[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 124 (Tuesday, July 24, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S5298]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3470. Mr. MARKEY (for himself, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Carper, Mr. 
Booker, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Reed, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Wyden, Ms. Hassan, 
Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. Nelson) submitted an amendment 
intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 6147, making 
appropriations for the Department of the Interior, environment, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of title I, add the following:


                 proposed oil and gas leasing programs

       Sec. 117. None of the funds made available by this or any 
     other Act may be used by the Secretary of the Interior--
       (1) to approve or carry out the 2019-2024 National Outer 
     Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program 
     issued by the Secretary of the Interior in January 2018 under 
     section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 
     U.S.C. 1344); or
       (2) to prepare, approve, or carry out any other proposed 
     oil and gas leasing program under that section that would 
     open up new areas of the outer Continental Shelf to oil and 
     gas exploration, development, production, or leasing.
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