704975A96410"><enum>128.</enum><header>Exclusion</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 122 shall not apply 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></subtitle><subtitle id="HC82BE0B1AFD447DC9F098C6FA825DCAF"><enum>C</enum><header>Other Energy
Provisions</header>
<section id="HDA145B4DD0414D8B9F118D81E76B6385"><enum>131.</enum><header>Policies
regarding buying and building American</header>
<subsection id="H861F367681624DF3BB153737CB065BCF"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Intent of
congress</header><text>It is the intent of the Congress that this Act, among
other things, result in a healthy and growing American industrial,
manufacturing, transportation, and service sector employing the vast talents of
America’s workforce to assist in the development of energy from domestic
sources. Moreover, the Congress intends to monitor the deployment of personnel
and material onshore and offshore to encourage the development of American
technology and manufacturing to enable United States workers to benefit from
this Act by good jobs and careers, as well as the establishment of important
industrial facilities to support expanded access to American resources.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H27C5785B4FBF4127B63087E69A405E6A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Safeguard for
extraordinary ability</header><text>Section 30(a) of the Outer Continental
Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1356(a)) is amended in the matter preceding
paragraph (1) by striking <quote>regulations which</quote> and inserting
<quote>regulations that shall be supplemental and complimentary with and under
no circumstances a substitution for the provisions of the Constitution and laws
of the United States extended to the subsoil and seabed of the outer
Continental Shelf pursuant to section 4 of this Act, except insofar as such
laws would otherwise apply to individuals who have extraordinary ability in the
sciences, arts, education, or business, which has been demonstrated by
sustained national or international acclaim, and that</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H1919336DF688413D9845B1F1C18CD13C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Work
standards</header><text>All construction, repair, or alteration of public
buildings and public works of the Government and buildings or works financed or
otherwise assisted in whole or in part under this Act by a loan, loan
guarantee, grant, annual contribution, credit enhancement, or any other form of
Federal assistance authorized under this Act shall be performed in accordance
with the standards applicable to comparable activity under any other provision
of law, without regard to the form or type of Federal assistance provided
thereunder.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle>