US HB3062 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Introduced on July 14 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-12-08 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

APPROVAL Act Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Secretary of Energy and the Administrators of the Western Area Power Administration and of the Southwestern Power Administration from using the power of eminent domain to implement modernization of electricity transmission infrastructure, unless they have received explicit permission to do so by: (1) the state governor and the head of each applicable public utility commission or public service commission of the affected state, and (2) the head of the governing body of each Indian tribe whose land would be affected. An electricity transmission infrastructure project, to the greatest extent practicable, must be sited upon either an existing federal right-of-way or upon federal land managed by either: (1) the Bureau of Land Management, (2) the Forest Service, (3) the Bureau of Reclamation, or (4) the Corps of Engineers.

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Title

APPROVAL Act Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act

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History

DateChamberAction
2016-12-08HousePlaced on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669.
2016-12-08HouseCommittee on Energy and Commerce discharged.
2016-12-08HouseReferred sequentially to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for a period ending not later than Dec. 8, 2016 for consideration of such provisions of the bill as fall within the jurisdiction of that committee pursuant to clause 1(f) of rule X..
2016-12-08HouseReported by the Committee on 114-856, Part I.
2015-07-14HouseReferred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
2015-07-14HouseIntroduced in House

Same As/Similar To

SB485 (Same As) 2015-05-14 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.

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