Sec. 2. Outer Continental Shelf leasing program reforms
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Section 18(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act ( 43 U.S.C. 1344(a) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: In this paragraph, the term available unleased acreage means that portion of the outer Continental Shelf that is not under lease at the time of a proposed lease sale, and that has not otherwise been made unavailable for leasing by law in the Gulf of Mexico. In each oil and gas leasing program under this section, the Secretary shall make available for leasing, and conduct lease sales including, at least 50 percent of the available unleased acreage within each outer Continental Shelf planning area in the Gulf of Mexico considered to have the largest undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources (on a total btu basis) based on the most recent national geologic assessment of the outer Continental Shelf, with an emphasis on offering the most geologically prospective parts of the planning area.
The Secretary shall include in each proposed oil and gas leasing program under this section any State subdivision of an outer Continental Shelf planning area in the Gulf of Mexico that the Governor of the State that represents that subdivision requests be made available for leasing. The Secretary may not remove a subdivision described in subparagraph
(A)from the program until publication of the final program. The Secretary shall make available for leasing under each 5-year oil and gas leasing program under this section any outer Continental Shelf planning area in the Gulf of Mexico that— is estimated to contain more than 2,500,000,000 barrels of oil; or is estimated to contain more than 7,500,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas. To determine which planning areas meet the criteria described in subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall use the document entitled Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Assessment of Undiscovered Technically Recoverable Oil and Gas Resources of the Nation’s Outer Continental Shelf, 2011 . .
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