Enacted
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management relating to "Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources".
This resolution cancels a federal rule that required offshore oil, gas, and sulfur companies to conduct detailed seabed surveys to find and protect shipwrecks and submerged historical sites before drilling. Without these requirements, offshore energy operators would avoid the costs and delays of conducting the new surveys and filing archaeological reports. In turn, submerged cultural and historical resources on the ocean floor would lose these expanded federal protections.
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What this bill touches.
Federal lands & resources−25Pollution & development−25Regulation (cross-sector)−20
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- Offshore energy and mineral developersEntities regulated under BOEM's September 3, 2024 rule are relieved from having to comply with its newly established requirements for marine archaeological resources.
Who it burdens
- Bureau of Ocean Energy ManagementThe resolution nullifies the agency's finalized rule on protecting marine archaeological resources, preventing it from taking or remaining in effect and stripping it of any legal force.
The provisions, in plain language.
Nullifies the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's rule regarding the protection of marine archaeological resources, preventing it from taking or remaining in effect.