3.0.0 2010 2023-01-11T13:25:48Z 2023-01-11T13:25:48Z Senate S S 2014-02-10 113 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg07 Water and Power Subcommittee Hearings by 2014-02-27T22:10:44Z Reported by 2014-07-31T20:14:12Z Markup by 2014-06-18T14:30:00Z Referred to 2014-02-10T23:13:28Z S. Rept. 113-229 American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act 113 2 HR 2014-11-17 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 601. Related bill CRS Bureau of Reclamation Conduit Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs Act 113 1963 HR 2014-07-31 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 518. Related bill CRS Related bill House 2014-07-31 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 516. Calendars 2014-07-31 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 113-229. Committee 2014-07-31 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Landrieu with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 113-229. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee 2014-06-18 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. Committee 2014-02-27 sseg07 Water and Power Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-284. Committee 2014-02-10 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2014-02-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY N Energy Alternative and renewable resources Dams and canals Electric power generation and transmission Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Pipelines Water use and supply Energy 00 2014-02-10 Introduced in Senate 2014-02-25T15:49:28Z Bureau of Reclamation Conduit Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs Act - Amends the Water Conservation and Utilization Act (WCUA) to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Bureau of Reclamation) to enter into leases of power privileges for electric power generation in connection with any project constructed under such Act, using the processes applicable to such leases under the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (RPA); and (2) grant the Secretary authority in addition to and alternative to any authority in existing laws relating to particular projects, including small conduit hydropower development.

Requires the lease of power privilege contracts to be at rates that will produce revenues at least sufficient to cover the appropriate share of the annual operation and maintenance cost of the project and such fixed charges, including interest, as the Secretary deems proper. Limits such leases to periods not to exceed 40 years. Specifies that no findings required as prerequisites for construction of a water conservation or utilization project under WCUA shall be required for such a lease.

Requires all right, title, and interest to installed power facilities constructed by non-federal entities pursuant to a lease of power privilege, and direct revenues derived therefrom, to remain with the lessee, except that lease revenues and fixed charges, if any, shall be covered into the Reclamation Fund to be credited to the project from which those revenues were derived.

Requires the Secretary: (1) to first offer the lease of power privilege to an irrigation district or water users association operating the applicable transferred conduit, or to the district or association receiving water from such conduit; (2) to determine a reasonable time frame for the district or association to accept or reject the lease offer; and (3) if the district or association rejects the offer, to offer the lease to other parties using the applicable RPA processes.

Requires the Bureau to apply its categorical exclusion process under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to small conduit hydropower under WCUA, excluding siting of associated transmission facilities on federal lands.

]]> 01 2014-07-31 Reported to Senate with amendment(s) 2015-01-27T17:12:02Z Bureau of Reclamation Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs Act - Amends the Water Conservation and Utilization Act (WCUA) to: (1) authorize the Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Bureau of Reclamation) to enter into leases of power privileges for electric power generation in connection with any project constructed pursuant to such Act, using the processes, terms, and conditions applicable to the lease under the Reclamation Project Act of 1939; and (2) grant the Secretary authority over any project constructed pursuant to such Act in addition to and alternative to any existing authority relating to a particular project.

Specifies that no findings required as prerequisites for construction of a water conservation or utilization project under WCUA shall be required for such a lease.

Requires: (1) all right, title, and interest in and to installed power facilities constructed by non-federal entities pursuant to such a lease, and any direct revenues derived from such lease, to remain with the lessee; and (2) lease charges to be credited to the project from which the power is derived.

]]> Bureau of Reclamation Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs Act Display Title Bureau of Reclamation Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs Act Short Titles as Introduced Bureau of Reclamation Conduit Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs Act Short Titles as Reported to Senate Bureau of Reclamation Hydropower Development Equity and Jobs Act S Senate Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Water Conservation and Utilization Act to authorize the development of non-Federal hydropower and issuance of leases of power privileges at projects constructed pursuant to the authority of the Water Conservation and Utilization Act, and for other purposes. Reported to Senate 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s2010rs/xml/BILLS-113s2010rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2014-02-10T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s2010is/xml/BILLS-113s2010is.xml 2014-07-31 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 516. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.