[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1941 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1941

    To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the 
  Secretary of the Interior including in any leasing program certain 
                planning areas, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 28, 2019

Mr. Cunningham (for himself, Mr. Rooney of Florida, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. 
    Huffman, Mr. Van Drew, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Rouda, Mr. Pappas, Mr. 
   Gallego, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. Hill of California, Mr. Panetta, Ms. 
   Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Jayapal, Ms. 
    Shalala, Ms. Haaland, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. McEachin, Mr. 
 Carbajal, Mr. Kim, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Ted Lieu of California, Mr. Case, 
     Mr. Schiff, Ms. Castor of Florida, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Levin of 
    California, Mr. Soto, and Mr. Cox of California) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the 
  Secretary of the Interior including in any leasing program certain 
                planning areas, 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 ``Coastal and Marine Economies 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON LEASING IN CERTAIN PLANNING AREAS.

    Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act is amended by 
redesignating subsections (g) and (h) as subsections (h) and (i) 
respectively, and by inserting after subsection (f) the following:
    ``(g) The Secretary shall not include in any leasing program under 
this section any area within the Atlantic Region planning areas or the 
Pacific Region planning areas, as such planning areas are described in 
the document entitled `Draft Proposed Program Outer Continental Shelf 
Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2019-2024', dated January 2018.''.
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