A bill to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing new oil or natural gas production leases in the Gulf of Mexico under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to a person that does not renegotiate its existing leases in order to require royalty payments if oil and natural gas prices are greater than or equal to specified price thresholds, and for other purposes.
Stop Giving Big Oil Free Money Act
This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior from issuing new oil or natural gas production leases in the Gulf of Mexico to any person who does not renegotiate certain existing leases to require royalty payments if the price of oil and natural gas is greater than or equal to specified price thresholds.
Interior must also, upon request, agree to amend any lease issued for any Central and Western Gulf of Mexico tract during the period of January 1, 1996, through November 28, 2000, to incorporate specified price thresholds.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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