Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Strategy to Secure Offshore Energy Act”.
Strategy to Secure Offshore Energy Act
A BILL
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to provide deadlines for the development of five-year oil and gas leasing programs, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Publishing a five-year plan for offshore oil and gas leasing
Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1344) is amended—
in subsection (a)—
by striking “subsections (c) and (d) of this section, shall prepare and periodically revise,” and inserting “this section, shall issue every five years”;
by adding at the end the following:
“(5) Each five-year program shall include at least two lease sales per year.”
in paragraph (3), by inserting “domestic energy security,” after “between”;
by redesignating subsections (f) through (h) as subsections (h) through (j), respectively; and
by inserting after subsection (e) the following:
“(f) Five-Year program for 2022 through 2027—The Secretary shall issue the five-year oil and gas leasing program for 2022 through 2027 by not later than June 30, 2022.
“(g) Subsequent leasing programs
“(1) In general—Not later than 36 months after conducting the first lease sale under an oil and gas leasing program prepared pursuant to this section, the Secretary shall begin preparing the subsequent oil and gas leasing program under this section.
“(2) Requirement—Each subsequent oil and gas leasing program under this section shall be approved by not later than 180 days before the expiration of the previous oil and gas leasing program.”