Official Summaries

This bill nullifies two presidential memoranda that were published on January 6, 2025, including (1) the Memorandum on the Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing, relating to the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, and Pacific areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS); and (2) the Memorandum on the Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing, relating to the Bering Sea areas of the OCS. The memoranda prohibited the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) from issuing offshore leases for the exploration, development, or production (i.e., offshore drilling) of oil or natural gas in those areas.

This bill reverses the withdrawal to allow BOEM to issue leases in those areas.

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 408 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 408

  To nullify the Presidential memoranda on the withdrawal of certain 
 areas of the outer Continental Shelf from oil or natural gas leasing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 15, 2025

Mr. Arrington introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To nullify the Presidential memoranda on the withdrawal of certain 
 areas of the outer Continental Shelf from oil or natural gas leasing.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. NULLIFICATION OF PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDA ON THE WITHDRAWAL OF 
              CERTAIN AREAS OF THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF.

    The following Presidential memoranda shall have no force or effect:
            (1) The Presidential Memorandum of January 6, 2025, titled 
        ``Memorandum on the Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United 
        States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas 
        Leasing'' (relating to the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, and 
        Pacific areas).
            (2) The Presidential Memorandum of January 6, 2025, titled 
        ``Memorandum on the Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United 
        States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas 
        Leasing'' (relating to the Northern Bering Sea Climate 
        Resilience Area).
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