According to The Hill, U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach, R-Penn., has proposed an amendment that would cancel another provision intended to open up Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling.

Lawmakers have submitted dozens of amendments to the massive, interlocked transportation and energy bills working their way through the U.S. House of Representatives. The House Rules Committee decides Tuesday evening which amendments have the potential proceed to a vote.

Gerlach's amendment, if it survives the Rules Committee and passes in the bill's final form, would put ANWR drilling off limits until “all petroleum reserves” have been exhausted from both offshore areas around the U.S. and from onshore in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Gerlach's proposed amendment (.pdf) would strike from the current bills all ANWR-opening language, sponsored in part by Alaska's lone Congressman Don Young.

In early February, Rep. Young told Alaska Dispatch that if his perennial bid to open ANWR fails this year, he'll just try again.

Read more from The Hill, here.