[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4025 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4025

 To provide that the Secretary of the Interior may accept bids on any 
  new oil and gas leases of Federal lands (including submerged lands) 
only from bidders certifying that all natural gas produced pursuant to 
 such leases shall be offered for sale only in the United States, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 14, 2012

 Mr. Markey (for himself and Mr. Holt) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that the Secretary of the Interior may accept bids on any 
  new oil and gas leases of Federal lands (including submerged lands) 
only from bidders certifying that all natural gas produced pursuant to 
 such leases shall be offered for sale only in the United States, and 
                          for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Keep American Natural Gas Here 
Act''.

SEC. 2. NO FOREIGN SALES OF NATURAL GAS PRODUCED ON FEDERAL LANDS.

    The Secretary of the Interior may accept bids on any new oil and 
gas leases of Federal lands (including submerged lands) under the 
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) or the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) only from bidders certifying 
that all natural gas produced pursuant to such leases shall be offered 
for sale only in the United States.

SEC. 3. NO FOREIGN SALES OF NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTED OVER FEDERAL 
              PIPELINE RIGHTS-OF-WAY.

    Section 28(a) of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 185(a)) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(a)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(2) A new right-of-way for a natural gas pipeline may not be 
granted under this section unless the applicant for the right-of-way 
certifies that all natural gas that is transported via such pipeline 
shall be offered for sale only in the United States.''.
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