Plug Offshore Wells Act

This bill would require the Secretary of the Interior to send Congress a yearly report on shutting down and removing offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and pipelines, and to post it on the Department of the Interior website. The first report would be due within 2 years after the bill becomes law, with new reports each year after. Each report would cover the prior calendar year, including how many decommissioning applications were required and received, how many wells, platforms, and pipelines missed their required decommissioning dates, and how many were approved to be left in place. It would also report the length of pipelines left in place or removed, and the status of enforcement actions by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.

Full text and official record on Congress.gov

Sponsors

• Maxine Dexter Democrat sponsor
• 10 cosponsors