---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 15941"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "15941"
heading: "Great Lakes oil and gas drilling ban"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/15941"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter III — Oil and Gas"
  - "Part C — Miscellaneous"
---

# §15941. Great Lakes oil and gas drilling ban


No Federal or [State](/usc/42/15951.md?p=b-2) permit or lease shall be issued for new oil and gas slant, directional, or offshore drilling in or under one or more of the Great Lakes.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title III, § 386, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 744.)