3.0.0 529 2023-01-11T13:36:20Z 2023-01-11T13:36:20Z Senate S 2017-03-06 115 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-03-06T20:17:16Z APPROVAL Act 115 1373 HR 2017-03-10 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans. Identical bill CRS 2017-03-06 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2017-03-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B001236 Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR] John Boozman R AR N C001095 Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR] Tom Cotton R AR 2017-03-06 True Energy Electric power generation and transmission Federal-Indian relations Intergovernmental relations Land transfers Land use and conservation State and local government operations Energy 00 2017-03-06 Introduced in Senate 2017-07-26T18:11:31Z 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.

]]> APPROVAL Act Display Title APPROVAL Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to prohibit the use of eminent domain in carrying out certain projects. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced APPROVAL Act Short Titles as Introduced Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act Introduced in Senate 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s529is/xml/BILLS-115s529is.xml 2017-03-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. 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.