Provides relative to oysters leases. (gov sig)
Allows for dual leasing of water bottoms for oyster cultivation and harvest
Provides relative to facility need review. (8/1/22) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Memorializes congress to end the outer continental shelf moratorium on oil and natural gas exploration and production
Urges and requests Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, to reconsider the directive that he issued which instituted six-month moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and to possibly alter that directive to minimize the negative economic impact of such directive on the already damaged economies of the state of Louisiana and the other oil and gas producing states along the Gulf of Mexico.
Creates the Oyster Lease Moratorium Lifting Committee
Provides for a moratorium on permits allowing underground storage of hazardous wastes, natural gas, liquid hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, Class III brine extraction from or near a salt dome drilling through or into such underground storage reservoirs near salt domes or adjacent caverns, and to expand the requirements for such operations near moderate and catastrophic disasters such as sinkholes and collapses in salt dome caverns. (8/1/13)
Provides for a limited exception to the moratorium on additional nursing facilities