McClintock (R-CA) – Amendment No. 1 - Allows (but does not mandate) the Pacific OCS planning area to be included in a future five-year leasing plan under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
Gosar (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 2 - Changes the name of the bill to the Russian Energy Reliance and U.S. Poverty Act
Lesko (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 3 - Requires the Department of the Interior, in consultation with the Department of Defense, to confirm that this legislation poses no national security risk due to potential increases in dependence on foreign oil.
Langevin (D-RI) – Amendment No. 4 - Requires a GAO study on the impacts of offshore drilling on coastal communities and coastal economies
Rouda (D-CA) – Amendment No. 5 - Adds a provision to the bill that would direct the Department of the Interior to make the information from the inspections and payments made into the ‘Ocean Energy Safety Fund’ required by the bill available to the public, including information related to the operators, facilities, amounts paid into the fund, and inspection results
Levin, Andy (D-MI), Van Drew (D-NJ), Beyer (D-VA) – Amendment No. 6 - Establishes a moratorium on oil, gas, and methane hydrate-related seismic activities in the Atlantic Ocean A
Gosar (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 7 - Allows the bill to go into effect when DOI, in consultation with DOL, certifies that the offshore energy moratorium in the bill will not kill a substantial number of minority and women jobs
Rouda (D-CA) – Amendment No. 8 - Adds a provision to the bill that would require the Department of Commerce to complete an economic impact study/assessment of potential damage related to offshore oil drilling – including tourism, commercial fishing, recreational fishing, boating, transportation, and other waterfront-related and coastal-related business
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