[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1331 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1331

To provide for the inclusion of Lease Sale 220 in the outer Continental 
Shelf leasing program for fiscal years 2012-2017, to revise the map for 
        the Mid-Atlantic planning area, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 6, 2011

 Mr. Webb (for himself and Mr. Warner) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the inclusion of Lease Sale 220 in the outer Continental 
Shelf leasing program for fiscal years 2012-2017, to revise the map for 
        the Mid-Atlantic planning area, 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 ``Virginia Outer Continental Shelf 
Energy Production Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Lease sale 220.--The term ``Lease Sale 220'' means the 
        sale of Federal oil and gas exploration leases in the outer 
        Continental Shelf planning area located off the coast of the 
        State.
            (2) Qualified revenues.--The term ``qualified revenues'' 
        means all rentals, royalties, bonus bids, and other sums due 
        and payable to the United States under a lease sale conducted 
        under section 3(a)(1).
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.
            (4) State.--The term ``State'' means the State of Virginia.

SEC. 3. OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND GAS LEASING OFF THE COAST OF 
              THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.

    (a) Authorization of Lease Sales.--In the outer Continental Shelf 
leasing program for fiscal years 2012-2017 prepared under section 18 of 
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344), the Secretary 
shall--
            (1) include in the schedule of proposed lease sales--
                    (A) Lease Sale 220; and
                    (B) any areas off the coast of the State that are 
                included in the Mid-Atlantic planning area as a result 
                of the revision to the map under section 4(b); and
            (2) provide that the Secretary shall not make any tract 
        available for lease under paragraph (1) if the President, in 
        consultation with the Committees on Armed Services of the 
        Senate and the House of Representatives, determines that the 
        lease of that tract would conflict with military operations 
        relating to national security.
    (b) Disposition of Revenues.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding section 9 of the Outer 
        Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1338) and subject to the 
        provisions of this section, for each applicable fiscal year, 
        the Secretary of the Treasury shall deposit--
                    (A) 50 percent of any qualified revenues in the 
                general fund of the Treasury; and
                    (B) 50 percent of any qualified revenues in a 
                special account in the Treasury to be used for the 
                purposes described in paragraph (2).
            (2) Disposition of revenues to state.--Of the qualified 
        revenues described in paragraph (1)(B)--
                    (A) 75 percent shall be disbursed to the State; and
                    (B) 25 percent shall be used, at the discretion of 
                the President--
                            (i) to enhance State land and water 
                        conservation efforts;
                            (ii) to improve State public transportation 
                        projects; and
                            (iii) to establish State alternative energy 
                        systems.

SEC. 4. REVISED MAP OF THE MID-ATLANTIC PLANNING AREA.

    (a) Definition of Mid-Atlantic State.--In this section, the term 
``Mid-Atlantic State'' means each of the States of Delaware, North 
Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia.
    (b) Revision of Map.--Subject to subsection (c), the Secretary 
shall revise the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and 
Enforcement map entitled ``Atlantic NAD 83 Federal Outer Continental 
Shelf (OCS) Administrative Boundaries'' and dated January 2010 to 
ensure that the square footage of the leasable area in the Mid-Atlantic 
planning area is directly proportional to the length of the tidal 
shoreline of the Mid-Atlantic States, as determined using the 
information on tidal shorelines provided in the document published by 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration entitled ``The 
Coastline of the United States'' and numbered NOAA/PA 71046 (1975).
    (c) Limitation.--Nothing in this section affects the boundary of 
Lease Sale 220.
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