North Pacific Ocean Protection Act
This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior from issuing a lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas in specified areas of the Outer Continental Shelf off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California.
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas 
        leasing in certain areas of the Outer Continental Shelf.

    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 ``North Pacific Ocean Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF OIL AND GAS LEASING IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE 
              OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF.

    Section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(q) Prohibition of Oil and Gas Leasing in Certain Areas of the 
Outer Continental Shelf.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
section or any other law, the Secretary of the Interior may not issue a 
lease for the exploration, development, or production of oil or natural 
gas in the Washington/Oregon planning area, the Northern California 
planning area, or the Central California planning area (as such 
planning areas are described in the document entitled `2019-2024 
National OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program', dated January 
2018, or a subsequent oil and gas leasing program developed under 
section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 
1344)).''.
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North Pacific Ocean Protection Act
To amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas leasing in certain areas of the Outer Continental Shelf.
North Pacific Ocean Protection Act
Rep. Huffman, Jared