H.R. 8099

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8099 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8099

To require the Secretary of the Interior to annually submit to 
Congress, and make publicly available on a website, a report on 
decommissioning offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and pipelines, 
and for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 26, 2026

Ms. Dexter (for herself, Ms. Bonamici, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Min, Mr. 
Kennedy of New York, Ms. Brownley, Ms. Norton, Mr. Mullin, and Mr. 
Levin) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources

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A BILL

To require the Secretary of the Interior to annually submit to 
Congress, and make publicly available on a website, a report on 
decommissioning offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and pipelines, 
and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Plug Offshore Wells Act''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORT ON DECOMMISSIONING OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS WELLS, 
PLATFORMS, AND PIPELINES.

(a) Definitions.--In this Act:
(1) Decommissioning.--The term ``decommissioning'' has the 
meaning given the term in section 250.1700 of title 30, Code of 
Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation).
(2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
of the Interior.
(b) Annual Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date of 
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall 
submit to Congress and make publicly available on the website of the 
Department of the Interior a report that describes, with respect to the 
preceding calendar year--
(1) the number of applications for decommissioning an 
offshore oil and gas well, platform, or pipeline that were 
required to be submitted pursuant to subpart Q of part 250 of 
title 30, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor 
regulations);
(2) the number of applications described in paragraph (1) 
that were received by the Secretary;
(3) the number of offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, 
and pipelines for which decommissioning did not occur by the 
date required pursuant to subpart Q of part 250 of title 30, 
Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations);
(4) the number of offshore oil and gas wells and platforms 
approved for decommissioning in place pursuant to section 
250.1750 of title 30, Code of Federal Regulations (or a 
successor regulation);
(5) the length of any offshore oil and gas pipelines that--
(A) were decommissioned in place pursuant to 
section 250.1750 of title 30, Code of Federal 
Regulations (or a successor regulation); and
(B) were removed pursuant to--
(i) section 250.1752 of title 30, Code of 
Federal Regulations (or a successor 
regulation); and
(ii) section 250.1754 of title 30, Code of 
Federal Regulations (or a successor 
regulation); and
(6) the status of enforcement actions, including notices of 
incidents of noncompliance, orders, citations, civil penalties, 
and disqualifications from future offshore operations, by the 
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement with respect to 
decommissioning offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and 
pipelines.
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