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H. Rept. 117-562 1 (2022-11-16)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaewr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.GOVERNMENT INFORMATION . 117TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-562 OFFSHORE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2021 NOVEMBER 16, 2022.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following R E P O R T together with DISSENTING VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 570] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 570) to require operators of offshore oil and gas facilities to report failures of critical systems to the Secretary of the Interior, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor- ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of H.R. 570 is to require operators of offshore oil and gas facilities to report failures of critical systems to the Sec- retary of the Interior. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION In response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and multiple internal and external investigations, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) implemented several safety, environmental, and or- ganizational reforms to the federal offshore oil and gas program. These reforms included two major new regulations implemented in 2016 based on recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences and extensive discussions with industry and environ- 39-006