A four-year federal moratorium on new individual fishing quota programs is to expire Sept. 30.

The House bill would give the coastal states the power to override the current federal moratorium and decide whether they wanted drilling conducted off their coasts.

Canada has had a federal moratorium on offshore drilling on its west coast since 1972.

He took a dubious idea-lifting the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling-and placed it at the very center of his campaign.

Thus, at this point I do not support a federal moratorium.

But executives said it could take longer because of a federal moratorium that was recently placed on the approval of some banking transactions.

Some members of Congress have been seeking to lift the federal moratorium, arguing this would make the nation's energy supplies more secure.

He called for a federal moratorium on the licensing of new distilleries.

After the explosion, the Obama administration imposed a federal moratorium on deepwater drilling that lasted through mid-October 2010.

Those areas, where tests have found oil, have been blocked for years by federal moratoriums because of political and environmental concerns.