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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-405
BRINGING RELIABLE INVESTMENT INTO DOMESTIC GULF
ENERGY PRODUCTION ACT OF 2023
MARCH 5, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 5616]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5616) to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct
certain offshore lease sales, having considered the same, reports fa-
vorably thereon with an amendment and recommends 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 Bringing Reliable Investment into Domestic Gulf
Energy Production Act of 2023 or the BRIDGE Production Act of 2023.
SEC. 2. OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS LEASE SALES.
(a) DEFINITIONS.-In this section:
(1) OFFSHORE LEASE SALE.-The term offshore lease sale means an oil and
gas lease sale-
(A) that is held by the Secretary in accordance with the Outer Conti-
nental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), notwithstanding the re-
quirements of section 18 of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1344);
(B) that, with respect to lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico region, offers
the same lease form, lease terms, economic conditions, and stipulations as
contained in the final notice of sale entitled Gulf of Mexico Outer Conti-
nental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 257 (86 Fed. Reg. 54728 (October 4,
2021)); and
(C) that, if any acceptable bids have been received for any tract offered
in the lease sale, results in the issuance of leases within 90 days of the sale
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