S.55: Offshore Fairness Act

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Offshore Fairness Act This bill amends the Submerged Lands Act to change the seaward boundaries of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia from a distance of three geographic miles from the coast line to a distance of three marine leagues. This change expands the offshore jurisdictions of those states. The Department of the Interior must convey the submerged land in the Outer Continental...

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Jan. 7, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Jan. 7, 2015

Introduced in the Senate by David Vitter (R-La.)

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