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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-413
PLANNING FOR AMERICAN ENERGY ACT OF 2017
NOVEMBER 16, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2907]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2907) to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to require the
Secretary of the Interior to develop and publish an all-of-the-above
quadrennial Federal onshore energy production strategy to meet
domestic energy needs, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2907 is to amend the Mineral Leasing Act
to require the Secretary of the Interior to develop and publish an
all-of-the-above quadrennial federal onshore energy production
strategy to meet domestic energy needs.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Under current law, the Administration is required to submit to
Congress a plan for the offshore oil and gas leasing program every
five years.1 This requirement ensures that comprehensive planning
for the responsible development of our offshore energy resources oc-
curs at regular intervals.
143 U.S.C. 1331-1356b.
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