SEC. 204. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT REQUIREMENT.
18(a) IN GENERAL
—For the purposes of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall prepare a multisale environmental impact statement under section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) for all lease sales required under this title.
In one of the associated bill written originally just for Virginia, the monies from the leases have to be divided into 50% blocks of which the states receives 50%. So, the state is on the take for this huge insult to the environment of the region.
A NEPA regulation is to have any alternative energy resources known before sales of leases. The reason for that is to do with interference with other industries seeking potential.
ACTIONS TO BE CONSIDERED—
Not withstanding section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332), in such statement—
3(1) the Secretary is not required to identify nonleasing alternative courses of action or to analyze the environmental effects of such alternative courses of action; and
(2) the Secretary shall only—
8(A) identify a preferred action for leasing and not more than one alternative leasing proposal; and (B) analyze the environmental effects and potential mitigation measures for such preferred action and such alternative leasing proposal.
This is liberty at work, huh? I don't think so.
‘‘(c) DISPOSITION OF REVENUE UNDER OLD LEASES
—All rentals,’’; and (B) in subsection (c) (as designated by the amendment made by sub paragraph (A) of this paragraph), by striking ‘‘for the period from June 5, 1950, to date, and thereafter’’ and inserting ‘‘in the period beginning June 5, 1950,and ending on the date of enactment of the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act’’;(2) by adding after subsection (c) (as so designated) the following:
This Republican bill begins addressing distribution of revenues by FIRST reaching back to 1950 to define revenues. I have not read the entire bill yet, but, it is a good guess monies are going to be distributed from the USA Treasury, increasing the National Debt of past revenues to the federal government.
This is called corruption. There is no other definition, this is blatant in your face corruption.
‘(d) DEFINITIONS—In this section:
‘‘(1) COASTAL STATE—The term ‘coastal State’ includes a territory of the United States.
‘‘(2) NEW LEASING REVENUES—The term ‘new leasing revenues’—
‘‘(A) means amounts received by the United States as bonuses, rents, and royalties under leases for oil and gas, wind, tidal, or other energy exploration, development, and production on areas of the outer Continental Shelf that are authorized to be made available for leasing as a result of enactment of the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act and leasing under that Act; and
Oh, it gets better, the Gulf States are exempt. The Red States.
‘‘(B) does not include amounts received by the United States under any lease of an area located in the boundaries of the Central Gulf of Mexico and Western Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Planning Areas on the date of enactment of the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act,including a lease issued before, on, or after such date of enactment.’’; and
I have to drag out the old bill, but, it looks like the State's cut in revenues may be reduced from 50% to 37.5% with other modifications except for the Gulf of Mexico states. That is corruption through and through. The word 'new' applies, but, that doesn't mean the entire bill focuses on only new leases. This is another Republican bill going nowhere.
There just is no reason for this. Why pump American oil and gas out of the ground for export? Our nation's resources are limited, we have already passed Peak Oil and this is simply poor planning for the future of this country.
If this bill ever passes into law, there are enormous reasons for courts to defeat it.
Political play at the cost of sound policy vs political pandering. It is a shame really.
Boner is no longer the Speaker, by the way. He is the 'de-facto' speaker and that is the way the extremists want it. The extremists in the House have made it completely impossible to govern in the House.
If John ever took up the gavel he might use his authority to temper the tone of the House, that isn't political productive to the extremists. The tone of the House is political and extreme.
The most productive work of the House at this time was to bring about their own bill for Immigration Reform so their bill and the Senate bill could go into conference immediately. But, no that won't happen, the petroleum industry comes first.
A NEPA regulation is to have any alternative energy resources known before sales of leases. The reason for that is to do with interference with other industries seeking potential.
ACTIONS TO BE CONSIDERED—
Not withstanding section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332), in such statement—
3(1) the Secretary is not required to identify nonleasing alternative courses of action or to analyze the environmental effects of such alternative courses of action; and
(2) the Secretary shall only—
8(A) identify a preferred action for leasing and not more than one alternative leasing proposal; and (B) analyze the environmental effects and potential mitigation measures for such preferred action and such alternative leasing proposal.
This is liberty at work, huh? I don't think so.
‘‘(c) DISPOSITION OF REVENUE UNDER OLD LEASES
—All rentals,’’; and (B) in subsection (c) (as designated by the amendment made by sub paragraph (A) of this paragraph), by striking ‘‘for the period from June 5, 1950, to date, and thereafter’’ and inserting ‘‘in the period beginning June 5, 1950,and ending on the date of enactment of the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act’’;(2) by adding after subsection (c) (as so designated) the following:
This Republican bill begins addressing distribution of revenues by FIRST reaching back to 1950 to define revenues. I have not read the entire bill yet, but, it is a good guess monies are going to be distributed from the USA Treasury, increasing the National Debt of past revenues to the federal government.
This is called corruption. There is no other definition, this is blatant in your face corruption.
‘(d) DEFINITIONS—In this section:
‘‘(1) COASTAL STATE—The term ‘coastal State’ includes a territory of the United States.
‘‘(2) NEW LEASING REVENUES—The term ‘new leasing revenues’—
‘‘(A) means amounts received by the United States as bonuses, rents, and royalties under leases for oil and gas, wind, tidal, or other energy exploration, development, and production on areas of the outer Continental Shelf that are authorized to be made available for leasing as a result of enactment of the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act and leasing under that Act; and
Oh, it gets better, the Gulf States are exempt. The Red States.
‘‘(B) does not include amounts received by the United States under any lease of an area located in the boundaries of the Central Gulf of Mexico and Western Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Planning Areas on the date of enactment of the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act,including a lease issued before, on, or after such date of enactment.’’; and
I have to drag out the old bill, but, it looks like the State's cut in revenues may be reduced from 50% to 37.5% with other modifications except for the Gulf of Mexico states. That is corruption through and through. The word 'new' applies, but, that doesn't mean the entire bill focuses on only new leases. This is another Republican bill going nowhere.
There just is no reason for this. Why pump American oil and gas out of the ground for export? Our nation's resources are limited, we have already passed Peak Oil and this is simply poor planning for the future of this country.
If this bill ever passes into law, there are enormous reasons for courts to defeat it.
Political play at the cost of sound policy vs political pandering. It is a shame really.
Boner is no longer the Speaker, by the way. He is the 'de-facto' speaker and that is the way the extremists want it. The extremists in the House have made it completely impossible to govern in the House.
If John ever took up the gavel he might use his authority to temper the tone of the House, that isn't political productive to the extremists. The tone of the House is political and extreme.
The most productive work of the House at this time was to bring about their own bill for Immigration Reform so their bill and the Senate bill could go into conference immediately. But, no that won't happen, the petroleum industry comes first.
