Bill Text: GA SR379 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service; urged to include all outer continental shelf planning; five-year plan for offshore development
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-09 - Senate Recommitted [SR379 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2011-SR379-Comm_Sub.html
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The
Senate Natural Resources and the Environment Committee offered the following
substitute to SR 379:
A
RESOLUTION
Urging
the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement of the United
States Department of the Interior to include all outer continental shelf
planning areas in its proposed five-year plan for 2012 through 2017 and to
approve the broadest possible five-year plan for offshore development; and for
other purposes.
WHEREAS,
the outer continental shelf is home to wide areas of recreational and commercial
activities, as well as some of the nation's most fertile areas of oil and
natural gas production; and
WHEREAS,
the development of oil and natural gas resources where allowed off our shores
has coexisted for decades with these other activities while benefiting coastal
residents and noncoastal Americans alike; and
WHEREAS,
offshore development of oil and natural gas has provided needed supplies of
American energy and substantial local, state, and federal revenues;
and
WHEREAS,
the offshore oil and natural gas industry provides thousands of jobs and is an
important source of economic development; and
WHEREAS,
offshore oil and natural gas production operations have a long history of
environmentally sensitive and safe performance, and other federal Atlantic outer
continental shelf areas, such as those offshore of Virginia, the Carolinas, and
Georgia, should also be studied for their resource potential; and
WHEREAS,
today, areas of the outer continental shelf offer some of the greatest potential
for American energy resources, including the Sale 181 area, the Eastern Gulf of
Mexico, and the area known as the North Aleutian Basin.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that the members of this body join in
urging the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement of the
United States Department of the Interior to include all outer continental shelf
planning areas in its proposed five-year plan for 2012 through 2017 and to
approve the broadest possible five-year plan for offshore
development.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed
to transmit appropriate copies of this resolution to the United States
Secretaries of Commerce, the Interior, and Energy and to the administrators of
the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
