3.0.0 306 2023-01-11T13:23:20Z 2023-01-11T13:23:20Z Senate S S 2013-02-13 113 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Reported by 2013-05-13T21:35:35Z Markup by 2013-05-08T18:45:23Z Hearings by 2013-04-23T13:21:36Z Referred to 2013-02-13T20:14:55Z S. Rept. 113-35 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 Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act 113 678 HR 2013-08-09 Became Public Law No: 113-24. Identical bill CRS Related bill House 2013-06-03 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate By Senator Wyden from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 113-35. Floor 2013-06-03 By Senator Wyden from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 113-35. Committee 14900 9 Library of Congress sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee 2013-05-13 Senate Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 68. Calendars 2013-05-13 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report. Committee 2013-05-13 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Wyden with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report. Committee 14000 9 Library of Congress sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee 2013-05-08 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 2013-04-23 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 113-24. Committee 2013-02-13 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2013-02-13 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001261 Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY] John Barrasso R WY N R000584 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] James Risch R ID E. 2013-02-13 True E000285 Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY] MICHAEL ENZI R WY B. 2013-02-13 True C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID 2013-02-13 True F000444 Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ] JEFF FLAKE R AZ 2013-04-16 False H.R.678 https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/678 Energy Alternative and renewable resources Dams and canals Electric power generation and transmission Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Water use and supply Energy 00 2013-02-13 Introduced in Senate 2013-05-24T18:26:36Z Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act - Amends the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Bureau of Reclamation) to contract for the development of small conduit hydropower at Bureau facilities.

Defines: (1) "small conduit hydropower" as five megawatts or less; and (2) "conduit" as a tunnel, canal, pipeline, aqueduct, flume, ditch, or similar manmade water conveyance.

Requires that power privilege leases be offered first to an irrigation district or water users association operating or receiving water from the applicable transferred or reserved work.

Defines: (1) "reserved work" as any conduit included in project works whose care, operation, and maintenance have been reserved by the Secretary (through the Bureau); and (2) "transferred work" as any conduit included in project works whose care, operation, and maintenance have been transferred to a legally organized water users association or irrigation district.

Exempts the small conduit hydropower development authorized by this Act from the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), except with respect to siting of associated transmission on federal lands.

Makes the Bureau's Power Resources Office the lead office for such small conduit hydropower policy and procedure-setting activities (thus excludes such activities from the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [FERC]).

Declares that nothing in this Act shall: (1) obligate specified power administrations to purchase or market the power produced by such facilities, (2) alter or impede the delivery and management of water for original project purposes, or (3) alter or affect any existing agreements for conduit hydropower development projects or disposition of revenues. Deems water used for conduit hydropower generation to be incidental to use of water for the original project purposes.

]]> 01 2013-05-13 Reported to Senate with amendment(s) 2013-06-19T21:08:01Z Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act - Amends the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Bureau of Reclamation) to contract for the development of small conduit hydropower at Bureau facilities.

Defines: (1) "small conduit hydropower" as 5 megawatts or less; and (2) "conduit" as a tunnel, canal, pipeline, aqueduct, flume, ditch, or similar manmade water conveyance.

Requires that power privilege leases be offered first to an irrigation district or water users association operating or receiving water from the applicable transferred or reserved conduit.

Defines: (1) reserved conduit as any conduit included in project works whose care, operation, and maintenance has been reserved by the Secretary (through the Bureau); and (2) transferred conduit as any conduit included in project works whose care, operation, and maintenance has been transferred to a legally organized water users association or irrigation district.

Requires the Secretary, if the irrigation district or water users association elects not accept a lease of power privilege offer, to offer it to other parties.

Directs the Bureau to apply its categorical exclusion process under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to small conduit hydropower development, except with respect to siting of associated transmission facilities on federal lands.

(A "categorical exclusion" under NEPA is a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect in procedures adopted by a federal agency in implementing environmental regulations and for which, therefore, neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required.)

Makes the Bureau's Power Resources Office the lead office for such small conduit hydropower policy and procedure-setting activities. (Thus excludes such activities from the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [FERC].)

Declares that nothing in this Act shall: (1) obligate specified power administrations to purchase or market the power produced by such facilities; (2) alter or impede the delivery and management of water for original project purposes; (3) alter or affect any existing agreements for conduit hydropower development projects or disposition of revenues; or (4) alter or affect any existing preliminary permit, license, or exemption issued by FERC or any project for which an application has been filed with FERC as of the date of the enactment of this Act. Deems water used for conduit hydropower generation to be incidental to use of water for the original project purposes.

]]> Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act Display Title Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act Short Titles as Introduced Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act Short Titles as Reported to Senate Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act S Senate Official Title as Introduced A bill to authorize all Bureau of Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development under Federal Reclamation law, and for other purposes. Reported to Senate 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s306rs/xml/BILLS-113s306rs.xml Introduced in Senate 2013-02-13T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s306is/xml/BILLS-113s306is.xml 2013-06-03 By Senator Wyden from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 113-35. 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.