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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 115-1029
OFFSHORE WIND FOR TERRITORIES ACT
NOVEMBER 16, 2018.-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
[To accompany H.R. 6665]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6665) to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
to apply to territories of the United States, to establish offshore
wind lease sale requirements, to provide dedicated funding for coral
reef conservation, 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. 6665 is to amend the Outer Continental
Shelf Lands Act to apply to territories of the United States, to es-
tablish offshore wind lease sale requirements, and to provide dedi-
cated funding for coral reef conservation.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Wind energy development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf
(OCS) is a relatively new phenomenon, with a regulatory and stat-
utory structure only being contemplated in the past two decades.
The OCS are the submerged lands, subsoil and seabed that stretch
from the low water mark of the shore to at least 200 miles seaward
and in some cases beyond.1 Under the federal Outer Continental
Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA, 43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), the federal gov-
'https://www.boem.gov/Outer-Continental-Shelf/; https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/data/us-mari-
time-limits-and-boundaries.html.
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