Ocean Energy Safety and Technology Improvement Act of 2013
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Under committee review
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Dec 16, 2013)
Ocean Energy Safety and Technology Improvement Act of 2013 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, with respect to the consideration of permits for geological explorations and development and production, to allow the Secretary of the Interior to give priority to reviewing and processing plans and applications that use, develop, or demonstrate new safety-enhancing technologies.
Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a small business innovation research program or technology transfer program, or both, to broaden participation in the development of safer technologies for offshore oil and gas exploration and development; and (2) an Ocean Energy Safety Institute, as a collaborative federally funded research and development center or university-affiliated research center, to enhance safe and responsible operations across the offshore oil and gas industry. Funds operations of the Institute through an annual fee applicable to areas of the outer Continental Shelf subject to an oil or gas lease under which production is not occurring.
What just happenedJan 8, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseDec 16, 2013
- Jan 8, 2014Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.
- Dec 27, 2013Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- Dec 16, 2013IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Dec 16, 2013IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Dec 16, 2013IntroReferralB00100
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1877-1878)
- Dec 16, 2013IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Dec 16, 2013IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House