US Congress House Bill 3710 (Prior Session Legislation)

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January 12 2012 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Deficit Reduction, Job Creation, and Energy Security Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct oil and gas lease sales under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act for an additional 10% of acreage of the outer Continental Shelf proposed to be leased under the Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017. Requires: (1) such additional acreage to be known as the Deficit Reduction Acreage, and (2) the Secretary to lease at least 20% of such Deficit Reduction Acreage in each such year. Establishes the Deficit Reduction Energy Security Fund. Requires all sums due under Deficit Reduction Acreage lease sales during the 15 fiscal years beginning when sums are first received from such sales to be deposited into such Fund. Establishes the Coastal and Ocean Sustainability and Health Fund to be administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for: (1) the Coastal and Ocean Disaster Grant Program for restoring, mitigating, monitoring, or otherwise managing coastal and ocean natural resources in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida impacted by coastal or ocean disasters; and (2) the National Grant Program for Coastal and Ocean Sustainability and Health for restoring, protecting, maintaining, managing, or understanding marine resources and their habitats and resources in coastal and ocean water. Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reinstate expired producible leases in the offshore Gulf or Mexico upon the petition of a prior leaseholder if such reinstatement furthers the purposes and objectives of such Act. Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) an Office of Energy Employment and Training to oversee the efforts of the Department of the Interior's energy planning, permitting, and regulatory activities to carry out the purposes, objectives, and requirements of this Act; and (2) an Office of Minority and Women Inclusion to be responsible for all matters of the Department of the Interior relating to diversity in management, employment, and business activities. Requires the Secretary to take affirmative steps to seek diversity in all levels of such Department.

Deficit Reduction, Job Creation, and Energy Security Act

Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila	Rep Baca, Joe	Rep Davis, Danny K.	Rep Gonzalez, Charles A.
Rep Green, Al	Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes	Rep Richmond, Cedric L.	Rep Sewell, Terri A.
Rep Thompson, Bennie G.	Rep Towns, Edolphus

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-12	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
2012-01-03	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs.
2012-01-03	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
2011-12-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
2011-12-17	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
2011-12-16	House	Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
2011-12-16	House	Referred to House Science, Space, and Technology
2011-12-16	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2011-12-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN03710:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3710ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr3710ih.pdf