Amendment109th Congress
Amendment sought to strike provisions in the bill lifting the 25-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling in environmentally sensitive areas offshore and to retain provisions designed to provide oil companies with incentives to renegotiate existing leases.
- Amendment Number
- 1176
- Description
- Amendment sought to strike provisions in the bill lifting the 25-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling in environmentally sensitive areas offshore and to retain provisions designed to provide oil companies with incentives to renegotiate existing leases.
- Purpose
- An amendment numbered 4 printed in House Report 109-540 to strike provisions in the bill lifting the 25-year moratorium on oil and gas drilling in environmentally-sensitive areas offshore and leaves provisions designed to provide oil companies with incentives to renegotiate existing leases that fail to include market-based price caps for the suspension of royalty-free drilling and begin production on active leases that are not producing.
- Congress
- 109
- Type
- HAMDT
- Latest Action Date
- Jun 29, 2006
- Latest Action Text
- On agreeing to the Markey amendment (A004) Failed by recorded vote: 170 - 249 (Roll no. 354).
- Latest Action Time
- 18:57:26
- Submitted Date
- Jun 29, 2006
- Chamber
- House of Representatives
- Update Date
- Apr 20, 2021