H.R. 92 — Strategic Production Response and Implementation Act

This section prohibits the Secretary of Energy from executing the first drawdown of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)—through sale, exchange, or loan—after enactment, except in cases of severe energy supply interruption, until the Secretary develops and implements a plan to increase the percentage of specified federal lands leased for oil and gas production (including submerged Outer Continental Shelf lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Energy, the Interior, and Defense) by the same percentage as the percentage of SPR petroleum drawn down in that drawdown and subsequent drawdowns. The plan (1) limits any total increase in such leased federal lands to 10%; and (2) must be prepared in consultation with the Secretaries of Agriculture, the Interior, and Defense. (As background, the SPR is a U.S. stockpile of up to 714 million barrels of petroleum products maintained by the Department of Energy to mitigate the effects of severe energy supply interruptions.)