1.Short title; table of
contents
(a)This Act may be cited
as the Restore America Act of
2011
.
(b)
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Title I—Energy
Sec. 100. Findings.
Subtitle A—Outer Continental Shelf
Sec. 101. Leasing program considered approved.
Sec. 102. Outer Continental Shelf lease sales.
Sec. 103. Definitions under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands
Act.
Sec. 104. Determination of Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning
Areas.
Sec. 105. Grant of leases by Secretary.
Sec. 106. Disposition of receipts.
Sec. 107. Outer Continental Shelf leasing program.
Sec. 108. Coordination with Adjacent States.
Sec. 109. Environmental studies.
Sec. 110. Seaward boundaries of States.
Sec. 111. Outer Continental Shelf incompatible use.
Sec. 112. Repurchase of certain leases.
Sec. 113. Offsite environmental mitigation.
Subtitle B—Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Sec. 121. Definitions.
Sec. 122. Leasing program for lands within the Coastal
Plain.
Sec. 123. Lease sales.
Sec. 124. Grant of leases by the Secretary.
Sec. 125. Lease terms and conditions.
Sec. 126. Coastal Plain environmental protection.
Sec. 127. Expedited judicial review.
Sec. 128. Federal and State distribution of
revenues.
Sec. 129. Rights-of-way across the Coastal Plain.
Sec. 130. Conveyance.
Sec. 131. Local government impact aid and community service
assistance.
Subtitle C—Oil shale
Sec. 141. Oil shale.
Subtitle D—Coal-to-Liquid
Sec. 151. Definitions relating to coal-to-liquid fuel and
facilities.
Sec. 152. Repeal.
Subtitle E—Nuclear
Sec. 161. Findings and policy.
Sec. 162. 200 operating permits by 2040.
Sec. 163. Repeal of Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste
Management.
Sec. 164. Radiological material repository.
Sec. 165. Independent radiological material
management.
Sec. 166. Spent nuclear fuel recycling.
Sec. 167. Nuclear fuel supply reserve.
Sec. 168. Public health and safety.
Sec. 169. Streamlining Combined Construction and Operating
License.
Sec. 170. Reactor design certification.
Sec. 171. Technology-neutral plant design
specifications.
Sec. 172. Next Generation Nuclear Plant.
Sec. 173. Uranium mining on Federal lands.
Sec. 174. Small and modular reactor licensing.
Sec. 175. Limitation on regulatory time frame.
Sec. 176. Definition.
Title II—Regulatory reform
Sec. 201. Purpose.
Sec. 202. Congressional review of agency
rulemaking.
Title III—Tax reform
Sec. 301. Reduction in corporate income tax rates.
Sec. 302. 2003 tax reductions on domestic dividends made
permanent.
Sec. 303. Small business expensing for small business made
permanent.
Sec. 304. Permanent extension of estate tax relief.
Sec. 305. Additional savings.
Title IV—Workforce investment
Sec. 401. Sense of Congress regarding the need to reauthorize
the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
<enum>I</enum><header>Energy</header>
<section id="HC9821BD7971949F4902E47100DC4D434"><enum>100.</enum><header>Findings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Congress finds the following:</text>
<paragraph id="HACEC39FAA60946B4925AE583087F2246"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The United States is blessed with abundant
energy resources on the outer Continental Shelf and has developed a
comprehensive framework of environmental laws and regulations and fostered the
development of state-of-the-art technology that allows for the responsible
development of these resources for the benefit of its citizenry.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H41E2F8BA5A004ACAA8D41CE612816E70"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Adjacent States
are required by the circumstances to commit significant resources in support of
exploration, development, and production activities for mineral resources on
the outer Continental Shelf, and it is fair and proper for a portion of the
receipts from such activities to be shared with Adjacent States and their local
coastal governments.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBB92D35153364ECE8DCE269B20F66C3C"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Development of
domestic oil and gas resources can be accomplished in a safe and
environmentally responsible manner.</text>
</paragraph></section><subtitle id="HD45BB6C059844F65B9CDD07366C38678"><enum>A</enum><header>Outer Continental
Shelf</header>
<section id="HF6AA2A9538BC4585BD57FF49DA91783A"><enum>101.</enum><header>Leasing program
considered approved</header>
<subsection id="H5096E73FD3F14DA1847AF9B5819125AE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Draft Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and
Gas Leasing Program 2010–2015 released by the Secretary of the Interior
(referred to in this section as the <quote>Secretary</quote>) in January 2009,
under section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1344">43 U.S.C. 1344</external-xref>), 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, National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Endangered Species Act of
1973, Clean Air Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, Oil Pollution Act of
1990, and all other applicable laws.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H44F12AC91E4C40689D09657B54BC158E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Final
environmental impact statement</header><text>The Secretary is considered to
have issued a legally sufficient 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)), and all other applicable laws.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" id="HFBA33197250A4F108728A727FAB55101"><enum>102.</enum><header>Outer
Continental Shelf lease sales</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H058097F21C7D4CF2A559D9061B41AF3F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as provided in subsection (b), 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 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 commented="no" id="HF7006617F91540079F4E260045DF318B"><enum>(b)</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 an area under subsection (a), not
later than 2 years after the date of such determination, and every 2 years
thereafter, the Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HE0B0D279C1454C698026D856B62FC54C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>reevaluate whether
there is commercial interest in purchasing Federal oil and gas leases for
production on the outer Continental Shelf in the area; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H903C2FE88C53463EB8D3648FBE2057FC"><enum>(2)</enum><text>if the Secretary
determines that there is a commercial interest described in paragraph (1),
conduct a lease sale in the area.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HDBD0EE5B9D314BB394E6B49AC7DFC517"><enum>103.</enum><header>Definitions
under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2 of the Outer Continental Shelf
Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1331">43 U.S.C.
1331</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H500760D9EE4F4601B7817F6066481AE8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the matter
preceding subsection (a), by striking <quote>When used in this Act—</quote> and
inserting <quote>In this Act:</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA667A7AB72B54B55A33BF8348F88FD37"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by inserting after <quote>control</quote> the following: <quote>, or lying
within the United States exclusive economic zone adjacent to the Territories of
the United States</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFE466A266B924821B2C73790F92139B0"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by amending
subsection (f) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HCAAE17FF1F754D9E8CF4A3038913A910" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H0E7B94EBAD324873897E55895E41BC4E"><enum>(f)</enum><text>The term
<term>affected State</term> means the <term>Adjacent
State</term>.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE37A698D1B504740894B29B1BFB4BE79"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking the
semicolon at the end of each of subsections (a) through (o) and inserting a
period;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7B3A6C3C4FEC4E02829775C38F5395AD"><enum>(5)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>; and</quote> at the end of subsection (p) and inserting a period;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAE02242BBD6C4763933F4A3D52869095"><enum>(6)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H84AA81F88D2646ABA0464912F5DCCD5F" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H631C9012839C441CAA8F133D753F9055"><enum>(r)</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 to which such program, plan, lease
sale, or leased tract appertains or on which such activity is, or is proposed
to be, conducted. For purposes of this paragraph, 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>
</subsection><subsection id="H06A0639DA0264580ADD81BE341449481"><enum>(s)</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>
</subsection><subsection id="H6125E9043ED94B6497B44711EDBC8EDD"><enum>(t)</enum><text>The term
<term>miles</term> means statute miles.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H3B3FD92F1AF14413BC65851234A6A400"><enum>(u)</enum><text>The term
<term>coastline</term> has the same meaning as the term <term>coast line</term>
as defined in section 2(c) of the Submerged Lands Act (43 U.S.C.
1301(c)).</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H5BD329E3B5204B8EB930459AC3112F81"><enum>104.</enum><header>Determination
of Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning Areas</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4(a)(2)(A) of the Outer Continental
Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1333">43
U.S.C. 1333(a)(2)(A)</external-xref>) 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>. The lines extending
seaward and defining each State’s Adjacent Zone, and each OCS Planning Area,
are as indicated on the maps for each outer Continental Shelf region entitled
<quote>Alaska OCS Region State Adjacent Zone and OCS Planning Areas</quote>,
<quote>Pacific OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning Areas</quote>,
<quote>Gulf of Mexico OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS Planning
Areas</quote>, and <quote>Atlantic OCS Region State Adjacent Zones and OCS
Planning Areas</quote>, all of which are dated September 2005 and on file in
the Office of the Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and
Enforcement.</quote>.</text>
</section><section commented="no" id="H29A96C523E674378BB22AC2990ABEF45"><enum>105.</enum><header>Grant of leases
by Secretary</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 8 of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1337">43 U.S.C. 1337</external-xref>) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H8D6D1B287670421D80C32FD7A95C1CCD"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by adding at the
end of subsection (b) the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H14A122A580844BA3A1C2C94B66E48A08" style="OLC">
<text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary may issue more than one lease
for a given tract if each lease applies to a separate and distinct range of
vertical depths, horizontal surface area, or a combination of the two. The
Secretary may issue regulations that the Secretary determines are necessary to
manage such leases consistent with the purposes of this
Act.</text>
<after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HD8480E20B4BF4D598DC92D65766CCF60"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by amending
subsection (p)(2)(B) to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="HACBD28829A914B028C3E23B1A21477C0" style="OLC">
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H8A7B89BA34A24FB6A9BAA95483BE14DC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The Secretary
shall provide for the payment to coastal States, and their local coastal
governments, of 75 percent of Federal receipts from projects authorized under
this section located partially or completely within the area extending seaward
of State submerged lands out to 4 marine leagues from the coastline, and the
payment to coastal States of 50 percent of the receipts from projects
completely located in the area more than 4 marine leagues from the coastline.
Payments shall be based on a formula established by the Secretary by rulemaking
no later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Restore America
Act of 2011 that provides for equitable distribution, based on proximity to the
project, among coastal States that have coastline that is located within 200
miles of the geographic center of the
project.</text>
</subparagraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HB21A533933E14CA99D1E9D258BE1A62F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H01FA8B977E2B43FC875E19FBD8E3FE20" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" id="H4890287399814379A6C15384859F0D0E"><enum>(q)</enum><header>Removal of
restrictions on joint bidding in certain areas of the outer continental
shelf</header><text>Restrictions on joint bidders shall no longer apply to
tracts located in the Alaska OCS Region. Such restrictions shall not apply to
tracts in other OCS regions determined to be <quote>frontier tracts</quote> or
otherwise <quote>high cost tracts</quote> under final regulations that shall be
published by the Secretary by not later than 365 days after the date of the
enactment of this subsection.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H7F5551CD441F40CFAA5AD96EF16EE99B"><enum>(r)</enum><header>Conservation of
resources fees</header><text>Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this subsection, the Secretary by regulation shall establish a
conservation of resources fee for nonproducing leases that will apply to new
and existing leases which shall be set at $3.75 per acre per year. This fee
shall apply from and after January 1, 2012, and shall be treated as offsetting
receipts.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HB6E5CA3DCDE9469C91C458EE3AD644D6"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (a)(3)(A) and redesignating the subsequent subparagraphs as
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H89FAC61D00084786BF335C8709425C05"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection
(a)(3)(A) (as so redesignated) by striking <quote>In the Western</quote> and
all that follows through <quote>the Secretary</quote> the first place it
appears and inserting <quote>The Secretary</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H51888675AD9B4D8CA29182B282682449"><enum>(6)</enum><text>effective January
1, 2012, in subsection (g)—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H6871B8B12B144E90883AA02C6AF5B4B5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking all
after <quote>(g)</quote>, except paragraph (3);</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H85C2F8D04C8B49A380FD4BB206D3191F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking the
last sentence of paragraph (3); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H464D1B5F84984F1394FB144C60A9D6E4"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>(3)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" id="H99B5BB63A1BB4231BC02ABA59DA3C0E8"><enum>106.</enum><header>Disposition of
receipts</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 9 of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1338">43 U.S.C. 1338</external-xref>) is
amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HB6A9AEDC289F4C28876F6B5FAF9ABC37"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by designating the
existing text as subsection (a);</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H16EC2EE010CD4DD485EDAEA28A738796"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (a)
(as so designated) by inserting <quote>, if not paid as otherwise provided in
this title</quote> after <quote>receipts</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HF5A5262D75DF4F77AB7F008A3988CBFA"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HB8BA85057B174C7E94935FCD20EEA35B" style="OLC">
<subsection commented="no" id="HB87753EBC6B84CB2ACE8CE0E5265EDED"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Treatment of OCS
Receipts From Tracts Completely Within 100 Miles of the Coastline</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H08A35EE38CBD4BA2B8753FFEB9569306"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deposit</header><text>The
Secretary shall deposit into a separate account in the Treasury the portion of
OCS Receipts for each fiscal year that will be shared under paragraphs (2),
(3), and (4).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA3A4A69559644465BD757EBAA3BFC623"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Phased-in
receipts sharing</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H3103B6ED260E4F97A4E890E7F1B6900D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Beginning January
1, 2012, the Secretary shall share OCS Receipts derived from the following
areas:</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H6D4F5A4DAB2C4D0FBDFEC8E459578F6E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Lease tracts
located on portions of the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region completely beyond 4 marine
leagues from any coastline and completely within 100 miles of any coastline
that were available for leasing under the 2002–2007 5-Year OCS Oil and Gas
Leasing Program.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H0F309A52EFED4A75B56F085017B7C052"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Lease tracts in
production prior to January 1, 2012, completely beyond 4 marine leagues from
any coastline and completely within 100 miles of any coastline located on
portions of the OCS that were not available for leasing under the 2002–2007
5-Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HA2B188E454114E568CDA3B631299C9E0"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Lease tracts for
which leases are issued prior to January 1, 2012, located in the Alaska OCS
Region completely beyond 4 marine leagues from any coastline and completely
within 100 miles of the coastline.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H091BCB812FE3485E9F9D004FE6549108"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The Secretary
shall share the following percentages of OCS Receipts from the leases described
in subparagraph (A) derived during the fiscal year indicated:</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H2FF78801B3B442C6A94BFA525228D4EE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2012, 5 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H4BFB8F827BD44F34BEB0042B2A3ED1C0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2013, 8 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HF02275EA40F54548B964FCAF4909C933"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2014, 11 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HBF6BD1FD706B4F8DA062DDC4B42CE92C"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2015, 14 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H49F5CEF41C754819B6F4B178DA976A39"><enum>(v)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2016, 17 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HA93269EA1F04480FA07F0AFCFF16F3A5"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2017, 20 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HCA8360AE0C1946C885DB23090F301139"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2018, 23 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H17E32857E065406F8ACB519923DCEA7D"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2019, 26 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HAB275BF5086F4C78953FF860C78D87B9"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2020, 29 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H4B50D7C2FAF14D72A778EEC165ECCC6C"><enum>(x)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2021, 32 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H49FD4C678AD34854A5FBCA56C1453956"><enum>(xi)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2022, 35 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H38D328E643B843A9AF948289A8BB2A4F"><enum>(xii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2023 and each subsequent fiscal year, 37.5 percent.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H64E0A0A36F3B46A29FAEA1A6E35591B3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Immediate
receipts sharing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Beginning
January 1, 2012, the Secretary shall share 37.50 percent of OCS Receipts
derived from all leases located completely beyond 4 marine leagues from any
coastline and completely within 100 miles of any coastline not included within
the provisions of paragraph (2), and the balance shall be deposited in the
Treasury.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HBC75A2258A6244C7A1C5A0A93D06589D"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Receipts sharing
from tracts within 4 marine leagues of any coastline</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H9C3CC3BD140640A39B19AAE6227CDAC8"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Areas described
in paragraph <enum-in-header>(2)</enum-in-header></header><text>Beginning
January 1, 2012, and continuing through September 30, 2013, the Secretary shall
share 25 percent of OCS Receipts derived from all leases located within 4
marine leagues from any coastline within areas described in paragraph (2). For
each fiscal year after September 30, 2013, the Secretary shall increase the
percent shared in 5 percent increments each fiscal year until the sharing rate
for all leases located within 4 marine leagues from any coastline within areas
described in paragraph (2) becomes 75 percent.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H7E781B6AE02C43F5905C8E9B57BD181E"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Areas not
described in paragraph
<enum-in-header>(2)</enum-in-header></header><text>Beginning January 1, 2012,
the Secretary shall share 75 percent of OCS receipts derived from all leases
located completely or partially within 4 marine leagues from any coastline
within areas not described paragraph (2).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA60557A9DF804AE29AF70B889C3C9545"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Allocations</header><text>The
Secretary shall allocate the OCS Receipts deposited into the separate account
established by paragraph (1) that are shared under paragraphs (2), (3), and (4)
as follows:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HF99388428F4D46BC994C79858BB58015"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Bonus
bids</header><text>Deposits derived from bonus bids from a leased tract,
including interest thereon, shall be allocated at the end of each fiscal year
to the Adjacent State.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H3BB5BBEC5C194FD9949260F6982654FE"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Royalties</header><text>Deposits
derived from royalties from a leased tract, including interest thereon, shall
be allocated at the end of each fiscal year to the Adjacent State and any other
producing State or States with a leased tract within its Adjacent Zone within
100 miles of its coastline that generated royalties during the fiscal year, if
the other producing State or States have a coastline point within 300 miles of
any portion of the leased tract, in which case the amount allocated for the
leased tract shall be—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H64B0D91B071045A398D800708AB39EF7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>one-third to the
Adjacent State; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H7D148A81B67748539F10715877DB9F32"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>two-thirds to
each producing State, including the Adjacent State, inversely proportional to
the distance between the nearest point on the coastline of the producing State
and the geographic center of the leased tract.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HD38F798B347C41739C036179A84197BA"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Treatment of OCS
Receipts From Tracts Partially or Completely Beyond 100 Miles of the
Coastline</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H287D20BA237A4A81914252560C018334"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deposit</header><text>The
Secretary shall deposit into a separate account in the Treasury the portion of
OCS Receipts for each fiscal year that will be shared under paragraphs (2) and
(3).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H385119A62B0A4D6BAF1456FACE0BDD8D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Phased-in
receipts sharing</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H54E2F242DD9B4990A65C0B63F316578A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Beginning January
1, 2012, the Secretary shall share OCS Receipts derived from the following
areas:</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H11296C0E95274EE288423804EADAFF01"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Lease tracts
located on portions of the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region partially or completely
beyond 100 miles of any coastline that were available for leasing under the
2002–2007 5-Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H926DF9594FF34C8391B3BA6B8F8F4018"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>Lease tracts in
production prior to January 1, 2012, partially or completely beyond 100 miles
of any coastline located on portions of the OCS that were not available for
leasing under the 2002–2007 5-Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H6ED0FE6F04C240D2922CBE0747CAA8F1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>Lease tracts for
which leases are issued prior to January 1, 2012, located in the Alaska OCS
Region partially or completely beyond 100 miles of the coastline.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H9C6D7CE77AB943A4A01F912F4F524290"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The Secretary
shall share the following percentages of OCS Receipts from the leases described
in subparagraph (A) derived during the fiscal year indicated:</text>
<clause commented="no" id="HD0A0FFBC818E46D4BB80F5755D144362"><enum>(i)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2012, 5 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HF632E6C2DFB846109448C32BDC617048"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2013, 8 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H6C5217EDE4444E30BEB26DE4DD81E681"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2014, 11 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H0245B2A30776448D9D6F3EFBCAF879BB"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2015, 14 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H06A1180CECCD45D08B6FB87E31D784B5"><enum>(v)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2016, 17 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HA2441DFE517A438E80BED611A672154E"><enum>(vi)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2017, 20 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HDFE5FE632F9B4B98BAAF7A372F2D70C7"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2018, 23 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HF85C7FB1AF964C47B902CDD13190EABC"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2019, 26 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H58A8EBE9743D46D0B0E954852B32C3BC"><enum>(ix)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2020, 29 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H97BB0EF9B2714EFD96A74D2FD1405D54"><enum>(x)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2021, 32 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H6E7D4C66DA1440D284610DD731AADD4A"><enum>(xi)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2022, 35 percent.</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HDBAA011710DE40C98B50F5293C0A12DE"><enum>(xii)</enum><text>For fiscal year
2023 and each subsequent fiscal year, 37.5 percent.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HDBA9CEB2AC8945349B7AAFE283EB9D72"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Immediate
receipts sharing</header><text>Beginning January 1, 2012, the Secretary shall
share 37.5 percent of OCS Receipts derived on and after January 1, 2012, from
all leases located partially or completely beyond 100 miles of any coastline
not included within the provisions of paragraph (2), except that the Secretary
shall only share 25 percent of such OCS Receipts derived from all such leases
within a State’s Adjacent Zone if no leasing is allowed within any portion of
that State’s Adjacent Zone located completely within 100 miles of any
coastline.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HC5937DADECD544AFBA1C115D8378FCF9"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Allocations</header><text>The
Secretary shall allocate the OCS Receipts deposited into the separate account
established by paragraph (1) that are shared under paragraphs (2) and (3) as
follows:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="HDC287737AA0C41B98E29804159206498"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Bonus
bids</header><text>Deposits derived from bonus bids from a leased tract,
including interest thereon, shall be allocated at the end of each fiscal year
to the Adjacent State.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H763A413BC76E4D2B9A4F7584C19FCD07"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Royalties</header><text>Deposits
derived from royalties from a leased tract, including interest thereon, shall
be allocated at the end of each fiscal year to the Adjacent State and any other
producing State or States with a leased tract within its Adjacent Zone
partially or completely beyond 100 miles of its coastline that generated
royalties during the fiscal year, if the other producing State or States have a
coastline point within 300 miles of any portion of the leased tract, in which
case the amount allocated for the leased tract shall be—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="HD03705D7D3FE49C3971ED9A674C51756"><enum>(i)</enum><text>one-third to the
Adjacent State; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HAD71F1AB06A24D2AA4EF18250FC15ED0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>two-thirds to
each producing State, including the Adjacent State, inversely proportional to
the distance between the nearest point on the coastline of the producing State
and the geographic center of the leased tract.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H995CED26469E4C42A1089295586C1EDB"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Transmission of
Allocations</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal
year, the Secretary shall transmit to each State 100 percent of such State’s
allocations under subsections (b)(5)(A), (b)(5)(B), (c)(4)(A), and (c)(4)(B)
for the immediate prior fiscal year.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H6D32DB54BB2B41F298322085C02CDF5B"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effect of future
laws</header><text>Enactment of any future Federal statute that has the effect,
as determined by the Secretary, of restricting any Federal agency from spending
appropriated funds, or otherwise preventing it from fulfilling its pre-existing
responsibilities as of the date of enactment of the statute, unless such
responsibilities have been reassigned to another Federal agency by the statute
with no prevention of performance, to issue any permit or other approval
impacting on the OCS oil and gas leasing program, or any lease issued
thereunder, or to implement any provision of this Act shall automatically
prohibit any sharing of OCS Receipts under this section directly with the
States, and their coastal political subdivisions, for the duration of the
restriction. The Secretary shall make the determination of the existence of
such restricting effects within 30 days of a petition by any outer Continental
Shelf lessee or producing State.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H814CAB9BE4724E739F5FA9B180F03827"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In
this section:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H8B1337E9951041B9B46DD51AEA4E884E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Bonus
bids</header><text>The term <term>bonus bids</term> means all funds received by
the Secretary to issue an outer Continental Shelf minerals lease.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HC8911373D3064E8A92244BF879733AE8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Royalties</header><text>The
term <term>royalties</term> means all funds received by the Secretary from
production of oil or natural gas, or the sale of production taken in-kind, from
an outer Continental Shelf minerals lease.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H3B498F4A812F4360BADFBE3D680A7243"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Producing
state</header><text>The term <term>producing State</term> means an Adjacent
State having an Adjacent Zone containing leased tracts from which OCS Receipts
were derived.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HFBA4D77BECC0431098484E195E51C003"><enum>(4)</enum><header>OCS
receipts</header><text>The term <term>OCS Receipts</term> means bonus bids,
royalties, and conservation of resources
fees.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H6C0D343CD3374E0886F52E750D31EA40"><enum>107.</enum><header>Outer
Continental Shelf leasing program</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf
Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1344">43 U.S.C.
1344</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H9DD6EC0E2CDD42A08EC8100B4CBDEFCE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a),
by adding at the end of paragraph (3) the following: <quote>The Secretary
shall, in each 5-Year Program, include lease sales that when viewed as a whole
propose to offer for oil and gas leasing at least 75 percent of the available
unleased acreage within each OCS Planning Area. Available unleased acreage is
that portion of the outer Continental Shelf that is not under lease at the time
of the proposed lease sale, and has not otherwise been made unavailable for
leasing by law.</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD58C12C1DD774877B4D78BC9E30DDB2F"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (c),
by striking so much as precedes paragraph (3) and inserting the
following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H73EF818650AC46E49875EF75F3C8D411" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H3E8A2D4A78E04123A71317BD73B55469"><enum>(c)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H95C332CEE42D438EA078457F2D568330"><enum>(1)</enum><text>During the preparation
of any proposed leasing program under this section, the Secretary shall
consider and analyze leasing throughout the entire outer Continental Shelf
without regard to any other law affecting such leasing. During this
preparation, the Secretary shall invite and consider suggestions from any
interested Federal agency, including the Attorney General, in consultation with
the Federal Trade Commission, and from the Governor of any coastal State. The
Secretary may also invite or consider any suggestions from the executive of any
local government in a coastal State that have been previously submitted to the
Governor of such State, and from any other person. Further, the Secretary shall
consult with the Secretary of Defense regarding military operational needs in
the outer Continental Shelf. The Secretary shall work with the Secretary of
Defense to resolve any conflicts that might arise regarding offering any area
of the outer Continental Shelf for oil and gas leasing. If the Secretaries are
not able to resolve all such conflicts, any unresolved issues shall be elevated
to the President for resolution.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEF19B8A4B4AD494E8A6E149B2FB57E47" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>After the consideration and analysis
required by paragraph (1), including the consideration of the suggestions
received from any interested Federal agency, the Federal Trade Commission, the
Governor of any coastal State, any local government of a coastal State, and any
other person, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a proposed
leasing program accompanied by a draft environmental impact statement prepared
pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. After the publishing
of the proposed leasing program and during the comment period provided for on
the draft environmental impact statement, the Secretary shall submit a copy of
the proposed program to the Governor of each affected State for review and
comment. The Governor may solicit comments from those executives of local
governments in the Governor’s State that the Governor, in the discretion of the
Governor, determines will be affected by the proposed program. If any comment
by such Governor is received by the Secretary at least 15 days prior to
submission to the Congress pursuant to paragraph (3) and includes a request for
any modification of such proposed program, the Secretary shall reply in
writing, granting or denying such request in whole or in part, or granting such
request in such modified form as the Secretary considers appropriate, and
stating the Secretary’s reasons therefor. All such correspondence between the
Secretary and the Governor of any affected State, together with any additional
information and data relating thereto, shall accompany such proposed program
when it is submitted to the Congress.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H613E1052342D4A7A94FF999D5E85353F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H94CCA44E5D6D4643A6ADA540D31CB7C9" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H8E21D18597EC4FB5B83D39D543A0B4FC"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Projection of
State Adjacent Zone resources and State and local government shares of OCS
receipts</header><text>Concurrent with the publication of the scoping notice at
the beginning of the development of each 5-Year Outer Continental Shelf Oil and
Gas Leasing Program, or as soon thereafter as possible, the Secretary
shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HAD97E092D66C465DBAA03666DBECF29B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>provide to each
Adjacent State a current estimate of proven and potential oil and gas resources
located within the State’s Adjacent Zone; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB93C060180C94D2C8C105A8B58415577"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provide to each
Adjacent State, and coastal political subdivisions thereof, a best efforts
projection of the OCS Receipts that the Secretary expects will be shared with
each Adjacent State, and its coastal political subdivisions, using the
assumption that the unleased tracts within the State’s Adjacent Zone are fully
made available for leasing, including long-term projected OCS Receipts. In
addition, the Secretary shall include a macroeconomic estimate of the impact of
such leasing on the national economy and each State’s economy, including
investment, jobs, revenues, personal income, and other
categories.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H0531E56941374D79B132889CECE67B24"><enum>108.</enum><header>Coordination
with Adjacent States</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
19 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1345">43 U.S.C. 1345</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HE820C44171DE470C8079907AE99801AE"><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="H99D78AA51E06420CB361CC808C278771"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="H9DE2EAB228264F22813254F3875A529A" style="OLC">
<subsection id="HB89E5F96F9F4480195D6C82FCCFAD1D7"><enum>(f)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H4D69D4E51494401F8AD547B493FE42A6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>No Federal agency may
permit or otherwise approve, without the concurrence of the Adjacent State, the
construction of a crude oil or petroleum products (or both) pipeline within the
part of the Adjacent State’s Adjacent Zone that is withdrawn from oil and gas
leasing, except that such a pipeline may be approved, without such Adjacent
State’s concurrence, to pass through such Adjacent Zone if at least 50 percent
of the production projected to be carried by the pipeline within its first 10
years of operation is from areas of the Adjacent State’s Adjacent Zone.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7F24230351174E5DA4341828ED55BBDB" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>No State may prohibit the
construction within its Adjacent Zone or its State waters of a natural gas
pipeline that will transport natural gas produced from the outer Continental
Shelf. However, an Adjacent State may prevent a proposed natural gas pipeline
landing location if it proposes two alternate landing locations in the Adjacent
State, acceptable to the Adjacent State, located within 50 miles on either side
of the proposed landing
location.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H945BEE35A7BA49A6BC21D9723E214CFE"><enum>109.</enum><header>Environmental
studies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 20(d) of the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1346">43 U.S.C. 1346(d)</external-xref>)
is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HCACAECA0DC1D4C25A50A651F086FA663"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by inserting
<quote>(1)</quote> after <quote>(d)</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H72123199405F4656902B9D481EF27780"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
<quoted-block id="HCE85E451440942AD8380FB85FF02B844" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="H9F4FAC6F24564993BBB6ACB664B42AED"><enum>(2)</enum><text>For all programs,
lease sales, leases, and actions under this Act, the following shall apply
regarding the application of the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969:</text>
<subparagraph id="H5FF853088AFD4798917946BF20F6130E"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Granting or
directing lease suspensions and the conduct of all preliminary activities on
outer Continental Shelf tracts, including seismic activities, are categorically
excluded from the need to prepare either an environmental assessment or an
environmental impact statement, and the Secretary shall not be required to
analyze whether any exceptions to a categorical exclusion apply for activities
conducted under the authority of this Act.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H127764DFEDD741009FA31EF2CC010161"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The environmental
impact statement developed in support of each 5-Year Oil and Gas Leasing
Program provides the environmental analysis for all lease sales to be conducted
under the program, and such sales shall not be subject to further environmental
analysis.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H84F9F0C4A73C467DA773B11C7E69D92B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Exploration plans
shall not be subject to any requirement to prepare an environmental impact
statement, and the Secretary may find that exploration plans are eligible for
categorical exclusion due to the impacts already being considered within an
environmental impact statement or due to mitigation measures included within
the plan.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H73278439AE43460188FE89F37AABFE8B"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Within each OCS
Planning Area, after the preparation of the first development and production
plan environmental impact statement for a leased tract within the Area, future
development and production plans for leased tracts within the Area shall only
require the preparation of an environmental assessment unless the most recent
development and production plan environmental impact statement within the Area
was finalized more than 10 years prior to the date of the approval of the plan,
in which case an environmental impact statement shall be
required.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section commented="no" id="H110BD278FD5B4B408399B7B9EDC81D3A"><enum>110.</enum><header>Seaward
boundaries of States</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 4
of the Submerged Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1312">43 U.S.C. 1312</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HFCFAA5F5C2FD486893664EE1276DD141"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the first
sentence by striking <quote>original</quote>, and in the same sentence by
striking <quote>three geographical</quote> and inserting <quote>twelve
nautical</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HE67CF4D847734243B13181C63B03F4D5"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking all
after the first sentence and inserting the following: <quote>Extension and
delineation of lateral offshore State boundaries under the provisions of this
Act shall follow the lines used to determine the Adjacent Zones of coastal
States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to the extent such lines
extend twelve nautical miles for the nearest coastline.</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H43CA05E126524447A86B3E28282EDF9A"><enum>111.</enum><header>Outer
Continental Shelf incompatible use</header>
<subsection id="H07C7F0D0AAAC4B52826E0F50D119E0FA"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>No Federal agency may permit construction or operation
(or both) of any facility, or designate or maintain a restricted transportation
corridor or operating area on the Federal outer Continental Shelf or in State
waters, that will be incompatible with, as determined by the Secretary of the
Interior, oil and gas leasing and substantially full exploration and production
of tracts that are geologically prospective for oil or natural gas (or
both).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H90D64F91B8604CD4BCEF5EA82C024112"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Exceptions</header><text>Subsection
(a) shall not apply to any facility, transportation corridor, or operating area
the construction, operation, designation, or maintenance of which is or will
be—</text>
<paragraph id="HCB030B8D00F94A31B3B362869175E025"><enum>(1)</enum><text>located in an area
of the outer Continental Shelf that is unavailable for oil and gas leasing by
operation of law;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA49664FD0F5542A893211FE6743CDB49"><enum>(2)</enum><text>used for a
military readiness activity (as defined in section 315(f) of Public Law
107–314; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/703">16 U.S.C.
703</external-xref> note); or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H278DEC03FFD042D0B4E909E49FADD57E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>required in the
national interest, as determined by the President.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H5AEB867B14674E3E8E287289A06E877E"><enum>112.</enum><header>Repurchase of
certain leases</header>
<subsection id="HE4640E9156EC4393917DB29AC8B17CC8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority To
repurchase and cancel certain leases</header><text>The Secretary of the
Interior may repurchase and cancel any Federal oil and gas, geothermal, coal,
oil shale, tar sands, or other mineral lease, whether onshore or offshore, but
not including any outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leases that were subject
to litigation in the Court of Federal Claims on January 1, 2006, if the
Secretary finds that such lease qualifies for repurchase and cancellation under
the regulations authorized by this section.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H6252E2CB4DFF4FD28DA44EB02FB54300"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Not
later than 365 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall publish a final regulation stating the conditions under which a lease
referred to in subsection (a) would qualify for repurchase and cancellation,
and the process to be followed regarding such repurchase and
cancellation.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H6F8FFB45E9034737A54B2CFB84ADED39"><enum>(c)</enum><header>No
prejudice</header><text>This section shall not be interpreted to prejudice any
other rights that the lessee would have in the absence of this section.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H675EC46244704030A750B12C5DBF0354"><enum>113.</enum><header>Offsite
environmental mitigation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
any person conducting activities under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181
et seq.), the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1001">30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.</external-xref>), the
Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/351">30 U.S.C. 351 et seq.</external-xref>), the Act of
March 1, 1911 (commonly known as the Weeks Law) (36 Stat. 961; ch. 186), the
Act of May 10, 1872 (commonly known as the General Mining Act of 1872) (17
Stat. 91; <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/22">30 U.S.C. 22
et seq.</external-xref>), the Act of July 31, 1947 (commonly known as the
Materials Act of 1947) (61 Stat. 681;
<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/601">30 U.S.C. 601 et
seq.</external-xref>), or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1331">43 U.S.C. 1331 et
seq.</external-xref>), may in satisfying any mitigation requirements associated
with such activities propose mitigation measures on a site away from the area
impacted, and the Secretary of the Interior shall accept these proposed
measures if the Secretary finds that they generally achieve the purposes for
which mitigation measures appertained.</text>
</section></subtitle><subtitle id="HE0644ABBE2264C59A6187E81742C1E45"><enum>B</enum><header>Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge</header>
<section id="HAA9947DAE0A3458B977E3565A6873901"><enum>121.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle:</text>
<paragraph id="H871557E0319F4AB881A053D90E3E3338"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Coastal
Plain</header><text>The term <term>Coastal Plain</term> means that area
described in appendix I to part 37 of title 50, Code of Federal
Regulations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H53CCD98429E548D2A54468CD1835AAC1"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The
term <term>Secretary</term>, except as otherwise provided, means the Secretary
of the Interior or the Secretary’s designee.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="H2D4CBCC52F1447F2BA3053B2DB4A18F9"><enum>122.</enum><header>Leasing program
for lands within the Coastal Plain</header>
<subsection id="H9CA673AA1338453A9B1E3080FF0DF2B6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall take such actions as are
necessary—</text>
<paragraph id="H115D7BBC53A446519FF9EA8F429C5D45"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to establish and
implement, in accordance with this subtitle and acting through the Director of
the Bureau of Land Management in consultation with the Director of the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service, a competitive oil and gas leasing program
that will result in an environmentally sound program for the exploration,
development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFE0A70DB9D2A465EB2E3B0317C80427C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to administer the
provisions of this subtitle through regulations, lease terms, conditions,
restrictions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other provisions that ensure the
oil and gas exploration, development, and production activities on the Coastal
Plain will result in no significant adverse effect on fish and wildlife, their
habitat, subsistence resources, and the environment, including, in furtherance
of this goal, by requiring the application of the best commercially available
technology for oil and gas exploration, development, and production to all
exploration, development, and production operations under this subtitle in a
manner that ensures the receipt of fair market value by the public for the
mineral resources to be leased.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H163F686D9C384294B3AB6F56DB3813D1"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repeal</header>
<paragraph id="H342EE7C67F074CB9AE5906BE66993EBF"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Repeal</header><text>Section
1003 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/3143">16 U.S.C. 3143</external-xref>) is
repealed.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA997A93D3D10434F8607D81B99C24E27"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>The table of contents in section 1 of such Act is
amended in the item relating to section 1003 by striking <quote>Prohibition on
development</quote> and inserting <quote>Repealed</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H28AF827B433D443687522DFF8BA5BBE3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Compliance with
requirements under certain other laws</header>
<paragraph id="H2F693ABA44214C029E4C9BF92A1AE375"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Compatibility</header><text>For
purposes of the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 (16
U.S.C. 668dd et seq.), the oil and gas leasing program and activities
authorized by this section in the Coastal Plain are deemed to be compatible
with the purposes for which the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was
established, and no further findings or decisions are required to implement
this determination.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H998A9449917340F0931B9CE06896A9E2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Adequacy of the
Department of the Interior’s legislative environmental impact
statement</header><text>The <quote>Final Legislative Environmental Impact
Statement</quote> (April 1987) on the Coastal Plain prepared pursuant to
section 1002 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C.
3142) and section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C.
4332(2)(C)</external-xref>) is deemed to satisfy the requirements under the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 that apply with respect to prelease
activities, including actions authorized to be taken by the Secretary to
develop and promulgate the regulations for the establishment of a leasing
program authorized by this subtitle before the conduct of the first lease
sale.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9C06774EB04A45BBB8DBE8C17EFA63F0"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Compliance with
NEPA for other actions</header><text>Before conducting the first lease sale
under this subtitle, the Secretary shall prepare an environmental impact
statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 with respect to
the actions authorized by this subtitle that are not referred to in paragraph
(2). Notwithstanding any other law, the Secretary is not required to identify
nonleasing alternative courses of action or to analyze the environmental
effects of such courses of action. The Secretary shall only identify a
preferred action for such leasing and a single leasing alternative, and analyze
the environmental effects and potential mitigation measures for those two
alternatives. The identification of the preferred action and related analysis
for the first lease sale under this subtitle shall be completed not later than
18 months after the date of enactment of this Act. The Secretary shall only
consider public comments that specifically address the Secretary’s preferred
action and that are filed within 20 days after publication of an environmental
analysis. Notwithstanding any other law, compliance with this paragraph is
deemed to satisfy all requirements for the analysis and consideration of the
environmental effects of proposed leasing under this subtitle.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7175CB810B124550B1E14AD79CA50206"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Relationship to
State and local authority</header><text>Nothing in this subtitle shall be
considered to expand or limit State or local regulatory authority.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H652E86FA7F6C45198E36710C1C475462"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Special
areas</header>
<paragraph id="H37E68848D7A04441BDEF0A8333DDFD30"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary, after consultation with the State of
Alaska, the city of Kaktovik, and the North Slope Borough, may designate up to
a total of 45,000 acres of the Coastal Plain as a Special Area if the Secretary
determines that the Special Area is of such unique character and interest so as
to require special management and regulatory protection. The Secretary shall
designate as such a Special Area the Sadlerochit Spring area, comprising
approximately 4,000 acres.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HFBA727788D5145D6A95302F7A5662BD5"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Management</header><text>Each
such Special Area shall be managed so as to protect and preserve the area’s
unique and diverse character, including its fish, wildlife, and subsistence
resource values.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0430820C52E64229B58D5D7C92499E96"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Exclusion from
leasing or surface occupancy</header><text>The Secretary may exclude any
Special Area from leasing. The Secretary may only lease a Special Area, or any
subtitle thereof, for purposes of oil and gas exploration, development,
production, or related activities, if there is no surface occupancy of the
lands comprising the Special Area.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5A39DAE88198425B814069C3A788F916"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Directional
drilling</header><text>Notwithstanding the other provisions of this subsection,
the Secretary may lease all or a portion of a Special Area under terms that
permit the use of horizontal drilling technology from sites on leases located
outside the Special Area.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H23DF618DFBC14705BBA9D8A56D1AE345"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Limitation on
closed areas</header><text>The Secretary’s sole authority to close lands within
the Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing and to exploration, development, or
production is that authority set forth in this subtitle.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HA0D9EB076317456EA38FA51FAB65E3DE"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Regulations</header>
<paragraph id="H397CAFBB938D4953A2C94358F64A8C84"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as may be
necessary to carry out this subtitle, including rules and regulations relating
to protection of the fish and wildlife, their habitat, the subsistence
resources, and the environment of the Coastal Plain, by not later than 15
months after the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5515F2EBA0B04206BF96373CF228D129"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Revision of
regulations</header><text>The Secretary shall periodically review and, if
appropriate, revise the rules and regulations issued under subsection (a) to
reflect any significant biological, environmental, or engineering data that
come to the Secretary’s attention.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HE51F972A1AAD41C2B613CAD0FCB2A577"><enum>123.</enum><header>Lease
sales</header>
<subsection id="HF8CCCDFBBD2E446299655A5280AFFEAE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Lands may be leased pursuant to this subtitle to any
person qualified to obtain a lease for deposits of oil and gas under the
Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/181">30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.</external-xref>).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H2D018A937E294508BCF73F2D4C7D2217"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Procedures</header><text>The
Secretary shall, by regulation, establish procedures for—</text>
<paragraph id="H7D8DE1BD8ADB46AC9A1E02F70FC8037D"><enum>(1)</enum><text>receipt and
consideration of sealed nominations for any area in the Coastal Plain for
inclusion in, or exclusion (as provided in subsection (c)) from, a lease
sale;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H31E78FE7784C45CABEDB54D66194B478"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the holding of
lease sales after such nomination process; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF860B8E2CCCB4E0887CCBE4CAEA03D15"><enum>(3)</enum><text>public notice of
and comment on designation of areas to be included in, or excluded from, a
lease sale.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H1E4EA0BC61A54EAA9CAF4789A50F2111"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Lease sale
bids</header><text>Bidding for leases under this subtitle shall be by sealed
competitive cash bonus bids.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HE12BED1D636F471EB1F80FA0094C196A"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Acreage minimum
in first sale</header><text>In the first lease sale under this subtitle, the
Secretary shall offer for lease those tracts the Secretary considers to have
the greatest potential for the discovery of hydrocarbons, taking into
consideration nominations received pursuant to subsection (b)(1), but in no
case less than 200,000 acres.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H5B64C81AA5F34C0A8A20CE71AA971B1B"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Timing of lease
sales</header><text>The Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H6D6072DF63CE41998F93CD066BD96CD1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>conduct the first
lease sale under this subtitle not later than 22 months after the date of the
enactment of this Act;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC1D83C4E212846BDB3C9D33D92244B3F"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">evaluate the bids in such sale and issue
leases resulting from such sale, not later than 90 days after the date of the
completion of such sale; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H08F228EE17DE494DB3853F9AE0722338"><enum>(3)</enum><text>conduct additional
sales so long as sufficient interest in development exists to warrant, in the
Secretary’s judgment, the conduct of such sales.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HAEFF9630C23C45D290D75665C170ADD9"><enum>124.</enum><header>Grant of leases
by the Secretary</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H189D52F11D3A4F5493710E85E3AE7EF6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary may grant to the highest responsible
qualified bidder in a lease sale conducted pursuant to section 123 any lands to
be leased on the Coastal Plain upon payment by the lessee of such bonus as may
be accepted by the Secretary.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H05D9D86CA52B4AC2AD7E218667DC1BBF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Subsequent
transfers</header><text>No lease issued under this subtitle may be sold,
exchanged, assigned, sublet, or otherwise transferred except with the approval
of the Secretary. Prior to any such approval, the Secretary shall consult with,
and give due consideration to the views of, the Attorney General.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H221E1530BE7A407D87A168B449E48664"><enum>125.</enum><header>Lease terms and
conditions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An oil or gas lease
issued pursuant to this subtitle shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H972C4DF231164294966935179231D6F8"><enum>(1)</enum><text>provide for the
payment of a royalty of not less than 12½ percent in amount or value of the
production removed or sold from the lease, as determined by the Secretary under
the regulations applicable to other Federal oil and gas leases;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5029707645694FEDBA2575300A6B7229"><enum>(2)</enum><text>provide that the
Secretary may close, on a seasonal basis, portions of the Coastal Plain to
exploratory drilling activities as necessary to protect caribou calving areas
and other species of fish and wildlife;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEC9C38A8182F4C138B30A09BB3A61A65"><enum>(3)</enum><text>require that the
lessee of lands within the Coastal Plain shall be fully responsible and liable
for the reclamation of lands within the Coastal Plain and any other Federal
lands that are adversely affected in connection with exploration, development,
production, or transportation activities conducted under the lease and within
the Coastal Plain by the lessee or by any of the subcontractors or agents of
the lessee;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCFABB00CEB694F0782170EBD8CF60F3D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>provide that the
lessee may not delegate or convey, by contract or otherwise, the reclamation
responsibility and liability to another person without the express written
approval of the Secretary;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2E749BDD7FFC4BA296B8B2791CC2898E"><enum>(5)</enum><text>provide that the
standard of reclamation for lands required to be reclaimed under this subtitle
shall be, as nearly as practicable, a condition capable of supporting the uses
which the lands were capable of supporting prior to any exploration,
development, or production activities, or upon application by the lessee, to a
higher or better use as approved by the Secretary;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3AD54948580A483B84C828E7D88BC0B9"><enum>(6)</enum><text>provide that the
lessee, its agents, and its contractors use best efforts to provide a fair
share, as determined by the level of obligation previously agreed to in the
1974 agreement implementing section 29 of the Federal Agreement and Grant of
Right of Way for the Operation of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, of employment and
contracting for Alaska Natives and Alaska Native Corporations from throughout
the State;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCD75D1B049564DF6BD76174CC376FFCE"><enum>(7)</enum><text>prohibit the
export of oil produced under the lease; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H40B60445617D41D0AC53F8AFFCBDCA25"><enum>(8)</enum><text>contain such other
provisions as the Secretary determines necessary to ensure compliance with the
provisions of this subtitle and the regulations issued under this
subtitle.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HB402D3FB1C654A67A8C587B53D3CC454"><enum>126.</enum><header>Coastal Plain
environmental protection</header>
<subsection id="HA01F43AE7F404930A1E676053551A905"><enum>(a)</enum><header>No significant
adverse effect standard To govern authorized Coastal Plain
activities</header><text>The Secretary shall, consistent with the requirements
of section 122, administer the provisions of this subtitle through regulations,
lease terms, conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other
provisions that—</text>
<paragraph id="H232B77E0A84B4FCA8B8CF55A9A1858C7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>ensure the oil and
gas exploration, development, and production activities on the Coastal Plain
will result in no significant adverse effect on fish and wildlife, their
habitat, and the environment;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5A60AF6416404B74996078E407617A16"><enum>(2)</enum><text>require the
application of the best commercially available technology for oil and gas
exploration, development, and production on all new exploration, development,
and production operations; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HECE161C803C0473B8BDE0EC11F73A4E6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>ensure that the
maximum amount of surface acreage covered by production and support facilities,
including airstrips and any areas covered by gravel berms or piers for support
of pipelines, does not exceed 2,000 acres on the Coastal Plain.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HD422525F95A94A858E8DF3753BFE03DF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Site-Specific
assessment and mitigation</header><text>The Secretary shall also require, with
respect to any proposed drilling and related activities, that—</text>
<paragraph id="HF3D295F289C74A2F99ABE69DE17F0222"><enum>(1)</enum><text>a
site-specific analysis be made of the possible significant adverse effects, if
any, that the drilling or related activities will have on fish and wildlife,
their habitat, subsistence resources, and the environment;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0A6867A6E63A49BA9E3140F701E4717A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>if the analysis
under paragraph (1) results in a finding that a significant adverse effect
prohibited by subsection (a)(1) is likely to occur as a result of the proposed
drilling or related activity, a plan be developed and implemented to avoid,
minimize, and mitigate (in that order and to the extent practicable) the
significant adverse effect in order to comply with such subsection; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE97E305DB0F646F485ABF2AD4B06353F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the development of
a plan under paragraph (2) shall occur after consultation with the agency or
agencies having jurisdiction over matters covered by the plan.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HEF23EEE4B7D546AE86350392F174473B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Regulations To
protect coastal plain fish and wildlife resources, subsistence users, and the
environment</header><text>Before implementing the leasing program authorized by
this subtitle, the Secretary shall prepare and promulgate regulations, lease
terms, conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, stipulations, and other measures
designed to ensure that the activities undertaken on the Coastal Plain under
this subtitle are conducted in a manner consistent with the purposes and
environmental requirements of this subtitle.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H5D6E2B1B5B9B4A0C9E22D3A7469C3555"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Compliance with
Federal and State environmental laws and other requirements</header><text>The
proposed regulations, lease terms, conditions, restrictions, prohibitions, and
stipulations for the leasing program under this subtitle shall require
compliance with all applicable provisions of Federal and State environmental
law, and shall also require the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H8E619AF0F3B7455185DE3C0537484343"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Standards at least
as effective as the safety and environmental mitigation measures set forth in
items 1 through 29 at pages 167 through 169 of the <quote>Final Legislative
Environmental Impact Statement</quote> (April 1987) on the Coastal
Plain.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9A0992B9CD9E4C5EB68BD703E11EAC23"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Seasonal
limitations on exploration, development, and related activities, where
necessary, to avoid significant adverse effects during periods of concentrated
fish and wildlife breeding, denning, nesting, spawning, and migration.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H689B1738A91A4CE7BBB2113A73DE5866"><enum>(3)</enum><text>That exploration
activities, except for surface geological studies, be limited to the period
between approximately November 1 and May 1 each year and that exploration
activities shall be supported, if necessary, by ice roads, winter trails with
adequate snow cover, ice pads, ice airstrips, and air transport methods, except
that such exploration activities may occur at other times if the Secretary
finds that such exploration will have no significant adverse effect on the fish
and wildlife, their habitat, and the environment of the Coastal Plain.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1CB0703C39CB4498BE101937C9CF665A"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Design safety and
construction standards for all pipelines and any access and service roads,
that—</text>
<subparagraph id="H95620B36BBE34618B464948D5E224822"><enum>(A)</enum><text>minimize, to the
maximum extent possible, adverse effects upon the passage of migratory species
such as caribou; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6A4A5885595A473F84F565F8843A0648"><enum>(B)</enum><text>minimize adverse
effects upon the flow of surface water by requiring the use of culverts,
bridges, and other structural devices.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3EA07BFA054448D6B500C2FEAD03669A"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Prohibitions on
general public access and use on all pipeline access and service roads.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H99EFCFAD4E5741938BFFA24D8916C5C3"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Stringent
reclamation and rehabilitation requirements, consistent with the standards set
forth in this subtitle, requiring the removal from the Coastal Plain of all oil
and gas development and production facilities, structures, and equipment upon
completion of oil and gas production operations, except that the Secretary may
exempt from the requirements of this paragraph those facilities, structures, or
equipment that the Secretary determines would assist in the management of the
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and that are donated to the United States for
that purpose.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H147C357CE57047F19FB1AACB5A1C95FB"><enum>(7)</enum><text>Appropriate
prohibitions or restrictions on access by all modes of transportation.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5A25AA621E324481BF4DB10BCB08F61F"><enum>(8)</enum><text>Appropriate
prohibitions or restrictions on sand and gravel extraction.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0958DA5497484980AA1B3ABC12C4CAB0"><enum>(9)</enum><text>Consolidation of
facility siting.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF20E7C271D8B439ABCB26647C2CB3DD5"><enum>(10)</enum><text>Appropriate
prohibitions or restrictions on use of explosives.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HDB5FBA60030C41DE802473A82F16467C"><enum>(11)</enum><text>Avoidance, to the
extent practicable, of springs, streams, and river systems; the protection of
natural surface drainage patterns, wetlands, and riparian habitats; and the
regulation of methods or techniques for developing or transporting adequate
supplies of water for exploratory drilling.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC34C613E2EA246B5953F5618F50013A2"><enum>(12)</enum><text>Avoidance or
minimization of air traffic-related disturbance to fish and wildlife.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7908AEAD972841D5AFE3DA37B4B32760"><enum>(13)</enum><text>Treatment and
disposal of hazardous and toxic wastes, solid wastes, reserve pit fluids,
drilling muds and cuttings, and domestic wastewater, including an annual waste
management report, a hazardous materials tracking system, and a prohibition on
chlorinated solvents, in accordance with applicable Federal and State
environmental law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7D0B96DB235C42578BA10FBCBA8996BB"><enum>(14)</enum><text>Fuel storage and
oil spill contingency planning.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HF667A4D5B6694E28BFC52819244EFA55"><enum>(15)</enum><text>Research,
monitoring, and reporting requirements.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H927E155698CE45739A6C3D250C62B011"><enum>(16)</enum><text>Field crew
environmental briefings.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H15FC9C5DD2A74B828C7A67114EA8C7FA"><enum>(17)</enum><text>Avoidance of
significant adverse effects upon subsistence hunting, fishing, and trapping by
subsistence users.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H26238A15AF044C10A4BAD428C9CCDB5F"><enum>(18)</enum><text>Compliance with
applicable air and water quality standards.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE85567F830FD48D084CD3A9F1F67DD56"><enum>(19)</enum><text>Appropriate
seasonal and safety zone designations around well sites, within which
subsistence hunting and trapping shall be limited.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HA64C8F041DB149198F74C060AB1122A6"><enum>(20)</enum><text>Reasonable
stipulations for protection of cultural and archeological resources.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB32BDE4B954F46158D76006E87FE1ADC"><enum>(21)</enum><text>All other
protective environmental stipulations, restrictions, terms, and conditions
deemed necessary by the Secretary.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB79811FEC41E4EAD805F7B4A3E193165"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Considerations</header><text>In
preparing and promulgating regulations, lease terms, conditions, restrictions,
prohibitions, and stipulations under this section, the Secretary shall consider
the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H136ACB52BE754D53A61062841D4D4A48"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The stipulations
and conditions that govern the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska leasing
program, as set forth in the 1999 Northeast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
Final Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental Impact Statement.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H379DB90029FC4B48A894E8B57473DEC1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The environmental
protection standards that governed the initial Coastal Plain seismic
exploration program under parts 37.31 to 37.33 of title 50, Code of Federal
Regulations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5FF0505CEE7042388167E365A5913A59"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The land use
stipulations for exploratory drilling on the KIC–ASRC private lands that are
set forth in appendix 2 of the August 9, 1983, agreement between Arctic Slope
Regional Corporation and the United States.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB85E096F92E744ADA9C019A3046BB027"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Facility
consolidation planning</header>
<paragraph id="H017890CC3C9E44BBBD8390C044762C0B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall, after providing for public notice
and comment, prepare and update periodically a plan to govern, guide, and
direct the siting and construction of facilities for the exploration,
development, production, and transportation of Coastal Plain oil and gas
resources.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4D437CB137324CB998300ADAE075CF7F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Objectives</header><text>The
plan shall have the following objectives:</text>
<subparagraph id="H11584AF76DA54CCBA0774815DC924137"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Avoiding
unnecessary duplication of facilities and activities.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE71483E6E3824DFBB836D45A0F861337"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Encouraging
consolidation of common facilities and activities.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE203C87F45054661ACCFA1DFA29DA7DE"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Locating or
confining facilities and activities to areas that will minimize impact on fish
and wildlife, their habitat, and the environment.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2C9988F67F364720A8F954BD39DEB340"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Utilizing existing
facilities wherever practicable.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA8B2D00AD5984CD5A1FA74E58413E405"><enum>(E)</enum><text>Enhancing
compatibility between wildlife values and development activities.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H69D523D19138474198BE3BEE69B8FEF5"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Access to public
lands</header><text>The Secretary shall—</text>
<paragraph id="H234BBB9F5E214BA5875F8116302E22B1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>manage public
lands in the Coastal Plain in accordance with subsections (a) and (b) of
section 811 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C.
3121); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H45B596FA13B945E3B4D2395A51A75AA9"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ensure that local
residents shall have reasonable access to public lands in the Coastal Plain for
traditional uses.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H06438D9743BA4E788E9568C46A5DF73A"><enum>127.</enum><header>Expedited
judicial review</header>
<subsection id="HFB4F7CDEB730431DA1875043212FFE86"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Filing of
complaint</header>
<paragraph id="H9846C7A1B8BC49BFAFF89A89335E165E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deadline</header><text>Subject
to paragraph (2), any complaint seeking judicial review of any provision of
this subtitle or any action of the Secretary under this subtitle shall be
filed—</text>
<subparagraph id="H313AC193BDB747BDA0132ED2B8C2B0FC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>except as provided
in subparagraph (B), within the 60-day period beginning on the date of the
action being challenged; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HBAE398F497A64C679880A6731CE6BA9F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of a
complaint based solely on grounds arising after such period, within 60 days
after the complainant knew or reasonably should have known of the grounds for
the complaint.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6AE6268EFD5F4D77A306ABCC2259F365"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Venue</header><text>Any
complaint seeking judicial review of any provision of this subtitle or any
action of the Secretary under this subtitle may be filed only in the United
States District Court for the District of Columbia.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE0A21FD3DC51454E97EE5F7D07DFE3E1"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Limitation on
scope of certain review</header><text>Judicial review of a Secretarial decision
to conduct a lease sale under this subtitle, including the environmental
analysis thereof, shall be limited to whether the Secretary has complied with
the terms of this subtitle and shall be based upon the administrative record of
that decision. The Secretary’s identification of a preferred course of action
to enable leasing to proceed and the Secretary’s analysis of environmental
effects under this subtitle shall be presumed to be correct unless shown
otherwise by clear and convincing evidence to the contrary.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H09490DA0202D42F0B404C49EBE21E223"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limitation on
other review</header><text>Actions of the Secretary with respect to which
review could have been obtained under this section shall not be subject to
judicial review in any civil or criminal proceeding for enforcement.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H3212628B51734BB688E5EDEFEE20C9BF"><enum>128.</enum><header>Federal and
State distribution of revenues</header>
<subsection id="HFEC089D09DE843F792B28217F45E94BB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the amount
of adjusted bonus, rental, and royalty revenues from Federal oil and gas
leasing and operations authorized under this subtitle—</text>
<paragraph id="HF92A50E422B4479B95FEA29D7F4762BE"><enum>(1)</enum><text>50 percent shall
be paid to the State of Alaska; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HBA93787ED52E4EA5AE5EF3CE6EE270B1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">except as provided in section 131(d), the
balance shall be deposited in the Treasury.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H03536BFD7E3F4D28A24053AEF543270A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Payments to
Alaska</header><text>Payments to the State of Alaska under this section shall
be made semiannually.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HAF10AD21EEA24AF7BCCC217A96BC5F00"><enum>129.</enum><header>Rights-of-way
across the Coastal Plain</header>
<subsection id="H9E0C68B2446D4BAFA2EEC1AF0B0A94A7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary shall issue rights-of-way and easements
across the Coastal Plain for the transportation of oil and gas—</text>
<paragraph id="H18CB953CF59C470995707170219E9CAB"><enum>(1)</enum><text>except as provided
in paragraph (2), under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/185">30 U.S.C. 185</external-xref>),
without regard to title XI of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation
Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/3161">30 U.S.C. 3161
et seq.</external-xref>); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7D9C591423084AC4A2CDD21E61CEE3FD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>under title XI of
the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/3161">30 U.S.C. 3161 et
seq.</external-xref>), for access authorized by sections 1110 and 1111 of that
Act (16 U.S.C. 3170 and 3171).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF7E1404A0F854CE4B77209F3A11799EB"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Terms and
conditions</header><text>The Secretary shall include in any right-of-way or
easement issued under subsection (a) such terms and conditions as may be
necessary to ensure that transportation of oil and gas does not result in a
significant adverse effect on the fish and wildlife, subsistence resources,
their habitat, and the environment of the Coastal Plain, including requirements
that facilities be sited or designed so as to avoid unnecessary duplication of
roads and pipelines.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HF817A41FA1084BA29114C9B03DFCCD8D"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The
Secretary shall include in regulations under section 122(g) provisions
regarding the granting of rights-of-way and easements described in subsection
(a) of this section.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H0B61AFC2016F4CB7B7540FA1963A7FAC"><enum>130.</enum><header>Conveyance</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In order to maximize Federal revenues by
removing clouds on title to lands and clarifying land ownership patterns within
the Coastal Plain, the Secretary, notwithstanding the provisions of section
1302(h)(2) of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C.
3192(h)(2)), shall convey—</text>
<paragraph id="H9B8671F8B86347BB8EE06B8C66923D4C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>to the Kaktovik
Inupiat Corporation the surface estate of the lands described in paragraph 1 of
Public Land Order 6959, to the extent necessary to fulfill the Corporation’s
entitlement under sections 12 and 14 of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
(43 U.S.C. 1611 and 1613) in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
Agreement between the Department of the Interior, the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Kaktovik Inupiat
Corporation effective January 22, 1993; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6FFBA36B1D3248A682D29645357BB643"><enum>(2)</enum><text>to the Arctic
Slope Regional Corporation the remaining subsurface estate to which it is
entitled pursuant to the August 9, 1983, agreement between the Arctic Slope
Regional Corporation and the United States of America.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HC16A64455EEF4666A068CCCECDA7B958"><enum>131.</enum><header>Local
government impact aid and community service assistance</header>
<subsection id="HE48F21D78E9B42A6B51650F4A7434113"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Financial
assistance authorized</header>
<paragraph id="H01AA11C10631442F87B449033BA92292"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The Secretary may use amounts available from the Coastal
Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund established by subsection (d)
to provide timely financial assistance to entities that are eligible under
paragraph (2) and that are directly impacted by the exploration for or
production of oil and gas on the Coastal Plain under this subtitle.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H639FAF6C1275456B8A960BDBAA5FE6E3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible
entities</header><text>The North Slope Borough, the city of Kaktovik, and any
other borough, municipal subdivision, village, or other community in the State
of Alaska that is directly impacted by exploration for, or the production of,
oil or gas on the Coastal Plain under this subtitle, as determined by the
Secretary, shall be eligible for financial assistance under this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE8B6B5DD573A44AA94A5EFDE8CB75C85"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Use of
assistance</header><text>Financial assistance under this section may be used
only for—</text>
<paragraph id="H21F6B84F80454A2B96485509AAEC4602"><enum>(1)</enum><text>planning for
mitigation of the potential effects of oil and gas exploration and development
on environmental, social, cultural, recreational, and subsistence
values;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1DD85162F6924A1CBB08C48EDEFAD4AB"><enum>(2)</enum><text>implementing
mitigation plans and maintaining mitigation projects;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE70669C49DA5424C97CF67198E8E3901"><enum>(3)</enum><text>developing,
carrying out, and maintaining projects and programs that provide new or
expanded public facilities and services to address needs and problems
associated with such effects, including firefighting, police, water, waste
treatment, medivac, and medical services; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H2A7EE56DE7B4471D94EDA4817E970D57"><enum>(4)</enum><text>establishment of a
coordination office, by the North Slope Borough, in the city of Kaktovik, which
shall—</text>
<subparagraph id="H03E9CFC6FE7C47B9AFF4621A03556D8D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>coordinate with
and advise developers on local conditions, impact, and history of the areas
utilized for development; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE31DCAB414DA45079B69F8CDFEED79F4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provide to the
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate an annual report on the
status of coordination between developers and the communities affected by
development.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HF77566C325494F33B1F1B48AEDEF497B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Application</header>
<paragraph id="HCEA23F258B6248A899F72B87C6F1446D"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Any community that is eligible for assistance under this
section may submit an application for such assistance to the Secretary, in such
form and under such procedures as the Secretary may prescribe by
regulation.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H94CBD732112943019CC64E9D2801725B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>North Slope
Borough communities</header><text>A community located in the North Slope
Borough may apply for assistance under this section either directly to the
Secretary or through the North Slope Borough.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1C1CDDE1784B4857ACAEB9301B95A7DA"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application
assistance</header><text>The Secretary shall work closely with and assist the
North Slope Borough and other communities eligible for assistance under this
section in developing and submitting applications for assistance under this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H810187FA39D74E58B8C3A2592671259D"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Establishment of
fund</header>
<paragraph id="H57ABE7194CB143E09C29E65D2185F897"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>There is established in the Treasury the Coastal Plain
Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1EC79C522A574D0A9490AC7FE4A73F6E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Use</header><text>Amounts
in the fund may be used only for providing financial assistance under this
section.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA913A9D7E99745BB8A3D129FDCD64EEC"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Deposits</header><text>Subject
to paragraph (4), there shall be deposited into the fund amounts received by
the United States as revenues derived from adjusted bonus, rental, and royalty
revenues from Federal oil and gas leasing and operations authorized under this
subtitle.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC818E5223BB14BCCB698AA8F2D470C85"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Limitation on
deposits</header><text>The total amount in the fund may not exceed
$11,000,000.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0F949E16C0394100BE5E5073051CE738"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Investment of
balances</header><text>The Secretary of the Treasury shall invest amounts in
the fund in interest-bearing government securities.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H0581530FC5A34211AEF852C88B0DA0E8"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Authorization of
appropriations</header><text>To provide financial assistance under this
section, there is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary from the
Coastal Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund $5,000,000 for each
fiscal year.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="HD5C2576DEDB248EC97DB2E0164A9B8B0"><enum>C</enum><header>Oil shale</header>
<section id="HEDE035171DDC4FD1A1CBA4542CDD5266"><enum>141.</enum><header>Oil
shale</header>
<subsection id="H9B900CB7DB2448228543B9494A7CAC80"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Congress finds the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H608DCFBE5C724EE1BDBE78A17BB3C907"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale
Reserves at the Department of Energy has estimated that oil shale resources
located on Federal lands hold 2 trillion undiscovered technically recoverable
barrels of oil.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H074753588AB44E5490E0E888B3235FBD"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Oil shale is a
strategically important domestic resource that should be developed to reduce
the growing dependence of the United States on politically and economically
unstable sources of foreign oil imports.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8D8FDE4936814F3C8EAAE174233E569F"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The development of
oil shale for research and commercial development should be conducted in an
environmentally sound manner, using practices that minimize impacts.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H569F7BE6B5B4488288FE428686B54AC7"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Development of
such strategic unconventional fuel should occur, with an emphasis on
sustainability, to benefit the United States while taking into account affected
States and communities.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H365CF173B6A3444CA2142BBACB44F820"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Oil shale is one
of the best resources available for advancing American technology and creating
American jobs.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HD42807BE527E42E29A53D13187238DE9"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Oil shale will be
a critically important component of the Nation’s transportation fuel sector in
particular, by providing a secure domestic source of aviation fuel for both
commercial and military uses.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H13A7534DB7D94EAAAE9CE55B9F50A6E2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Additional
research and development lease sales</header><text>The Secretary of the
Interior shall hold a lease sale not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act offering an additional 10 parcels for lease for research,
development, and demonstration of oil shale resources, under the terms offered
in the solicitation of bids for such leases published on January 15, 2009 (74
Fed. Reg. 2611).</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H53C1270F405C423B80F34F9D33C905E8"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Application of
regulations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The oil shale
management final rules published by the Department of the Interior on November
18, 2008 (73 Fed. Reg. 69414), shall apply to all commercial leasing for the
management of federally owned oil shale, and any associated minerals, located
on Federal lands.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H27E7087D745F4ED694BAF06E2A8F730D"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Reduced payments
To ensure production</header><text>The Secretary of the Interior may
temporarily reduce royalties, fees, rentals, bonus bids, or other payments for
leases of Federal lands for the development and production of oil shale
resources as necessary to give incentives for and encourage development of such
resources, if the Secretary determines that the royalties, fees, rentals, bonus
bids, and other payments otherwise authorized by law are hindering production
of such resources.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="H43EF07BBF45F476C94C679518D15050B"><enum>D</enum><header>Coal-to-Liquid</header>
<section commented="no" id="H282837A508524184B9F8DB1F5BDC3975"><enum>151.</enum><header>Definitions
relating to coal-to-liquid fuel and facilities</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For purposes of this subtitle:</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HE2092A5E65F64627BC018606ED83CC39"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Coal-to-liquid
fuel</header><text>The term <term>coal-to-liquid fuel</term> means any
transportation-grade liquid fuel derived primarily from coal (including
peat).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H818A1284CABB4A86AE6EAE6BFBACBE0B"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Qualified
coal-to-liquid facility</header><text>The term <term>qualified coal-to-liquid
facility</term> means a manufacturing facility that has the capacity to produce
at least 10,000 barrels per day of coal-to-liquid fuel from a feedstock that is
primarily domestic coal (including peat and any property which allows for the
capture, transportation, or sequestration of byproducts resulting from such
process, including carbon emissions).</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="HEC11329EF31B4ADC9226456E7BFB465E"><enum>152.</enum><header>Repeal</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 526 of the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2007 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/17142">42 U.S.C. 17142</external-xref>) is
repealed.</text>
</section></subtitle><subtitle id="H603CDE522D154F2B97A2CBCEC4ED6633"><enum>E</enum><header>Nuclear</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8E05DA9F68F24A39B1E8BFD05BDB5448"><enum>161.</enum><header>Findings and
policy</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H90BB8F1282344646A081E08258710E49"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Findings</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Congress finds that—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H81F916DE361A46B49D33A7D53E4855BC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>nuclear power is a
safe, reliable, efficient, and affordable source of energy;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HD3FCD1A2E625401B97D728C51054534D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>there are 104
nuclear reactors currently operating in the United States, providing 20 percent
of the electricity of the United States, slightly less than the electricity
generated by natural gas;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HEE16F0A48CC04C9B962D8A00F0474922"><enum>(3)</enum><text>nuclear power
plants virtually eliminate emissions of greenhouse gases and criteria
pollutants associated with acid rain, smog, or ozone;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HEC46ABE166AA496BB9D0D16FAF12AC70"><enum>(4)</enum><text>long lead times
for nuclear power plant licensing, permitting, and construction indicate that
action to stimulate the nuclear power industry should not be delayed;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H5EC0AED594134E819DEB81583D34A1E5"><enum>(5)</enum><text>there are 17
combined operating license applications currently pending before the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission for 26 new reactors in the United States, with 4
applications inactive due to regulatory uncertainty;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H07D115E579524579B9459CE6AB0392FF"><enum>(6)</enum><text>increasing nuclear
power threefold will create 480,000 construction jobs, 140,000 permanent jobs,
and $20,000,000,000 in local, State, and Federal tax revenue each year;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H876D37426C9F4BAB960205371C23BC92"><enum>(7)</enum><text>increasing nuclear
power threefold will produce 320 gigawatts of electricity to power 237,000,000
households and constitute 52 percent of the United States electricity portfolio
by 2030;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HFCB30D0D26824E82B0910603512D286B"><enum>(8)</enum><text>the Nuclear Waste
Policy Act of 1982 requires the Federal Government to take ownership of
high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel and build a permanent
geologic repository in which to store this waste;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H9BD6476A681246748F1BB6C8CCDF5233"><enum>(9)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, as
amended in 1987, selected the Yucca Mountain site to be the sole geologic
repository in which to store high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear
fuel;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H837A6AD28DB640B0B3E0856650519B8B"><enum>(10)</enum><text>the Congress
reaffirmed Yucca Mountain as the sole candidate site for a geologic repository
in 2001;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HC545D57CD2C64B7B93940049015A04DB"><enum>(11)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">despite the foregoing laws, the Government
has failed to accept high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel from
utilities and has delayed construction of the Yucca Mountain repository;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H26DB80ECAEC247E3A055996E65009C5A"><enum>(12)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the failure of the Federal Government to
accept high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel from utilities is a
significant barrier to the future development of additional nuclear
power.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HFEE93B5DA6D543628B7A680D916BD021"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Statement of
policy</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">It is the policy of
the United States, given the importance of making a transition to a clean
energy, low-carbon economy, to facilitate the continued development and growth
of a safe and clean nuclear energy industry through reductions in financial,
regulatory, and technical barriers to construction and operation.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" id="H94E886C9F1B441F39ECBA211214BF70C"><enum>162.</enum><header>200 operating
permits by 2040</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Subject to the
requirements of this subtitle and in accordance with existing law, the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission shall issue operating permits for 200 new commercial
nuclear reactors, enough to triple current megawatt capacity, by 2040, if there
are a sufficient number of qualified applicants.</text>
</section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H23D79A5D3C524F758F993483AD4A24D3" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>163.</enum><header>Repeal of Office of
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 304 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act
of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10224">42 U.S.C.
10224</external-xref>) is repealed.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA1257A33A11E409EB465BB277854B897" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>164.</enum><header>Radiological
material repository</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H15F8D1DEFC774A22BB7FC3C80778B4B4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Repository
required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Federal
Government shall site and permit at least one radiological material geologic
repository for the disposal of radiological material.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HBE69852D3BEB4D5C87014158629AB222"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Yucca
Mountain</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H97CC300EF05249418E77CCD7C549FA11"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>The repository site at Yucca Mountain shall remain the
site for the Nation’s radiological material repository unless it is determined
unsuitable, based on technical and scientific analysis, by the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission following full statutory review of the Department of
Energy’s license application to construct the Yucca Mountain repository.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H5AEC724F707448BFB7FC6FA08CC8E6A9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Application</header><text>The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall continue to review the Department of
Energy’s pending license application to construct the repository at Yucca
Mountain until a determination is made on the merits of the application.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H8F998310A0BF4B02B4D204CDA651542C"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Deadlines</header>
<subparagraph id="H24058C2494A44483BF610DCAA5F25A30"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Suitability
determination</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the enactment of this
Act, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall make a determination regarding the
suitability of Yucca Mountain under paragraph (1).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H984BBB316E7E4875B646443A11D93509"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Action on
application</header><text>Not later than 180 days after the enactment of this
Act, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall approve or deny the application
under paragraph (2).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H5743730508F2468EB94737F1FD122D51"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Limitations on
amount of radiological material</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All statutory limitations on the amount of
radiological material that can be placed in Yucca Mountain are hereby removed
and shall be replaced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with new limits
based on scientific and technical analysis of the full capacity of Yucca
Mountain for the storage of radiological material.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H75458C7E20D740D39B728587D8709D08"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Alternative
repository</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H0D4023FC783A40D095DB14DA5C6D3305"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Should the Nuclear Regulatory Commission determine under
subsection (b) that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable location to place a
radiological material repository, the Secretary shall be responsible for, not
later than 1 year after the date on which such determination is made, locating
and submitting an application for an alternative geologic repository that
provides at least 120,000 tons of storage capacity.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HFDA29F4683EE422A85D97CD530BBC6B6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Action on
application</header><text>Not later than 2 years after the date on which an
application is submitted under paragraph (1) or (3), the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission shall approve or deny such application.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HE00CE295DAD8446FB010F6A814912456"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Further
application submissions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If an
application is denied under paragraph (2), the Secretary shall submit a new
application in accordance with paragraph (1) not later than 1 year after the
date of such denial.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HB222E4B290AC428493EE4B74A15CD303"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>For
the purposes of this subtitle and the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42
U.S.C. 10101 et seq.), an alternative repository permitted under this
subsection shall be subject to the same requirements as Yucca Mountain.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H31C1B35258CC4DDF8BD89AD135584450" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>165.</enum><header>Independent
radiological material management</header>
<subsection id="HB39F8ABEF1FE4ECD81A1B08E7DD627AC"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to Congress a
report regarding the following:</text>
<paragraph id="H1ABD2F60435F4C85A432C971406F643B"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The feasibility of
establishing an independent radiological material management program that would
meet the guidelines in subsection (b).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCDAB234860FA4D01A4B95D571249638A"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Legislative and regulatory action necessary
to phase out the fee structure contained in section 302 of the Nuclear Waste
Policy Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10222">42 U.S.C. 10222</external-xref>) in order to allow
a fee structure described in subsection (b)(5)(F) to be implemented if a
program meeting the guidelines in subsection (b) is established.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB0DD69A6762343748981068EB2D2A87A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Guidelines</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H7B96076CE4D947CF826EA23DE7EC773A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Under a program
established in accordance with this subsection, the Secretary may award a
contract, based on a competitive bidding process, to an eligible entity to
manage the Nation’s activities related to one or more radiological material
repositories.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H7E3A97FA6B264BEC891E6E08DB2651EF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligible
entity</header><text>For the purposes of this subsection, the term
<term>eligible entity</term> means a non-Federal organization that demonstrates
the ability to meet the requirements of a program established in accordance
with this subsection.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HFCAEF2356AB44401A957BAE26E1E18E5"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application
contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may
require an eligible entity seeking to be awarded a contract under a program
established in accordance with this subsection to submit to the Secretary an
application containing the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H1AAFD49F34FC4ED0B7063DD984DD89D9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>A complete
description of the fee structure the eligible entity will use to fund the
maintenance and operation of repositories, in accordance with paragraph
(5)(F).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H6518CB3D515A4A1CA49820314367BA1C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Such other
materials as the Secretary may require.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H935A0C5DA3AF4955AF8690DD7A5568DF"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Transfer of
control</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may
transfer to an eligible entity awarded a contract under a program established
in accordance with this subsection control and ownership of all Nuclear
Regulatory Commission-issued licenses, allowances, and responsibilities
necessary for the operation of the nuclear materials repository at Yucca
Mountain.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H1E8E270B62F04615AE1DFFCA3B440F88"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Responsibilities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may require an eligible
entity awarded a contract under a program established in accordance with this
subsection to be responsible for the following:</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H59A92F0C1C3249FFA6EF5E874978865D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Providing
technical and other information to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as it
reviews the Department of Energy’s permit application for the Yucca Mountain
repository.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H34678EB28EE6480D93237FF9B89F6513"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Seeking all other
necessary regulatory approvals and permits to construct and operate the Yucca
Mountain repository.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H646FF34579F74F0BBA4452F70C10656C"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Managing construction of one or more
radiological material repositories upon Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval,
including conducting all necessary design and engineering work to support
construction of the repository.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HEBF4BA8D5F0F431D84988ED8B680EEB8"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Radiological material repository
operations.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H98686807054445C6862E82B7F3C00D42"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Undertaking all infrastructure activities
necessary to support the construction or operation of the repository or
transportation to the site of radiological material, including—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H48513D8D05A845ACBBEA870607DB4CA2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>safety
upgrades;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="HB2E078AF115A4219A00C1153A6840177"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>site
preparation;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H67828EFE885443509E26870F817E1DC3"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>construction of
a rail line to connect the repository site with the national rail network,
including any facilities to facilitate rail operations; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H01989F0F9F8A40BB8D58A3EE11208215"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>construction,
upgrade, acquisition, or operation of electrical grids or facilities, other
utilities, communication facilities, access roads, rail lines, and nonnuclear
support facilities.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H0770A59B004D493C9962BA7E1D86737F"><enum>(F)</enum><text>Creating a fee
structure for the geologic storage of radiological material. The fees may not
exceed the amount necessary to maintain and operate repositories and shall be
the primary mechanism for accessing repositories, and in setting the fees the
eligible entity shall take into consideration multiple variables,
including—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H479312484A8C40F18D10AB7E97D294A6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>volume;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H0B732962C2424C179B12AAB420371AE6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>toxicity;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H57EDCD00179743878FCA890462E3A944"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>heat load;
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H53F5B46907CA46E9BC3C095F93CFE175"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>repository
operation costs.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H173C53F8FE694AC1985622245AAC1FC5"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Congressional
authorization required</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The
Secretary may not establish an independent radiological material management
program under this section unless authorized by a law enacted after the date of
enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" id="H9295B2C6A9C64D948F8B1B0B38E0F495"><enum>166.</enum><header>Spent nuclear
fuel recycling</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="HCE6E4428D02B4935BC324C5D26FCB790"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Prohibition</header><text>The
President is prohibited from blocking or hindering spent nuclear fuel recycling
activities.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H97E7976D7FD5444D87789FA6A70371B2"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Rulemaking for
licensing of spent nuclear fuel recycling facilities</header><text>Not later
than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall complete a rulemaking establishing a
process for the licensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, under the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, of facilities for the recycling of spent nuclear
fuel.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HC67D3428F93649C0805FB99346856058"><enum>167.</enum><header>Nuclear fuel
supply reserve</header>
<subsection id="H5154E53D7B95403CA7FAC1BBE5684C2B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Inventory</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary of Energy shall conduct an
inventory of all materials owned by the Department of Energy that could, either
without or with further processing, be used to power commercial nuclear
reactors.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H934E21C0E1E44B5AB5BD16C19BEBCB02"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Establishment of
reserve</header><text>The Secretary shall establish a nuclear fuel supply
reserve consisting of materials identified as available for such purposes from
the inventory conducted under subsection (a). The Secretary shall establish
appropriate procedures to ensure that the reserve can protect United States
energy producers from shortages of nuclear fuel.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HF0F924882DB545AFA51B048E7A4C11D4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Plan</header><text>The
Secretary shall transmit to the Congress a long-term plan for introducing
nuclear fuel supplies from the reserve into the market.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H2F871659836E481FAF575BB884BF9522" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>168.</enum><header>Public health and
safety</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Nothing in this
subtitle shall supersede, mitigate, detract from, or in any way decrease the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s ability to maintain the highest possible levels
of public health and safety standards, consistent with the provisions of the
Atomic Energy Act of 1954. No authority granted by this subtitle shall be
executed in a manner that jeopardizes, minimizes, reduces, or lessens public
health and safety standards.</text>
</section><section id="HE4929521957044AF9A4CF087662093DC"><enum>169.</enum><header>Streamlining
Combined Construction and Operating License</header>
<subsection id="HA24BB251FF7A411A9964ABCD359C3E40"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Nuclear
Regulatory Commission shall establish and implement an expedited procedure for
issuing a Combined Construction and Operating License.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HFB42D0D425CA4CB7AC5280063F058718"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Qualifications</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To qualify for the expedited procedure
under this section, an applicant shall—</text>
<paragraph id="HA2585538AD63489E9379344ADAED6B51"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">apply for construction of a reactor based
on a design certified (or provisionally certified under section 170) by the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4DD92A4CA3794358BBC6089CBA0BC572"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">construct the new reactor on or adjacent to
a site where an operating nuclear power plant already exists;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEF92D13DECDA4FF29EFA9911032E9AC5"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not be subject to a Nuclear Regulatory
Commission order to modify, suspend, or revoke a license under section 2.202 of
title 10, Code of Federal Regulations; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HCAC63AD406A34D718410B1DD10FE6916"><enum>(4)</enum><text>submit a complete
Combined Construction and Operating License application that is docketed by the
Commission.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H68918BA55A924A018118807926EA9792"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Expedited
procedure</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to a
license for which the applicant has satisfied the requirements of subsection
(b) and seeks expedited consideration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall
follow the following procedures:</text>
<paragraph id="HD20B0DD365874F53B1A52E4DA5CC5740"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Undertake an
expedited environmental review process and issue a draft environmental impact
statement not later than 12 months after the application is accepted for
docketing.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HEC0298955D5C4123B6C56FF595FC3291"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Begin public
licensing hearings when a draft environmental impact statement has been issued,
and complete any such hearings and related processes not later than 24 months
after accepting for docketing the expedited Combined Construction and Operating
License application.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H98CD8CD7F7584DD6BE95BFEB9CF38569"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Complete the
technical review process and issue the Safety Evaluation Report and the final
environmental impact statement not later than 18 months after the application
is accepted for docketing.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H78C6B2A942374FE793C65D541E5A6F8D"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Make a final
decision on whether to issue the Combined Construction and Operating License
not later than 25 months after docketing the application.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H3B14A62EDB8A4C168AABC098812AB860"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Goals</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission shall present recommendations to Congress not later than 90 days
after the date of enactment of this Act for procedures that would further
facilitate the licensing of new nuclear reactors in a timely manner.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H1E68006C6BBD4A14886EA115CFE736DA"><enum>170.</enum><header>Reactor design
certification</header>
<subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE6422CE8B9254282BF6E79FD0C04807F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Provisional
certification</header>
<paragraph id="H58CA472E0F9E4E468F40176662E864BE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may
provide to an applicant a provisional certification of a proposed nuclear
reactor design.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H3DC15C0F74C94024A0510CAF33F5E676"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Effect of
provisional certification</header><text>Approval of a provisional design
certification under this subsection shall not eliminate, reduce, or otherwise
affect any requirement for reactor design approval or certification by the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any other agency under Federal law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H4EAEA4DC6B3649D3B0226AD3470B4568"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Timing</header>
<subparagraph id="H0D2B88CC8CF44BB88331B63C5DBD7376"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in
subparagraph (B), a provisional certification shall be provided or denied under
this subsection not later than 60 days after the date of application
therefor.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3A20E55C4FFF410B9B17CA296A67C86A"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Extension</header><text>The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission may extend the time period under subparagraph (A)
for an additional 30 days if necessary to enable certification.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC59564BEBBCE4F5CB1BB96CA44269657"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Criteria</header><text>In
determining whether to approve a provisional certification application under
this subsection, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall consider whether the
proposed design—</text>
<subparagraph id="H90A02E8CC95D4276BA78BEC3CBB280A0"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is based on existing and commercially
proven technology;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H93AC647E91C745299CDF0F2F2177AFDD"><enum>(B)</enum><text>has been approved
by internationally recognized regulators; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB40A728A9D1943BB9327410C7024E41B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>is safely
operating or under construction in other nations.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HDD4DA76203D447738FA9B40B930C6C13"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Supplemental
information</header><text>An application for provisional certification under
this subsection may include supplemental information provided by potential
future applicants for approval of the same or a similar design.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H95F753C3B25A4263A7CF2C4DDE775751"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Expedited
certification process</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not
later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Chairman of
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall develop and submit to the Congress an
expedited process for certifying reactor designs, including those designs under
consideration for certification by the Commission on the date of enactment of
this Act, that significantly reduces the time necessary to achieve such
certification.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H2A4F51C2BCBF4BBFBEB72205F76DB1E3"><enum>171.</enum><header>Technology-neutral
plant design specifications</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Not later than one year after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall
submit to the Congress a report regarding recommendations for the development
of technology-neutral plant design specifications.</text>
</section><section id="H994F5171B6D840748D2C305B71AA9888"><enum>172.</enum><header>Next Generation
Nuclear Plant</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary of
Energy and the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall review the
Next Generation Nuclear Plant Licensing Strategy report submitted to Congress
in August 2008, as required by section 644 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42
U.S.C. 16024), with the purpose of reevaluating and significantly accelerating
the Next Generation Nuclear Power Plant schedule. Not later than 180 days after
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a
report including a revised schedule and funding requirements that would allow
for program completion as near as is possible to the date that is 5 years after
the date of enactment of this Act.</text>
</section><section id="HAC76E4DB0BD84B16BBD70C8E089CAEEA"><enum>173.</enum><header>Uranium mining
on Federal lands</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Secretary
of the Interior may not use the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976
(<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1701">43 U.S.C. 1701 et
seq.</external-xref>) to prevent uranium mining from taking place on Federal
lands unless the Secretary makes findings explaining the reason for such
prevention. No Federal agency may collect additional leasing fees that have not
been authorized to be collected before the date of enactment of this Act to
mine uranium on Federal lands. Any fees collected in association with
commercial uranium mining on Federal lands that should be applied for
remediation purposes shall only be applied to the remediation of sites that
incurred damage as a result of commercial nuclear activities. Such fees shall
not be applied to the remediation of any sites that incurred damage as a result
of Government or Government-sponsored activities.</text>
</section><section id="H48B78EFFCABA4A1399AC4F3F72657755"><enum>174.</enum><header>Small and
modular reactor licensing</header>
<subsection id="HE8679C0274BD4A76A81087F004643973"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Report</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall
transmit to the Congress a report containing recommendations, including the
personnel and resource requirements necessary to implement the recommendations,
for streamlined licensing procedures for small and modular nuclear
reactors.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H7568D0D88B9E4D2A89A6305401FB04C5"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>Not
later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Chairman of
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall promulgate regulations to implement the
recommendations transmitted under subsection (a).</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H02F89D6EFF1C495D8DF605C7D58B1FA7"><enum>175.</enum><header>Limitation on
regulatory time frame</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In
establishing standards for or otherwise regulating the storage of radioactive
material under section 121(a) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42
U.S.C. 10141(a)) or any other Federal law, the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency may not consider environmental effects that
could occur more than 10,000 years after the date of such regulatory
action.</text>
</section><section id="H747CDEBB1F744797A6C7FFFB6E0B95D4"><enum>176.</enum><header>Definition</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this subtitle, the term
<term>radiological material</term> means radioactive material that is a
byproduct of the production of nuclear power, including high-level nuclear
waste and spent nuclear fuel, as those terms are defined in section 2 of the
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/10101">42 U.S.C. 10101</external-xref>), but not
including low-level radiological material as that term is defined in such
section.</text>
</section></subtitle><enum>II</enum><header>Regulatory
reform</header>
<section commented="no" id="H0AFCF0C46E6C4EA580BF626B3CFE1674"><enum>201.</enum><header>Purpose</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The purpose of this title is to increase
accountability for and transparency in the Federal regulatory process. Section
1 of article I of the United States Constitution grants all legislative powers
to Congress. Over time, Congress has excessively delegated its constitutional
charge while failing to conduct appropriate oversight and retain accountability
for the content of the laws it passes. By requiring a vote in Congress, this
title will result in more carefully drafted and detailed legislation, an
improved regulatory process, and a legislative branch that is truly accountable
to the American people for the laws imposed upon them.</text>
</section><section id="HFF2BA878611A4265AFD144F2965BFA95"><enum>202.</enum><header>Congressional
review of agency rulemaking</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/5/8">Chapter 8</external-xref> of title 5, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFCE355D12B434AD18DD687495BD39FE5" style="USC">
<chapter commented="no" id="HC82F8375BDF545499AC116F232D3824D" level-type="subsequent"><enum>8</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congressional Review of Agency
Rulemaking</header>
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<toc-entry bold="off" idref="H08D757110BFD44F58FEC787FCA794884" level="section">Sec.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" idref="H08D757110BFD44F58FEC787FCA794884" level="section">801. Congressional review.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" idref="HDDAE395A58804415A889BE640972F837" level="section">802. Congressional approval procedure for major
rules.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" idref="HD7E02CAB2F6F465EB2D0594B16B16E65" level="section">803. Congressional disapproval procedure for nonmajor
rules.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" idref="H0EC4CA2C0E654B4E9C4A937873EE2E1D" level="section">804. Definitions.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" idref="H26E5D36E418342CB8C401DAA86D31228" level="section">805. Judicial review.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" idref="HAC213FC3BBBA4123BC03F9738CB12311" level="section">806. Exemption for monetary policy.</toc-entry>
<toc-entry bold="off" idref="H874754EE64F44737A2164B0F9386867E" level="section">807. Effective date of certain rules.</toc-entry>
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<section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H08D757110BFD44F58FEC787FCA794884" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>801.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congressional review</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HB7C6ADAA2A9641C79F8B2ADBDCBD2D97"><enum>(a)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HC3CC6A9FD19D40AC8F904A54E5973899"><enum>(1)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HC1A395B1A591492EA7CD17F35C662D28"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before a rule may take effect, the Federal
agency promulgating such rule shall submit to each House of the Congress and to
the Comptroller General a report containing—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H62706A0CF33349AD9AF445FBA9D11EFB" indent="up2"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a copy of the rule;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H65C333BE217D49349BC0F046EF4B09F6" indent="up2"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a
concise general statement relating to the rule;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9ECA48D4AB4647DE809C042F614F2EED" indent="up2"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a classification of the rule as a major or
nonmajor rule, including an explanation of the classification specifically
addressing each criteria for a major rule contained within sections 804(2)(A),
804(2)(B), and 804(2)(C);</text>
</clause><clause id="H8D0E0A97C4BF4982B9DB667FBDA64084" indent="up2"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>a list of any other related
regulatory actions intended to implement the same statutory provision or
regulatory objective as well as the individual and aggregate economic effects
of those actions; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HCDEFBE38EEE34DC1A6CE871C8DC30A79" indent="up2"><enum>(v)</enum><text>the proposed effective date of the
rule.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H45754497965D44C49EE868557C113D10" indent="up2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On the date of the submission of the report
under subparagraph (A), the Federal agency promulgating the rule shall submit
to the Comptroller General and make available to each House of Congress—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H890FF556DEB040C7A1299AFC077CDD80"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a complete copy of the cost-benefit
analysis of the rule, if any;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE20778286A8F4879A3D3536C9812F6BC"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the agency’s actions pursuant to title 5 of
the United States Code, sections 603, 604, 605, 607, and 609;</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF365F78D026241ABB379B4BC0854340C"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the agency’s actions pursuant to title 2 of
the United States Code, sections 1532, 1533, 1534, and 1535; and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4C5D60FA7DE746A4A9EC99622039796B"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other relevant information or
requirements under any other Act and any relevant Executive orders.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H344AF7C68D7F4C24BEB1EBDE91497C69" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Upon receipt of a report submitted under
subparagraph (A), each House shall provide copies of the report to the chairman
and ranking member of each standing committee with jurisdiction under the rules
of the House of Representatives or the Senate to report a bill to amend the
provision of law under which the rule is issued.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBFABFF54C0564837BF9D2EFA0DCD285A" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HB982DBF03ADE4CC9BB803117AAE4DA52"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Comptroller General shall provide a
report on each major rule to the committees of jurisdiction by the end of 15
calendar days after the submission or publication date as provided in section
802(b)(2). The report of the Comptroller General shall include an assessment of
the agency’s compliance with procedural steps required by paragraph
(1)(B).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD2CE2EAA14454158B1DF326D7E973E06" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal agencies shall cooperate with the
Comptroller General by providing information relevant to the Comptroller
General’s report under subparagraph (A).</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A268AC2E55B4587B4C54D5B2C0FE645" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A
major rule relating to a report submitted under paragraph (1) shall take effect
upon enactment of a joint resolution of approval described in section 802 or as
provided for in the rule following enactment of a joint resolution of approval
described in section 802, whichever is later.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H40C5685BA00948EE9B16F4A661652012" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A
nonmajor rule shall take effect as provided by section 803 after submission to
Congress under paragraph (1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5234E30FD34E420EAC1CCEAF5B3CF0CC" indent="up1"><enum>(5)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a joint resolution of approval relating
to a major rule is not enacted within the period provided in subsection (b)(2),
then a joint resolution of approval relating to the same rule may not be
considered under this chapter in the same Congress by either the House of
Representatives or the Senate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H115BB9C8644F44F0994050890E0E8841"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H75E7D08E83F649BABE9077EE06B84594"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A major rule shall not take effect unless
the Congress enacts a joint resolution of approval described under section
802.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCC6CD87F093F4028863AA05F9E3D7826" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a joint resolution described in
subsection (a) is not enacted into law by the end of 70 session days or
legislative days, as applicable, beginning on the date on which the report
referred to in section 801(a)(1)(A) is received by Congress (excluding days
either House of Congress is adjourned for more than 3 days during a session of
Congress), then the rule described in that resolution shall be deemed not to be
approved and such rule shall not take effect.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H090328F92450494FA603831C6B996C79"><enum>(c)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H0E9CE40E09D942A8A75E81BD743BDFBA"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of this
section (except subject to paragraph (3)), a major rule may take effect for one
90-calendar-day period if the President makes a determination under paragraph
(2) and submits written notice of such determination to the Congress.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H42F5C3D31B574811A4D9DC10F03F2AA1" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Paragraph (1) applies to a determination
made by the President by Executive order that the major rule should take effect
because such rule is—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2146F9264C5442FABBE2AFC017E25DF8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">necessary because of an imminent threat to
health or safety or other emergency;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCE5BBBF6265046BAB0184CE1AE665A77"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">necessary for the enforcement of criminal
laws;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF90EBE8FA1394C44B59959531876783A"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">necessary for national security; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1F73AFEDEDA94741922536A852741424"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">issued pursuant to any statute implementing
an international trade agreement.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD4710165931D48A4A42380473E0F6FC1" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An exercise by the President of the
authority under this subsection shall have no effect on the procedures under
section 802.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAB826771F657480782C068F265082175"><enum>(d)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HC3253EE645674E5EBA388CC0AF2FF4D4"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In addition to the opportunity for review
otherwise provided under this chapter, in the case of any rule for which a
report was submitted in accordance with subsection (a)(1)(A) during the period
beginning on the date occurring—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2E4EB34F25DA4A41944138467763B6AB" indent="up1"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of the Senate, 60 session days,
or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE38E492D50784062A6FA197190E7D3BD" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of the House of
Representatives, 60 legislative days,</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="subsection">before the date the Congress is
scheduled to adjourn a session of Congress through the date on which the same
or succeeding Congress first convenes its next session, sections 802 and 803
shall apply to such rule in the succeeding session of Congress.</continuation-text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBE8DB633ECE04A1686104260698E5EF9" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HCD9E10D598EA49C7988EA30F21ED741D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In applying sections 802 and 803 for
purposes of such additional review, a rule described under paragraph (1) shall
be treated as though—</text>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8CECBB12600140D587BBA2613AF19D46" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such rule were published in the Federal
Register on—</text>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H951326E2467649DEB505FD77BF419B10"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of the Senate, the 15th session
day, or</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2967EC315CCA4082934CBC94A7BAB5F9"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of the House of
Representatives, the 15th legislative day,</text>
</subclause><continuation-text commented="no" continuation-text-level="clause">after the succeeding session of Congress
first convenes; and</continuation-text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H44BFB05544C24D838AF2A823183D9B76" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a
report on such rule were submitted to Congress under subsection (a)(1) on such
date.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H14DD5C93B7214D94BCAC1C8AFFBCA4CA" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Nothing in this paragraph shall be
construed to affect the requirement under subsection (a)(1) that a report shall
be submitted to Congress before a rule can take effect.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE1B53CD667F94639B33098EC5561ACE3" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A
rule described under paragraph (1) shall take effect as otherwise provided by
law (including other subsections of this section).</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDDAE395A58804415A889BE640972F837" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>802.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congressional approval procedure for major
rules</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC5F0A2CAB5BC4A4A852E8E25B00C69BB"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term
<term>joint resolution</term> means only a joint resolution introduced on or
after the date on which the report referred to in section 801(a)(1)(A) is
received by Congress (excluding days either House of Congress is adjourned for
more than 3 days during a session of Congress), the matter after the resolving
clause of which is as follows: <quote>That Congress approves the rule submitted
by the _ _ relating to _ _.</quote> (The blank spaces being appropriately
filled in).</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HC19CBD096BBF449A9017642CBEED0D0F"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the House, the majority leader of the
House of Representatives (or his designee) and the minority leader of the House
of Representatives (or his designee) shall introduce such joint resolution
described in subsection (a) (by request), within 3 legislative days after
Congress receives the report referred to in section 801(a)(1)(A).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA185B0142DC24D72A89AD6F062286B02"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In the Senate, the
majority leader of the Senate (or his designee) and the minority leader of the
Senate (or his designee) shall introduce such joint resolution described in
subsection (a) (by request), within 3 session days after Congress receives the
report referred to in section 801(a)(1)(A).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H166A03B3E24246F6B9A98E912DADA657"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HC8AD0E9C640542C49F008A8F8A967B33"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A joint resolution described in subsection
(a) shall be referred to the committees in each House of Congress with
jurisdiction under the rules of the House of Representatives or the Senate to
report a bill to amend the provision of law under which the rule is
issued.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA86EA1144DF542CAA15AE95FA30B9400" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term
<term>submission date</term> means the date on which the Congress receives the
report submitted under section 801(a)(1).</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC80CE226ACC547EFA27D79EA636808E1"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the Senate, if the committee or
committees to which a joint resolution described in subsection (a) has been
referred have not reported it at the end of 15 session days after its
introduction, such committee or committees shall be automatically discharged
from further consideration of the resolution and it shall be placed on the
calendar. A vote on final passage of the resolution shall be taken on or before
the close of the 15th session day after the resolution is reported by the
committee or committees to which it was referred, or after such committee or
committees have been discharged from further consideration of the
resolution.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H84355C0968A64475B1A34E081130A841"><enum>(d)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H4574C80228DA4C72A153E42B88215F8D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the Senate, when the committee or
committees to which a joint resolution is referred have reported, or when a
committee or committees are discharged (under subsection (c)) from further
consideration of a joint resolution described in subsection (a), it is at any
time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has
been disagreed to) for a motion to proceed to the consideration of the joint
resolution, and all points of order against the joint resolution (and against
consideration of the joint resolution) are waived. The motion is not subject to
amendment, or to a motion to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the
consideration of other business. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the
motion is agreed to or disagreed to shall not be in order. If a motion to
proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution is agreed to, the joint
resolution shall remain the unfinished business of the Senate until disposed
of.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HE527A7A0D86D4F97AA3AA9E187DC0A6D" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the Senate, debate on the joint
resolution, and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith,
shall be limited to not more than 2 hours, which shall be divided equally
between those favoring and those opposing the joint resolution. A motion to
further limit debate is in order and not debatable. An amendment to, or a
motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other
business, or a motion to recommit the joint resolution is not in order.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7EE06FBC4BC140B181365BBE00EB448F" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the Senate, immediately following the
conclusion of the debate on a joint resolution described in subsection (a), and
a single quorum call at the conclusion of the debate if requested in accordance
with the rules of the Senate, the vote on final passage of the joint resolution
shall occur.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H016845B9278D4FF6A133F357A716BA64" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appeals from the decisions of the Chair
relating to the application of the rules of the Senate to the procedure
relating to a joint resolution described in subsection (a) shall be decided
without debate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD07D8391E22F4A9381E40C019449C9F8"><enum>(e)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H65B33C8D14294414906C8CAF3F6413B9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the House of Representatives, if the
committee or committees to which a joint resolution described in subsection (a)
has been referred have not reported it at the end of 15 legislative days after
its introduction, such committee or committees shall be automatically
discharged from further consideration of the resolution and it shall be placed
on the appropriate calendar. A vote on final passage of the resolution shall be
taken on or before the close of the 15th legislative day after the resolution
is reported by the committee or committees to which it was referred, or after
such committee or committees have been discharged from further consideration of
the resolution.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8831CAF02F0749CCA20E6CB9F9AC6863" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H27C2B59FF82C4433AE868FEC8808131C"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A motion in the House of Representatives to
proceed to the consideration of a resolution shall be privileged and not
debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in
order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or
disagreed to.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H769C1172D32349DFB214A9DE3FC2C760" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Debate in the House of Representatives on a
resolution shall be limited to not more than two hours, which shall be divided
equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. A motion to
further limit debate shall not be debatable. No amendment to, or motion to
recommit, the resolution shall be in order. It shall not be in order to
reconsider the vote by which a resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF65C66F779FF4E6AA5546B2A5986A6CA" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Motions to postpone, made in the House of
Representatives with respect to the consideration of a resolution, and motions
to proceed to the consideration of other business, shall be decided without
debate.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H964F520BA3364B3FA9F4944F44B57E1D" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">All appeals from the decisions of the Chair
relating to the application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the
procedure relating to a resolution shall be decided without debate.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEBDFFB84CF4E4A71A076653BC571FB4C"><enum>(f)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If, before the passage by one House of a
joint resolution of that House described in subsection (a), that House receives
from the other House a joint resolution described in subsection (a), then the
following procedures shall apply with respect to a joint resolution described
in subsection (a) of the House receiving the joint resolution—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H1423F56BB7A74EE9902356D9B1F97C0C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the procedure in that House shall be the
same as if no joint resolution had been received from the other House;
but</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H6314CC77108F41DCBFB46DB8CC2CF595"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the vote on final
passage shall be on the joint resolution of the other House.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9E151E6F11254EE091221279A374986C"><enum>(g)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The enactment of a resolution of approval
does not serve as a grant or modification of statutory authority by Congress
for the promulgation of a rule, does not extinguish or affect any claim,
whether substantive or procedural, against any alleged defect in a rule, and
shall not form part of the record before the court in any judicial proceeding
concerning a rule.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H610A8DBF659742BEAFFFE9A27CE85AA9"><enum>(h)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">This section and section 803 are enacted by
Congress—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2031E780D22342109DB6971FF426307D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">as an exercise of the rulemaking power of
the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, and as such it is deemed
a part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with
respect to the procedure to be followed in that House in the case of a joint
resolution described in subsection (a), and it supersedes other rules only to
the extent that it is inconsistent with such rules; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBB979F3B17AE40C3ACD7E4ACD58D5E19"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with full recognition of the constitutional
right of either House to change the rules (so far as relating to the procedure
of that House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in
the case of any other rule of that House.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD7E02CAB2F6F465EB2D0594B16B16E65" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>803.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Congressional disapproval procedure for
nonmajor rules</header>
<subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H454351313C254561AB1DBA3C2610D8C5"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term
<term>joint resolution</term> means only a joint resolution introduced in the
period beginning on the date on which the report referred to in section
801(a)(1)(A) is received by Congress and ending 60 days thereafter (excluding
days either House of Congress is adjourned for more than 3 days during a
session of Congress), the matter after the resolving clause of which is as
follows: <quote>That Congress disapproves the nonmajor rule submitted by the _
_ relating to _ _, and such rule shall have no force or effect.</quote> (The
blank spaces being appropriately filled in).</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC30C3E77F23D4E23ADEE2E5AA6E95A24"><enum>(b)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H53D4BDD5B013494DBFFB034789D141BB"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A joint resolution described in subsection
(a) shall be referred to the committees in each House of Congress with
jurisdiction.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H894F6DA19A834042BBD6ACAEF5134ACE" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this section, the term
submission or publication date means the later of the date on which—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H044A2CC08764447FB793610AD4B208ED"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Congress receives the report submitted
under section 801(a)(1); or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF4EA5F88F5914B63A1DD8678D8DCF869"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the nonmajor rule is published in the
Federal Register, if so published.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H773B9C552EAB413AAD988F011523B94B"><enum>(c)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the Senate, if the committee to which is
referred a joint resolution described in subsection (a) has not reported such
joint resolution (or an identical joint resolution) at the end of 15 session
days after the date of introduction of the joint resolution, such committee may
be discharged from further consideration of such joint resolution upon a
petition supported in writing by 30 Members of the Senate, and such joint
resolution shall be placed on the calendar.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H73DE96DFDF554D8EB64512F428DFC7F2"><enum>(d)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD2E679586EDF4806BEF1791BDB8DAEF7"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the Senate, when the committee to which
a joint resolution is referred has reported, or when a committee is discharged
(under subsection (c)) from further consideration of a joint resolution
described in subsection (a), it is at any time thereafter in order (even though
a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) for a motion to
proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution, and all points of order
against the joint resolution (and against consideration of the joint
resolution) are waived. The motion is not subject to amendment, or to a motion
to postpone, or to a motion to proceed to the consideration of other business.
A motion to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed
to shall not be in order. If a motion to proceed to the consideration of the
joint resolution is agreed to, the joint resolution shall remain the unfinished
business of the Senate until disposed of.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2D90E6F43D404E4DBB87EB0A7B30C975" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the Senate, debate on the joint
resolution, and on all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith,
shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, which shall be divided equally
between those favoring and those opposing the joint resolution. A motion to
further limit debate is in order and not debatable. An amendment to, or a
motion to postpone, or a motion to proceed to the consideration of other
business, or a motion to recommit the joint resolution is not in order.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3A6CB38184644D13B25B4554859116F1" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the Senate, immediately following the
conclusion of the debate on a joint resolution described in subsection (a), and
a single quorum call at the conclusion of the debate if requested in accordance
with the rules of the Senate, the vote on final passage of the joint resolution
shall occur.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8081087A8CBF47A3881E2EE2646A09D8" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Appeals from the decisions of the Chair
relating to the application of the rules of the Senate to the procedure
relating to a joint resolution described in subsection (a) shall be decided
without debate.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0F03405381EC4E20B814C60245E827CD"><enum>(e)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the Senate the procedure specified in
subsection (c) or (d) shall not apply to the consideration of a joint
resolution respecting a nonmajor rule—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA9DD3C86DB9944FFB97560D28A43C34C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">after the expiration of the 60 session days
beginning with the applicable submission or publication date, or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF48E96B7946D41618B6938240AD578E3"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the report under section 801(a)(1)(A)
was submitted during the period referred to in section 801(d)(1), after the
expiration of the 60 session days beginning on the 15th session day after the
succeeding session of Congress first convenes.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H26435E9D033647A29A0EB13FAD53985A"><enum>(f)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If, before the passage by one House of a
joint resolution of that House described in subsection (a), that House receives
from the other House a joint resolution described in subsection (a), then the
following procedures shall apply:</text>
<paragraph id="H54B3355D2EB74B6C803E7A402FF44B16"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The joint
resolution of the other House shall not be referred to a committee.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFBB79998590D4A44916F3BC610747D90"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to a joint resolution
described in subsection (a) of the House receiving the joint resolution—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H429F40F4E3934E6AB218CF41E6F440A4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the procedure in that House shall be the
same as if no joint resolution had been received from the other House;
but</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H086A762154B3406FA1A04E97E14800AB"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the vote on final passage shall be on the
joint resolution of the other House.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0EC4CA2C0E654B4E9C4A937873EE2E1D" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>804.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">For purposes of this chapter—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFDDB8DE7E51E42D1AAFE5BC402ADFC80"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Federal agency</term> means
any agency as that term is defined in section 551(1).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H9493C42606FC47B698474ABFC97ED6F6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>major rule</term> means any
rule, including an interim final rule, that the Administrator of the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget finds
has resulted in or is likely to result in—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7E8C0B33ACEB44EE86C6445C03E93E15"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an annual effect on the economy of
$100,000,000 or more;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HFEF30C2AAB424F409D67C47751206FED"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a major increase in costs or prices for
consumers, individual industries, Federal, State, or local government agencies,
or geographic regions; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5023FF41A3DA4E4FA61EF6B9EF35473B"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">significant adverse effects on competition,
employment, investment, productivity, innovation, or on the ability of United
States-based enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic
and export markets.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA4ECEBBDA4BD4FFBAC32D87C884F474B"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>nonmajor rule</term> means
any rule that is not a major rule.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD4E6EF83100F4F5B802B7D72F6076754"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>rule</term> has the meaning
given such term in section 551, except that such term does not include—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3D3390B19524472291230AEF76236D44"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any rule of particular applicability,
including a rule that approves or prescribes for the future rates, wages,
prices, services, or allowances therefore, corporate or financial structures,
reorganizations, mergers, or acquisitions thereof, or accounting practices or
disclosures bearing on any of the foregoing;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HEE7DA538F061404DAD1D7F582C86A399"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any rule relating to agency management or
personnel; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HD0AB1D3522394030BAB70470AD708E06"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any rule of agency organization, procedure,
or practice that does not substantially affect the rights or obligations of
non-agency parties.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H26E5D36E418342CB8C401DAA86D31228" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>805.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Judicial review</header>
<subsection id="HC0CAACD46B5B4AAB9DD800D9192F52F7"><enum>(a)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No determination, finding, action, or
omission under this chapter shall be subject to judicial review.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H7CAE36C30ADF406E8C5E8C80225D264F"><enum>(b)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding subsection (a), a court may
determine whether a Federal agency has completed the necessary requirements
under this chapter for a rule to take effect.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAC213FC3BBBA4123BC03F9738CB12311" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>806.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Exemption for monetary policy</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Nothing in this chapter shall apply to rules
that concern monetary policy proposed or implemented by the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System or the Federal Open Market Committee.</text>
</section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H874754EE64F44737A2164B0F9386867E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>807.</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective date of certain
rules</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Notwithstanding section
801—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H69FDB7B739F74E90845EE7D078CBE5D8"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any rule that establishes, modifies, opens,
closes, or conducts a regulatory program for a commercial, recreational, or
subsistence activity related to hunting, fishing, or camping; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF1767F337F3D44A384AF82298CC713A2"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any rule other than a major rule which an
agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the finding and a brief statement
of reasons therefore in the rule issued) that notice and public procedure
thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public
interest,</text>
</paragraph></section></chapter><quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="subsection">shall
take effect at such time as the Federal agency promulgating the rule
determines.</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><enum>III</enum><header>Tax
reform</header>
<section commented="no" id="H5B80D6FB3F02427DB5B04DD1D3269F57" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header>Reduction in
corporate income tax rates</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="HF1844ED6B71B455286970F41C95C5AC6"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Paragraph (1) of section 11(b) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:</text>
<quoted-block id="H495BE057E9564581BBEAC635CFC1CB21" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" id="H0F92ACE706A4461CAD2B00E4161A8B8A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Rates of
tax</header>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H5717729325194A8B8C2C194281C2A31D"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the
amount of the tax imposed by subsection (a) shall be the sum of—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H8A7F5C0E95204B5CA236ED6DBA419915"><enum>(i)</enum><text>15 percent of so
much of the taxable income as does not exceed $50,000, and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H528E5C6AF08D4FA9807C6954ADAE815F"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>25 percent of so
much of the taxable income as exceeds $50,000.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H438C4AC84113423680FBDBB853539FDD"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Special rules
for 2011</header><text>In the case of any taxable year beginning in 2011, the
amount of the tax imposed by subsection (a) shall be the sum of—</text>
<clause commented="no" id="H3F0D5A0F11C846CC94B7FB4650FA402D"><enum>(i)</enum><text>15 percent of so
much of the taxable income as does not exceed $50,000, and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H359ED41C8C634BB9870C36EC5B45FB39"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>25 percent of so
much of the taxable income as exceeds $50,000 but does not exceed $75,000,
and</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H9B35243C86454081B9F93CC285D1C75B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>30 percent of so
much of the taxable income as exceeds
$75,000.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H3EA796E49D94470D8760F36474A9788D"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendments</header>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HA8CE5CC316E842319460583155046CF6"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 11(b)(2)
of such Code is amended by striking <quote>35 percent</quote> and inserting
<quote>the maximum rate of tax in effect under section 11(b)(1)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H91325F0DFB31435E8D3DB8AD31CC4222"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section
280C(c)(3)(B)(ii)(II) of such Code is amended by inserting <quote>in
effect</quote> after <quote>maximum rate of tax</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H65AD67FF81584CB0A8FDE908E866D06E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section
904(b)(3)(D)(ii) of such Code is amended by striking <quote>(determined without
regard to the last sentence of section 11(b)(1))</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H8089635627804A35A2852DB61FD5FF4B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Section 1201(a) of
such Code is amended—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" id="H9B51D59153624A13AA06649B7349F1AE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>35 percent (determined without regard to the last 2 sentences of section
11(b)(1))</quote> and inserting <quote>the maximum rate of tax in effect under
section 11(b)(1)</quote>, and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="HF172879A72D240C38324D8E2E3AEA5EB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
<quote>35 percent</quote> in paragraph (2) and inserting <quote>the maximum
rate of tax in effect under section 11(b)(1)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H6B99D9DE19A44BF1B0EEA35A4C02F940"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Section 1561(a) of
such Code is amended by striking the fourth sentence.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HAFB692972E394C018A60DF2867DF020B"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable
years beginning after December 31, 2010.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" id="HD30C9BB8F79A407AB091170B95E115DD"><enum>302.</enum><header>2003 tax
reductions on domestic dividends made permanent</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Effective for taxable years beginning after
December 31, 2011, section 303 of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation
Act of 2003 is hereby repealed.</text>
</section><section commented="no" id="H4A9D563D333F4E2B86A4C7345F676596" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header>Small business
expensing for small business made permanent</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H8213151B0FEA4EAAADA88E324DA81665"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>Paragraph (1) of section 179(b) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 is amended by striking <quote>exceed—</quote> and all that follows
and inserting <quote>exceed $500,000.</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HEA2D4C1BAA224955987C50660B655DE7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Threshold for
reduction in limitation</header><text>Paragraph (2) of section 179(b) of such
Code is amended by striking <quote>exceed—</quote> and inserting <quote>exceed
$2,000,000.</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H4903BF6EC39F4A64B0A1EACF13D0AEF2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Inflation
adjustments</header><text>Section 179(b)(6) of such Code is amended—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="HACE4F7247F584B4E965F4140361346F3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A) in the matter preceding clause (i) by striking <quote>the $125,000 and
$500,000 amounts in paragraphs (1)(C) and (2)(C)</quote> and inserting
<quote>the $500,000 and $2,000,000 amounts in paragraphs (1) and (2)</quote>,
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HFCBB374CD3B944388A5D9E47B7B8C9AF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subparagraph
(A)(ii) by striking <quote>2006</quote> and inserting
<quote>2011</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HFEA8F5310C104AF8A6E0F7458FA03A09"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Revocation of
election</header><text>Section 179(c)(2) of such Code is amended by striking
<quote>and before 2013</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HA1651A29DC83402187A4C28A6EF929CA"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Computer
software</header><text>Section 179(d)(1)(A)(ii) of such Code is amended by
striking <quote>and before 2012</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H5679A8D1448043FEB750408E4F5455B0"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the
date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" id="HBAEFEA85BD8C4E88A733EDD6F5D2EC0C" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header>Permanent extension
of estate tax relief</header>
<subsection commented="no" id="H9598C06B49154A1BA817327823D36209"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 901 of the
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 shall not apply to
the provisions of, and amendments made by, title V of such Act.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HDC35FA9B85A54135AFD7EB4CADAB2482"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming
amendment</header><text>The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization,
and Job Creation Act of 2010 is amended by striking section 304.</text>
</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H698EA3BBF74C4BE881AB5BF0270A55F1"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective
date</header><text>Subsection (a) and the amendments made by subsection (b)
shall apply to years beginning after December 31, 2012.</text>
</subsection></section><section commented="no" id="H2C624BE5FB3144A2B9271D7A2008DD3B"><enum>305.</enum><header>Additional
savings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Committee on Ways
and Means of the House of Representatives shall prioritize reporting out
legislation that would provide significant reforms to the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 that would—</text>
<paragraph commented="no" id="H2259DC9B16EF438BAF5E21369BE65A7F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>simplify the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for individuals and businesses to reduce the
burden of compliance;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H855FB962192F4194A7AE51A7C5EAE47C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>eliminate
deductions that unjustly benefit corporations and special interests (and report
out the savings resulting from these eliminations); and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H178D83CE6B094DA6B21016652A328AE2"><enum>(3)</enum><text>consider proposals
that will disincentivize and eliminate tax shelters.</text>
</paragraph></section><enum>IV</enum><header>Workforce
investment</header>
<section id="H74D276CE737745C5B3C33E3286FCE665" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>401.</enum><header>Sense of Congress
regarding the need to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act of
1998</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">It is the sense of
Congress that Congress should urgently reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act
of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.) in order to—</text>
<paragraph id="H8BF26C1EEF0449488957E9B992822F2F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>improve and expand
the job training and other employment-related programs under the Act;
and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H5DDE6C2BDE2B4EA49148F7297AFB6CE6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>modernize such
programs to better train workers for the highly skilled jobs in the modern
economy.</text>
</paragraph></section>