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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-156
PROTECTING AND SECURING FLORIDNS COASTLINE ACT
OF 2019
JULY 16, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 205]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 205) to amend the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of
2006 to permanently extend the moratorium on leasing in certain
areas of the Gulf of Mexico, having considered the same, report fa-
vorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill
do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 205 is to amend the Gulf of Mexico Energy
Security Act of 2006 to permanently extend the moratorium on
leasing in certain areas of the Gulf of Mexico.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is the portion of the ocean
seabed under federal jurisdiction, generally running from 3 to 200
miles out from the coastline. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Manage-
ment (BOEM) in the Department of the Interior (DOI) is respon-
sible for oil and gas leasing on the OCS. BOEM has divided the
OCS into 26 administrative planning areas-11 along the Lower 48
states, and 15 along Alaska. Under the Outer Continental Shelf
Lands Act (OCSLA), DOI must go through a multi-step process to
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