Sec. 12. Expedited judicial review
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In this section, the term covered energy development means any action or decision by a Federal official regarding— the leasing of offshore Federal land (including submerged land) in the outer Continental Shelf for the exploration, development, production, processing, or transmission of oil, natural gas, or any other source or form of energy, including actions and decisions regarding the selection or offering of offshore Federal land in the outer Continental Shelf for such leasing; or any action under a lease described in paragraph (1), except that this section shall not apply to a dispute between the parties to a lease entered into under a provision of law authorizing the lease regarding obligations under the lease or the alleged breach of the lease.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear all causes and claims under this section or any other Federal law that arise from any covered energy development, except for any cause or claim arising under the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and brought in a United States court within that circuit. Each case or claim described in subsection
(b)shall be filed not later than the end of the 60-day period beginning on the date of the action or decision by a Federal official on the covered energy development concerned. Any cause or claim described in subsection
(b)that is not filed within the time period described in paragraph
(1)shall be barred. Each proceeding that is subject to subsection
(b)shall— be resolved as expeditiously as practicable and in any event by not later than 180 days after the date the cause or claim is filed; and take precedence over all other pending matters before the District Court for the District of Columbia. If an interlocutory or final judgment, decree, or order has not been issued by the District Court for the District of Columbia by the deadline described in paragraph (1), the cause or claim shall be dismissed with prejudice and all rights relating to the cause or claim shall be terminated. An interlocutory or final judgment, decree, or order of the District Court for the District of Columbia under this section may be reviewed by no other court except the Supreme Court.