[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3498 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3498

 To ensure that the Secretary of the Army obtains consent from certain 
 entities before granting certain permits, easements, or rights-of-way.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 5, 2016

  Mrs. Boxer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that the Secretary of the Army obtains consent from certain 
 entities before granting certain permits, easements, or rights-of-way.

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

SECTION 1. WRITTEN CONSENT REQUIREMENT.

    The Secretary of the Army shall not grant a permit, easement, or 
other right-of-way for purposes of a pipeline for the transportation of 
oil, natural gas, synthetic liquid or gaseous fuels, or any refined 
product produced from those materials on land associated with a civil 
works project of the Corps of Engineers or an associated flowage 
easement, if the construction or operation of the pipeline has the 
potential to temporarily or permanently impair the beneficial uses of 
the surface water or groundwater used by the non-Federal agency or the 
Indian tribe described in paragraphs (1) and (2), unless the Secretary 
receives written consent from--
            (1) any non-Federal agency that runs an affected water 
        system; and
            (2) a federally recognized Indian tribe that uses an 
        affected water system.
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