S.Amdt. 489

SA 489. Mr. SCOTT of Florida submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for
fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense,
for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department
of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal
year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
At the appropriate place in subtitle G of title X, insert
the following:

SEC. 10____. PROHIBITION ON OIL AND GAS LEASING IN CERTAIN
AREAS OF GULF OF MEXICO.

Section 104 of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of
2006 (43 U.S.C. 1331 note; Public Law 109-432) is amended--
(1) in the section heading, by striking ``moratorium'' and
inserting ``prohibition''; and
(2) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding paragraph
(1), by striking ``Effective'' and all that follows through
``June 30, 2022, the'' and inserting ``The''.
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