SPR Act

United States118th CongressS-31Senate
Updated: Jan 24, 2023

Summary

Strategic Production Response Act or the SPR Act This bill limits the drawdown of petroleum in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) until the Department of Interior issues a plan or updates a previously issued plan to increase the production of oil and gas on federal land. However, Interior may drawdown petroleum in the SPR if there is a severe energy supply interruption. The bill defines federal land to (1) include Outer Continental Shelf land; and (2) exclude land otherwise not available for oil and gas development within the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the National Wilderness Preservation System, a National Marine Sanctuary, or Indian land.

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Timeline

  1. Introduced in Senate

  2. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S75-76)

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