IB Union Calendar No. 117 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 1941 [Report No. 116–157] To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior including in any leasing program certain planning areas, and for other purposes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH 28, 2019 Mr. CUNNINGHAM (for himself, Mr. ROONEY of Florida, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. VAN DREW, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. ROUDA, Mr. PAPPAS, Mr. GALLEGO, Ms. VELÁZQUEZ, Ms. HILL of California, Mr. PANETTA, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. BEYER, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. SHALALA, Ms. HAALAND, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. MCEACHIN, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. KIM, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mr. CASE, Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. LEVIN of California, Mr. SOTO, and Mr. COX of California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources JULY 16, 2019 Additional sponsors: Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mrs. LURIA, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Mr. PETERS, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. COHEN, Mr. KHANNA, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Miss RICE of New York, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Mr. HIMES, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. HARDER of California, Ms. SLOTKIN, and Ms. SÁNCHEZ kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS JULY 16, 2019 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:37 Jul 16, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6652 E:\BILLS\H1941.RH H1941 2 A BILL kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior including in any leasing program certain planning areas, and for other purposes. •HR 1941 RH VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:37 Jul 16, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6652 E:\BILLS\H1941.RH H1941 3 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 4 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Coastal and Marine 5 Economies Protection Act’’. 6 SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON LEASING IN CERTAIN PLANNING 7 8 AREAS. Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 9 is amended by redesignating subsections (g) and (h) as 10 subsections (h) and (i) respectively, and by inserting after 11 subsection (f) the following: 12 ‘‘(g) The Secretary shall not include in any leasing 13 program under this section any area within the Atlantic 14 Region planning areas or the Pacific Region planning 15 areas, as such planning areas are described in the docu16 ment entitled ‘Draft Proposed Program Outer Continental 17 Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2019–2024’, dated kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 18 January 2018.’’. •HR 1941 RH VerDate Sep 11 2014 23:37 Jul 16, 2019 Jkt 089200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H1941.RH H1941 Union Calendar No. 117 H. R. 1941 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42 with BILLS 116TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION [Report No. 116–157] A BILL To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior including in any leasing program certain planning areas, and for other purposes. JULY 16, 2019 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed H1941 E:\BILLS\H1941.RH Sfmt 6651 Fmt 6651 Frm 00004 PO 00000 Jkt 089200 23:37 Jul 16, 2019 VerDate Sep 11 2014