Bill > HR8214

This bill, the Alaskan Energy Production and Fisheries Protection Act, has several key provisions: 1. It ratifies and approves all existing authorizations, permits, and other approvals related to the Coastal Plain oil and gas leasing program in Alaska, directing federal agencies to reinstate or maintain these approvals. This includes satisfying requirements under various laws like the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. 2. It requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the leases for certain Coastal Plain lease tracts that were previously canceled, and directs the Secretary to hold the second lease sale for the program by December 2024. 3. It precludes judicial review of actions related to the Coastal Plain oil and gas leasing program, except for challenges to the validity or scope of the bill itself, which can be heard exclusively by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 4. It nullifies certain federal agency actions, including a proposed Bureau of Land Management rule for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska and portions of Executive Order 13990 and Secretarial Order 3401 related to the Coastal Plain leasing program. The overall intent of the bill is to reinstate and advance the Coastal Plain oil and gas leasing program in Alaska, overriding previous administrative actions that had halted or delayed the program.

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