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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 460
To promote domestic energy production, to require onshore and offshore
oil and natural gas lease sales, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
FEBRUARY6 (legislative day, FEBRUARY5), 2025
Mr. D
AINES(for himself, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. RISCH, Mr. CASSIDY, Mrs.
H
YDE-SMITH, Ms. MURKOWSKI, Mr. SHEEHY, Ms. LUMMIS, Mr. CRAPO,
Mr. C
URTIS, Mr. BARRASSO, and Mr. HOEVEN) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources
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 Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Supporting Made in 4
America Energy Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. REQUIRED ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE OIL AND NAT-6
URAL GAS LEASING. 7
(a) O
NSHORELEASESALES.— 8
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(1) ANNUAL LEASE SALES .—Notwithstanding 1
any other provision of law, in accordance with the 2
Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), begin-3
ning in fiscal year 2025, the Secretary of the Inte-4
rior (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) 5
shall conduct a minimum of 4 oil and natural gas 6
lease sales annually in each of the following States: 7
(A) Wyoming. 8
(B) New Mexico. 9
(C) Colorado. 10
(D) Utah. 11
(E) Montana. 12
(F) North Dakota. 13
(G) Oklahoma. 14
(H) Nevada. 15
(I) Any other State in which there is land 16
available for oil and natural gas leasing under 17
that Act. 18
(2) R
EQUIREMENT.—In conducting a lease sale 19
under paragraph (1) in a State described in that 20
paragraph, the Secretary shall offer all parcels eligi-21
ble for oil and gas development under the resource 22
management plan in effect for the State. 23
(3) R
EPLACEMENT SALES .—If, for any reason, 24
a lease sale under paragraph (1) for a calendar year 25
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is canceled, delayed, or deferred, including for a lack 1
of eligible parcels, the Secretary shall conduct a re-2
placement sale during the same calendar year. 3
(b) O
FFSHORELEASESALES.— 4
(1) G
ULF OF MEXICO REGION ANNUAL LEASE 5
SALES.— 6
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 7
other provision of law, beginning in fiscal year 8
2026, the Secretary shall conduct a minimum 9
of 2 region-wide oil and natural gas lease sales 10
annually in the Gulf of Mexico Region of the 11
outer Continental Shelf, which shall— 12
(i) offer the same lease form, lease 13
terms, economic conditions, and stipula-14
tions as contained in the final notice of 15
sale entitled ‘‘Gulf of Mexico Outer Conti-16
nental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261’’ 17
(88 Fed. Reg. 80750 (November 20, 18
2023)); and 19
(ii) include— 20
(I) the Central Gulf of Mexico 21
Planning Area, as described in the 22
2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf 23
Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final 24
Program (November 2016); and 25
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(II) the Western Gulf of Mexico 1
Planning Area, as described in the 2
2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf 3
Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final 4
Program (November 2016). 5
(B) T
IMING.—In conducting the offshore 6
lease sales under subparagraph (A), the Sec-7
retary shall conduct a lease sale under that sub-8
paragraph not later than each of the following 9
dates: 10
(i) March 31, 2026. 11
(ii) August 31, 2026. 12
(iii) March 31, 2027. 13
(iv) August 31, 2027. 14
(v) March 31, 2028. 15
(vi) August 31, 2028. 16
(vii) March 31, 2029. 17
(viii) August 31, 2029. 18
(ix) March 31, 2030. 19
(x) August 31, 2030. 20
(xi) March 31, 2031. 21
(xii) August 31, 2031. 22
(xiii) March 31, 2032. 23
(xiv) August 31, 2032. 24
(xv) March 31, 2033. 25
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(xvi) August 31, 2033. 1
(xvii) March 31, 2034. 2
(xviii) August 31, 2034. 3
(xix) March 31, 2035. 4
(xx) August 31, 2035. 5
(2) M
ORATORIUM ON OIL AND GAS LEASING IN 6
THE EASTERN GULF OF MEXICO .—Section 104 of 7
the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 (43 8
U.S.C. 1331 note; Public Law 109–432) is amend-9
ed— 10
(A) in subsection (a)— 11
(i) in the matter preceding paragraph 12
(1), by striking ‘‘June 30, 2022’’ and in-13
serting ‘‘December 31, 2035’’; 14
(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘or’’ 15
after the semicolon; 16
(iii) in paragraph (3)(B)(iii), by strik-17
ing the period at the end and inserting a 18
semicolon; and 19
(iv) by adding at the end the fol-20
lowing: 21
‘‘(4) any area in the South Atlantic Planning 22
Area (as designated by the Bureau of Ocean Energy 23
Management as of the date of enactment of this 24
paragraph); or 25
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‘‘(5) any area in the Straits of Florida Planning 1
Area (as designated by the Bureau of Ocean Energy 2
Management as of the date of enactment of this 3
paragraph).’’; and 4
(B) by adding at the end the following: 5
‘‘(d) E
FFECT ONCERTAINLEASES.—The moratoria 6
under subsection (a) shall not affect valid existing leases 7
in effect on the date of enactment of this subsection. 8
‘‘(e) E
NVIRONMENTAL EXCEPTIONS.—Notwith-9
standing subsection (a), the Secretary may issue leases in 10
areas described in that subsection for environmental con-11
servation purposes, including the purposes of shore protec-12
tion, beach nourishment and restoration, wetlands restora-13
tion, and habitat protection.’’. 14
(3) L
EASE SALES IN ALASKA REGION .— 15
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary of the 16
Interior shall conduct a minimum of 6 offshore 17
lease sales during the 10-year period beginning 18
on the date of enactment of this Act in the 19
Cook Inlet Planning Area as identified in the 20
2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and 21
Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program published 22
on November 18, 2016, by the Bureau of Ocean 23
Energy Management (as announced in the no-24
tice of availability of the Bureau of Ocean En-25
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ergy Management entitled ‘‘Notice of Avail-1
ability of the 2017–2022 Outer Continental 2
Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Pro-3
gram’’ (81 Fed. Reg. 84612 (November 23, 4
2016))). 5
(B) R
EQUIREMENTS.— 6
(i) A
REA OFFERED FOR LEASE .—The 7
Secretary of the Interior shall offer not 8
fewer than 1,000,000 acres for each off-9
shore lease sale conducted under subpara-10
graph (A). 11
(ii) I
SSUANCE OF LEASES.—If any ac-12
ceptable bids have been received for any 13
tract offered in a lease sale conducted 14
under subparagraph (A), the Secretary of 15
the Interior shall issue the lease not later 16
than 90 days after the lease sale to the 17
highest bid on the tract offered. 18
(iii) R
OYALTY RATE.—The royalty 19
rate for each lease issued pursuant to a 20
lease sale conducted under subparagraph 21
(A) shall be 12.5 percent. 22
(4) O
UTER CONTINENTAL SHELF OIL AND GAS 23
LEASING PROGRAM.—Section 18 of the Outer Conti-24
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nental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344) is amend-1
ed— 2
(A) in subsection (a), in the first sentence 3
of the matter preceding paragraph (1), by strik-4
ing ‘‘subsections (c) and (d) of this section’’ 5
and inserting ‘‘subsections (c) through (f)’’; 6
(B) by redesignating subsections (f) 7
through (i) as subsections (g) through (j), re-8
spectively; 9
(C) by inserting after subsection (e) the 10
following: 11
‘‘(f) S
UBSEQUENTLEASINGPROGRAMS.— 12
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 36 months 13
after conducting the first lease sale under an oil and 14
gas leasing program prepared pursuant to this sec-15
tion, the Secretary shall begin preparing the subse-16
quent oil and gas leasing program under this sec-17
tion. 18
‘‘(2) R
EQUIREMENT.—Each subsequent oil and 19
gas leasing program under this section shall be ap-20
proved not later than 180 days before the expiration 21
of the previous oil and gas leasing program.’’; and 22
(D) by indenting subsection (j) (as so re-23
designated) appropriately. 24
(c) P
ROHIBITION.— 25
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall not, 1
through Executive order or any other administrative 2
procedure, unreasonably pause, cancel, delay, defer, 3
or otherwise impede or circumvent the Federal en-4
ergy mineral leasing processes under the Mineral 5
Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), the Outer Con-6
tinental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), 7
the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 8
1976 (42 U.S.C. 6501 et seq.), or Public Law 115– 9
97 (commonly known as the ‘‘Tax Cuts and Jobs 10
Act of 2017’’), or a related rulemaking process re-11
quired by subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, 12
of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as 13
the ‘‘Administrative Procedure Act’’), without con-14
gressional approval. 15
(2) R
EBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION .—There shall 16
be a rebuttable presumption that any attempt by the 17
President to pause, cancel, delay, defer, or otherwise 18
impede or circumvent any Federal energy mineral 19
leasing process under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 20
U.S.C. 181 et seq.), the Outer Continental Shelf 21
Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.), the Naval Pe-22
troleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 23
6501 et seq.), or Public Law 115–97 (commonly 24
known as the ‘‘Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017’’), 25
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or a related rulemaking process required by sub-1
chapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5, 2
United States Code (commonly known as the ‘‘Ad-3
ministrative Procedure Act’’), without congressional 4
approval, is a violation of the applicable law. 5
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