APPROVAL Act
- Last Action
- 3/6/2017
Actions
- 2017-03-06Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- 2017-03-06Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2017-03-06 (00)
Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act or the APPROVAL Act
This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Department of Energy and the Southwestern and Western Area Power Administrations 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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Cosponsors (1)
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Subjects
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Federal-Indian relations
- Intergovernmental relations
- Land transfers
- Land use and conservation
- State and local government operations
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