Bill > HR4334

This bill, the American Energy First Act, aims to empower states to manage the development and production of oil and gas on available federal land, distribute revenues from oil and gas leasing on the Outer Continental Shelf to certain coastal states, and promote alternative energy development. Key provisions include: - Allowing states to apply for delegated authority to issue permits and approve drilling plans on available federal land, and collect related administrative fees. - Conveying a property interest in the state share of royalties and other payments from oil and gas leasing on federal land to certain states. - Exempting certain payments to states from sequestration under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act. - Authorizing state and tribal regulation of hydraulic fracturing activities. - Establishing procedures for notifications of permits to drill on federal and non-federal land. - Limiting the President's authority to withdraw areas of the Outer Continental Shelf from oil and gas leasing. - Directing the Secretary of the Interior to hold annual lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico region. - Establishing priority areas on federal land for geothermal, solar, and wind energy projects. - Creating a Coral Reef Conservation Fund to be funded by a portion of revenues from offshore oil and gas leasing. - Prohibiting the President from declaring certain leasing moratoria without Congressional authorization.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4334/all-info