US SB485 | 2015-2016 | 114th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 12 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-05-14 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on February 12 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-05-14 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
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.
Title
APPROVAL Act Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act
Sponsors
Sen. John Boozman [R-AR] | Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2015-05-14 | Senate | Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. |
2015-02-12 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
Same As/Similar To
HB3062 (Same As) 2016-12-08 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669.
Subjects
Electric power generation and transmission
Energy
Federal-Indian relations
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
State and local government operations
Energy
Federal-Indian relations
Intergovernmental relations
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
State and local government operations
US Congress State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/485/all-info |
Text | https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s485/BILLS-114s485is.pdf |