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within the designated area—including offshore energy from wind, oil, natural
gas, methane hydrates, and any other sources that the Secretary of Commerce
deems appropriate—and the potential impact the proposed designation or
expansion will have on the development of those resources. The Secretary
of the Interior shall provide any such accounting within 60 days of receiving
a notification of intent to propose any such National Marine Sanctuary
designation or expansion from the Secretary of Commerce.
(b) The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of
Defense, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Homeland Security,
shall conduct a review of all designations and expansions of National Marine
Sanctuaries, and of all designations and expansions of Marine National
Monuments under the Antiquities Act of 1906, recently recodified at sections
320301 to 320303 of title 54, United States Code, designated or expanded
within the 10-year period prior to the date of this order.
(i) The review under this subsection shall include:
(A) an analysis of the acreage affected and an analysis of the budgetary
impacts of the costs of managing each National Marine Sanctuary or
Marine National Monument designation or expansion;
(B) an analysis of the adequacy of any required Federal, State, and
tribal consultations conducted before the designations or expansions; and
(C) the opportunity costs associated with potential energy and mineral
exploration and production from the Outer Continental Shelf, in addition
to any impacts on production in the adjacent region.
(ii) Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Commerce,
in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the
Interior, shall report the results of the review under this subsection to
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Chairman of
the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Assistant to the President
for Economic Policy.
(c) To further streamline existing regulatory authorities, Executive Order
13754 of December 9, 2016 (Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience), is
hereby revoked.
Sec. 5. Modification of the Withdrawal of Areas of the Outer Continental
Shelf from Leasing Disposition. The body text in each of the memoranda
of withdrawal from disposition by leasing of the United States Outer Conti-
nental Shelf issued on December 20, 2016, January 27, 2015, and July
14, 2008, is modified to read, in its entirety, as follows:
‘‘Under the authority vested in me as President of the United States,
including section 12(a) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, 43 U.S.C.
1341(a), I hereby withdraw from disposition by leasing, for a time period
without specific expiration, those areas of the Outer Continental Shelf des-
ignated as of July 14, 2008, as Marine Sanctuaries under the Marine Protec-
tion, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, 16 U.S.C. 1431–1434, 33 U.S.C.
1401 et seq.’’
Nothing in the withdrawal under this section affects any rights under
existing leases in the affected areas.
Sec. 6. Reconsideration of Notice to Lessees and Financial Assurance Regu-
latory Review. The Secretary of the Interior shall direct the Director of
BOEM to take all necessary steps consistent with law to review BOEM’s
Notice to Lessees No. 2016–N01 of September 12, 2016 (Notice to Lessees
and Operators of Federal Oil and Gas, and Sulfur Leases, and Holders
of Pipeline Right-of-Way and Right-of-Use and Easement Grants in the Outer
Continental Shelf), and determine whether modifications are necessary, and
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if so, to what extent, to ensure operator compliance with lease terms while
minimizing unnecessary regulatory burdens. The Secretary of the Interior
shall also review BOEM’s financial assurance regulatory policy to determine
the extent to which additional regulation is necessary.
Sec. 7. Reconsideration of Well Control Rule. The Secretary of the Interior
shall review the Final Rule of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental