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In this Act: (1) Covered energy commodity The term covered energy commodity means crude oil, natural gas, condensate, natural gas liquids, or any other hydrocarbon produced from an oil or gas well in the United States. (2) Covered producer The term covered producer means a person that— (A) holds a working interest, operating interest, record title interest, operating right, leasehold interest, or other right to explore for, develop, drill, complete, recomplete, work over, produce, or sell a covered energy commodity; and (B) conducts, or proposes to conduct, covered upstream production activity in the United States. (3) Covered upstream production activity The term covered upstream production activity means— (A) geologic, geophysical, engineering, surveying, staking, site preparation, exploration, drilling, completion, recompletion, workover, plugging back, stimulation, artificial lift, produced water handling, gathering, separation, compression, metering, storage, or transportation activity carried out upstream of the point of sale or custody transfer of a covered energy commodity; (B) construction, maintenance, replacement, modernization, or operation of equipment, roads, pads, tank batteries, flowlines, gathering lines, compressor units, separators, dehydrators, meters, produced water systems, power supply, and other appurtenant facilities necessary for the production of a covered energy commodity; and (C) any activity that the Secretary determines is reasonably necessary to increase, maintain, restore, or avoid the curtailment of domestic production of a covered energy commodity. (4) Oil and gas lease The term oil and gas lease means a lease of Federal land for oil and gas production issued pursuant to the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.). (5) Outer Continental Shelf The term outer Continental Shelf has the meaning given the term in section 2 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331). (6) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. (7) Supply shortage period The term supply shortage period means a period certified under section 101. (8) United States The term United States means— (A) the States; (B) the District of Columbia; (C) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; (D) Guam; (E) American Samoa; (F) the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; (G) the United States Virgin Islands; and (H) any other territory or possession of the United States, including the outer Continental Shelf.