US Congress House Bill 6244 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: Introduced on August 1 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-08-03 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Energy and Power Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Leave our Lakes Alone Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from considering public use and environmental purposes in issuing a license, or enforcing any public use and environmental requirements of a license, for a project in a state whose law expressly authorizes such a prohibition. Defines "public use and environmental purposes" to mean the purposes of energy conservation, the protection, mitigation of damage to, and enhancement of, fish and wildlife, the protection of recreational opportunities, the preservation of other aspects of environmental quality, and other beneficial public uses, including irrigation, flood control, and water supply, as such purposes apply to land within a project boundary above the highest target elevation for normal operations of the project. Exempts projects on federal land from application of this Act.

Leave our Lakes Alone Act

Rep. Vicky Hartzler [R-MO]	Rep. Todd Akin [R-MO]	Rep. Tom Cole [R-OK]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]
Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Sen. James Lankford [R-OK]	Rep. John Shimkus [R-IL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-08-03	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
2012-08-01	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/6244/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr6244/BILLS-112hr6244ih.pdf