Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from preparing for or conducting any activity under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act with respect to certain submerged lands off the State of Florida.
Mandates that all leases in such area issued before enactment of this Act be cancelled. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on the status of such cancellations. Provides for compensation to entitled lessees.
Prohibits any activities other than environmental or oceanographic studies in a certain part of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Planning Area off the western boundary of Florida.
Directs the Secretary to undertake certain environmental studies.
Authorizes appropriations.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred jointly to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Referred jointly to the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes, and the Outer Continental Shelf.
Executive Comment Requested from Commerce, Interior, EPA.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Offshore Energy Resources.
Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
See H.R.776.
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