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INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-645
ORPHANED WELL CLEANUP AND JOBS ACT OF 2021
DECEMBER 15, 2022.-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
R E P O R T
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2415]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2415) to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require
the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to permanently
plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells and the surrounding
lands and to provide funds to States and Tribal Governments to
permanently plug, remediate, and reclaim orphaned wells and the
surrounding lands, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Orphaned Well Cleanup and Jobs Act of 2021.
SEC. 2. ORPHANED WELL SITE PLUGGING, REMEDIATION, AND RESTORATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Section 349 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-
58; 42 U.S.C. 15907) is amended to read as follows:
SEC. 349. ORPHANED WELL SITE PLUGGING, REMEDIATION, AND RESTORATION.
(a) FEDERAL PROGRAM.-
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.-The Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Ag-
riculture and affected Indian Tribes, shall establish a program not later than
180 days after the date of enactment of this section to permanently plug or-
phaned wells and remediate and reclaim orphaned wells located on land admin-
istered by the land management agencies within the Department of the Interior
and the Department of Agriculture.
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