3.0.0 1760 2022-11-01T06:47:28Z 2022-11-01T06:47:28Z Senate S 2019-06-10 116 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-06-10T20:47:34Z 2019-06-10 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2019-06-10 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. 2019-06-10 True C001096 Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND] Kevin Cramer R ND 2019-06-10 True D000618 Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] Steve Daines R MT 2019-06-10 True Energy Administrative law and regulatory procedures Contracts and agency Electric power generation and transmission Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Intergovernmental relations Lighting, heating, cooling Public utilities and utility rates State and local government operations Energy 00 2019-06-10 Introduced in Senate 2021-03-09T19:06:56Z Updating Purchase Obligations to Deploy Affordable Resources to Energy Markets Under PURPA Act or the UPDATE PURPA Act

This bill modifies (1) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) rules related to cogeneration and small power production facilities, (2) the mandatory purchase obligation for electric utility companies to purchase energy from certain facilities, and (3) the one-mile rule of FERC.

FERC must modify its rules regarding certain cogeneration and small power production facilities, including to require that such facilities are responsible for the costs of any facility or network upgrades associated with delivering power to its electric customers.

The bill authorizes electric utility companies to waive the mandatory purchase obligation if additional power is not required to meet customers' electricity needs.

The bill directs FERC to publish a final rule that allows any person or entity a rebuttable presumption to the one-mile rule. Under the one-mile rule, facilities are considered to be located at the same site as the facility for which qualification is sought if they are located within one mile of such facility. Specified factors must be taken into consideration by FERC when it determines whether two facilities are located at the same site.

]]> UPDATE PURPA Act Display Title UPDATE PURPA Act Short Title(s) as Introduced UPDATE PURPA Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Updating Purchase Obligations to Deploy Affordable Resources to Energy Markets Under PURPA Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to modernize the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1760is/xml/BILLS-116s1760is.xml 2019-06-10 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.