[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1049 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1049

 To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to direct the 
Council on Environmental Quality to report to Congress annually on the 
  number of permits required under Federal law for which applications 
     have been submitted and that have not been issued because an 
   environmental impact statement is pending, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 11, 2011

  Mr. Johnson of Ohio (for himself, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. 
Miller of Florida, Mrs. Schmidt, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Scott of 
 South Carolina, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Harper, Mr. McHenry, Mr. Harris, Mr. 
 Tiberi, Mr. Stivers, Mr. Landry, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Broun of Georgia, 
 Mr. LaTourette, Mr. Nunes, and Mr. Austria) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to direct the 
Council on Environmental Quality to report to Congress annually on the 
  number of permits required under Federal law for which applications 
     have been submitted and that have not been issued because an 
   environmental impact statement is pending, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Regulatory Openness, Accountability, 
and Disclosure to Jobs Act of 2011'' or the ``ROAD to Jobs Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTS ON PERMITS FOR WHICH ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 
              STATEMENTS ARE PENDING.

    (a) In General.--Section 102 of the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a) In General.--'' before the first 
        sentence; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Annual Report on Pending Statements and Disapproved 
Permits.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than December 31 of each year, 
        the Council on Environmental Quality shall submit a report to 
        the Congress on--
                    ``(A) the number of Federal permits for which 
                applications have been submitted to Federal agencies or 
                departments and that have not been issued during that 
                year because a statement under subsection (a)(2) has 
                not been issued; and
                    ``(B) descriptions of the Federal permits for which 
                statements were issued under subsection (a)(2), that 
                were rejected or otherwise disapproved in that year.
            ``(2) Contents.--Each report under this section shall 
        contain--
                    ``(A) a description of the economic impact of not 
                issuing each permit, including--
                            ``(i) the impact for the industry 
                        concerned;
                            ``(ii) an estimate of the direct economic 
                        output of the project to be carried out under 
                        the permit once the project is completed; and
                            ``(iii) the number of jobs that would be 
                        directly created by the activity to be carried 
                        out under the permit;
                    ``(B) the date the application for each permit was 
                submitted to the Federal agency or department;
                    ``(C) the status of each permit application in the 
                approval process; and
                    ``(D) the date on which a decision on each permit 
                application is expected to be made.
            ``(3) Permit defined.--In this subsection, the term 
        `permit' means any license, certificate, approval, 
        registration, charter, membership, exemption, or other form of 
        permission required by Federal law for the conduct of 
        activity.''.
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