This bill would cancel two Presidential memoranda dated January 6, 2025. Those memoranda withdrew certain areas of the outer Continental Shelf from oil or natural gas leasing. The memoranda covered the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, Pacific, and Bering Sea areas.
If the bill becomes law, the two Presidential memoranda named in the bill would have no force or effect. The bill does not describe any new leasing rules or actions beyond removing the force of those memoranda.
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Sponsor: Senator Ted Cruz introduced the bill on January 15, 2025. No publicly available information on proponents' stated reasons in the bill text.
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