[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 927 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 927

  To require congressional approval before implementation of certain 
                agency actions, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 10, 2011

  Mr. Vitter 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 require congressional approval before implementation of certain 
                agency actions, 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 ``Agency Overreach Moratorium Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON RETROACTIVE WITHDRAWAL OF CERTAIN PERMITS.

    Unless approved by an Act of Congress, the head of a Federal agency 
shall not--
            (1) retroactively withdraw any permit issued for Federal 
        land or any area of the outer Continental Shelf that would have 
        been used--
                    (A) to produce or harvest a domestic natural 
                resource; or
                    (B) to create 1 or more jobs; or
            (2) issue a designation under any law that would restrict 
        or prohibit access to domestic natural resources on Federal 
        land or any area of the outer Continental Shelf.

SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF DESIGNATION OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS.

    Section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1906 (commonly known as the 
``Antiquities Act of 1906'') (16 U.S.C. 431) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``sec. 2. That the President'' and 
        inserting the following:

``SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS.

    ``(a) In General.--Subject to the requirements of this section, the 
President'';
            (2) by striking ``Provided, That when such objects are 
        situated upon'' and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Relinquishment of Private Claims.--In cases in which an 
object described in subsection (a) is located on''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Congressional Approval of Proclamation.--A proclamation 
issued under subsection (a) shall not be implemented until the 
proclamation is approved by an Act of Congress.''.

SEC. 4. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS BY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE REQUIRED.

    The head of a Federal agency shall not take any action that 
modifies the authority of the Federal agency with respect to issuing 
permits for natural resource development on Federal land or making 
designations of Federal land under any law until the date on which the 
Secretary of Commerce completes, and submits to Congress, an economic 
analysis to determine--
            (1) whether the proposed agency action has the potential to 
        reduce revenue to the Treasury; and
            (2) the potential impact of the proposed agency action on 
        property rights and existing contracts.
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