[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1758 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1758

 To amend the Federal Power Act prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory 
   Commission from requiring the removal or modification of existing 
       structures or encroachments in licenses of the Commission.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 20, 2011

  Mrs. McCaskill (for herself and Mr. Blunt) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Federal Power Act prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory 
   Commission from requiring the removal or modification of existing 
       structures or encroachments in licenses of the Commission.

    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 ``Landowner Protection Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. SHORELINE MANAGEMENT PLANS.

    (a) In General.--Section 4(e) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 
797(e)) is amended--
            (1) by designating the first, second, and third sentences 
        as paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Removal or modification of existing nonconforming 
        structures or encroachments.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Except as provided in 
                subparagraph (B), in issuing, denying, approving, or 
                modifying a shoreline management plan required under 
                any license issued under this part for any project, the 
                Commission shall not require the removal or 
                modification of any existing nonconforming structure or 
                encroachment within the project boundary.
                    ``(B) Exception.--Subparagraph (A) shall not apply 
                to any existing nonconforming structure or encroachment 
                built within the project boundary in bad faith.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on January 1, 2011.
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