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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-157
COASTAL AND MARINE ECONOMIES PROTECTION ACT
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. 1941]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1941) to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior including in any leasing
program certain planning areas, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment
and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1941 is to prohibit the Secretary of the Inte-
rior including in any leasing program certain planning areas.
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
identify what parts of the OCS will be available for oil and gas
leasing over a five-year period. BOEM is responsible for preparing
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