{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-6285","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 6285","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To ratify and approve all authorizations, permits, verifications, extensions, biological opinions, incidental take statements, and any other approvals or orders issued pursuant to Federal law necessary for the establishment and administration of the Coastal Plain oil and gas leasing program, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To ratify and approve all authorizations, permits, verifications, extensions, biological opinions, incidental take statements, and any other approvals or orders issued pursuant to Federal law necessary for the establishment and administration of the Coastal Plain oil and gas leasing program, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2023-11-08","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-05-01","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h174","question":"On Passage","title":"Alaska’s Right to Produce Act","result":"Passed","yea":214,"nay":199,"present":2,"not_voting":14,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll174.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.","date":"2024-05-02"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[{"chamber":"house","date":"2024-05-01","question":"On Motion to Recommit","title":"Alaska’s Right to Produce Act","result":"Failed","yea":201,"nay":211,"present":0,"not_voting":17,"kind":"procedural","source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll173.xml"}],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-05-01","stage":"Passed House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill provides for oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)."},{"k":"p","t":"Specifically, the bill nullifies any order or action by the President or the Department of the Interior that places a moratorium on, suspends, or otherwise pauses leasing in ANWR's 1002 Area. It also ratifies and approves all authorizations and permits issued for the establishment and administration of the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The Environmental Protection Agency and other applicable federal departments and agencies must process, reinstate, or continue to maintain such authorizations and permits."},{"k":"p","t":"Within 30 days of the bill's enactment, Interior must accept bids for certain ANWR leases that were canceled and reissue the leases. The bill states that the reissued leases must be considered to meet the requirements of specified existing laws, such as the Endangered Species Act of 1973."},{"k":"p","t":"By December 22, 2024, Interior must also conduct a second lease sale. Further, the bill limits the authority of the President and Interior to cancel future leases issued under the program."},{"k":"p","t":"The bill also directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to withdraw its Notice of Availability of the Draft Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. It also nullifies (1) BLM's final rule based on the proposed rule titled Management and Protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A), (2) Section 4 of Executive Order 13990, and (3) Secretarial Order 3401."},{"k":"p","t":"In addition, BLM must obtain congressional approval prior to designating any new protected Special Areas, adding resource values to existing Special Areas, or expanding existing Special Areas in the NPR-A."},{"k":"p","t":"Finally, the bill limits judicial review of approvals of leases under the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program."}],"words":293},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Governs oil and gas leasing in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by ratifying existing approvals, requiring canceled leases to be reissued and a second lease sale to be held, and nullifying certain actions that paused leasing or changed National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska management.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#HDDC873959AAB4213837A811C48E2EE85"},{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#H4A2A76DAD9FC4B26914C741A831CE6FB"},{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#H7A6470D82246412E8F2409EEF8FD5543"},{"label":"Sec. 7","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#HB46CB1BC04544226AF8250F73154F214"}]},"core_areas":["Coastal Plain oil and gas leasing program","Ratification of permits and authorizations for the leasing program","Judicial review of leasing program approvals","National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska rule and Special Area designations"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Provides that any order or action by the President or the Secretary of the Interior that places a moratorium on, suspends, or pauses oil and gas leasing in the Coastal Plain has no force or effect.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#HDDC873959AAB4213837A811C48E2EE85"}},{"text":"Ratifies and approves the authorizations, permits, biological opinions, incidental take statements and other approvals described in the Record of Decision for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program, and directs agencies to process, reinstate or maintain them.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 4","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#HDDC873959AAB4213837A811C48E2EE85"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary, within 30 days of enactment, to accept the highest valid bid for each covered Coastal Plain lease tract that received a valid bid on January 6, 2021, and to issue leases to the winning bidders.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#H4A2A76DAD9FC4B26914C741A831CE6FB"}},{"text":"Requires the Secretary to conduct the second Coastal Plain lease sale by December 22, 2024, and bars the President and the Secretary from canceling certain leases unless the lessee is in violation and fails to cure it after a reasonable period.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#H4A2A76DAD9FC4B26914C741A831CE6FB"}},{"text":"Bars courts from reviewing agency actions that grant the approvals described in section 4(b) for the leasing program, gives the D.C. Circuit exclusive jurisdiction over claims about the validity or scope of that bar, and lets lease holders petition a court over agency failures to act.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#H4A2A76DAD9FC4B26914C741A831CE6FB"}},{"text":"Provides that the Bureau of Land Management's final National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska rule, Section 4 of Executive Order 13990, and Secretarial Order 3401 have no force or effect, and bars federal funds from being used to carry out that section and that order.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#H7A6470D82246412E8F2409EEF8FD5543"}}],"unexpected":[{"category":"rule_delay","items":[{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 5","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#H4A2A76DAD9FC4B26914C741A831CE6FB"},"heading":"Coastal Plain oil and gas leasing program","effect":"Subsection (d) requires the Bureau of Land Management to withdraw a notice of availability for a draft supplemental environmental impact statement and bars any action to finalize, implement, or enforce that statement.","amount":null,"quote":"(2) may not take any action to finalize, implement, or enforce the supplemental environmental impact statement described in paragraph (1)."},{"cite":{"label":"Sec. 6","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh#H7A6470D82246412E8F2409EEF8FD5543"},"heading":"Nullification of certain Federal agency actions","effect":"Provides that the final Bureau of Land Management rule on management and protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska has no force or effect, and does the same for Section 4 of Executive Order 13990 and Secretarial Order 3401, with no federal funds to carry out the latter two.","amount":null,"quote":"The final rule based on the proposed rule of the Bureau of Land Management entitled “Management and Protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska” (88 Fed. Reg. 62025 (September 8, 2023)) shall have no force or effect."}]}],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-05-01","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-10-02","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6285/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-6285.png","v":"636f5c6bed69","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 6285, 118th Congress: Alaska’s Right to Produce Act of 2023. House: 214 Yea, 199 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 1 May 2024."}}