Legal Issues Raised by Provision in House Energy Bill (H.R. 6) Creating Incentives for Certain OCS Leaseholders to Accept Price Thresholds.

Analyzes potential legal challenges to Section 204 of H.R. 6, the Creating Long-Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation Act of 2007, to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing new Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leases to holders of the threshold-less 1998/1999 leases, or associated...

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Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2007.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Constitutional amendments. Continental shelf. Due process of law. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	Analyzes potential legal challenges to Section 204 of H.R. 6, the Creating Long-Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation Act of 2007, to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing new Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leases to holders of the threshold-less 1998/1999 leases, or associated persons, unless the leaseholder satisfies certain conditions. Discusses potential challenges based on the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, the doctrine of unconstitutional conditions, substantive due process or equal protection guarantees of the Fifth Amendment, breach of contract, and the contract theories of unilateral or mutual mistake.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.