[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 133 (Saturday, August 6, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S4334]
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  SA 5387. Mr. KENNEDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 5194 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill H.R. 5376, to 
provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 14; 
which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in subtitle B of title V, insert 
     the following:

     SEC. 502___. MANDATORY OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND GAS 
                   LEASE SALES.

       (a) Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sales.--
       (1) Requirement.--Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary 
     of the Interior (acting through the Director of the Bureau of 
     Ocean Energy Management) (referred to in this section as the 
     ``Secretary'') shall conduct not fewer than 10 area-wide oil 
     and gas lease sales under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
     Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.) during the period beginning on 
     July 1, 2022, and ending on June 30, 2027.
       (2) Schedule.--Not fewer than 2 area-wide oil and gas lease 
     sales required under paragraph (1) shall be held each year 
     during the period described in that paragraph in the 
     following planning areas of the Gulf of Mexico Region of the 
     outer Continental Shelf, as described in the 2017-2022 Outer 
     Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program 
     (November 2016):
       (A) The Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.
       (B) The Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.
       (b) Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sales.--The Secretary 
     shall conduct not fewer than 1 oil and gas lease sale under 
     the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et 
     seq.) in the Cook Inlet Planning Area of the Alaska Region of 
     the outer Continental Shelf, as described in the 2017-2022 
     Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final 
     Program (November 2016), during the period beginning on July 
     1, 2022, and ending on June 30, 2027.
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