Abercrombie (HI)

#18

WITHDRAWN.  (LATE)  Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of 1953 (OCSLA) to apply Federal laws to foreign workers employed on vessels, rigs, platforms, or other vehicles or structures exempted from the OCSLA-mandated hiring preference for American workers.  Includes “Buy American” language.

Bartlett (MD)/Udall, Tom (NM)

#8

Expresses the "sense of Congress that in order to keep energy costs affordable, curb our environmental impact, and safeguard economic prosperity, including our trade deficit, the United States must move rapidly to increase the productivity with which it uses fossil fuel, and to accelerate the transition to renewable fuels and a sustainable, clean energy economy; and the United States, in collaboration with other international allies, should establish an energy project with the magnitude, creativity, and sense of urgency of the 'Man on the Moon' project to develop a comprehensive plan to address the challenges presented by Peak Oil."

Bilirakis (FL)/Diaz-Balart, Mario (FL)/ Harris (FL)/
Wasserman Schultz(FL)
/Wexler (FL)/
Young, C.W. Bill (FL)/
Brown-Waite (FL)

#7

Prohibits leasing (either oil and gas or natural gas) within 125 miles of a state’s coastline unless the state requests leasing. 

Boehlert (NY)/Markey (MA)

#4

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to ensure that fuel economy standards for automobiles manufactured by a manufacturer in model years after 2015 shall not be less than 33 miles per gallon, that improvement to fuel economy standards do not degrade safety of automobiles, and that the retention of jobs in the automobile manufacturing sector of the United States shall be maximized.

Calvert (CA)

#5

Requires the Secretary of Interior to consult with and obtain the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense before proposing OCS leases which may affect military installations and before making a determination that an OCS development and production plan is consistent with military operating stipulations.

Davis, Jim (FL)

#1

Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute. Inserts the text of H.R. 4783, the Permanent Protection for Florida Act of 2006.  Opens up an area in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico to offshore drilling, provides permanent protection to the coast of Florida, and extends the moratorium on offshore drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf from 2012 to 2020.

Davis, Tom (VA)

#12

REVISED.  Authorizes $150 million of OCS receipts to be available to the Secretary of the Treasury for each of the fiscal years 2007 through 2016 to make payments subject to appropriations to fund in part capital and preventive maintenance projects for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). 

Flake (AZ)

#3

Allows U.S. energy companies, if they so choose, to explore and extract oil and gas in the exclusive economic zones (EEZ) of countries whose EEZs border with our own.

Harris (FL)

Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute.  Inserts the text of HR 5649, the Coast Economic and Environmental Protection Act.  Gives coastal states control of waters 125 miles off the coast, and empowers the states (via the Legislature)  to determine where, when, and if drilling may occur in offshore areas. A percentage of the lease revenues where drilling occurs will go to the State of jurisdiction. The monies can be used for education, transportation, tax reductions, or any purpose determined by State law.  Establishes a fund for the monitoring, management, and enhancement of wildlife and fish, and their habitats, and air, water, and other natural resources related to energy and minerals development. Allows US Department of Defense to continue military and homeland security training in the Gulf region.

Hinojosa (TX)

#2

WITHDRAWN.  Eliminates the funding cap on the Interior Workforce Enhancement Programs to help address the national shortage of qualified engineers, scientists, and mathematicians.

Inslee (WA)

#19

Increases from $6 million to $20 million the amount made available by the Secretary for renewable ocean energy generation.

Jackson-Lee (TX)

#16

WITHDRAWN. Requires that, in order to be eligible for funding provided by the bill, a school, university, or educational institution must agree to increase opportunities for training and employing minority or women faculty in petroleum, mining, and mineral engineering.  

Jackson-Lee (TX)

#13

WITHDRAWN.  Provides that minority serving institutions be given particular consideration in the awarding of funds to support schools with energy and mineral resource programs in petroleum and mineral exploration geology, petroleum geophysics, or mining geophysics.  

Jackson-Lee (TX)

#14

REVISED.  Requires the Secretary of Interior to adhere to existing affirmative action programs in the granting of oil and gas leases.

Jackson-Lee (TX)

#15

WITHDRAWN.  Requires the Secretary of Interior to ensure equal access for small, minority owned, and women-owned businesses to oil and gas leases.  

Markey (MA)

#9

WITHDRAWN.  Strikes subsection (t) of section 6, in order to prevent the loss of $500 million as a result of a reduction in royalty rates currently paid by oil and gas producers in shallow water offshore.

Markey (MA)

#10

Strikes the provisions in the underlying bill lifting the 25-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling in environmentally-sensitive areas offshore.  Leaves intact provisions designed to provide oil companies with incentives to renegotiate existing leases that fail to include market-based price caps for the suspension of royalty-free drilling and begin production on active leases that are not producing.

Miller, Jeff (FL)

#17

Prevents the offering of oil or gas leases in the area east of the Military Mission Line.

Pombo (CA)

#11

Manager’s Amendment.  Makes technical corrections and addresses jurisdictional issues with the Committee on Science and the Committee on Education and the Workforce regarding section 23 of the bill by eliminating a kindergarten through grade 12 education component and by providing an authorization for a Department of Energy research, development and scholarship program.  It incorporates two of the amendments filed by Ms. Jackson-Lee (numbers 13 and 16) which would otherwise not be in order because of the restructuring of section 23. The amendment includes the text of the amendment filed by Mr. Markey (# 9) and addresses the concerns expressed in the amendment filed by Mr. Hinojosa (#2). It also includes Mr. Miller’s (#17) amendment prohibiting leasing east of the military mission line offshore Florida.  It provides that States must take action to prevent leasing and cannot rely upon the President to do that for them.  It clarifies that funding provided under section 30 is contingent on reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, a clarification requested by Chairman Goodlatte.  The amendment also includes insular area schools as eligible institutions for funding under section 23.  It includes a Sense of the Congress that energy development on the OCS will help promote and increase American jobs.  It removes three sections of the bill that changed the existing process for handling exploration and development plans.   Finally, the amendment reduces the cost of the measure significantly by: (1) Subjecting expenditures to appropriations for three of the four funds. Only the rural schools fund is directly funded now.  (2)  Requiring the Secretary to hold a certain lease sale earlier than originally required. (Lease Sale 181 bulge area in the Gulf of Mexico)
(3)  As part of the Clinton Administration’s Deep Water Royalty Relief Act of 1995 correction, allowing only 1998 and 1999 leases to incorporate the bill’s oil and gas price thresholds.  Leases from other years already have price thresholds.  (4)  Excepting leases already in litigation from provisions of the bill that require the Department of Interior to buy back non-producing leases for which the government will not issue actual drilling permits.  (5)   For production within 12 miles of the coast:
Reduce the initial state revenue share from 75% to 25% for the first five years and increase by 5% per year to a total of 50% in year 10.  In determining whether (and at what rate) to increase the state revenue share from 50% to 75%, requiring the total 2007-2016 receipts from new program areas to exceed $4 billion (the CBO receipts projection baseline) and depending on future increases from new program areas.  (6) Changes the Resource Conservation Fee for non-producing leases from a range to a fixed $3.75/acre.  (7)        Lastly, it limits the revenue sharing provisions for areas more than 100 miles from the coastline if the Adjacent State does not allow any leasing within 100 of its coastline.

Udall, Tom (NM)

#6

Creates a mandatory, economy-wide cap on greenhouse gas emission allowances.  Cap is set at a level determined using the three years following enactment of the legislation.  Greenhouse gas emission allowances are allocated in the following way: 25% to the Department of Energy for advanced energy research; 10% to the Department of State for investment in developing countries’ low carbon and no-carbon projects; 35% to the EPA for those people, entities, and localities that may incur dislocation as a result of the legislation; 5% to be distributed to the states for LIHEAP recipients; and the remaining 25% to the U.S. Treasury for auction.  Additional “safety valve” allowances may be purchased at $25 with proceeds going to the U.S. Treasury.  

Stearns (FL)

#21

Prohibits oil and gas leasing within 100 miles of a state's coast unless the Governor and state legislature agree to permit leasing in this area.