[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 17 (Thursday, January 28, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S368]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3094. Mr. NELSON submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2953 proposed by Ms. Murkowski to the bill S. 2012, to 
provide for the modernization of the energy policy of the United 
States, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; 
as follows:

       At end of subtitle B of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 3105. MORATORIUM ON OIL- AND GAS-RELATED SEISMIC 
                   ACTIVITIES IN THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE OFF 
                   THE COAST OF FLORIDA.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b) and 
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person may 
     conduct geological or geophysical activities (as those terms 
     are described in the final programmatic environmental impact 
     statement of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management entitled 
     ``Atlantic OCS Proposed Geological and Geophysical 
     Activities, Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic Planning Areas'' 
     and completed February 2014) in support of oil or gas 
     exploration and development in any area located within the 
     exclusive economic zone (as defined in section 107 of title 
     46, United States Code) located off the coastline of the 
     State of Florida.
       (b) Termination of Moratorium.--The moratorium described in 
     subsection (a) shall only be terminated if the Administrator 
     of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
     determines that the reasonably foreseeable impacts of the 
     geological or geophysical activities described in subsection 
     (a) to individuals or populations of marine mammals, sea 
     turtles, or fish are minimal.
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