[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6168 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6168

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to implement the Proposed Final 
   Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (2012-2017) in 
    accordance with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and other 
                            applicable law.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2012

  Mr. Hastings of Washington introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to implement the Proposed Final 
   Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (2012-2017) in 
    accordance with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and other 
                            applicable law.

    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 ``President Obama's Proposed 2012-2017 
Offshore Drilling Lease Sale Plan Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) OCS planning area.--Any reference to an ``OCS Planning 
        Area'' means such Outer Continental Shelf Planning Area as 
        specified by the Department of the Interior as of January 1, 
        2012.
            (2) Proposed oil and gas leasing program (2012-2017).--The 
        term ``Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing 
        Program (2012-2017)'' means such plan as transmitted to the 
        Speaker of the House and President of the Senate on June 28, 
        2012.

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT TO IMPLEMENT PROPOSED OIL AND GAS LEASING PROGRAM 
              (2012-2017).

    The Secretary of the Interior shall implement the Proposed Final 
Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (2012-2017) in 
accordance with the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 
et seq.), other applicable law, and the schedule established by such 
proposed program for conducting oil and gas lease sales in OCS Planning 
Areas in specified years as set forth in the following table:


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  Proposed Final Program for 2012-2017
      Lease Sale Schedule Sale No.                     Area                                Year
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229                                       Western Gulf of Mexico.......  2012
227                                       Central Gulf of Mexico.......  2013
233                                       Western Gulf of Mexico.......  2013
225                                       Eastern Gulf of Mexico.......  2014
231                                       Central Gulf of Mexico.......  2014
238                                       Western Gulf of Mexico.......  2014
235                                       Central Gulf of Mexico.......  2015
246                                       Western Gulf of Mexico.......  2015
226                                       Eastern Gulf of Mexico.......  2016
241                                       Central Gulf of Mexico.......  2016
237                                       Chukchi Sea..................  2016
248                                       Western Gulf of Mexico.......  2016
244                                       Cook Inlet...................  2016
247                                       Central Gulf of Mexico.......  2017
242                                       Beaufort Sea.................  2017
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