[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3021 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3021

To amend the Natural Gas Act to allow the use of aerial survey data for 
             certain applications, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2015

   Mr. Pompeo (for himself, Mr. Mullin, Mr. Schrader, and Mr. Meeks) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Natural Gas Act to allow the use of aerial survey data for 
             certain applications, 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 ``Aerial Infrastructure Route Survey 
Act of 2015'' or the ``AIR Survey Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. AERIAL SURVEY DATA ALLOWED FOR CERTAIN APPLICATIONS.

    Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717f) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i) Aerial Survey Data.--
            ``(1) Data collected by aerial survey.--Data collected by 
        aerial survey shall be accepted in lieu of, and given equal 
        weight to, ground survey data for the purposes of--
                    ``(A) completing any prefiling process established 
                to facilitate the formal application process for 
                obtaining a certificate of public convenience and 
                necessity under this section; or
                    ``(B) completing an application associated with a 
                Federal authorization (as defined in section 15(a) with 
                respect to an application for a certificate of public 
                convenience and necessity under this section).
            ``(2) Verification.--An agency accepting aerial survey data 
        pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) may require, as a condition of 
        approval of an application associated with a Federal 
        authorization described in such paragraph, that such aerial 
        survey data be verified through the use of ground survey data 
        before the construction or extension of a facility that is the 
        subject of such application.''.
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