Amendment112th Congress
Amendment sought to require that leases granted by the Secretary must meet requirements for the following: a third-party certification of safety systems related to well control, such as blowout preventers; performance of blowout preventers including the qualitative risk and subsea testing; an independent third-party certification of well casing and cementing programs and procedures; mandatory safety and environmental management systems of the operators in the OCS; and procedures and technologies to be used during drilling operations to minimize the risk of igniting an explosion of hydrocarbons.
- Amendment Number
- 946
- Description
- Amendment sought to require that leases granted by the Secretary must meet requirements for the following: a third-party certification of safety systems related to well control, such as blowout preventers; performance of blowout preventers including the qualitative risk and subsea testing; an independent third-party certification of well casing and cementing programs and procedures; mandatory safety and environmental management systems of the operators in the OCS; and procedures and technologies to be used during drilling operations to minimize the risk of igniting an explosion of hydrocarbons.
- Purpose
- An amendment numbered 15 printed in Part A of House Report 112-398 to require that offshore oil and gas leases contain specific safety requirements.
- Congress
- 112
- Type
- HAMDT
- Latest Action Date
- Feb 16, 2012
- Latest Action Text
- On agreeing to the Hanabusa amendment (A015) Failed by recorded vote: 189 - 228 (Roll no. 65).
- Latest Action Time
- 17:27:26
- Submitted Date
- Feb 16, 2012
- Chamber
- House of Representatives
- Update Date
- Feb 3, 2022