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US. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-463
ALASKA'S RIGHT TO PRODUCE ACT OF 2023
APRIL 15, 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
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 6285]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6285) to ratify and approve all authorizations, permits,
verifications, extensions, biological opinions, incidental take state-
ments, and any other approvals or orders issued pursuant to Fed-
eral law necessary for the establishment and administration of the
Coastal Plain oil and gas leasing program, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, reports favorably 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 Alaska's Right to Produce Act of 2023.
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.
Congress finds that-
(1) Congress provided clear authorization and direction that the Secretary of
the Interior shall establish and administer a competitive oil and gas program
for the leasing, development, production, and transportation of oil and gas in
and from the Coastal Plain in section 20001 of Public Law 115-97 (16 U.S.C.
3143 note) (commonly known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act);
(2) the timely administration of the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Pro-
gram is required and in the national and public interest;
(3) the Department of the Interior's cancelling of the leases for the covered
Coastal Plain lease tracts represents a major decision of economic and political
significance that Congress did not delegate to the Secretary;
(4) the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6501 et
seq.) requires that the Bureau of Land Management-
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