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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 2 (Placed on Calendar Senate) — To remove Federal Government obstacles to the production of more domestic energy; to ensure transport of that energy... · Sec. 23004

Sec. 23004. National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska: planning and permitting pipeline and road construction

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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies, shall facilitate and ensure permits, in a timely and environmentally responsible manner, for all surface development activities, including for the construction of pipelines and roads, necessary to— develop and bring into production any areas within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska that are subject to oil and gas leases; and transport oil and gas from and through the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska in the most direct manner possible to existing transportation or processing infrastructure on the North Slope of Alaska.
The Secretary shall ensure that any Federal permitting agency shall issue permits in accordance with the following timeline: Permits for such construction for transportation of oil and natural gas produced under existing Federal oil and gas leases with respect to which the Secretary has issued a permit to drill shall be approved within 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act. Permits for such construction for transportation of oil and natural gas produced under Federal oil and gas leases shall be approved within 6 months after the submission to the Secretary of a request for a permit to drill.
To ensure timely future development of the Reserve, within 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to Congress a plan for approved rights-of-way for a plan for pipeline, road, and any other surface infrastructure that may be necessary infrastructure that will ensure that all leasable tracts in the Reserve are within 25 miles of an approved road and pipeline right-of-way that can serve future development of the Reserve.
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