3.0.0 424 2023-01-15T22:18:43Z 2023-01-15T22:18:43Z Senate S S 2003-02-14 108 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Other Hearings by 2003-03-19T15:52:41Z Referred to 2003-02-14T18:15:56Z 2003-03-19 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-61. Committee 2003-02-14 slia00 Indian Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2540-2544) IntroReferral 2003-02-14 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2540) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2003-02-14 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS N I000025 Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI] DANIEL INOUYE D HI KEN 2003-02-14 True C000077 Sen. Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [R-CO] BEN CAMPBELL R CO NIGHTHORSE 2003-02-14 True D000064 Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD] THOMAS DASCHLE D SD ANDREW 2003-02-14 True D000432 Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND] BYRON DORGAN D ND LESLIE 2003-03-06 False Native Americans Alaska Alternative energy sources Civil engineering Congress Congressional investigations Congressional reporting requirements Dams Department of Energy Economics and Public Finance Education Electric power Electric power distribution Electric power production Electric power transmission Electric utilities Electric utility rates Energy Energy assistance for the poor Energy development Energy efficiency Energy facilities Energy research Environmental Protection Environmental assessment Executive reorganization Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to education Federal-Indian relations Federal-local relations Federally-guaranteed loans Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Higher education Housing and Community Development Hydroelectric power Indian economic development Indian education Indian lands Infrastructure Law Leases Mineral reserves Minorities Missouri River development Oklahoma Public Lands and Natural Resources Renewable natural resources Right-of-way Rural economic development Water Resources Development Water power West (U.S.) Wind power Native Americans 00 2003-02-14 Introduced in Senate 2006-11-28T17:35:40Z Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish an Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs within the Department of Energy.

Authorizes Indian tribes to: (1) grant leases of tribal lands for electrical generation, transmission, or distribution facilities and facilities to refine or otherwise process energy resources developed on tribal lands; and (2) grant rights-of-way over tribal lands, without separate approval by the Secretary of the Interior, for pipelines and electrical transmission or distribution lines.

Requires Indian tribes to establish environmental review processes that identify and evaluate the significant environmental impacts of proposed Indian Energy Policy and Programs.

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to review the activities that have been carried out by the government of Indian tribes under the Indian Mineral Development Act of 1982 and to recommend to specified committees ways to ensure that Indian tribes have the opportunity to develop nonrenewable energy resources and the barriers they face to do so.

Requires the Administrators of the Bonneville Power Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, and other pertinent power administrations to take specified actions to encourage Indian tribal energy developments.

Requires the Secretary of Energy to study and report to Congress on the cost and feasibility of developing a demonstration project that would use wind energy generated by Indian tribes and hydropower generated by the Army Corps of Engineers on the Missouri River to supply firming power to the Western Area Power Administration.

Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to revise and extend renewable energy production incentives.

Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to provide grants to units of local government, private, nonprofit community development organizations, and tribal economic development entities for use in improving energy efficiency, identifying and developing alternative renewable and distributed energy supplies, and increasing energy conservation in low-income rural and urban communities.

Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide rural and remote communities electrification grants to State, local, or tribal governments, or tribal colleges or universities to increase energy efficiency, siting or upgrading transmission and distribution lines, or for providing or modernizing electric facilities.]]>

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