REEFS Act
Latest action · Jul 31, 2012 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Progress
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- IntroducedJul 26, 2012
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Retaining Essential Environmental Fishing Structures Act or REEFS Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior, during a two-year period, from requiring or authorizing either the removal or movement of any facility used for oil or gas activities under a lease under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
Exempts from this prohibition any removal or movement of a facility for purposes of temporary abandonment of a well, in accordance with specified federal regulations, because of an emergency identified by the Secretary.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jul 31, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- Jul 26, 2012Introduced in House
- Jul 26, 2012Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 26, 2012Introduced in House
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