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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S. 460 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 460

To promote domestic energy production, to require onshore and offshore 
 oil and natural gas lease sales, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 February 6 (legislative day, February 5), 2025

 Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Risch, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. 
 Hyde-Smith, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Sheehy, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Crapo, Mr. 
 Curtis, Mr. Barrasso, and Mr. Hoeven) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
 Natural Resources

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 A BILL

To promote domestic energy production, to require onshore and offshore 
 oil and natural gas lease sales, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Supporting Made in America Energy 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRED ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE OIL AND NATURAL GAS LEASING.

    (a) Onshore Lease Sales.--

    (1) Annual lease sales.--Notwithstanding any other 
 provision of law, in accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act 
 (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), beginning in fiscal year 2025, the 
 Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this section as the 
 ``Secretary'') shall conduct a minimum of 4 oil and natural gas 
 lease sales annually in each of the following States:
        (A) Wyoming.
        (B) New Mexico.
            (C) Colorado.
            (D) Utah.
        (E) Montana.
        (F) North Dakota.
        (G) Oklahoma.
        (H) Nevada.
            (I) Any other State in which there is land 
 available for oil and natural gas leasing under that 
 Act.

    (2) Requirement.--In conducting a lease sale under 
 paragraph

    (1) in a State described in that paragraph, the 
 Secretary shall offer all parcels eligible for oil and gas 
 development under the resource management plan in effect for 
 the State.

    (3) Replacement sales.--If, for any reason, a lease sale 
 under paragraph

    (1) for a calendar year is canceled, delayed, 
 or deferred, including for a lack of eligible parcels, the 
 Secretary shall conduct a replacement sale during the same 
 calendar year.

    (b) Offshore Lease Sales.--

    (1) Gulf of mexico region annual lease sales.--
        (A) In general.--Notwithstanding any other 
 provision of law, beginning in fiscal year 2026, the 
 Secretary shall conduct a minimum of 2 region-wide oil 
 and natural gas lease sales annually in the Gulf of 
 Mexico Region of the outer Continental Shelf, which 
 shall--
            (i) offer the same lease form, lease terms, 
 economic conditions, and stipulations as 
 contained in the final notice of sale entitled 
 ``Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil 
 and Gas Lease Sale 261'' (88 Fed. Reg. 80750 
 (November 20, 2023)); and
            (ii) include--
            (I) the Central Gulf of Mexico 
 Planning Area, as described in the 
 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil 
 and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program 
 (November 2016); and
            (II) the Western Gulf of Mexico 
 Planning Area, as described in the 
 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil 
 and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program 
 (November 2016).
        (B) Timing.--In conducting the offshore lease sales 
 under subparagraph
        (A) , the Secretary shall conduct a 
 lease sale under that subparagraph not later than each 
 of the following dates:
            (i) March 31, 2026.
            (ii) August 31, 2026.
            (iii) March 31, 2027.
            (iv) August 31, 2027.
            (v) March 31, 2028.
            (vi) August 31, 2028.
            (vii) March 31, 2029.
            (viii) August 31, 2029.
            (ix) March 31, 2030.
            (x) August 31, 2030.
            (xi) March 31, 2031.
            (xii) August 31, 2031.
            (xiii) March 31, 2032.
            (xiv) August 31, 2032.
            (xv) March 31, 2033.
            (xvi) August 31, 2033.
            (xvii) March 31, 2034.
            (xviii) August 31, 2034.
            (xix) March 31, 2035.
            (xx) August 31, 2035.

    (2) Moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the eastern gulf 
 of mexico.--

Section 104 of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security 
 Act of 2006 (43 U.S.C. 1331 note; Public Law 109-432) is 
 amended--
        (A) in subsection

    (a) --
            (i) in the matter preceding paragraph

    (1) , 
 by striking ``June 30, 2022'' and inserting 
 ``December 31, 2035'';
            (ii) in paragraph

    (2) , by striking ``or'' 
 after the semicolon;
            (iii) in paragraph

    (3)
        (B)
            (iii) , by striking 
 the period at the end and inserting a 
 semicolon; and
            (iv) by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (4) any area in the South Atlantic Planning Area (as 
 designated by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management as of the 
 date of enactment of this paragraph); or
 ``

    (5) any area in the Straits of Florida Planning Area (as 
 designated by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management as of the 
 date of enactment of this paragraph).''; and
        (B) by adding at the end the following:
 ``
            (d) Effect on Certain Leases.--The moratoria under subsection

    (a) shall not affect valid existing leases in effect on the date of 
enactment of this subsection.
 ``

    (e) Environmental Exceptions.--Notwithstanding subsection

    (a) , 
the Secretary may issue leases in areas described in that subsection 
for environmental conservation purposes, including the purposes of 
shore protection, beach nourishment and restoration, wetlands 
restoration, and habitat protection.''.

    (3) Lease sales in alaska region.--
        (A) In general.--The Secretary of the Interior 
 shall conduct a minimum of 6 offshore lease sales 
 during the 10-year period beginning on the date of 
 enactment of this Act in the Cook Inlet Planning Area 
 as identified in the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf 
 Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program published on 
 November 18, 2016, by the Bureau of Ocean Energy 
 Management (as announced in the notice of availability 
 of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management entitled 
 ``Notice of Availability of the 2017-2022 Outer 
 Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final 
 Program'' (81 Fed. Reg. 84612 (November 23, 2016))).
        (B) Requirements.--
            (i) Area offered for lease.--The Secretary 
 of the Interior shall offer not fewer than 
 1,000,000 acres for each offshore lease sale 
 conducted under subparagraph
        (A) .
            (ii) Issuance of leases.--If any acceptable 
 bids have been received for any tract offered 
 in a lease sale conducted under subparagraph
        (A) , the Secretary of the Interior shall issue 
 the lease not later than 90 days after the 
 lease sale to the highest bid on the tract 
 offered.
            (iii) Royalty rate.--The royalty rate for 
 each lease issued pursuant to a lease sale 
 conducted under subparagraph
        (A) shall be 12.5 
 percent.

    (4) Outer continental shelf oil and gas leasing program.--
 

Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
 1344) is amended--
        (A) in subsection

    (a) , in the first sentence of the 
 matter preceding paragraph

    (1) , by striking 
 ``subsections
            (c) and
            (d) of this section'' and 
 inserting ``subsections
            (c) through

    (f) '';
        (B) by redesignating subsections

    (f) through
            (i) as 
 subsections

    (g) through

    (j) , respectively;
            (C) by inserting after subsection

    (e) the 
 following:
 ``

    (f) Subsequent Leasing Programs.--
 ``

    (1) In general.--Not later than 36 months after 
 conducting the first lease sale under an oil and gas leasing 
 program prepared pursuant to this section, the Secretary shall 
 begin preparing the subsequent oil and gas leasing program 
 under this section.
 ``

    (2) Requirement.--Each subsequent oil and gas leasing 
 program under this section shall be approved not later than 180 
 days before the expiration of the previous oil and gas leasing 
 program.''; and
            (D) by indenting subsection

    (j) (as so 
 redesignated) appropriately.
            (c) Prohibition.--

    (1) In general.--The President shall not, through Executive 
 order or any other administrative procedure, unreasonably 
 pause, cancel, delay, defer, or otherwise impede or circumvent 
 the Federal energy mineral leasing processes under the Mineral 
 Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), the Outer Continental 
 Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), the Naval Petroleum 
 Reserves Production Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.), or 
 Public Law 115-97 (commonly known as the ``Tax Cuts and Jobs 
 Act of 2017''), or a related rulemaking process required by 
 subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5, United 
 States Code (commonly known as the ``Administrative Procedure 
 Act''), without congressional approval.

    (2) Rebuttable presumption.--There shall be a rebuttable 
 presumption that any attempt by the President to pause, cancel, 
 delay, defer, or otherwise impede or circumvent any Federal 
 energy mineral leasing process under the Mineral Leasing Act 
 (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 
 (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), the Naval Petroleum Reserves 
 Production Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.), or Public Law 
 115-97 (commonly known as the ``Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 
 2017''), or a related rulemaking process required by subchapter 
 II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5, United States Code 
 (commonly known as the ``Administrative Procedure Act''), 
 without congressional approval, is a violation of the 
 applicable law.
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