Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 74, the nays are 18. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Portman mr. President . The presiding officer the senator for ohio. Mr. Portman i would like to talk today about a couple topics. First i want to thank my colleagues on the Senate Commerce committee for approving legislation very recently to rename the nasa plumbrook station in ohio after a true american hero, the lateneal armstrong. I ask that it legislation be taken up and we get it passed. There is an identical bill in the house and we hope to get both of them to the president for his signature. It is a stateoftheart testing facility near sandusky, ohio. It is doing a lot of the testing right now both for nasa and some privatesector companies. It is part of the nasaglenn complex. It is an impressive operation. The one that is most impressive right now is the artifice project. This is to put astronauts
That revenue is just a bid among federal programs and shared with the state, local and tribal governments. Finally, we will hear testimony on two measures that would boost revenue sharing from onshore renewable as well as offshore development. Both bills under consideration or sponsored by members of this committee. Senator cassidy has introduced s2418 which is the coastal act and senator mick sally has introduced f2 666 which is a public lands are knowable Energy Development act. As a cosponsor of the coastal act i want to thank senator cassidy for introducing legislation that would bring revenue sharing for coastal producing states into parity with onshore developments. Progress laid the foundation through the passage of the gulf of Mexico Energy security act back in 2006. At that time the bill did not include alaska. The coastal act we are considering now what establish a Revenue Sharing Program that would include alaska. At the current time our offshore production is pretty minimal
We are here this morning for three closely related purposes and first we will examine federal revenues generated from Energy Development on our federal lands, indian lands and federal offshore areas. Secondly, we will explore how that revenue is just a bid among federal programs and shared with the state, local and tribal governments. Finally, we will hear testimony on two measures that would boost revenue sharing from onshore renewable as well as offshore development. Both bills under consideration or sponsored by members of this committee. Senator cassidy has introduced s2418 which is the coastal act and senator mick sally has introduced f2 666 which is a public lands are knowable Energy Development act. As a cosponsor of the coastal act i want to thank senator cassidy for introducing legislation that would bring revenue sharing for coastal producing states into parity with onshore developments. Progress laid the foundation through the passage of the gulf of Mexico Energy security ac
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Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. We meet this morning to consider opening a very small portion of alaskas 1002 area to responsible Energy Development to meet the 1 billion budget reconciliation instruction that our Committee Received last week. The 1002 area covers 1. 57 million acres of land in northeast alaska within the nonwilderness portion. You can bring it over here sean. I think its important to put this in context in terms of the areas that we are talking about. Anwr itself is 19 million acres. This is approximately the size of south carolina. The nonwilderness area is 1002 area, is 1. 5 million acres, approximately the size of delaware. The area here is designated as wilderness, federal wilderness, 8 million acres there. When we are talking about anwr itself, its important to recognize there are parts of anwr that are designated as wilderness and parts within the refuge and parts of anwr, the 1002 area specifically designated for consideration for oil