118 S1456 IS: Spur Permitting of Underdeveloped Resources Act
U.S. Senate
2023-05-04
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1.Short title; table of contents(a)This Act may be cited as the Spur Permitting of Underdeveloped Resources Act
or the SPUR Act
.(b)The table of contents for this Act is as follows:Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.TITLE I—Oil and gas leasing and permittingSubtitle A—Onshore and offshore oil and gas leasingSec. 1101. Onshore oil and gas leasing.Sec. 1102. Offshore oil and gas leasing.Sec. 1103. Prohibition on delays.Subtitle B—Permitting of Federal oil and gas mineralsSec. 1201. Term of application for permit to drill.Sec. 1202. Cooperative federalism in oil and gas permitting on available Federal land.Sec. 1203. Split estate permitting compliance.Sec. 1204. Fee-fee-fed permitting compliance.Sec. 1205. State and Tribal authority for hydraulic fracturing regulation.Subtitle C—Liquefied natural gas exportsSec. 1301. Action on applications to export liquefied natural gas.Sec. 1302. Small scale LNG access.TITLE II—Mineral leasing and permittingSec. 2001. Land use plan criteria under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.Sec. 2002. Congressional approval of withdrawals under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.Sec. 2003. Prohibition of certain moratoria.Sec. 2004. Prohibition of the establishment of new categories of Federal land designations by the heads of Federal land management agencies.Sec. 2005. Coal leases on Federal land.Sec. 2006. Modification to definitions of critical material and critical mineral and critical mineral designation criteria.Sec. 2007. Permitting process improvements.TITLE III—Federal Energy Regulatory CommissionSec. 3001. Tariff reforms, rate treatments, and rulemaking to ensure the reliability and security of electric service and interstate natural gas service.Sec. 3002. Federal authorizations under the Natural Gas Act.Sec. 3003. Federal authorizations under section 216 of the Federal Power Act.Sec. 3004. Promoting interagency coordination for review of natural gas projects.Sec. 3005. Coordination process to protect electric reliability.Sec. 3006. Addressing inaction by Commission on certain electric rate filings.Sec. 3007. Tolling order reform for the Natural Gas Act.Sec. 3008. Tolling order reform for the Federal Power Act.Sec. 3009. De novo review of civil penalties under the Natural Gas Act.Sec. 3010. Extension of time to commence construction of certain hydropower projects.Sec. 3011. Judicial review.Sec. 3012. Approval for border-crossing facilities.TITLE IV—Other Natural ResourcesSec. 4001. Root and stem projects.Sec. 4002. Consultation under certain land and resource management plans and land use plans.Sec. 4003. Renewal term of grazing permits or leases.Sec. 4004. Renewal of grazing permits and leases and certain actions during extreme natural events and disasters.Sec. 4005. Withdrawal of BLM proposed rule.<enum>I</enum><header>Oil and gas leasing and permitting</header><subtitle id="id5009d27e206240dfbfe917c2b10b0379" style="OLC"><enum>A</enum><header>Onshore and offshore oil and gas leasing</header><section id="id63179f86e4aa4f8dac443da10af3ab64"><enum>1101.</enum><header>Onshore oil and gas leasing</header><subsection id="id9ab560f840ab4b0a97005226ddee0059"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text><paragraph id="idce88a88fbde5413e98a5f27a661ce2d0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Onshore oil and gas lease sale</header><text>The term <term>onshore oil and gas lease sale</term> means an oil and gas lease sale conducted under section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id2ad62ffe14304a128d8b784ce4e99f92"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of the Interior.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id222ab8e7393d44e280bdcf38862eab05"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Onshore oil and gas lease sales</header><paragraph id="idd760d5afeb2046afbf00aa5deee81d26"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Congressional declaration of policy</header><text>Consistent with the policy described in section 102(a)(12) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1701">43 U.S.C. 1701(a)(12)</external-xref>) that the Bureau of Land Management manage public land <quote>in a manner which recognizes the Nation’s need for domestic sources of minerals</quote> from public land, Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States that it is in the national interest for the Department of the Interior to move forward expeditiously to immediately resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id6626d69cb1864832be2c1403929dd166"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirement to immediately resume onshore oil and gas lease sales</header><text>The Secretary shall immediately resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales in accordance with section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226(b)(1)(A)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id1106d6ee9f7441f2ab766fa4657a3c3e"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Statutory lease terms</header><text>During the 5-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, in order to promote increased production on Federal land, the Secretary may, on a determination that it is in the national interest, reduce the applicable royalty rate on individual leases issued under an onshore oil and gas lease sale to not less than 12.5 percent.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="iddd9614785d86479686d2b43b320bf9e3"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Approved resource management plan requirement</header><text>In conducting a quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sale in a State described in section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226(b)(1)(A)</external-xref>), the Secretary—</text><subparagraph id="idE39207222EE148A1A9E1369F24CD9B20"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall offer not less than 25 percent of available parcels nominated for oil and gas development under the applicable resource management plan in effect for relevant Bureau of Land Management resource management areas within the applicable State; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id3B897A3C0FCF47A0B22CF14C9BC53AFB"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall not restrict the parcels offered to 1 Bureau of Land Management field office within the applicable State unless all nominated parcels are located within the same Bureau of Land Management field office.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id945bb60589d54f0e8f164d736534de64"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Replacement sales</header><text>If, for any reason, an onshore oil and gas lease sale for a calendar year is canceled, delayed, or deferred or is paused due to section 208 of Executive Order 14008 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321</external-xref> note; relating to tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad), the Secretary shall conduct a replacement sale by not later than 180 days after the date of the cancellation, delay, deferral, or pause, as applicable.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc2477843c62e43238bbc1a414434e041"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Mineral Leasing Act reforms</header><paragraph id="idC9FE153A35844A11B348E6C34D243CEF" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Expressions of interest for oil and gas leasing</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8691d570e7164a429ec7a565e02a3f92"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226</external-xref>) is amended by striking the section designation and all that follows through the end of subsection (a) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3AE0E0E4ED994FC7A99AE1A3E947890A"><section id="id2858BA06D0CB4E159172C2D5AC976C4F" commented="no"><enum>17.</enum><header>Leasing of oil and gas parcels</header><subsection id="idC12AF7DE874646EFA9A8B5C447B32D23" commented="no"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Leasing authorized</header><paragraph id="id542822E4A65E44F4938CA6C636D8C0B8" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any parcel of land subject to disposition under this Act that is known or believed to contain oil or gas deposits shall be made available for leasing, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), by the Secretary of the Interior, or for National Forest System land, the Secretary of Agriculture, as applicable (referred to in this subsection as the <quote>Secretary concerned</quote>), not later than 18 months after the date of receipt by the Secretary concerned of an expression of interest in leasing the applicable parcel of land available for disposition under this section, in accordance with procedures established under subsection (q) and for which the applicable fee was paid under that subsection, if the Secretary concerned determines that the parcel of land is open to oil or gas leasing under the approved resource management plan applicable to the planning area in which the parcel of land is located that is in effect on the date on which the expression of interest was submitted to the Secretary concerned (referred to in this subsection as the <quote>approved resource management plan</quote>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idA2DA6BFC645145D6A0273C80830F63BD" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Resource management plans</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id473bf5a888774607a91ce737de3cea23"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Lease terms and conditions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A lease issued by the Secretary concerned under this section with respect to an applicable parcel of land made available for leasing under paragraph (1)—</text><clause id="id286118DD7F424CCD9994FC2061F2A97A" commented="no"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the approved resource management plan; and</text></clause><clause id="id616CC3750B4048EB8E5CABA1C7E28C45" commented="no"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>may not require any stipulations or mitigation requirements not included in the approved resource management plan.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id38dc43fff8ba422e8f7972b2777cd62f"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Effect of amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The fact that the approved resource management plan is being amended shall not prevent or delay the Secretary concerned from making the applicable parcel of land available for leasing if the other requirements of this section have been met, as determined by the Secretary concerned.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida6e1e8b2068947ffaa7e5a7f29b5d06b"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Effect of leasing decision</header><text>A lease sale conducted under the terms of an approved resource management plan shall not be considered to be an action that limits the choice of reasonable alternatives for an environmental review conducted pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) for the purpose of amending that resource management plan.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb9281762989f40dbb7549b6b0bb6611f"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Refund of expression of interest fee</header><text>Section 17(q) of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226(q)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><clause id="idA2FB2E1611EC4E1A948930ADFA279121"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Secretary</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>Secretary of the Interior</quote>; </text></clause><clause id="idD3C77348B31F429F86CCC683155B3B81"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>nonrefundable</quote>; and</text></clause><clause id="idA479176C4695446CA6573156C3219FD5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6E412A0AA87146CDBE25140C6B41C5F3"><paragraph id="id19e9f98c40c54ee2bfbd43c7eff17a9e"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Refund for nonwinning bid</header><text>If a person other than the person who submitted the expression of interest is the highest responsible qualified bidder for a parcel of land covered by the applicable expression of interest in a lease sale conducted under this section—</text><subparagraph id="id8E0DB8B40F054FBDBA6B7C2DF8C1C248"><enum>(A)</enum><text>as a condition of the issuance of the lease, the person who is the highest responsible qualified bidder shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior an amount equal to the applicable fee paid by the person who submitted the expression of interest; and </text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idB03EF624B3774B79B0447BB34B8311A8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>not later than 10 days after the date of the lease sale, the Secretary of the Interior shall refund to the person who submitted the expression of interest an amount equal to the amount of the initial fee paid.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id3f44a8f407b042ca88d7541107372ec9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Protested lease sales</header><text>Section 17(b)(1)(A) of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226(b)(1)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after the seventh sentence the following: <quote>The Secretary of the Interior shall resolve any protest to a lease sale within 60 days following such payment. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the Secretary of the Interior denies a protest to a lease sale, any lease subject to the protest shall not be subject to further environmental review by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the <act-name parsable-cite="NEPA69">National Environmental Policy Act of 1969</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>).</quote>. </text></paragraph><paragraph id="id50B4D78DDC8045768E2CD2B71FC9007A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Effect of litigation</header><text>Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA06C1229BA114B53A2775FA4AE0DF5C6"><subsection id="idC67F78A4FCAF49A4962D14E23F7BD60F"><enum>(r)</enum><header>Effect of litigation</header><paragraph id="id398e3fc75f464481b6abcce2a0a5e54a"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A civil action relating to an environmental review under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1701">43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.</external-xref>), division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States Code (formerly known as the <quote>National Historic Preservation Act</quote>), or the <act-name parsable-cite="NEPA69">National Environmental Policy Act of 1969</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) with respect to a lease sale conducted under this section shall not—</text><subparagraph id="id37C44B16BB464A52B6C9A7769D530030"><enum>(A)</enum><text>affect the validity of a lease issued under the lease sale that is the subject of the civil action; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idA155F938098B439F9862A71A9C38F88A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>except as provided in paragraph (3)(B), cause a delay in the timelines established under subsection (p)(2) for the consideration of an application for permit to drill with respect to a lease issued under the lease sale that is the subject of the civil action.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id1136FC5F226A41D0A3F1AD50258A5301"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Remand; processing of applications for permit to drill</header><text>If, in a civil action described in paragraph (1), the environmental review for a lease sale is found by the applicable court to violate the <act-name parsable-cite="NEPA69">National Environmental Policy Act of 1969</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>)—</text><subparagraph id="id77262B9E5B23415CBBDCA8DCE8929AA0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>notwithstanding chapter 5 or 7 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the <quote>Administrative Procedure Act</quote>), the applicable court shall not set aside the lease sale and vacate the leases issued pursuant to the sale but instead remand the matter to the Secretary of the Interior to resolve the violation; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id90838BA9ECA54B8891D85C06167FBCCA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Secretary of the Interior shall continue to process all applicable applications for permit to drill pursuant to subsection (p)(2).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id84B272FED9FA467CB50CD8BCA88939DF"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Notice</header><subparagraph id="id88834280C16544588C6AD21071AF8810"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 60 days after the date on which a civil action described in paragraph (1) is filed, the Secretary of the Interior shall notify the holder of any lease issued under the lease sale that is the subject of the civil action of the filing of the civil action.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC2EF3C85684243B09B9D260FDD2CBAF9"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Timeline</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of receipt of a notice under subparagraph (A), the leaseholder may file with the Secretary of the Interior a request to pause the timeline under subsection (e)(1) with respect to the term of the lease during any period in which the civil action is pending.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="id220D8EEE39024EE38D64396126FC4689"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Lease cancellation</header><text>Section 17 of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226</external-xref>) (as amended by paragraph (3)) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA5A65FD6ED73480592515CFB2CBD3731"><subsection id="idC9F6BD3A5D9B4866B15116D1BA4AF25E"><enum>(s)</enum><header>Lease cancellation</header><text>A lease issued under this section shall be considered to be valid and not subject to cancellation by the Secretary of the Interior for any reason, except for—</text><paragraph id="idef8bffda0b8f4f14825f608c0304b0b0"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the express written agreement to the cancellation by the lessee; or</text></paragraph><paragraph id="ide3ed4bc540284326b226b5af7c9d1a6e"><enum>(2)</enum><text>a determination by the Secretary of the Interior that cancellation is appropriate in accordance with section 3108.3 of title 43, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on the date of enactment of this subsection), subject to the limitation that a lease may not be determined to be improperly issued under that section based on a finding by a Federal court that the environmental review for the lease sale pursuant to which the lease was issued was in violation of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1701">43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.</external-xref>), division A of subtitle III of title 54, United States Code (formerly known as the <quote>National Historic Preservation Act</quote>), or the <act-name parsable-cite="NEPA69">National Environmental Policy Act of 1969</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id561db709c59d415bbc460543c64640dc"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Limitations for filing oil and gas contests</header><text>Section 42 of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226-2">30 U.S.C. 226–2</external-xref>) is amended by striking the section designation and all that follows through the period at the end of the second sentence, and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idA280CF42F43840F0B1FA34E3D09A50CF"><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id28cb4f612a464be083e5ddb0664ce446"><enum>42.</enum><header>Limitations for filing oil and gas contests</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id841f9165828943e4a5de372e080e21a8"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding chapter 5 or 7 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the <quote>Administrative Procedure Act</quote>), no action contesting a decision of the Secretary involving any oil and gas lease sale, individual lease, or individual permit shall be maintained unless the action is commenced or taken by not later than 60 days after the date on which the final decision of the Secretary relating to the action was made. </text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1fe9cbf50e2243dabc0277db7acb4569"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Jurisdiction</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An action contesting a decision of the Secretary may only be commenced—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0e9e90d1f9084bc2a127a5144ed763e1"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for an individual lease or permit, in the district court of the United States for the district in which the property, or some part thereof, is located; and </text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcd1321936b2548e691ed4f0f31cc1ba6"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">for a lease sale, in a district court of the United States in the State in which the sale occurred. </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9ceba9c624244ddfad29ef295713a706"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Removal</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A defendant or defendant intervenor in an action challenging a lease sale, lease, or permit in multiple states may remove the action to the district court of the United States for the district in which the property is located pursuant to section 1441(c) of title 28, United States Code.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id886effb7449e44ca8c81748de2dc74ef"><enum>1102.</enum><header>Offshore oil and gas leasing</header><subsection id="id76b813fc94f34b03b2c645eb32b52893"><enum>(a)</enum><header>2023–2028 outer continental shelf oil and gas leasing program</header><paragraph id="idef1e877286584d2582828f626ff71041"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later than September 30, 2023, the Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this section as the <quote>Secretary</quote>) shall approve a final 2023–2028 oil and gas leasing program under section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1344">43 U.S.C. 1344</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id7d24b7ef718543e6a25d3e474b1e1912"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>In order to meet the deadline described in paragraph (1), the Secretary may—</text><subparagraph id="id31250136cf49454ab019edc20f739cb4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>limit any comment periods required under subsections (c) and (d) of section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1344">43 U.S.C. 1344</external-xref>); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd0da86e570c24e9096d8f41de9fe38e4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>waive any other requirements under that section that would delay final approval of the oil and gas leasing program described in paragraph (1).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id5e5224ae646f42ecbb6734a5137378cb"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Requirements</header><text>The oil and gas leasing program described in paragraph (1) shall include the following:</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd9a4704cd0014757953c7cd5ac7b52d7"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A minimum of 2 Gulf of Mexico region-wide lease sales each year in the following planning areas of the Gulf of Mexico region, as described in the final program decision document entitled <quote>2017–2020 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program (November 2016)</quote>:</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcd2e3ae0e96b4644959dd63229778768"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida2bc2f925e9b41b5b5a637ff5cb7dfb8"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide43d4007e2d5403897ef79748f736a1b"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At least 1 region-wide lease sale in the Alaska regions of the outer Continental Shelf, as described in the final program decision document entitled <quote>2017–2020 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Final Program (November 2016)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idC4C668C5AE8D42EA9F6F1C6374BD1942"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Statutory lease terms</header><text>During the 5-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, in order to promote increased production on the outer Continental Shelf, the Secretary may, on a determination that it is in the national interest, reduce the applicable royalty rate on individual oil and gas leases issued under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1331">43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.</external-xref>) to not less than 12.5 percent.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idd8a8bdef2c13427c80a37a0054f929f8"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Subsequent offshore leasing programs</header><text>Section 18 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1344">43 U.S.C. 1344</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id0e55684bb8ef4c58bb9a9f845b1295ec"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), in the first sentence of the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>subsections (c) and (d) of this section</quote> and inserting <quote>subsections (c) through (f)</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idb237370cff564f01b3bb27e1bf9d6d61"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (f) through (i) as subsections (g) through (j), respectively;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id5a7c5f0768954610a5b41638226951b6"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (e) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf7aad3fdc1844fa5b1f8faf275457190"><subsection id="idbe1ce533b2ea46b4abdc7311478b7bcf"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Subsequent leasing programs</header><paragraph id="id8e5f748497c1438fa8a05292d1c1eb3e"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 36 months after conducting the first lease sale under an oil and gas leasing program prepared pursuant to this section, the Secretary shall begin preparing the subsequent oil and gas leasing program under this section.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idd34751b39ad24a36bfa51739541a02fa"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text>Each subsequent oil and gas leasing program under this section—</text><subparagraph id="id586948868a094e3ea88a1816363aea74"><enum>(A)</enum><text>shall be approved not later than 180 days before the expiration of the previous oil and gas leasing program; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id26f813313c75456fb0891c0aaf84196a"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall contain a minimum of 5 lease sales.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="idB69D1F75BE3745A89816C97FEB4FA73B"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by conforming the margin of subsection (j) (as so redesignated) to the margin of subsection (i) (as so redesignated).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idE6183ADAC57745C2ACBA05DF4D77CD53" commented="no"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Lease or permit cancellation</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id93ea1bee4e8144c394dda2521dcdbf94"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 5(a)(2) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1334">43 U.S.C. 1334(a)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd180bc4548ee4334b09b9daf61fba7f6"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>any lease or permit—</quote> and all that follows through the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting the following: </text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id991493B9F5B1442CA2EDD373BBE0ABAB"><text>any lease or permit—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id670c464dd5c74c6293fc4614388b397a"><enum>(A)</enum><text>that the lease or permit shall be considered to be valid and not subject to cancellation by the Secretary for any reason, except for—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5205a3ca636f4b2594a87c77be345f4d"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the express written agreement to the cancellation by the lessee or permittee; or</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc246ceb0ec61499996e7a01849c9d4bc"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a determination by the Secretary that cancellation is appropriate (including cancellation under subsection (c), section 8(o), section 11(c)(1), and subsections (h)(2)(C) and (j) of section 25), in accordance with the regulations prescribed under this section, subject to the limitation that a lease or permit may not be cancelled by the Secretary based on a finding by a Federal court that the environmental review for the lease sale pursuant to which the lease was issued was in violation of the <act-name parsable-cite="NEPA69">National Environmental Policy Act of 1969</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>); and</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id908198d5023f45ceba04ff957c679fd6"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (C) as subparagraph (B).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide1a4506663ea4c0f80e6dc3da01de2bb"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8d264ae58614408293feac0c28ff673b"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Section 11(c)(1) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1340">43 U.S.C. 1340(c)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd5b4728d4f6948bd98c3eb1f409f5d70"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the fourth sentence, by striking <quote>result in any condition described in section 5(a)(2)(A)(i) of this Act</quote> and inserting <quote>probably cause serious harm or damage to life (including fish and other aquatic life), to property, to any mineral (in areas leased or not leased), to the national security or defense, or to the marine, coastal, or human environment</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb59b3f88dba84524829271f3b39f18c4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the fifth sentence—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5a3c93d8d16949a4b7c7144383b59232"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>, subject to section 5(a)(2)(B) of this Act,</quote>; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id69ca608bdaef43d6963f30812cd7427f"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by striking <quote>section 5(a)(2)(C) (i) or (ii) of this Act</quote> and inserting <quote>section 5(a)(2)(B)</quote>.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb6d9ac29a5694415ba46e7fa15989062"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 25(h)(2)(C) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1351">43 U.S.C. 1351(h)(2)(C)</external-xref>) is amended, in the first sentence, by striking <quote>section 5(a)(2)(C) of this Act</quote> and inserting <quote>section 5(a)(2)(B)</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idB4C473306F4B46428E3A9BFD537A532C" commented="no"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effect of litigation</header><text>Section 8 of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1337">43 U.S.C. 1337</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id378C90B6B6C44FCAAA9D995BBF67805C"><subsection id="idB9879F0893D348FCA69B4B07DB70C99E" commented="no"><enum>(q)</enum><header>Effect of litigation</header><paragraph id="id868B421D6E61433EA98CE21ABE1D9577" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>A civil action relating to an environmental review under the <act-name parsable-cite="NEPA69">National Environmental Policy Act of 1969</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) with respect to a lease sale conducted under this section shall not—</text><subparagraph id="id956CBCDF85664A2BB3BB4B1F0F98BF05" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>affect the validity of a lease issued under the lease sale that is the subject of the civil action; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE2F0FAE6880F4DD5B44781028F1B22C8" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text>except as provided in paragraph (3)(B), cause a delay in the timelines for the consideration of an application for permit to drill with respect to a lease issued under the lease sale that is the subject of the civil action.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idFCE93536E79E40E5AA5D9AB37399B5CD" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Remand; processing of applications for permit to drill</header><text>If, in a civil action described in paragraph (1), the environmental review for a lease sale is found by the applicable court to violate the <act-name parsable-cite="NEPA69">National Environmental Policy Act of 1969</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>)—</text><subparagraph id="id8E804681040B452BB21B0CBDA1D3A88E" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>notwithstanding chapter 5 or 7 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the <quote>Administrative Procedures Act</quote>), the applicable court shall not set aside the lease sale and vacate the leases issued pursuant to the sale but instead remand the matter to the Secretary of the Interior to resolve the violation; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idFF9396B3A9444D4C9FAC5F66D42ADCB5" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Secretary shall continue to process all applicable applications for permit to drill in accordance with this Act.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idD79A1687475C4144B05B153CE46929E4" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Notice</header><subparagraph id="idCFAD94D56C064325B8CA979F423E0A9D" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Not later than 60 days after the date on which a civil action described in paragraph (1) is filed, the Secretary shall notify the holder of any lease issued under the lease sale that is the subject of the civil action of the filing of the civil action.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id597A0EB76D3B4C7BB7C5734F92DF7C67" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Timeline</header><text>Not later than 90 days after the date of receipt of a notice under subparagraph (A), the leaseholder may file with the Secretary a request to pause the timeline with respect to the term of the lease during any period in which the civil action is pending.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section id="id1f196bb8f7a344189c00c79a7447a6f5"><enum>1103.</enum><header>Prohibition on delays</header><subsection id="id456dff939290457db46ad3213a95251e"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The President shall not, through Executive order or any other administrative procedure, pause, cancel, delay, defer, or otherwise impede or circumvent the Federal energy mineral leasing processes under the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/181">30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.</external-xref>) or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1331">43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.</external-xref>) or a related rulemaking process required by subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the <quote>Administrative Procedure Act</quote>), without congressional approval.</text></subsection><subsection id="iddf2795ab97a04b04a9b580735e0ad266" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Rebuttable presumption</header><text>There shall be a rebuttable presumption that any attempt by the President to pause, cancel, delay, defer, or otherwise impede or circumvent any Federal energy mineral leasing or permitting process under the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/181">30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.</external-xref>) or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1331">43 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.</external-xref>) or a related rulemaking process required by subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the <quote>Administrative Procedure Act</quote>), without congressional approval, is a violation of the applicable law. </text></subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id2c555a9b708c477c80858908713f8539" style="OLC"><enum>B</enum><header>Permitting of Federal oil and gas minerals</header><section id="id00551B942E4A40BA8F9D56C67322E8AA"><enum>1201.</enum><header>Term of application for permit to drill</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 17(p) of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226(p)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBA7C98894702434E8D01EB52245A7404"><paragraph id="id974B1DCBCD6C4C9B82FF9388A130386D"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Term</header><text>An application for permit to drill approved under this subsection shall be valid for the 4-year period beginning on the date of the approval.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="HE907EA8A83EE4EBFAA33E08C9D7243E5"><enum>1202.</enum><header>Cooperative federalism in oil and gas permitting on available Federal land</header><subsection id="H32547A0FFB044A0D998DF896B86AC763"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/181">30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="H6898D341069F4E4893568C5EE3FE33B4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating section 44 as section 46; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H8755E66DEC574FCDB050C5B9635A569B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after section 43 the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3D3682077BF044D880111370DD758A1C"><section id="H2D7421386D53417EB4BB4AF3D2719D3E"><enum>44.</enum><header>Cooperative federalism in oil and gas permitting on available Federal land</header><subsection id="HA1F3C0F774334764B631B79061AF971D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph id="H1254960AFFAD46348D778A5C90313155"><enum>(1)</enum><header>APD</header><text>The term <term>APD</term> means a permit—</text><subparagraph id="H1EBE44A000BA41608580CA5185CF949C"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that grants authority to drill for oil and gas; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7117B37E55D04DA39B48162E471F1F5B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>for which an application has been received that includes—</text><clause id="H01BB4E47649D4D399F4125F95B077701"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a drilling plan; and</text></clause><clause id="H7C42E6382CF246008A224ABC285F219C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>evidence of bond coverage.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H672C1C5CC84C43B2818AF69EF3D4AB26"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Available Federal land</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>available Federal land</term> means any Federal land that—</text><subparagraph id="H297FB4E862DD45A38A0B4FF26559E563"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is located within the boundaries of a State;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1307FFB631AB4E1EA84CC50B3AFC952C"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is not held by the United States in trust for the benefit of a federally recognized Indian Tribe or a member of a federally recognized Indian Tribe;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF62FEF9ED7A14316AF60D87A6F27BF4C"><enum>(C)</enum><text>is not a unit of the National Park System;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD3346FD0F4BC4076BE9E875E47C8EA80"><enum>(D)</enum><text>is not a unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System, other than a unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System for which oil and gas drilling is allowed under law;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6350BB4A2A5749419B2F27305ADB5C68"><enum>(E)</enum><text>is not a congressionally approved wilderness area under the Wilderness Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1131">16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.</external-xref>); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7CCAC362294E496FBF6C5F583F43265F"><enum>(F)</enum><text>has been identified as land available for lease, or has been leased, for the exploration, development, and production of oil and gas—</text><clause id="H507545AB7E0F4AA9B56D5E15A5BFF635"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by the Bureau of Land Management under—</text><subclause id="H396BC3626F6B40848AE037CE9DCAB2F7"><enum>(I)</enum><text>a resource management plan under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1701">43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.</external-xref>); or</text></subclause><subclause id="H87EFC4A8EAAE4F4AA1560CB1B4CCC153"><enum>(II)</enum><text>an integrated activity plan with respect to the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska; or</text></subclause></clause><clause id="H151CB1B4BA884D699623D676137CF3D7"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by the Forest Service under a National Forest management plan under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1600">16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.</external-xref>).</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HDC76275099814EFD944AB7B70EB54644"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Drilling plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>drilling plan</term> means a plan described in section 3162.3–1(e) of title 43, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor regulation).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H5312FD89059E47CDA52C4FC5D2B7D963"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of the Interior.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H6D325058EEA7476B961D1C79D6138BE4"><enum>(5)</enum><header>State applicant</header><text>The term <term>State applicant</term> means a State that submits an application under subsection (c).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HBDF7B46117AC41228E6F145281073E92"><enum>(6)</enum><header>State program</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>State program</term> means a program in a State under which the State may—</text><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H313FBC055A4B42A4946000156EA77908"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">issue APDs, approve drilling plans, approve sundry notices, approve suspensions of operations or production, or grant rights-of-way on available Federal land; and </text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCA7AB2FCD7DD4C7F9604B12F93FD17D7"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">impose sanctions for violations of State laws, regulations, or any condition of an issued APD or approved drilling plan, as applicable.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HCCF43441B68D4C6EAF7DC2AE2CE87FFF"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Sundry notice</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>sundry notice</term> means a written request submitted pursuant to section 3173.10 of title 43, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id5b88abc3e0f9405facd0c818925755fa"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Suspension of operations or production</header><text>The term <term>suspension of operations or production</term> means a suspension of operations or production described in section 17 or section 39.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H8FEDEE67EAC8455E88E40A6E800197DE"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorizations</header><paragraph commented="no" id="HE939EEA7ECF14979AECCD893D667FD40"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>On receipt of an application under subsection (c), the Secretary may delegate to a State exclusive authority—</text><subparagraph commented="no" id="H875002D314E049658C5F4ACC58E403CD"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to issue an APD on available Federal land; </text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H098C9FE407094297AFD2F63ABEBBF9E0"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to approve drilling plans on available Federal land;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id910F0E46875A4C2B8B5A812B4C76FD83"><enum>(C)</enum><text>to approve sundry notices relating to work performed on available Federal land; </text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id56cb31c5987b4225b3d8f77ca381b3f1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>to approve suspensions of operations or production; and </text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id6D3D3CA4350D417EAA0AE6761046CF63"><enum>(E)</enum><text>to grant rights-of-way in accordance with paragraph (3).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H085DDA7269524A74881B182072ECFCA7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Inspection and enforcement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On request of a State for which authority is delegated under paragraph (1), the authority delegated may include the authority to inspect and enforce an APD, drilling plan, or right-of-way, as applicable.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idEBD70A9CECEF4DF091A36C5FA6953958"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Rights-of-way</header><text>The authority to grant a right-of-way delegated to a State under paragraph (1)(E) shall be the authority of the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as applicable, under section 501 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1761">43 U.S.C. 1761</external-xref>) and section 28 of this Act, to grant, issue, or renew rights-of-way over, upon, under, or through available Federal land. </text></paragraph><paragraph id="id437AC37CE1C940F193FF8F7A8B2FD1A4"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Effect of Federal environmental reviews</header><text>A State for which authority is delegated under paragraph (1) shall continue processing applications for an APD, applications for approval of a drilling plan, applications for approval of a sundry notice, and applications to grant a right-of-way, regardless of whether the Federal Government is carrying out any review related to the APD, drilling plan, sundry notice, or right-of-way under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) or the <act-name parsable-cite="ESA">Endangered Species Act of 1973</act-name> (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1531">16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7754c1575b244c489d71aaed6c00018d"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Effect of state enforcement action</header><text>If a State for which authority is delegated under paragraph (1) imposes a sanction for violating a condition of an issued APD or approved drilling plan, the Secretary may not issue a penalty for the same violation under section 109 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1719">30 U.S.C. 1719</external-xref>). </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HCF7F140DCA7A452499DF52BD1A9CCC96"><enum>(c)</enum><header>State application process</header><paragraph id="HBB5450EEF5FB4F35B5DE222D21C701FC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Submission of application</header><text>A State seeking a delegation of authority under subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of subsection (b)(1) shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, including a description of the State program that the State proposes to administer under State law.</text></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H0827272304A444ABAFE3BD90F5E3AE72"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Deadline for approval or disapproval</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 180 days after the date on which an application under paragraph (1) is received, the Secretary shall approve or disapprove the application.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HB87B4D3587334037A8310FDF73F27106"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Requirements for approval</header><subparagraph id="idC52963103B1F45AA9C6675C2DDBAC9E3"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may approve an application received under paragraph (1) only if the Secretary determines that—</text><clause id="H26A049C1924D4E9C9D0C115E237D75DA"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the State applicant would be at least as effective as the Secretary in issuing APDs, approving drilling plans, approving sundry notices, approving suspensions of operations or production, or granting rights-of-way, as applicable;</text></clause><clause id="H8BC631C46E014C7F9FC7D8394A881631"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the State program of the State applicant—</text><subclause id="H4515301333044AC18CDA07BC896589AC"><enum>(I)</enum><text>complies with this Act; and</text></subclause><subclause id="id4915641b32e64a88b25b58ed68683ffb"><enum>(II)</enum><text>provides for the termination or modification of an issued APD, approved drilling plan, approved sundry notice, approved suspension of operations or production, or granted right-of-way, as applicable, for cause, including for—</text><item id="id9f43b6db4a2346108fd7b47c89049407"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>the violation of any condition of the issued APD, approved drilling plan, approved sundry notice, approved suspension of operations or production, or granted right-of-way;</text></item><item id="id8f7a6b5848dc41caaaf03f6b95c33e9a"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>obtaining the issued APD, approved drilling plan, approved sundry notice, approved suspension of operations or production, or granted right-of-way by misrepresentation; or</text></item><item id="idb75d2c25d4254e6c9d14e53c063353a2"><enum>(cc)</enum><text>failure to fully disclose in the application all relevant facts; </text></item></subclause></clause><clause id="HA3FA3693906A4032A32CFFB588F45BF5"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the State applicant has sufficient administrative and technical personnel and sufficient funding to carry out the State program; and</text></clause><clause id="HE4C0A27AEB6143E8A020CDE11D1C0A11"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>approval of the application would not result in decreased royalty payments owed to the United States under subsection (a) of section 35.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H776094153E234DB0AC4FD00850876D1D"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Memoranda of understanding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to a State applicant seeking authority under subsection (b)(2) to inspect and enforce APDs, drilling plans, or rights-of-way, as applicable, before approving the application of the State applicant, the Secretary shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with the State applicant under paragraph (6) that describes the Federal and State responsibilities with respect to the inspection and enforcement.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H955BC188242A48458E869D0D9372EEF0"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Public notice</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before approving an application received under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall—</text><clause id="idC70252EA78DF47BBA1F4AD75FE972418"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">provide public notice of the application;</text></clause><clause id="idC3AC249EA2344EAA95DE76D22025AD71"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">solicit public comment for the application; and</text></clause><clause id="id6A86A083DCA749F88D678D6B6070C26B"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">hold a public hearing for the application in the State.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H46D26D9B19B941F8AC9D485DA8ECBB74"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Disapproval</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Secretary disapproves an application submitted under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall provide to the State applicant written notification of—</text><subparagraph id="H7D5117574EFD4944A75F4246F628A59B"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the reasons for the disapproval, including any information, data, or analysis on which the disapproval is based; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id58147AF35E154B3C88C4047013D89A3F"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any revisions or modifications necessary to obtain approval.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5381E147EF7648DEBD4AE346F9EBB3CC"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Resubmittal of application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State may resubmit an application under paragraph (1) at any time.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HC5F58E3BE32144878FA909BFCF334CDC"><enum>(6)</enum><header>State memoranda of understanding</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Before a State submits an application under paragraph (1), the Secretary, on request of the State, may enter into a memorandum of understanding with the State regarding the proposed State program—</text><subparagraph id="HE430A208B70A49C58B8E15857B022330"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">to describe the Federal and State responsibilities for oil and gas regulations;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC69626ACA16847028176F7ED2DA585E5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>to provide technical assistance; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC32DE9D72340426EA9AFAB8CC89C5999"><enum>(C)</enum><text>to share best management practices.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H6718CC4B2D184729B03D811140A78298"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Administrative fees for APDs</header><paragraph commented="no" id="H69D08E6202184590B059049B4C9E0114"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State for which authority has been delegated under subsection (b)(1)(A) may collect a fee for each application for an APD that is submitted to the State.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HF1233FFA7B4845278420CF58FA80A64A"><enum>(2)</enum><header>No collection of fee by Secretary</header><text>The Secretary may not collect a fee from the applicant or from the State for an application for an APD that is submitted to a State for which authority has been delegated under subsection (b)(1)(A).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H86666E4E8FC14312BFA2E1E3225E7736"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Use</header><text>A State shall use 100 percent of the fees collected under this subsection for the administration of the approved State program of the State.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDA497AA19EDD4C2CB4A3D5B8EC1A3624"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Voluntary termination of authority</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id686D6B6C95B14316BAC824B362E47D63"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">After providing written notice to the Secretary, a State may voluntarily terminate any authority delegated to the State under subsection (b)(1) on expiration of the 60-day period beginning on the date on which the Secretary receives the written notice.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDDE92C8C647349DBAD204FFC2579079F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Resumption by Secretary</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">On termination of the authority delegated to a State under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall resume any activities for which authority was delegated to the State under subsection (b)(1).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H843A64F2C3484EABB3C7DD180518DED7"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Appeal of denial of application</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a State for which the Secretary has delegated authority under subsection (b)(1) denies an application submitted under subsection (c)(1), the applicant may appeal the decision to the Office of Hearings and Appeals of the Department of the Interior.</text></subsection><subsection id="H22BAABF1E5C94DE985E88B95AF63041E"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Federal administration of State program</header><paragraph id="H65B99BA0AF704292B7567F535A091AEE"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>If the Secretary has reason to believe that a State is not administering or enforcing an approved State program, the Secretary shall notify the relevant State regulatory authority of any possible deficiencies.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H050A887F2C72476291A9E2E113042A3C"><enum>(2)</enum><header>State response</header><text>Not later than 30 days after the date on which a State receives notification of a possible deficiency under paragraph (1), the State shall—</text><subparagraph id="H408B33A50F1B40F1A4A8F3B4FB85BE00"><enum>(A)</enum><text>take appropriate action to correct the possible deficiency; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1A99BEC143E644E2AA3C9CCA6955D910"><enum>(B)</enum><text>notify the Secretary of the action in writing.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H83F579271548466EA1F9DB1B96852BF4"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Determination</header><subparagraph id="H205DDBD2E5324AD49EC0F80660B27353"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>On expiration of the 30-day period described in paragraph (2), the Secretary shall issue public notice of any determination of the Secretary that—</text><clause id="idB6B29F32AD7F4B1A981947E50BDC88FE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a violation of all or any part of an approved State program has resulted from a failure of the State to administer or enforce the approved State program of the State; or</text></clause><clause id="id24C55A8096814213A03AF72F06AD17C9"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the State has not demonstrated the capability and intent of the State to administer or enforce the State program of the State.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4BFDB00140264F4C817EC160C6268320"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Appeal</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State may appeal the determination of the Secretary under subparagraph (A) in the applicable United States District Court.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idCE1E773119584F83A62E11223B6E25BE"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Resumption by Secretary pending appeal</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary may not resume activities under paragraph (4) if an appeal under subparagraph (B) is pending.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HCFFD09890A2440AEA019A90E4804662C"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Resumption by Secretary</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (3)(C), if the Secretary has made a determination under paragraph (3)(A), the Secretary shall resume any activities for which authority was delegated to the State during the period—</text><subparagraph id="HA86790CC7AA74BDA90AC9516B3393508"><enum>(A)</enum><text>beginning on the date on which the Secretary issues the public notice under paragraph (3)(A); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H065742E4212C402184CF193E91672758"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ending on the date on which the Secretary determines that the State may administer or enforce, as applicable, the approved State program of the State.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HF856FB35454C49C28F8E48F1F2443664"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Standing</header><text>A State with an approved regulatory program shall have standing to sue the Secretary for any action taken under this subsection.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HA7D07DE68D56467FABAD0476602DF0FC"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Existing authorities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 390(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/15942">42 U.S.C. 15942(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="H0653EAB5269B498C93EF48DA5CBE1564"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Action by the Secretary</quote> and inserting <quote>The Secretary</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H156D025358CF4A22BB4C5D57C417F98C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking <quote>with respect to any of the activities described in subsection (b) shall be subject to a rebuttable presumption that the use of</quote> and inserting <quote>shall apply</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H49930CC27AF04C27A42E7FC473BA39F3"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by striking <quote>would apply if the activity</quote> and inserting <quote>for each action described in subsection (b) if the action</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb41f4565434147a396522a62108fb0cc"><enum>1203.</enum><header>Split estate permitting compliance</header><subsection id="id9D019017DC294D23BA9BDCEDCE39847E" changed="not-changed"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/181">30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.</external-xref>), the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1701">30 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.</external-xref>), or subpart 3162 of title 43, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), but subject to any State or Tribal requirements and subsection (c), the Secretary of the Interior shall not require a permit to drill for an oil and gas lease under the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/181">30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.</external-xref>) for an action occurring within an oil and gas drilling or spacing unit if— </text><paragraph id="id3653befab78f408c9c18a96aa8aa26b2" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text>less than 50 percent of the minerals within the oil and gas drilling or spacing unit are minerals owned by the Federal Government; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id2089d9500390496e80cfb7a6c3bb5bd8" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the Federal Government does not own or lease the surface estate within the area directly impacted by the action.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id21A6C43102EE4A25AB241296BDE2ED3E" changed="not-changed"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Notification</header><text>For each State permit to drill or drilling plan that would impact or extract oil and gas owned by the Federal Government—</text><paragraph id="id09922DFAD71B466393759959E89459F4" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text>each lessee, or designee of a lessee, shall—</text><subparagraph id="id9244fe2d64f84da88f61fb4373dbe5ac" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text>notify the Secretary of the Interior of the submission of a State application for a permit to drill or drilling plan on submission of the application; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idf0d9b40732fb437cadebab5e29faef26" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provide a copy of the application described in subparagraph (A) to the Secretary of the Interior not later than 5 days after the date on which the permit or plan is submitted; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id2df85aca314b47139f6bd6d984817d18" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text>each lessee, designee of a lessee, or applicable State shall notify the Secretary of the Interior of the approved State permit to drill or drilling plan not later than 45 days after the date on which the permit or plan is approved.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id8eecf8dfb8f74ee08247d5583c2dd5ea" changed="not-changed"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Nonapplicability to Indian lands</header><text>Subsection (a) shall not apply to Indian lands (as defined in section 3 of the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1702">30 U.S.C. 1702</external-xref>)).</text></subsection><subsection id="id7225615B6F024FC2BC7B05CF93FEB312" changed="not-changed"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effect</header><text>Nothing in this section affects—</text><paragraph id="id012C004D035B4FA5B9F9DF5C9C367138" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text>other authorities of the Secretary of the Interior under the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1701">30 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.</external-xref>); or</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id57F63ACE20974799BDF6382F55C2BD09" changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the amount of royalties due to the Federal Government from the production of the Federal minerals within the oil and gas drilling or spacing unit. </text></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id448ff3dfe3194c638588ce14e62a9b11"><enum>1204.</enum><header>Fee-fee-fed permitting compliance</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id50de1787b41443c79016656a766266be"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text>Notwithstanding the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/181">30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.</external-xref>), the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1701">30 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.</external-xref>), or subpart 3162 of title 43, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), the Secretary of the Interior shall issue a categorical exclusion pursuant to section 390 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/15942">42 U.S.C. 15942</external-xref>) for an application for permit to drill into and produce Federal minerals from a well pad constructed on entirely non-Federal lands.</text></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5f4b854fef98424289abebe9b8444f07"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application for permit To drill</header><text>Section 17(g) of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/226">30 U.S.C. 226(g)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following: <quote>For an application for a permit to drill into and produce Federal minerals from a well pad constructed on entirely non-Federal lands, the Secretary shall limit review pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>), section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1536">16 U.S.C. 1536</external-xref>), and section 306108 of title 54, United States Code, only to the approval of the permit. The Secretary shall have no authority to require a bond to protect non-Federal lands, to enter non-Federal lands without the consent of the applicable landowner, or to require mitigation of surface disturbances on non-Federal lands.</quote>.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id8ffed0c493f04f31af2c66d036cf2a18"><enum>1205.</enum><header>State and Tribal authority for hydraulic fracturing regulation</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/181">30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after section 44 (as added by section 1202(a)(2)) the following:</text><quoted-block id="HA99336B88DA64A7A8825FB89B10058A6" display-inline="no-display-inline" style="OLC"><section id="HE14C16B460704104BF98A756E0B68020"><enum>45.</enum><header>State and Tribal authority for hydraulic fracturing regulation</header><subsection id="H402CEA2E3C02430AA28C2B23D2090DD9"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAC0DAEFD797E4DB18BFA4935557336FB"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Hydraulic fracturing</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>hydraulic fracturing</term> means the process of creating small cracks or fractures in underground geological formations for well stimulation purposes of bringing hydrocarbons into the wellbore and to the surface for capture.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id491C2820094F4D22A22A2A126A742252"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of the Interior.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idB935FE3745424EA2A4F61DB3286E991A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Enforcement of Federal regulations</header><text>The Secretary shall not enforce any Federal regulation, guidance, or permit requirement regarding hydraulic fracturing relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on or under any land in any State that has regulations, guidance, or permit requirements for that activity.</text></subsection><subsection id="HF02844CA85054C389E531A0B6FCEAE7F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>State authority</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall defer to State regulations, guidance, and permit requirements for all activities regarding hydraulic fracturing relating to oil, gas, or geothermal production activities on Federal land.</text></subsection><subsection id="H4998013C9D6148C79B30C5579B2307AC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Transparency of State regulations</header><paragraph id="HB8961556FDC947B097EF532CA8B1B531"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Each State shall submit to the Bureau of Land Management a copy of the regulations of the State that apply to hydraulic fracturing operations on Federal land, including the regulations that require disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HCDE8FBDFCE2647BCB5ABF214A3F33863"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Availability</header><text>The Secretary shall make available to the public on the website of the Secretary the regulations submitted under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H67D1FCEA7A2443579403F88B4F706C15" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Tribal authority on trust land</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary shall not enforce any Federal regulation, guidance, or permit requirement with respect to hydraulic fracturing on any land held in trust or restricted status for the benefit of a federally recognized Indian Tribe or a member of a federally recognized Indian Tribe, except with the express consent of the beneficiary on whose behalf the land is held in trust or restricted status.</text></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section></subtitle><subtitle id="ida73257e130f4424384c3380f327cdeea" style="OLC"><enum>C</enum><header>Liquefied natural gas exports</header><section id="id0AC0FC3275DD404880B5BA62B4C70D9A"><enum>1301.</enum><header>Action on applications to export liquefied natural gas</header><subsection id="id98F3411EB16F4E1D80F8E386BAC64695" commented="no"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text><paragraph id="idA3FED71416184C4C91B322429CD69E6C" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Covered application</header><text>The term <quote>covered application</quote> means an application submitted with respect to a covered facility for an authorization to export natural gas under section 3(a) of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717b">15 U.S.C. 717b(a)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idC92BA4DCAA394259BE0C6B50E5F33395" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Covered facility</header><text>The term <quote>covered facility</quote> means a liquefied natural gas export facility for which a proposal to site, construct, expand, or operate is required to be approved by—</text><subparagraph id="id30F290E231794C6B9926FB7908DC269D" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the Secretary; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id4816049DF2724EBBB66012B8E1DC42ED" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id9a4c844b57814757a7f589835445e9bb"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; or</text></clause><clause id="id81550915E0914AFA9D6CEEDD1BBB26B1" commented="no" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Maritime Administration.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idB0496CC943AF4987B28C42808802A7A8"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <quote>Secretary</quote> means the Secretary of Energy.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id4F9805BD83EA4321A8AD0AAB01156640"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Decision deadline</header><text>The Secretary shall issue a final decision on a covered application not later than 45 days after the later of—</text><paragraph id="idad2f9d870265474da3441e72019c4e01"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the date on which each review required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) with respect to the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of the covered facility that is the subject of the covered application is concluded in accordance with subsection (c); and </text></paragraph><paragraph id="idBB5D4F14F86D499CB9BB282FE0F4D343"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the date of enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id0BAD3F61DCC043ECB14E2CC86C1F775C"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conclusion of review</header><text>For purposes of subsection (b), a review required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) shall be concluded on the date on which the lead agency, as applicable—</text><paragraph id="id28db93e417db4f8b8a275ca1532c469d"><enum>(1)</enum><text>publishes a notice of availability of the final environmental impact statement, for a covered facility requiring an environmental impact statement;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id3FBD4A3A7A4646B7B70CCA2CE564D4A4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>publishes a notice of availability of the environmental assessment and associated finding of no significant impact, for a covered facility for which an environmental assessment has been prepared; or</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id745634A66825466FBDC0119973AD7830"><enum>(3)</enum><text>determines that the covered application is eligible for a categorical exclusion pursuant to the implementing regulations of that Act.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id314D44396D8649E8BDA7BA7D0A6A2DD1"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Untimely final decision</header><paragraph id="id56781284629444F2AB65D7D767DECF65"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If the Secretary fails to issue a final decision under subsection (b) by the applicable date required under that subsection, the covered application shall be considered approved, and the environmental review issued by the lead agency under subsection (c) shall be considered sufficient to satisfy all requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idCB6200AE50074A58A149BAD5E614FAEE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Final agency action</header><text>A determination under paragraph (1) shall be considered to be a final agency action.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id3528F44166A24204B5F592857D46B33A"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Judicial review</header><paragraph id="id1EEADF7A663E44EC90212F69DF450158"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except for review in the Supreme Court of the United States, the court of appeals of the United States for the circuit in which a covered facility is, or will be, located pursuant to a covered application shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over any civil action for the review of an order issued by the Secretary with respect to the covered application.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id582B2251385E4FC8A6DADA9D689BE1D9"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Expedited review</header><text>The applicable United States Court of Appeals shall—</text><subparagraph id="id414F49454C9643F686E9E2A7DD1F0BC1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>set any civil action brought under this subsection for expedited review; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5D8FF50EC2C84C9A87B43F573AD20F5A"><enum>(B)</enum><text>set the action on the docket as soon as practicable after the filing date of the initial pleading.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idB32DA869012940FE999955CC7EB70E89"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Transfer of existing actions</header><text>In the case of a covered application for which a petition for review has been filed as of the date of enactment of this Act, the petition shall be—</text><subparagraph id="id1B5F514AB9D443F2B511BD2606A4333D"><enum>(A)</enum><text>on a motion by the applicant, transferred to the court of appeals of the United States in which the covered facility that is the subject of the covered application is, or will be, located; and </text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idCEBEB0F9E01640DA83CE1705C23032AE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>adjudicated in accordance with this subsection.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id75d7481ab9b5449d961c74ae11510f27"><enum>1302.</enum><header>Small scale LNG access</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717b">15 U.S.C. 717b</external-xref>) is amended by striking subsection (c) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF3E355ABE88742158AEE1B55F616C6D8"><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id96e8018930894e31b0f787f72e2cc2a3"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Expedited application and approval process</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id37b8588b5de74d47a4183c75e3fff5c5"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text>For purposes of subsection (a), the following actions shall be deemed to be consistent with the public interest, and applications for each of the following actions shall be granted without modification or delay:</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id967e399c0d544ba49737834d82589392"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The importation of natural gas referred to in subsection (b).</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida399c5d8f3444d1b8d8eca319eb34e65"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The exportation of natural gas in a volume of not more than 51,750,000,000 cubic feet per year, subject to the last sentence of subsection (a).</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id905999e01fc141809117c13332d39cba"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The exportation of natural gas to a nation with which there is in effect a free trade agreement requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id201a8a78a4ff489e963d73f67a7079b3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Exclusion</header><text>Subparagraphs (B) and (C) of paragraph (1) shall not apply to any nation subject to sanctions imposed by the United States.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section></subtitle><enum>II</enum><header>Mineral leasing and permitting</header><section id="idac5276c2524a42ab8493f0cf62a65a00"><enum>2001.</enum><header>Land use plan criteria under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 202(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1712">43 U.S.C. 1712(c)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id2c50e1919df64106b907a34f752e7d63"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (8), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id6f223ffc7693404abf6dcc687369d02a"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph (10); and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id60b1eb806cae4edf90baae252ccd020b"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida3804e26de1440e49c2ab9b766f5d6ef"><paragraph id="id81b70ba6a8184cf99954ae73618c62f9"><enum>(9)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idd9ea00990116415597cd4656acd4ff1f"><enum>(A)</enum><text>review a mineral resource assessment applicable to the public lands covered by the land use plan that was completed during the 10-year period ending on the effective date of the land use plan; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph indent="up1" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id600439e42fbb4e4084ded67db98bf03e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Defense, determine the significance of the minerals located within the public lands to energy security, national security, and economic security, in accordance with subparagraph (A); and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section id="id5769AD0A8A0E4DDD9F6327EA8502FE78" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>2002.</enum><header>Congressional approval of withdrawals under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 204(c)(1) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1714">43 U.S.C. 1714(c)(1)</external-xref>) is amended in the second sentence by striking <quote>no later than its effective date</quote> and all that follows through <quote>approve the withdrawal</quote> and inserting <quote>not later than 90 days before the effective date of the withdrawal and the withdrawal shall terminate and become ineffective if Congress has not enacted a joint resolution approving the withdrawal prior to the effective date of the withdrawal.</quote>. </text></section><section id="idb4714c7ced8f4e3a9facdac49014468e"><enum>2003.</enum><header>Prohibition of certain moratoria</header><subsection id="idbeea119bfafe48878db07d08ec3bf256"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text><paragraph id="id27c73d734b8042eb9a5447af4acb9cca"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Mineral</header><text>The term <term>mineral</term> means any mineral subject to sections 2319 through 2344 of the Revised Statutes (commonly known as the <quote>Mining Law of 1872</quote>) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/22">30 U.S.C. 22 et seq.</external-xref>) and any mineral located on lands acquired by the United States (as defined in section 2 of the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/351">30 U.S.C. 351</external-xref>)).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id38db3d158b704e47b74755fee4fd0de6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>The term <term>Secretary</term> means the Secretary of the Interior.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id31b47daafa7d432aaf22f84befb82110"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Prohibition of certain moratoria</header><text>The Secretary may not declare a moratorium on issuing leases, claims, or permits on Federal land, including land on the outer Continental Shelf, for the mining of minerals or related activities.</text></subsection><subsection id="id7b7a8d49ee994d61b18eb418404d30ef"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Prohibition on rescission of certain leases, permits, or claims</header><text>The President or the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as applicable, may not rescind any lease, permit, or claim for the mining and extraction of any mineral on National Forest System land or Bureau of Land Management land unless—</text><paragraph id="id2599FEF2A42E4414B2F9D1A71FB687E4"><enum>(1)</enum><text>specifically authorized by an Act of Congress; or </text></paragraph><paragraph id="id794B07A4FD60417A81280349E6440291"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the lessee, permittee, or claimant fails to comply with a provision of the applicable lease, permit, or claim.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="ida25696fbbad64cf68571b369759e9228"><enum>2004.</enum><header>Prohibition of the establishment of new categories of Federal land designations by the heads of Federal land management agencies</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The head of a Federal land management agency may not establish a new category of Federal land designations that is not otherwise expressly authorized by Federal statute.</text></section><section id="id2b38552bf1074635bdd5d3e4eb403d1a"><enum>2005.</enum><header>Coal leases on Federal land</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idccf56693dbca4214b2f85a5deef0e8c7"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Environmental requirements for new coal leases</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The environmental assessment prepared by the Bureau of Land Management entitled <quote>Lifting the Pause on the Issuance of New Federal Coal Leases for Thermal (Steam) Coal</quote> (DOI–BLM–WO–WO2100–2019–0001–EA) is deemed to satisfy the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) for purposes of the issuance of new coal leases on Federal land.</text></subsection><subsection id="id1f34b5a75a604c7e9bb9fa63e4983bcc"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Offering of leases; acceptance of bids</header><text>Section 2(a)(1) of the Mineral Leasing Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/201">30 U.S.C. 201(a)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="idb62be3bf2ad6453b8e46899fb41bf4d3"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the first sentence—</text><subparagraph id="id7a0617f24b2442e4a0bdb0e68c68ab82"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>he finds</quote> and inserting <quote>the Secretary of the Interior finds</quote>; and </text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc2c175e3c5c247668159cc91ddfe2254"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>he shall, in his discretion, upon the request of any qualified applicant or on his own motion, from time to time, offer</quote> and inserting <quote>the Secretary of the Interior, not later than 90 days after the date of receipt of the request of any qualified applicant, or on the motion of the Secretary of the Interior not fewer than 4 times each calendar year, shall offer</quote>; and </text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id47ec7cdb8363407ba17d4bef4645c160"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in the fifth sentence, by striking <quote>No bid shall be accepted which is less than the fair market value, as determined by the Secretary,</quote> and inserting <quote>No bid shall be accepted that is less than the fair market value, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior by the date that is 45 days after the date of receipt of the bid,</quote>. </text></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id73c713479d674cbcb337b04088480d46" commented="no"><enum>2006.</enum><header>Modification to definitions of critical material and critical mineral and critical mineral designation criteria</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id756379f8488840cf9cd26241c9e8cdd4"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions of critical material and critical mineral</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1a3348183088460ebad1f86871fcd7c5"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of critical material</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 7002(a)(2)(A) of the Energy Act of 2020 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1606">30 U.S.C. 1606(a)(2)(A)</external-xref>) is amended, in the matter preceding clause (i), by striking “non-fuel’’.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0811a82b41c24126bda044d7efbd57f3"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Definition of critical mineral</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 7002(a)(3)(B)(i) of the Energy Act of 2020 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1606">30 U.S.C. 1606(a)(3)(B)(i)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>fuel minerals</quote> and inserting <quote>oil, oil shale, coal, or natural gas</quote>.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idaf36f0ecfd2749a9b52d03870bce8033" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Modification to critical mineral designation criteria</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 7002(c)(4)(A)(ii) of the Energy Act of 2020 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1606">30 U.S.C. 1606(c)(4)(A)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>significant projected domestic production decline,</quote> after <quote>abrupt demand growth,</quote>.</text></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf06ba2ce07814b37ae50913904fffa49"><enum>2007.</enum><header>Permitting process improvements</header><subsection id="HC74C397EF0BB45E4816B9DF560EA519B"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph id="H158E55265B17446F9D27B79B7009B41A"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Byproduct</header><text>The term <quote>byproduct</quote> has the meaning given the term in section 7002(a) of the Energy Act of 2020 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1606">30 U.S.C. 1606(a)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HF929EC33D48F4A498AFABC7A1F1F1750"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Indian Tribe</header><text>The term <quote>Indian Tribe</quote> has the meaning given the term in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/25/5304">25 U.S.C. 5304</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H36EC79C723AC4F25AD639B3DCABD01DB"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Mineral</header><text>The term <term>mineral</term> means any mineral subject to sections 2319 through 2344 of the Revised Statutes (commonly known as the <quote>Mining Law of 1872</quote>) (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/22">30 U.S.C. 22 et seq.</external-xref>), and minerals located on lands acquired by the United States (as defined in section 2 of the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/351">30 U.S.C. 351</external-xref>)).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H7BE283FE06B74DA691B5D4A4771D53F3"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Secretary</header><text>Except as otherwise provided, the term <quote>Secretary</quote> means the Secretary of the Interior.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H619C6A10DF954915BC362869419B47D8"><enum>(5)</enum><header>State</header><text>The term <quote>State</quote> means—</text><subparagraph id="H882C559A5B0746629BF11B6F423EE5C0"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a State;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H73F3F19A3CCE46B49DE39735E1BA1DDF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the District of Columbia;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1E9359103CB940CE8FC57983021CCE35"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4739D9F09F184B3CB9E2A03B010BCD84"><enum>(D)</enum><text>Guam;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H11D68B8F90CA46E7B3BDEC924C2F0026"><enum>(E)</enum><text>American Samoa;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE5F868725A04443F958DD5F0CA7E6640"><enum>(F)</enum><text>the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2213578DEDD742D0BA5F20DDEF2A3D6F"><enum>(G)</enum><text>the United States Virgin Islands.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H9EEC4D0A238A480B8F39B2490A901853"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Minerals supply chain and reliability</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 40206 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1607">30 U.S.C. 1607</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="HD95757F83AE34148A447F703C5D28152"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in the section heading, by striking <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="OLC">Critical minerals</header-in-text></quote> and inserting <quote><header-in-text level="section" style="OLC">Minerals</header-in-text></quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H04C03AB9C9E1471286327AF34BC9C68C"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H4A8E6C9172014107A43A726B1BA084F6"><subsection id="H556EB51E6A084557A16A11DEE74FB96F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph id="H8190185F0BBD430F9D15145602E0D462"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Lead agency</header><text>The term <quote>lead agency</quote> means the Federal agency with primary responsibility for issuing a mineral exploration or mine permit or lease for a mineral project.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HC2131C60CC47489A8B985695B9DE21C0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Mineral</header><text>The term <quote>mineral</quote> has the meaning given the term in section 2007(a) of the <short-title>Spur Permitting of Underdeveloped Resources Act</short-title>.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HF77946D13901495387E5776A657F821B"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Mineral exploration or mine permit</header><text>The term <quote>mineral exploration or mine permit</quote> means—</text><subparagraph id="H8E03B1A8176C4C17AF8C1C90C56F03F6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an authorization of the Bureau of Land Management or the Forest Service, as applicable, for exploration for minerals that requires analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>);</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC938381A73E842AB837FE2A7F26AC635"><enum>(B)</enum><text>a plan of operations for a mineral project approved by the Bureau of Land Management or the Forest Service; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEE0B2B822C4C43B5AC7287E3D4008D87"><enum>(C)</enum><text>any other Federal permit or authorization for a mineral project.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD1642A20C47A429998BE8C59E5EA55B8"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Mineral project</header><text>The term <quote>mineral project</quote> means a project that—</text><subparagraph id="H6CE6322832ED450CA4B520CE066B4E9B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>is located on—</text><clause id="H1033DEF47F294BBB8030C843896AA76E"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a mining claim, millsite claim, or tunnel site claim for any mineral;</text></clause><clause id="HA28A4019E86048FD82C786DF43FD747B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>lands open to mineral entry; or</text></clause><clause id="H11CD9855F93946C28F79992DB92CB126"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>a Federal mineral lease; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC30C9FA33B8B4BEEAAE9C4371EEAD51F"><enum>(B)</enum><text>is for the purposes of exploring for or producing minerals.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="HF15B8202EE8A4CB29791E9A19682DDA2"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (b), by striking <quote>critical</quote> each place it appears;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H6262063C4CD848CB8AAB8B45781F31F3"><enum>(4)</enum><text>in subsection (c)—</text><subparagraph id="H7CEFD10AE9FC43648BA733DFFDE38072"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter preceding paragraph (1)—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1cf3b5514f524daf82341a9403ea7138"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>critical mineral production on Federal land</quote> and inserting <quote>mineral projects</quote>; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id119d0b4a83f64820bbe9392f49fc9e9e"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>practicable, shall complete the</quote> and inserting <quote>practicable, and in accordance with subsection (h), shall complete those</quote>;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5A9F445D3FAA44B4809140DFEEA4026E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>critical mineral-related activities on Federal land</quote> and inserting <quote>mineral projects</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6047F05CCA5C4198B686D9445BA9B799"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (8), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H39BCACEC81B94D958FE8146BA7AE3B5C"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (9), by striking the period at the end and inserting <quote>; and</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4CDA750C45524C34A36D34F46ED08D1D"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H05381FE8DCD24ACABCD6EB0AF996BE80"><paragraph id="HFCB56D35A7F94FEAA5F712760D7ED706"><enum>(10)</enum><text>deferring to and relying on baseline data, analyses, and reviews performed by State agencies with jurisdiction over the environmental or reclamation permits for the proposed mineral project.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC6D0BE2EA6104149A32CAFF363221FC7"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (d)—</text><subparagraph id="HC718EA47516B42E3993D7419308A165D"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>critical</quote> each place it appears; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC646910FBC744DFC9C4BA483D1F192DC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking <quote>mineral-related activities on Federal land</quote> and inserting <quote>mineral projects</quote>;</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H78FA07F763094FD189AA405A1B0107C0"><enum>(6)</enum><text>in subsection (e), by striking <quote>critical</quote>;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H9E468FBD97184ED1BC01E74840ABF1FA"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f), by striking <quote>critical</quote> each place it appears;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H318BB5C76014411681522BC55DC95034"><enum>(8)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (g), by striking <quote>critical</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H46AF7E1178F1424E89FA81145A8F1790"><enum>(9)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="HF2B2C2AB27AE481DAFD6C8D5F1DC308C"><subsection id="H5C6BC3DE89084186B2F45264D47C54E3"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Other requirements</header><paragraph id="H11DCC6342BAD4E2CBE00DF70D27C50BD"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Memorandum of agreement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">To maximize efficiency and effectiveness of the Federal permitting and review processes described in subsection (c), the lead agency in the Federal permitting and review processes of a mineral project shall enter into a memorandum of agreement with a project applicant on request by the applicant to carry out the activities described in subsection (c).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id49a23f6cc9c444259b81459ca9099a9b"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Consultation</header><text>A lead agency described in paragraph (1) shall carry out that paragraph in consultation with—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1d33e0f080b045869d0e961bd239e7c8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">any other Federal agency involved in the applicable Federal permitting and review processes; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbeee6926e8384ae096e0aa615888d916"><enum>(B)</enum><text>on request of the project applicant, an affected State government, local government, Indian Tribe, or other entity that the lead agency determines appropriate.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H474710B126A7475CB253D6CE20D9C726"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Timelines and schedules</header><subparagraph id="HF9BFC9AC415241D0B90B2A1CE8E7731E"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Deadlines</header><text>Any timelines or schedules established under subsection (c)(1) relating to a review under section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>) shall require that the review process not exceed—</text><clause id="H7E8A31DFA87C4AB193C799FD718986CA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>1 year for an environmental assessment; and</text></clause><clause id="H51C654B61F1E448A86387ACFF5BACE94"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>2 years for an environmental impact statement.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1F9A9FEAB90643BE8EE132995FD9A441"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Extension</header><text>A project applicant may enter into one or more agreements with a lead agency to extend 1 or more of the deadlines described in subparagraph (A) by not more than 6 months.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEFAD53E1F73D4C66B48EE28C4135976E"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Adjustment of timelines</header><text>At the request of a project applicant, the lead agency and any other entity that is a signatory to a memorandum of agreement under paragraph (1) may, by unanimous agreement, adjust—</text><clause id="H65428EBCF4474EA98365C8A0DF2CBAE1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>any deadlines described in subparagraph (A); and</text></clause><clause id="HE5CE62C06B8D49A8A9CB3DC5360DA2FA"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any deadlines extended under subparagraph (B).</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb8b52641b1d34c0e9906f3c38da2dc9a"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Deadline for issuance of authorizations</header><text>For a proposed agency action with a timeline or schedule established under subsection (c)(1) and a review process established in accordance with subparagraph (A), the record of decision prepared for the proposed agency action and all authorizations required under any other Federal law with respect to the proposed agency action shall be issued not later than 90 days after the date on which the applicable environmental impact statement or environmental assessment is published in the Federal Register.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC7123D61FA62411A8BC9AB494E1D4AA5"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Document prepared by project applicant</header><text>The lead agency with respect to a mineral project may adopt an environmental impact statement or environmental assessment prepared by or for a project applicant with respect to the mineral project if that document fulfills the requirements of section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="H3B34C37A7E884630B52C699CF00440B3"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Effect on pending applications</header><text>On a written request by a project applicant, the requirements of this subsection shall apply to any application for a mineral exploration or mine permit or mineral lease that was submitted before the date of enactment of the <short-title>Spur Permitting of Underdeveloped Resources Act</short-title>.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HAAC37DC5FF204061BAD70ABE4268A11A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Federal register process improvement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 7002(f) of the Energy Act of 2020 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1606">30 U.S.C. 1606(f)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="H32762FFA3EEE4473B374726EAB1CD2F1"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (2), by striking <quote>critical</quote> in each place it appears; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HC87D745B36CC40D2B2FC6B2F71C2DCC8"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (4).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H82F82C2A98374558805A206C75C5C2CF"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Designation of mining as a covered sector for Federal permitting improvement purposes</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 41001(6)(A) of the FAST Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4370m">42 U.S.C. 4370m(6)(A)</external-xref>) is amended in the matter preceding clause (i) by inserting <quote>minerals production,</quote> before <quote>or any other sector</quote>.</text></subsection><subsection id="H24ACCCB77ED64600B777179B0FBF044B"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Mineral exploration activities with limited surface disturbance</header><paragraph id="id79fc35b7eb5147b9b9946a6609395118"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of Secretary concerned</header><text>In this subsection, the term <quote>Secretary concerned</quote> means—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida09484c76ea54cfb8beb29c883794290"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6d8da68564ad47bfba48029de79d4974"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to land of the National Forest System.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1847464aa7bf4a3185e8bac478e32aca"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Notice</header><text>An operator may submit to the Secretary concerned notice requesting to carry out mineral exploration activities other than casual use, which shall include a description of the mineral exploration activities and subsequent reclamation activities intended to be carried out.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idada72e45647e4c2d849c5cbc2a2ec39e"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Approval</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later than 15 calendar days after receiving a notice under paragraph (2), the Secretary concerned shall allow the activities described in the notice to proceed if—</text><subparagraph id="HFD58D8EFEF5D40A5B8F3D24B147E1439"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the surface disturbance on Federal land will not exceed 5 acres;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1DC8D5BE269146E78DA787BB8CBFB511"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the Secretary concerned determines that the notice is complete; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7DF408685A9A498AADB8C990B2A47A30"><enum>(C)</enum><text>financial assurance is provided.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HD8218E6E59E94B50AE6F600166336319"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Use of mining claims for ancillary activities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 10101 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/28f">30 U.S.C. 28f</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H3946066291394388902BFBDF2BF9A9F8"><subsection commented="no" id="H99D0B23BC32D4DE0BF4F68D8BF088DE8"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Security of tenure</header><paragraph commented="no" id="H1919817BE26F442BB0B1A6A9264536F0"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Claimant rights</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2D14CEFDE3BF4EAE896A4C4278393F41"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Definition of Operations</header><text>In this paragraph, the term <quote>operations</quote> means—</text><clause commented="no" id="H49D951436DC74391BD37300B8E7881EE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>with respect to a locatable mineral, any activity or work carried out in connection with—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id05e1a36a2fe147fd826197c1c801ff76"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">prospecting;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb9036b2786b54397bde7795229a0a31f"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">exploration;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide5bea81e3a784be4b417e42560941c09"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">processing;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id274c3723426c4b94adcee410722fc751"><enum>(IV)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">discovery and assessment;</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id30444caeb3b44ff39597a94b1cd66e37"><enum>(V)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">development; or </text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcd1dbad660b447b58301dedb47f77c43"><enum>(VI)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">extraction;</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="HE8B8F1F0F41B4A6A8CAC7299358BC229"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the reclamation of an area disturbed by an activity described in clause (i); and</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="HD1C70696F0D941829EB3A51E21BBB142"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>any activity reasonably incident to an activity described in clause (i) or (ii), regardless of whether that incidental activity is carried out on a mining claim, including the construction and maintenance of any facility, road, transmission line, pipeline, or any other necessary infrastructure or means of access on public land.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H03F124025EC441ED8EBDC93B9EBA19B0"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Rights to use, occupation, and operations</header><text>A claimant shall have the right to use, occupy, and conduct operations on public land, with or without the discovery of a valuable mineral deposit, if— </text><clause commented="no" id="H8DC9E209FEA145DF8E53FDA6CA86A887"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the claimant makes a timely payment of the location fee required by section 10102 and the claim maintenance fee required by subsection (a); or</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="HFDAA592FB79747AA91F91CEC14858189"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the case of a claimant who qualifies for a waiver under subsection (d)—</text><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id382eb918af474edea599c99773ca47db"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the claimant makes a timely payment of the location fee required by section 10102; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5e90d4da6ca445c9bde6868e984ae93a"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the claimant complies with the required assessment work under the general mining laws.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H60C50752C39B42938D6DE3A0CB3D4B00"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Fulfillment of Federal land policy and management act of 1976</header><text>A claimant that fulfills the requirements of this section and section 10102 shall be deemed to satisfy any requirements under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1701">43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.</external-xref>) for the payment of fair market value to the United States for the use of public land and resources pursuant to the general mining laws.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="HA4D425CD07CA4B9BB09EB777A5A772CE"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Savings clause</header><text>Nothing in this subsection diminishes any right (including a right of entry, use, or occupancy) of a claimant.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="HC317EA31E30749C59A396702A93E477D"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Limitation on judicial review</header><paragraph id="HA86C9DFE82794D98AFD8A52A4036AC99"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a claim arising under Federal law seeking judicial review of a permit, license, or approval issued by a lead agency (as defined in subsection (a) of section 40206 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1607">30 U.S.C. 1607</external-xref>)) for a mining project shall be barred unless it is filed not later than 60 days after the date of publication of a notice in the Federal Register announcing that the permit, license, or approval is final in accordance with the law under which the agency action is taken, unless a shorter time is specified in the Federal law pursuant to which judicial review is allowed.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="HBC08736523D144BAB1BEC6DC31B909FA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Savings clause</header><text>Nothing in this subsection—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id98a110a5ac5d4ddb9e5243172b644947"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">establishes a right to judicial review; or </text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc430426a436a44a0ae1353fbd969dc0e" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">places any limit on filing a claim that a person has violated the terms of a permit, license, or approval. </text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id777c436e9d40412fb7736cc9732e73c0"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Remand</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no approval of a mineral exploration or mine permit as defined in section 40206(a) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/30/1607">30 U.S.C. 1607</external-xref>) (as amended by subsection (b)(2)) shall be vacated or otherwise limited, delayed, or enjoined unless the applicable court concludes allowing such proposed action will pose a risk of an imminent and substantial environmental harm and there is no other equitable remedy available as a matter of law.</text></subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>Federal Energy Regulatory Commission</header><section id="idA96EB94F101C44F190D0A7889C071146"><enum>3001.</enum><header>Tariff reforms, rate treatments, and rulemaking to ensure the reliability and security of electric service and interstate natural gas service</header><subsection id="idC77340E1346946F8BFDEC08E109FAD7F"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text><paragraph id="idEED2C25EF4A34F03BF19FF49AD455F92"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Commission</header><text>The term <term>Commission</term> means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idE26A4C62EE1F45E398302542B2D3E0E6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Critical electric infrastructure; defense critical electric infrastructure; grid security emergency</header><text>The terms <term>critical electric infrastructure</term>, <term>defense critical electric infrastructure</term>, and <term>grid security emergency</term> have the meanings given the terms in section 215A(a) of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/824o-1">16 U.S.C. 824o–1(a)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id376E138ABE5B46E696EA898756B84392"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Interstate natural gas pipeline</header><text>The term <term>interstate natural gas pipeline</term> means a facility under the jurisdiction of the Commission under the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717">15 U.S.C. 717 et seq.</external-xref>) that is engaged in the transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce, or the sale in interstate commerce of natural gas for resale, under section 3 or 7 of that Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717b">15 U.S.C. 717b</external-xref>, 717f).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idD5A66D93DF8745FEBF2603CFEDD1D15B" commented="no"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Natural disaster</header><text>The term <term>natural disaster</term> means—</text><subparagraph id="idF945F62A598C4964A3606964CFB776E9" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><text>a major disaster declared by the President under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/5170">42 U.S.C. 5170</external-xref>); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idC8CCAC53D8EB40F8ADB889615AD569FF" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><text>any other natural catastrophe, including a hurricane, tornado, storm, snowstorm, superstorm, flood, high water, winddriven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, drought, and wildfire.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idB93F1D318ABE4F24A912EFDECB501418"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Tariff reforms, rate treatments, and rulemaking</header><text>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall adopt tariff provisions and rate treatments, and establish separately, by rule, additional reforms, that, in the determination of the Commission, are necessary to protect the adequacy, affordability, reliability, and security of the supply and delivery of—</text><paragraph id="id8738E66A8FC6463DB5C39DC460C4E827"><enum>(1)</enum><text>electricity, and attributes of electric supply, that enhance the continuance or prompt resumption of the supply or delivery of electricity—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida6b07bb3d0a2418987a7834d9a42ae62"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">under normal operating conditions; or </text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idcccacef6c89e47f09e24e405af239edf"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">during or after—</text><clause id="id54F8C477164B47FF870FE7222A6FA28A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>a grid security emergency; or </text></clause><clause id="id1ABB38911AC8438997AFBBB9FE714A5A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>a natural disaster; and</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idC3903B176DBA4AD693317F1D7E787C68"><enum>(2)</enum><text>natural gas by interstate natural gas pipelines.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id1EFE3455A7FE4D65BC07E245590D70A9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Required considerations</header><paragraph id="id45E8E90A38FF4CBEB99C2BEA8181B816"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In carrying out subsection (b), the Commission shall—</text><subparagraph id="idFDC8E9C4908A447BACD423BE7D0D83FF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>consider whether and the extent to which each of the matters described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of paragraph (2) have a material impact on the adequacy, affordability, reliability, and security of the supply or delivery of—</text><clause id="id49A872AA2829467280F9F0BD9D37A32B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>electricity; or</text></clause><clause id="id7A3D6FFBA51E4FBCB2E60B2485DA5A17"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>natural gas by interstate natural gas pipelines; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE1DC6908EFCA432C858479B42A18F053"><enum>(B)</enum><text>ensure that the record of the rulemaking proceeding under that subsection reflects that consideration.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id76A254EC4FC44CC5AC500878C262D9D0"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Matters to be considered</header><text>In carrying out subsection (b), the Commission shall solicit, consider, and include in the record of the rulemaking proceeding under that subsection evidence of—</text><subparagraph id="id3409e7a6a843494999b53ea1507c4e8f"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to each category of facilities that are subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission and have a material impact on the supply or delivery of electricity, including interstate natural gas pipelines, or of natural gas by interstate natural gas pipelines—</text><clause id="id38421EE6D7F64A8E98C4832309A9EAB4"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the adequacy, affordability, reliability, and security of—</text><subclause id="idF3B01E146BD14D1AB62A37637BA09018"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the facilities in the applicable category;</text></subclause><subclause id="idC2EFACBC47D043A2BEF6301090B27EEA" commented="no"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the contribution to the supply and delivery of electricity or natural gas, as applicable, by the facilities in the applicable category; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="idF6999D9FA21441E59FE74A977B34E388"><enum>(III)</enum><text>the supply and delivery of other energy products by facilities in the applicable category, to the extent that the supply and delivery of those energy products has a material impact on the supply or delivery of electricity or natural gas, as applicable; and</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="id4E4DE136BA9E41E39FAD363EA81DB18C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>rate treatments and tariff reforms that would protect the adequacy, affordability, reliability, and security of the supply and delivery of, as applicable—</text><subclause commented="no" id="id33788960BCF641848DDCF0ED1105B768"><enum>(I)</enum><text>electricity; or</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="idB37AB4C1B1514973B11C4E646556FD7E"><enum>(II)</enum><text>natural gas by interstate natural gas pipelines;</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id1107c16104434ee4978003a338cf726e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the attributes of electric generating units that make a demonstrable contribution to—</text><clause id="id6F90CC5DE0824048869D509DC6FC0525"><enum>(i)</enum><text>grid stability; and </text></clause><clause id="idC8AC79385B3F423C97E5D3006A0229C4"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the continuation or resumption of reliable service in a defined region;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="iddec992d0fec849b2ab24dce6b942a608"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id32E3C3FCBC224A3F9B21C5009766D18A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the state of development of relevant energy technologies, including electric technologies; and </text></clause><clause id="id9FD957325CAA49ADBE04908659250086" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the likelihood of deployment of those technologies during the 7-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id19c38e7754c24ad491c7fcb6e58bdd28"><enum>(D)</enum><text>identifiable threats to—</text><clause id="id7AAD8EBDB7554F7DA23793CE27CF7933"><enum>(i)</enum><text>critical electric infrastructure; and</text></clause><clause id="idDA7A7874E3C645D993B2D93C232F7A88"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>defense critical electric infrastructure; and</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id536b2397669d44de81806f7b49c02305"><enum>(E)</enum><text>identifiable impediments to the adequacy, affordability, reliability, or security of the supply and delivery of electricity or of natural gas by interstate natural gas pipelines presented by any precedents or rules of the Commission in effect as of the date of enactment of this Act. </text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id3D88AEF0EF55417D83F81B7EC59B2622"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Updates</header><paragraph id="idD11EBDF1282A4097AA526ED34555F11E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Beginning on the date that is 4 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 5 years thereafter, the Commission shall—</text><subparagraph id="idD4E9EA7E31174A3D8F06C6AAE3FC85D3"><enum>(A)</enum><text>revise and update the rule established under subsection (b); or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6587A9F46D4B4F8EA5933F759071D808"><enum>(B)</enum><text>make a public determination that revising and updating the rule is not necessary at that time.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idB3D34098BD41452AB0F73509AB24BDE0" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text>In carrying out paragraph (1), the Commission shall solicit, consider, and include in the record of any rulemaking proceeding carried out under subparagraph (A) of that paragraph or any determination made under subparagraph (B) of that paragraph any new evidence or information relating to the matters described in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of subsection (c)(2).</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="idEB60A3DFECBB4B2B909CDDD57C3B2D03"><enum>3002.</enum><header>Federal authorizations under the Natural Gas Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 15 of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717n">15 U.S.C. 717n</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id4FD35F3026184D9CA31FFADEB8FF0181"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by inserting before <quote>In this section</quote> the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idE90FD17DF51B457C8D7ACD41D7164689"><paragraph id="idFA55967F5A594399B9B07D45AF14F266"><enum/><header>Definition of Federal Authorization</header></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="id8460C2BAE0544120A9733DCDB9323B86"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (e), by inserting before <quote>Hearings under this</quote> the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7BD01D6365854DD79257CB78309F623C"><paragraph id="idF27E2CD0CDEF4026AC8F3A6E09D95BC1"><enum/><header>Hearings and proceedings</header></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="id955A78F8BBA048BBBECBA5FDC0E6349B"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (f), by inserting before <quote>All hearings,</quote> the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id12BCE7BFA0F642EE80B9EE65541149CC"><paragraph id="id0A163270A661429993A64164B1EF286C"><enum/><header>Governing rules</header></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph><paragraph id="idF8BE9EE0247547A68B4D262DF2B775E2"><enum>(4)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (f) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0946D5774FBD49FCA23B11731FD870BA"><subsection id="id5258EADBEC0A43BAB2BF1D98CE8A05FB"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Additional requirements</header><paragraph id="id94F44852D7A14C6AB4FDDC51B8A9D519"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of Effects</header><text>In conducting a review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) relating to any Federal authorization (or to any other decision relating to the issuance of an order or certificate, or the approval or denial of an application, under section 3 or 7), the Commission shall consider the term <quote>effects</quote>, as used in that Act with respect to impacts and effects, to mean physical changes to the human environment as a result of a proposed action or alternative action to be carried out by a Federal agency that—</text><subparagraph id="id21A8A9A0D3D14F328388B2FAE9A9D739"><enum>(A)</enum><text>are reasonably foreseeable, not speculative, and not remote in time or geographically remote;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id203FE9459CC349569A33A2D097A9271D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>have a reasonably close causal relationship that is not the product of a lengthy causal chain to the proposed action or alternative action, respectively, as determined by the Commission;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id5EA282E71471474997AC3AA90F758613"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the Commission has the ability to prevent and that would not occur absent the proposed action or alternative action; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc8ecaffc669e48d681bf8accbead7254"><enum>(D)</enum><text>do not constitute potential effects from emissions upstream or downstream of the facility that is the subject of the application under section 3 or 7.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idBC67E575B83942C6ACE7501373DD3B33"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text>For purposes of paragraph (1)(B), a <quote>but for</quote> causal relationship is insufficient to establish a reasonably close causal relationship.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idA7C14979C6484E0BB4FC311F9E32DB1C"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Alternatives</header><text>Any alternatives required to be analyzed under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) by the Commission shall—</text><subparagraph id="id370CC58D24C9434184CFB1389A7F4367"><enum>(A)</enum><text>meet the purpose and need for the proposed action;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id12C83580B7AD416DB099E2711B9A27BE"><enum>(B)</enum><text>where applicable, meet the goals of the applicant; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idB830D9D55242439B8764517CCC55873E"><enum>(C)</enum><text>be within the authority of the Federal agency to control.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id00aa4b7e77ff434b8de1929de45aab44"><enum>(4)</enum><header>No use of social cost metrics</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting a review described in paragraph (1), the Commission shall not consider or apply any metric that purports to estimate the monetized damages or benefits associated with incremental increases or decreases in greenhouse gas emissions.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section id="id7CABED4650CD47DBBDEC9504B714AF21"><enum>3003.</enum><header>Federal authorizations under section 216 of the Federal Power Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 216(h) of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/824p">16 U.S.C. 824p(h)</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5ebebe4a71454ed9ad6ddb0d4033d194"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idf2ca325c95f0418ca5cc477375298830"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>(1) In this subsection</quote> and all that follows through <quote>The term</quote> in subparagraph (A) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idDC9B7CF053A94D6DA6FB153D4D23E6D2"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide8063be2fc3c473cb69a163a7a53b698"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Definition of Federal authorization</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id616e8831c0954ab5ab9ea4e18766c64f"><enum>(A)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">In general</header><text>In this subsection, the term</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5fbc1c3460164879af9a8c086bc4a044"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B), by striking <quote>(B) The term</quote> and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idB58315BA20E94BB5AC7374F83DE014F4"><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8a3fc4df322e46afa9bc7104d2415492"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Inclusions</header><text>In this subsection, the term</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd2150319df1a42bfa3c43408cd95f567"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block id="idABDA487223CA4B868488960590EA5E31" display-inline="no-display-inline" style="OLC"><paragraph id="idE95D33A4973D4F68B8896379489BEAF5"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Additional requirements</header><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idfdb31f3386fc46f6a595f7f39382b0cb"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Definition of effects</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting a review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) relating to any Federal authorization (or to any other decision relating to the issuance of a Federal authorization, or the approval or denial of an application, under this section), the Commission shall consider the term <quote>effects</quote>, as used in that Act with respect to impacts and effects, to mean physical changes to the human environment as a result of a proposed action or alternative action to be carried out by a Federal agency that—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0094d9fac03045da8c3ce3f3f14b77a7"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">are reasonably foreseeable, not speculative, and not remote in time or geographically remote;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id41776812f9fd4028b1a1d8d3ac058f40"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">have a reasonably close causal relationship that is not the product of a lengthy causal chain to the proposed action or alternative action, respectively, as determined by the Commission;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9b269c258c6b4d49ad0fab316dd2d7bc"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Commission has the ability to prevent and that would not occur absent the proposed action or alternative action; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd5a3f150736a4a43a59b97de79ee4181"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">do not constitute potential effects from emissions upstream or downstream of the facility that is the subject of the application under this section.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4c1dc715e84248f7ab0d1c0befcc60f3"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of subparagraph (A)(ii), a <quote>but for</quote> causal relationship is insufficient to establish a reasonably close causal relationship.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb323ebe712f84e59b565ce5b1c7300b2"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Alternatives</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any alternatives required to be analyzed under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) by the Commission shall—</text><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6b9f6706542144228bb607efe432bdc3"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">meet the purpose and need for the proposed action;</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbd74fa18628e4a83b075268da66b404f"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">where applicable, meet the goals of the applicant; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id833d07aebc6c40cc8a21ef4ccd9a5728"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be within the authority of the Federal agency to control.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4d1017766ce24cb3b42dca8821dca510"><enum>(D)</enum><header>No use of social cost metrics</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In conducting a review described in subparagraph (A), the Commission shall not consider or apply any metric that purports to estimate the monetized damages or benefits associated with incremental increases or decreases in greenhouse gas emissions.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id3543c7f5d5ee4fddbb01e620898129c3"><enum>3004.</enum><header>Promoting interagency coordination for review of natural gas projects</header><subsection commented="no" id="id020458121DE840E7A25083F0B89C2BA3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text><paragraph commented="no" id="id2E1534C5D7794F61BB08603258F63400"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Commission</header><text>The term <term>Commission</term> means the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id9DC8F80C31DF40D184B512F8C11E70EE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Federal authorization</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Federal authorization</term> has the meaning given that term in section 15(a) of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717n">15 U.S.C. 717n(a)</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id00ED72B3915B40ACB1F1D9B8551777C5"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Environmental review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>environmental review</term> means the process of preparing, for a proposed agency action in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332</external-xref>)—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0995e9e8812e479aa9ed418cdc980bf5"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an environmental impact statement;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idabf21d6a45f848ecb776ab3397529213"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">an environmental assessment;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1fcc78fbca534e168595f5a9fbad1165"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a categorical exclusion; </text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6ca9b840feed44b092ef2f2efe9ba3c4"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a finding of no significant impact; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id44a8c89304fc4c5d9c8b5fc508582144"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a record of decision.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id64A6C4D4DC6A40EA8DAEA6674ACB93B1"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Project-related environmental review</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>project-related environmental review</term> means any environmental review required to be conducted with respect to the issuance of an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id44B6059E0EC04992B666FD34534B1708"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Commission responsibilities</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In acting as the lead agency under section 15(b)(1) of the Natural Gas Act for the purposes of complying with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) with respect to an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act, the Commission shall, in accordance with this section and other applicable Federal law—</text><paragraph commented="no" id="idF5ABD631F2BD4D2CAD953F9726662F5C"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">be the only lead agency;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id3B3A7F47D4824A26A1D0A02510708A18" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">coordinate as early as practicable with each agency designated as a participating agency under subsection (d)(3) to ensure that the Commission develops information in conducting its project-related environmental review that is usable by the participating agency in considering an aspect of an application for a Federal authorization for which the agency is responsible; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id12355CC116C64E8EAC8A22DB05615CBC"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">take such actions as are necessary and proper to facilitate the expeditious resolution of its project-related environmental review.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="id2E570DF86E164D3E8EAF37AAFB7ECEE4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Deference to Commission</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In making a decision with respect to a Federal authorization required with respect to an application for authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act, each agency shall give deference, to the maximum extent authorized by law, to the scope of the project-related environmental review that the Commission determines to be appropriate.</text></subsection><subsection id="id1B9CD13E216B4928B2C2DA75AB210317" commented="no"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Participating agencies</header><paragraph id="idDC64B1D153264C34B40B6D47BAA4B571" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Identification</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall identify, not later than 30 days after the Commission receives an application for an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act, any Federal or State agency, local government, or Indian Tribe that may issue a Federal authorization or is required by Federal law to consult with the Commission in conjunction with the issuance of a Federal authorization required for such authorization or certificate.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idFD6E8366C6984B50AF8E88D8382C9F69" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Invitation</header><subparagraph id="idFE73D3AC492C48F7BD6384E8A7931C7B" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 45 days after the Commission receives an application for an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act, the Commission shall invite any agency identified under paragraph (1) to participate in the review process for the applicable Federal authorization.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idD600C7362BD94A25A1AAE8AC016250D1" commented="no"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Deadline</header><text>An invitation issued under subparagraph (A) shall establish a deadline by which a response to the invitation shall be submitted to the Commission, which may be extended by the Commission for good cause.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id27A2F5D5E9504C5C9AEEBA30A1D29F57"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Designation as participating agencies</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the Commission receives an application for an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act, the Commission shall designate an agency identified under paragraph (1) as a participating agency with respect to an application for authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act unless the agency informs the Commission, in writing, by the deadline established pursuant to paragraph (2)(B), that the agency—</text><subparagraph commented="no" id="id92FBEE1630014DD3BFCE40F2C43882E2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>has no jurisdiction or authority with respect to the applicable Federal authorization;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id533C58467A3E4DFD8AC4A051EBE69ED3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>has no special expertise or information relevant to any project-related environmental review; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id0D1D9A25FC594C2B9DE949C3B915CB8B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>does not intend to submit comments for the record for the project-related environmental review conducted by the Commission.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id36BBE91DBFD64E70B4B055A69AC78E6D"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Effect of non-designation</header><subparagraph commented="no" id="id9AAF841E5F404F49AE445AFD60EF5DA1"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Effect on agency</header><text>Any agency that is not designated as a participating agency under paragraph (3) with respect to an application for an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act may not request or conduct an environmental review that is supplemental to the project-related environmental review conducted by the Commission<italic></italic>, unless the agency—</text><clause commented="no" id="id7226CD4CE57D4A3B92C11A750B0E525B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>demonstrates that such review is legally necessary for the agency to carry out responsibilities in considering an aspect of an application for a Federal authorization; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="id00A7965222894B89B32E772E1FBB8800"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">requires information that could not have been obtained during the project-related environmental review conducted by the Commission.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id518891BBBCB947D1AB54990FCFC71DBB"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Comments; record</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission shall not, with respect to an agency that is not designated as a participating agency under paragraph (3) with respect to an application for an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act—</text><clause commented="no" id="idAD57C928A07247E5931A2B9C04C6E018"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consider any comments or other information submitted by such agency for the project-related environmental review conducted by the Commission<italic></italic>; or</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="id9A081DF902154CD5A3CCD6E7D8060F21"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">include any such comments or other information in the record for such project-related environmental review.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id902DC13EF2DE412AA3C302EBCBA2B82D" commented="no"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Water quality impacts</header><paragraph id="id6FA5DC8B0EC64798BCEE81B2FB686625" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding section 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/33/1341">33 U.S.C. 1341</external-xref>), a certification under such section shall not be required with respect to a Federal authorization.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idFAE480EC07FC47F6988D162F1B56B42A" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Coordination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to any environmental review for a Federal authorization to conduct an activity that will directly result in a discharge into the navigable waters (within the meaning of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act), the Commission shall identify as an agency under subsection (d)(1) the State in which the discharge originates or will originate, or, if appropriate, the interstate water pollution control agency having jurisdiction over the navigable waters at the point where the discharge originates or will originate.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id7823BD3E2E274769B381206716BF4BA9" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Proposed conditions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State or interstate agency designated as a participating agency pursuant to paragraph (2) may propose to the Commission terms or conditions for inclusion in an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act that the State or interstate agency determines are necessary to ensure that any discharge described in paragraph (2) conducted pursuant to such authorization or certification will comply with the applicable provisions of sections 301, 302, 303, 306, and 307 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idF1A35AEA74934E84BC5BC3553EE66436" commented="no"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Commission consideration of conditions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commission may include a term or condition in an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act proposed by a State or interstate agency under paragraph (3) only if the Commission finds with clear and convincing evidence that the term or condition is necessary to ensure that any discharge described in paragraph (2) conducted pursuant to such authorization or certification will comply with the applicable provisions of sections 301, 302, 303, 306, and 307 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idD5519AE935754C60ABCC6809B49B23D8" commented="no"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Schedule</header><paragraph commented="no" id="id7BD47C74CF244FD6AFDA43BB34267BD8"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Deadline for Federal authorizations</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A deadline for a Federal authorization required with respect to an application for authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act set by the Commission under section 15(c)(1) of such Act shall be not later than 90 days after the Commission completes its project-related environmental review, unless an applicable schedule is otherwise established by Federal law.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idE1B874B64071420B82F83CB9CEB66DCE"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Concurrent reviews</header><text>Each Federal and State agency—</text><subparagraph commented="no" id="id6955DAF7F06A4A42BB11A0419788C068"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">that may consider an application for a Federal authorization required with respect to an application for authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act shall formulate and implement a plan for administrative, policy, and procedural mechanisms to enable the agency to ensure completion of Federal authorizations in compliance with schedules established by the Commission under section 15(c)(1) of such Act; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="idCDF9AD3923DB4B2FA663DBD4B8B34618"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in considering an aspect of an application for a Federal authorization required with respect to an application for authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act, shall—</text><clause commented="no" id="id9E7EB2E9DC79402BAE32B3B970553433"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">formulate and implement a plan to enable the agency to comply with the schedule established by the Commission under section 15(c)(1) of such Act;</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="id8459733DE03B46D590636778021EBBD3"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">carry out the obligations of that agency under applicable law concurrently, and in conjunction with, the project-related environmental review conducted by the Commission<italic></italic>, and in compliance with the schedule established by the Commission under section 15(c)(1) of such Act, unless the agency notifies the Commission in writing that doing so would impair the ability of the agency to conduct needed analysis or otherwise carry out such obligations;</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="id4AD92461C86E4F63A8FDFF05C2B8AF53"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>transmit to the Commission a statement—</text><subclause commented="no" id="id0896C8C3F6474AF0B75B91FA16585221"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">acknowledging receipt of the schedule established by the Commission under section 15(c)(1) of the Natural Gas Act; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="id973CEE6E4FF946B394BD4361BE9A7430"><enum>(II)</enum><text>setting forth the plan formulated under clause (i) of this subparagraph;</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="id69D42EDAEECC4B7DBA483F96CED1B562"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not later than 30 days after the agency receives such application for a Federal authorization, transmit to the applicant a notice—</text><subclause commented="no" id="id04646456235A409EB6D78E740E76D165"><enum>(I)</enum><text>indicating whether such application is ready for processing; and</text></subclause><subclause commented="no" id="idDD4BD82A85604D09AD5528B0CD5F1634"><enum>(II)</enum><text>if such application is not ready for processing, that includes a comprehensive description of the information needed for the agency to determine that the application is ready for processing;</text></subclause></clause><clause commented="no" id="idBB66C0C4A32149BE9E2E522FD01B1E96"><enum>(v)</enum><text>determine that such application for a Federal authorization is ready for processing for purposes of clause (iv) if such application is sufficiently complete for the purposes of commencing consideration, regardless of whether supplemental information is necessary to enable the agency to complete the consideration required by law with respect to such application; and</text></clause><clause commented="no" id="id866A0800F8044E82AC8C190DF884DCD9"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not less often than once every 90 days, transmit to the Commission a report describing the progress made in considering such application for a Federal authorization.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idD5F5A42E6CDA48DD8BC8DD25FD537360" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Failure to meet deadline</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a Federal or State agency, including the Commission, fails to meet a deadline for a Federal authorization set forth in the schedule established by the Commission under section 15(c)(1) of the Natural Gas Act, not later than 5 days after such deadline, the head of the relevant Federal agency (including, in the case of a failure by a State agency, the Federal agency overseeing the delegated authority) shall notify Congress and the Commission of such failure and set forth a recommended implementation plan to ensure completion of the action to which such deadline applied.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id7AE655A3F6574C86BE91057B977E016F" commented="no"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Consideration of applications for Federal authorization</header><paragraph id="idE463E191ADDD4B379124ED5A31FEA40D" commented="no"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Issue identification and resolution</header><subparagraph id="id860ECC3F177745C1AC6169063100C28D" commented="no"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Identification</header><text>Federal and State agencies that may consider an aspect of an application for a Federal authorization shall identify, as early as possible, any issues of concern that may delay or prevent an agency from working with the Commission to resolve such issues and granting such authorization.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="id6E3BE1FD928348FFB6696A663BD1F5B9"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Issue resolution</header><text>The Commission may forward any issue of concern identified under subparagraph (A) to the heads of the relevant agencies (including, in the case of an issue of concern that is a failure by a State agency, the Federal agency overseeing the delegated authority, if applicable) for resolution.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id2213CDE151C1417080DD72D0E66F48D1" commented="no"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Remote surveys</header><text>If a Federal or State agency considering an aspect of an application for a Federal authorization requires the person applying for such authorization to submit data, the agency shall consider any such data gathered by aerial or other remote means that the person submits. The agency may grant a conditional approval for the Federal authorization based on data gathered by aerial or remote means, conditioned on the verification of such data by subsequent onsite inspection.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idC3FD981080E74BFA9B7723060415BBAB" commented="no"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Application processing</header><text>The Commission, and Federal and State agencies, may allow a person applying for a Federal authorization to fund a third-party contractor to assist in reviewing the application for such authorization.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="idCA585FE1E51341D595723AAEC82D962C"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Accountability, transparency, efficiency</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For an application for an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act that requires multiple Federal authorizations, the Commission, with input from any Federal or State agency considering an aspect of the application, shall track and make available to the public on the Commission’s website information related to the actions required to complete the Federal authorizations. Such information shall include the following:</text><paragraph commented="no" id="idAC9C5E483806409097B6AE59B7386524"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The schedule established by the Commission under section 15(c)(1) of the Natural Gas Act.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id6798BE7B59A9465AB299A9DBA119D576"><enum>(2)</enum><text>A list of all the actions required by each applicable agency to complete permitting, reviews, and other actions necessary to obtain a final decision on the application.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="idBB607C9C727B48F28865F49D5C719A03"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The expected completion date for each such action.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id4CC617810D264D6F9DCE6EA967A292B8"><enum>(4)</enum><text>A point of contact at the agency responsible for each such action.</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="id3D1D35C0F92143FFBBEAD28BB848078C"><enum>(5)</enum><text>In the event that an action is still pending as of the expected date of completion, a brief explanation of the reasons for the delay.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDA6D78BAD27B432D8BEDC595B2960535" commented="no"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Pipeline security</header><text>In considering an application for an authorization under section 3 of the Natural Gas Act or a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 7 of such Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall consult with the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration regarding the applicant’s compliance with security guidance and best practice recommendations of the Administration regarding pipeline infrastructure security, pipeline cybersecurity, pipeline personnel security, and other pipeline security measures. </text></subsection></section><section id="idAC11FF0240714ECF9929D40ACF54A98E"><enum>3005.</enum><header>Coordination process to protect electric reliability</header><subsection id="idf1469359de90443ca777704dc0766c87"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definition</header><text>Section 215(a) of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/824o">16 U.S.C. 824o(a)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idBFAB43FCD0694367914ECFFD01C538CA"><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="idC9F794CCB3724159B2560976A4BA96AD"><enum>(9)</enum><text>The term <term>agency head</term> means the principal officer of any executive agency of the United States.</text></paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" commented="no" id="idde726b33043f4595bf28b61fa75705b6"><enum>(10)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>identified agency proposal</term> means any proposed rule, regulation, standard, criteria document, deadline, or determination that, if adopted, is likely to have a significant negative impact on the reliability and adequacy of the bulk-power system in North America.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="id379a9a6b2fd64207a62b93752f48a492"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Electric reliability organization coordination</header><text>Section 215 of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/824o">16 U.S.C. 824o</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="id0bff936af8254fc0ad174dd119bd017f"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (g)—</text><subparagraph id="idD6F86EA752744DBE9D157DAA2C46B099"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote>The ERO</quote> and inserting <quote>(1) The ERO</quote>; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id0A74DA6D8ADD4914B9A2ED47D084272D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idF9DB64ED9B4C4155B8AF3E037498ADD9"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb55ebe18257f462f81e26fa7f73be486"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">At the request of a State, the Commission, an agency head with authority over the identified agency proposal at issue, or on its own motion, the ERO, in conducting periodic assessments under paragraph (1), in consultation with relevant regional reliability coordinators, shall—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e81114b5adf41d997661776cc44f979"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">consider the potential impacts of any identified agency proposal; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9ad9973bb8c64084a035c329a0b46cbf"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">as soon as practicable after conducting the assessment, submit to the Commission and the relevant agency head a report containing an assessment of the identified agency proposal describing those potential impacts and any relevant information relating to those potential impacts.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id81AEB910827940238C4663F2A56A0F1B"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (h) through (k) as subsections (i) through (l), respectively; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id5CE000179A5D4BB48711ADDFAABCA273"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by inserting after subsection (g) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id88C9FE2858134062BF947A36871A3ED2"><subsection id="idEB70F6DBB8AD427EB84E9CA944985598"><enum>(h)</enum><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idB8F0FCE53EE847BDB81FC0E9656E7DF2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>The agency head shall make available to the Commission for review and comment an identified agency proposal in accordance with paragraph (2).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idF7C1F29E34F84551A9EC6E47CA4E2610" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>In carrying out paragraph (1), the agency head shall provide to the Commission the identified agency proposal described in that paragraph—</text><subparagraph id="idCF95321356624589A4CD788356911B09"><enum>(A)</enum><text>on the earliest date on which the identified agency proposal is provided to the Office of Management and Budget or any another Federal agency for formal review and comment; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idB7577C5CBE2140D9ACB75CA3DA25710C"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if the identified agency proposal is not provided to the Office of Management and Budget or any other Federal agency for formal review and comment, not later than 90 days before the date on which the agency head publishes in the Federal Register or otherwise makes available for public inspection or comment the identified agency proposal.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph indent="up1" id="id31C7B954EA7E48EA88F1AE6260C365A2"><enum>(3)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id98DFEBB0CEDA41B28BE824E4BAD12ACE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>The Commission, in consultation with the ERO, shall, by order, provide to the agency head comments on the identified agency proposal.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph indent="up1" id="idD54D1A78BA7D4533B507B345977C0D3E"><enum>(B)</enum><text>An agency head shall not finalize any identified agency proposal that is the subject of a comment from the Commission under subparagraph (A) until the agency head has responded in writing to the Commission with an explanation of how the agency head has modified or determined not to modify the identified agency proposal in response to the comment from the Commission.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph indent="up1" id="id40603561718545A589442A439B3C6510"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Not later than the date on which an identified agency proposal with respect to which a comment is provided by the Commission under subparagraph (A) is published in the Federal Register, the agency head shall—</text><clause id="id48945D29DD054ABDA193BB72376978F6"><enum>(i)</enum><text>include the comment and any response provided by the agency head under subparagraph (B) in the public record of the applicable proceeding relating to the identified agency proposal; or</text></clause><clause id="id7FC57C1775F44EF1B51C0592FB9CAA9C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>otherwise make the comment and response available for public inspection.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="id9C231FEA583647438ED189C4F58F9B4F"><enum>3006.</enum><header>Addressing inaction by Commission on certain electric rate filings</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 205 of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/824d">16 U.S.C. 824d</external-xref>) is amended by striking subsection (g) and inserting the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4BA29D1641974ED9969877A12E300BF7"><subsection id="idC7507D85968E4B09A60BA4941119D99C"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Inaction by Commission due to vacancy, incapacity, recusal, or lack of quorum</header><text>With respect to a change described in subsection (d), if the Commission allows the 60-day period described in that subsection to expire without issuing an order accepting or denying the change because the Commissioners are divided 2 against 2 as to the lawfulness of the change, as a result of vacancy, incapacity, or recusal on the Commission, or because the Commission lacks a quorum—</text><paragraph id="idD3169D0C8D68471B9E9BB1D2AB7110D2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the Secretary of the Commission shall issue a notice stating the reason that the Commission was unable to issue an order accepting or denying the change;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idF0D7514DF705407A961DEE6B5D11DD91"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the change shall be considered to be rejected; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id8BF69572B0A2442BA1821340B79336DF"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the rejection described in paragraph (2) shall take effect automatically, by operation of law, on issuance of the notice described in paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="id10EEB32C5BF04F9C971E2BC54A4320F9"><enum>3007.</enum><header>Tolling order reform for the Natural Gas Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 19(a) of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717r">15 U.S.C. 717r(a)</external-xref>) is amended, in the fourth sentence, by striking <quote>thirty</quote> and inserting <quote>60</quote>.</text></section><section id="id3571EEBF3E5A4EFBA54A20BFE978ECF4"><enum>3008.</enum><header>Tolling order reform for the Federal Power Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 313(a) of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/825l">16 U.S.C. 825l(a)</external-xref>) is amended, in the fourth sentence, by striking <quote>thirty</quote> and inserting <quote>60</quote>. </text></section><section id="idB9930AA8443741BF841265C44EA38E09" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>3009.</enum><header>De novo review of civil penalties under the Natural Gas Act</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 22(b) of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717t-1">15 U.S.C. 717t–1(b)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: <quote>, in accordance with the same provisions as are applicable under section 31(d) of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/823b">16 U.S.C. 823b(d)</external-xref>) in the case of civil penalties assessed under section 31 of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/823b">16 U.S.C. 823b</external-xref>)</quote>. </text></section><section id="id5d1936921d0c47a8b1efd6bf767bf889"><enum>3010.</enum><header>Extension of time to commence construction of certain hydropower projects</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7e513f16222a446e9b5146cebb7280bc"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definition of covered project</header><text>In this section, the term <quote>covered project</quote> means a hydropower project with respect to which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a license before March 13, 2020.</text></subsection><subsection id="ide7bc05cc34cf4f9c92ca163eeb434030"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of extension</header><text>Notwithstanding section 13 of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/806">16 U.S.C. 806</external-xref>), on the request of a licensee of a covered project, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission may, after reasonable notice and for good cause shown, extend in accordance with subsection (c) the period during which the licensee is required to commence construction of the covered project for an additional 4 years beyond the 8 years authorized by that section.</text></subsection><subsection id="id1d52f2bd619647f781d11c1002d72ab0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Period of extension</header><text>An extension of time to commence construction of a covered project under subsection (b) shall—</text><paragraph id="id22705032962f4e1b928b6b78d8cb3343"><enum>(1)</enum><text>begin on the date on which the final extension of the period for commencement of construction granted to the licensee under section 13 of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/806">16 U.S.C. 806</external-xref>) expires; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idcb2e06895ec84d67b6a7a571c56b1a94"><enum>(2)</enum><text>end on the date that is 4 years after the latest date to which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is authorized to extend the period for commencement of construction under that section.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><section id="idca7c11edbda549aab382ea50d5af9d56"><enum>3011.</enum><header>Judicial review</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 19(d)(3) of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717r">15 U.S.C. 717r(d)(3)</external-xref>) is amended, in the first sentence, by inserting <quote>, is not supported by clear and convincing evidence,</quote> after <quote>such permit</quote>.</text></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" section-type="subsequent-section" id="id1572bec99364402fbed484fb8ad46a24"><enum>3012.</enum><header>Approval for border-crossing facilities</header><subsection id="id9fb4b62c55084e1fac46626f0ff098ea"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Definitions</header><text>In this section:</text><paragraph id="id9990fa281ad641cab1e4a76caa3a24ef"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Appropriate Federal agencies</header><text>The term <term>appropriate Federal agencies</term> in subsection (b)(2)(A) means the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and, for applications concerning the border with Mexico, the United States Commissioner of the International Boundary and Water Commission.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id44E9E2E2A9C944CBB78801E54367BC1F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Border-crossing facility</header><text>The term <term>border-crossing facility</term> means—</text><subparagraph id="id3897811ddb214e67838bbd4a79279394"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the portion of an oil pipeline between an international boundary and the first mainline valve on the United States side of an international boundary; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idd1bd36d615e34702b8b88e1eefe7dc7e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the portion of a natural gas pipeline or electric transmission facility that is located at an international boundary of the United States.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idaa24b4c573484a9f983e403192fc0a18"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Electric Reliability Organization; Regional entity</header><text>The terms <term>Electric Reliability Organization</term> and <term>regional entity</term> have the meanings given those terms in section 215 of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/824o">16 U.S.C. 824o</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id64f7bde892414deeb6c8db6690ce43b1"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Independent System Operator; Regional Transmission Organization</header><text>The terms <term>Independent System Operator</term> and <term>Regional Transmission Organization</term> have the meanings given those terms in section 3 of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/796">16 U.S.C. 796</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id6e5451ec7fa64b21b377c71e7c7ffd06"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Modification</header><text>The term <term>modification</term> includes a reversal of flow direction, change in ownership, change in flow volume, change in product delivered, addition or removal of an interconnection, or an adjustment to regulate flow (such as a reduction or increase in the number of pump or compressor stations or valves).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id9ea0593da6e04eeb99ee4177717a5c53"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Natural gas</header><text>The term <term>natural gas</term> has the meaning given that term in section 2 of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717a">15 U.S.C. 717a</external-xref>).</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idf7b28007642d405fb9fe12febfef4a20" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Oil</header><text>The term <term>oil</term> means petroleum or a petroleum product.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id01c77a6c630f4fd4bdd7be3f906e4d0a"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Authorization of certain energy infrastructure projects at an international boundary of the United States</header><paragraph id="id553236c194d04eb9a03162e5a0912a42"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Authorization</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (3) and subsection (f), no person may construct, connect, or operate, a border-crossing facility for the import or export of oil or natural gas, or the transmission of electricity, across an international border of the United States without obtaining a certificate of crossing for the border-crossing facility under this subsection.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id7d832224a5404c90a77546e09086d397"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Certificate of crossing</header><subparagraph id="id88d2c88928e2476191d26575b35544f9"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Requirement</header><text>Not later than 90 days after final action is taken, by the relevant official or agency identified under subparagraph (B), under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) with respect to a border-crossing facility for which a person requests a certificate of crossing under this subsection, the relevant official or agency, in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, shall issue a certificate of crossing for the border-crossing facility unless the relevant official or agency finds that the construction, connection, or operation, of the border-crossing facility is not in the public interest of the United States.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8e8ea770ab874c7d8f6fcc8dbde4478e"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Relevant official or agency</header><text>The relevant official or agency referred to in subparagraph (A) is—</text><clause id="id98b8b9f1464e45adadd5c33c3ae68b4b"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with respect to border-crossing facilities consisting of oil or natural gas pipelines; and</text></clause><clause id="id757da9d1f9ca4ae4bb5a1f033a060691"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the Secretary of Energy with respect to border-crossing facilities consisting of electric transmission facilities.</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb8e45799f06c4ca1815f7236282bd962"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Additional requirement for electric transmission facilities</header><text>In the case of a request for a certificate of crossing for a border-crossing facility consisting of an electric transmission facility, the Secretary of Energy shall require, as a condition of issuing the certificate of crossing under subparagraph (A), that the border-crossing facility be constructed, connected, operated, or maintained consistent with all applicable policies and standards of—</text><clause id="id36ac8ca60acb408eaa88fa1bd0164484"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the Electric Reliability Organization and the applicable regional entity; and</text></clause><clause id="id1f3749c23a0945baa9d8e0ea106a784f"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any Regional Transmission Organization or Independent System Operator with operational or functional control over the border-crossing facility.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id7f15d5b6012145d7afa621e2f570a1a3"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Exclusions</header><text>This subsection shall not apply to any construction, connection, operation, or maintenance of a border-crossing facility for the import or export of oil or natural gas, or the transmission of electricity—</text><subparagraph id="ide5c4e4d273d14fb386084c26a6eda3c2"><enum>(A)</enum><text>if the border-crossing facility is operating for such import, export, or transmission as of the date of enactment of this Act;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id96c17005c8a0401f92c2c4b06a505b13"><enum>(B)</enum><text>if a permit described in subsection (e) for the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance has been issued; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id27768e0ccd644db597be48b496f09630"><enum>(C)</enum><text>if an application for a permit described in subsection (e) for the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance is pending on the date of enactment of this Act, until the earlier of—</text><clause id="id9082c0a67bb94b578615b6418d9b6397"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the date on which such application is denied; or</text></clause><clause id="idf27b05f27bee4a8d8ce4afad2fe2fe95"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, if such a permit has not been issued by such date.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id963e190e623f4fcfac7b99c49f2b45f1"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Effect of other laws</header><subparagraph id="id3d42b15a18c744a9944abb0ff01a2e12"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Application to projects</header><text>Nothing in this subsection or subsection (f) shall affect the application of any other Federal statute to a project for which a certificate of crossing for a border-crossing facility is requested under this subsection.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id6bea38ad63704428a51bad81b6c21598"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Natural Gas Act</header><text>Nothing in this subsection or subsection (f) shall affect the requirement to obtain approval or authorization under sections 3 and 7 of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717b">15 U.S.C. 717b</external-xref>, 717f) for the siting, construction, or operation of any facility to import or export natural gas.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id78e4c3f5555640daafd022be92638347"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Oil pipelines</header><text>Nothing in this subsection or subsection (f) shall affect the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with respect to oil pipelines under section 60502 of title 49, United States Code.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id9a4d4ac0072f42deb02e467ab65ccfc4"><enum>(D)</enum><header>Scope of NEPA review</header><text>Nothing in this Act, or the amendments made by this Act, shall affect the scope of any review required to be conducted under section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4332">42 U.S.C. 4332</external-xref>) with respect to a project for which a certificate of crossing for a border-crossing facility is requested under this subsection.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id120d07367f1f4f0ab26b93ec97c246c2"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Importation or exportation of natural gas to canada and mexico</header><text>Section 3(c) of the Natural Gas Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/15/717b">15 U.S.C. 717b(c)</external-xref>) (as amended by section 1303) is amended by adding at the end the following: </text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1C50C03B68804676A07083C3B4A5A363"><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id04bd9f7804ad47869a35f15a762a2375"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Canada and Mexico</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an application for the importation of natural gas from, or the exportation of natural gas to, Canada or Mexico, the Commission shall grant the application not later than 30 days after the date on which the Commission receives the complete application.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="id9e002b6b35bf4670b82aa593b9e92799"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Transmission of electric energy to Canada and Mexico</header><paragraph id="id3bee0c45c296499dacef1ceaaa1d39a9"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Repeal of requirement to secure order</header><text>Section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/824a">16 U.S.C. 824a(e)</external-xref>) is repealed.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id1aa8bbb04ed44f4ab276985d8822d55a"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><subparagraph id="ida4348db99f01471db0eabb0d28b09e86"><enum>(A)</enum><header>State regulations</header><text>Section 202(f) of the Federal Power Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/824a">16 U.S.C. 824a(f)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>insofar as such State regulation does not conflict with the exercise of the Commission's powers under or relating to subsection (e)</quote>.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7e1c325e75984d4ba728cce7566a3062"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Seasonal diversity electricity exchange</header><text>Section 602(b) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/824a-4">16 U.S.C. 824a–4(b)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>the Commission has conducted hearings and made the findings required under section 202(e) of the Federal Power Act</quote> and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting <quote>the Secretary has conducted hearings and finds that the proposed transmission facilities would not impair the sufficiency of electric supply within the United States or would not impede or tend to impede the coordination in the public interest of facilities subject to the jurisdiction of the Secretary.</quote>.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id5d1e363a959643c2a04dc8d80e9f4d57"><enum>(e)</enum><header>No presidential permit required</header><text>No Presidential permit (or similar permit) shall be required pursuant to any provision of law or Executive order for the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance of an oil or natural gas pipeline or electric transmission facility, or any border-crossing facility thereof.</text></subsection><subsection id="id101d267979a94d298bd5fc1ce099c348"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Modifications to and maintenance of existing projects</header><text>No certificate of crossing under subsection (b), or permit described in subsection (e), shall be required for a modification to or maintenance of—</text><paragraph id="idb90c54c4fd244f27a05e8816de7b70da"><enum>(1)</enum><text>an oil or natural gas pipeline or electric transmission facility that is operating for the import or export of oil or natural gas or the transmission of electricity as of the date of enactment of this Act;</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id2a6deba644154d718581c0a02c981e28"><enum>(2)</enum><text>an oil or natural gas pipeline or electric transmission facility for which a permit described in subsection (e) has been issued; or</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id2172ea26f81e4eceb861d20c20d19c74"><enum>(3)</enum><text>a border-crossing facility for which a certificate of crossing has previously been issued under subsection (b).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id85cb45df3c8346f1ab2f35ff9cfa08ee"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective dates; rulemaking deadlines</header><paragraph id="id5fbb109fae3d470e97628c151271a5ad"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>Subsections (b) through (f) and the amendments made by such subsections shall take effect on the date that is 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id7277c83732a245a9844eaf6bcf899fa6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Rulemaking deadlines</header><text>Each relevant official or agency described in subsection (b)(2)(B) shall—</text><subparagraph id="id3dc67e0757eb4ecf88ea425b50490d8c"><enum>(A)</enum><text>not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, publish in the Federal Register notice of a proposed rulemaking to carry out the applicable requirements of subsection (b); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idac4f4a31da2e43b6becb0300103ce2d4"><enum>(B)</enum><text>not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, publish in the Federal Register a final rule to carry out the applicable requirements of subsection (b).</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id19a71bd67a6440b7944de6e47fb7cd94"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Judicial review</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc2cfcd16dbd24f9b8ccfae779dd4fa04"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any entity aggrieved by a final agency action taken under this section may obtain a review of such action by filing a petition for review in—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idc1a33692ae634e228336670b08753712"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the United States Court of Appeals for any circuit wherein an applicant for authorization under this section is located or has its principal place of business; or </text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida499a6bebe9b4db6ba8fa01474f69f52"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. </text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id27465de3ce724e4eabad53c010895a1e"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Petition deadline</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The petition must be filed not later than 60 days after such action is taken.</text></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>IV</enum><header>Other Natural Resources</header><section id="idbda5f3a3343a40c8a7e643bf6b755dee" commented="no"><enum>4001.</enum><header>Root and stem projects</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id820bd0d7-f18a-4813-b640-aa7620a927b4" changed="not-changed"><enum>(a)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Definitions</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In this section:</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id528bb349-d235-4719-be65-9caa9be88e70" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Collaborative process</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>collaborative process</term> means a process that—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida3de24d7-7d3c-4365-af5e-61db383a1554" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">includes multiple interested persons representing diverse interests; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1b2629fc-ec2c-46df-874a-d7ccc61dc2b9" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="id3af26271-51fd-470c-94b3-cd54547600b2" changed="not-changed"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">is transparent and nonexclusive; or</text></clause><clause commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id906d6d8a-edf9-4983-b83a-d49778ed7912" indent="up1" changed="not-changed"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">meets the requirements for a resource advisory committee under subsections (c) through (f) of section 205 of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/7125">16 U.S.C. 7125</external-xref>). </text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idda20b647-81f2-4609-95fe-dfe1d6838a1c" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Federal land</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Federal land</term> means—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4c13de1a-363c-4515-af71-7a76a7da2e1e" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">land of the National Forest System (as defined in section 11(a) of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1609">16 U.S.C. 1609(a)</external-xref>)); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3666d434-f79f-41c1-898c-253c55fdfdb4" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">public lands (as defined in section 103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1702">43 U.S.C. 1702</external-xref>)).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id42aef67d-3384-4967-bccd-567b799674d1" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Secretary concerned</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <term>Secretary concerned</term> means, as applicable—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id609f306c-987a-42e9-ade8-62ea701f3417" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5a1f7daf-517e-4048-8ff2-138a23a5bbac" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management.</text></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id73c6cb9e7a0e4fdbb5b3c1e69db1a4a2" changed="not-changed"><enum>(b)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">List of contractors</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary concerned shall—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2c6c701978f9438184b65cdecd10ecd3" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">maintain a list of non-Federal, third-party contractors that the Secretary concerned can hire in each State to complete the analysis described in subsection (c)(1); and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6e79f13960cc4c969c914af029153b09" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and every 3 years thereafter, submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives a copy of the list described in paragraph (1). </text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8f1dee3e-a7d1-45cb-b6c1-6dd8e4f46a71" changed="not-changed"><enum>(c)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Agreements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If a person submits to the Secretary concerned a proposal for a project on Federal land that was developed through a collaborative process and that meets local and rural community needs, the Secretary concerned may enter into an agreement with the person, under which—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idbda373bc3e6f40918ad5e011e7b37d51" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the person initially provides to the Secretary concerned all, or a portion of, the funding necessary to complete any analysis that the Secretary concerned determines to be necessary under Federal law, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1531">16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.</external-xref>), for the consideration of the proposed project;</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd8f0fc2f5f6e47d4a0bf9f6218a6de82" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the Secretary concerned uses the funding provided under paragraph (1) to pay a contractor included on the list maintained under subsection (b)(1) to conduct the analysis described in paragraph (1);</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0d3897b8bcf04fed845f573075b7be22" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">on completion of the analysis described in paragraph (1), if the Secretary concerned makes a decision to proceed with the project, the Secretary concerned—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ide3c47d2577e74584819a5bdb9a023c43" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">solicits bids to carry out the project; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id973a50668aae46e1962400f75d4c3833" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">enters into a contract or agreement under section 604 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/6591c">16 U.S.C. 6591c</external-xref>) to carry out the project; and</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id8f733abfab5542929bc33f0736378b44" changed="not-changed"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">using any receipts described in subsection (d)(1), the Secretary concerned, to the maximum extent practicable, repays to the person the funding initially provided under paragraph (1).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id956bbbfae11742a3ba8ced402c1735d2" changed="not-changed"><enum>(d)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Additional related authorities</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="ida40d8af2c89d42399192c064630bf3ef" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Use of receipts</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any receipts that are generated by a project described in subsection (c) that are normally deposited in the General Fund of the Treasury shall be available for expenditure by the Secretary concerned, without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation, for the use described in subsection (c)(4).</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb1fb65b5488649f0948161424e14df19" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Contractors</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary concerned may noncompetitively hire a contractor included on the list maintained under subsection (b)(1) to conduct the analysis described in subsection (c)(1).</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id685b2a226d6e439aa34052fcd61ec3aa" changed="not-changed"><enum>(e)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Savings clauses</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idde4c2ccf5a0e4e7da127947f28044ddc" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Authority of the Secretary concerned</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary concerned shall—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1f8bf92c9cf6456e9a03ebb88acc53be" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">determine the sufficiency of any documents prepared by a contractor under subsection (c)(2); and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id6884457feb5f4aa78c69eae1a77bb027" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">retain responsibility for any authorizing decision relating to a proposed project described in subsection (c).</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1c569b84e1ca41eb804396d4cda93037" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Review and approval of independent third parties</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary concerned shall verify that there is no conflict of interest between—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id76D9DB9BA0C44C069DCCB0F3D241F45E" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a person that submits a proposal under subsection (c); and </text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id52F040F59ADD4F0A95232BA85A1D6C93" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a contractor that the Secretary concerned hires under paragraph (2) of that subsection to carry out an analysis with respect to that proposal.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1b23230ba24b44afa4167c14917e26c3" changed="not-changed"><enum>(3)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Administrative costs</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Secretary concerned—</text><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id950E755D980446E9B1A524DC5A48829E" changed="not-changed"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall only use the funding provided to the Secretary concerned under subsection (c)(1) to pay a contractor pursuant to subsection (c)(2); and </text></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id7B719264CA254C2D8C8BCF92A0BD052F" changed="not-changed"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall not use any portion of the funding provided to the Secretary concerned under subsection (c)(1) to cover any other expense or cost incurred by the Secretary concerned, including administrative costs.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idce254aed4c6f479aa3d84adb39ac086f" changed="not-changed"><enum>(4)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Limitations on reimbursements</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If insufficient receipts are generated by a project described in subsection (c) to reimburse the person that provided funding under paragraph (1) of that subsection, the Secretary concerned shall not provide additional funding to the person.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id9558e62e23414725adf833131295e3cc" changed="not-changed"><enum>(f)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Promotion</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall provide guidance to each local field office of the Secretary concerned for—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id837A96FC155A48A694AD3BA59BA0B124" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">making stakeholders aware of the authority under this Act; and </text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0C2CA3BAFE184DC9889A8A4C1D4DD45A" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">encouraging use of that authority to meet land management goals.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0cd70bbf62814080af693a5214feec01" changed="not-changed"><enum>(g)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Treatment of collaborative members</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of a civil action relating to a project described in subsection (c), any person that participated in the collaborative process to develop the proposal for the project shall be—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idd5b66ca7c6b744209892dcfd673fd758" changed="not-changed"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">entitled to intervene, as of right, in any subsequent civil action; and</text></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id0089d5cd860f4cb696fdd18b0e6ca2fd" changed="not-changed"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">considered to be a full participant in any settlement negotiation relating to the project.</text></paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb7d74c7148284412a388ee219c958342" changed="not-changed"><enum>(h)</enum><header display-inline="yes-display-inline">Sunset</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The requirements described in subsection (b) and the authority to enter into an agreement under subsection (c) shall expire on January 1, 2033.</text></subsection></section><section changed="not-changed" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id220f976bc3f24dd697e6fb748fa5afa1"><enum>4002.</enum><header>Consultation under certain land and resource management plans and land use plans</header><subsection id="id3B2810B913974384BEC0FAB2AAE4C890"><enum>(a)</enum><header>National Forest System land and resource management plan</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/16/1604">16 U.S.C. 1604</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id1B24A82F5642487D943841C189C6E811"><subsection id="id3f80424d632f4dc49cb4383de5097ef1"><enum>(n)</enum><header>Completed Federal action</header><text>A land and resource management plan for a unit of the National Forest System approved, amended, or revised under this section shall not—</text><paragraph id="id9076D8B7A6184A898E09E930A9396D64"><enum>(1)</enum><text> be considered to be a continuing Federal agency action; or </text></paragraph><paragraph id="id99fe0a22a21a4e798ff5908de0f50afd"><enum>(2)</enum><text>constitute a discretionary Federal involvement or control for a distinct Federal purpose.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="id1336AA0D782F4FD3AC7EA029DE484412"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Bureau of land management land use plans</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1712">43 U.S.C. 1712</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idCDA004AB25D6411998FFE7A7CE43EFC6"><subsection id="id23c636d8777d45d9a0229eb59a5a71d0"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Completed Federal action</header><text>A land management plan approved, amended, or revised under this section shall not—</text><paragraph id="idAB71E6C6A739499AB9B9C4715633FCB8"><enum>(1)</enum><text> be considered to be a continuing Federal agency action; or </text></paragraph><paragraph id="idB0C3CA22449645C0882AA40D73DE38C4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>constitute a discretionary Federal involvement or control for a distinct Federal purpose.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection></section><section commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id5caccb673717445eba9c3b9cca94c10e"><enum>4003.</enum><header>Renewal term of grazing permits or leases</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 402 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1752">43 U.S.C. 1752</external-xref>) is amended—</text><paragraph id="idD0FC7F9F1AAD450696FA36E2FAE1C631"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection (a), by striking <quote>ten years</quote> and inserting <quote>not more than 20 years</quote>; and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="idc55b0390db474a88845ce2b4a3757d0b"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in subsection (b)—</text><subparagraph id="id8e9de03c01374d57a8fc4c175bb79a96"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking <quote>shorter than ten years</quote> and inserting <quote>of less than 20 years</quote>;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ida5d1cb6dfbd441349b364bdcc3259a6f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idE9987CFAAFA9412BB6AD7184A62E920B"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text><clause id="idCA3365EF560D4F7E93DE81FC90D73F96"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by striking <quote>ten years</quote> and inserting <quote>20 years</quote>; and</text></clause><clause id="idA01E1E6862004BDE836439F8D212FAD1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by striking <quote>or</quote> at the end;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id20f0eee26f6b4a99ab9ede2273eda4a7"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4);</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id49F6424341734784BF09B6A865A4C77C"><enum>(E)</enum><text>by inserting after paragraph (2) the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id3A45F4980C5145F6B56232E3B7DF7BDA"><paragraph id="id186F26D040B5475FA0649E1E81EE1608"><enum>(3)</enum><text> the initial environmental analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) with respect to a grazing allotment, permit, or lease has not been completed; or</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id691EE7C0F3744764B08A9711A9C7BBCE"><enum>(F)</enum><text>in paragraph (4) (as so redesignated)—</text><clause id="id86F1664BE28040F0B226C91A104CCFDA"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the first proviso, by striking <quote>shorter than ten years</quote> and inserting <quote>of less than 20 years</quote>; and</text></clause><clause id="id5930C35F00B94B02AEC70E3D6837A59C"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in the second proviso—</text><subclause id="id2CD55BEBE5C44F439D15331686F9EBB6"><enum>(I)</enum><text>by striking <quote>shorter than ten years</quote> and inserting <quote>of less than 20 years</quote>; and</text></subclause><subclause id="id699D5DFC641F47FA8DF3B6D871D16202"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by striking <quote>items (1) through (3) of this subsection</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraphs (1) through (4)</quote>.</text></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></section><section id="id74e71ba86a06453e8f744020bd0329a5"><enum>4004.</enum><header>Renewal of grazing permits and leases and certain actions during extreme natural events and disasters</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 402(h) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/43/1752">43 U.S.C. 1752(h)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idb16b56d0dad04f9fad56adf7261cc1ee"><paragraph id="id6d6bba1bdd0248a795b77e5c7693e020"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Renewal</header><text>A categorical exclusion (as defined in section 1508.1 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)) under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) shall apply with respect to the renewal of a grazing permit or lease under this section, if—</text><subparagraph id="idb1bc99c73d7d4baaabb945c37a0b5e07"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the renewal of the grazing permit or lease is consistent, or substantially consistent, with the use authorized in the permit or lease being renewed;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id8fbdeb21959d4c88904da9bab339d87e"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the renewal of the grazing permit or lease is the same as, or has a minor adjustment in, as determined by the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as applicable, the season of use authorized in the permit or lease being renewed; or</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idbf02ee54a6034f03af121c406e987760"><enum>(C)</enum><text>the applicable permittee or lessee is in compliance with the terms, conditions, and applicable regulations of the permit or lease being renewed.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="id36d30480e545427d89a3668f78ed650a"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Authorized use during emergencies and natural events and disasters</header><text>A categorical exclusion (as defined in section 1508.1 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations)) under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/4321">42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.</external-xref>) shall apply to the temporary use of a vacant grazing allotments or other minor adjustment in terms and conditions of a permit or lease necessary to respond and adapt to resource conditions, if—</text><subparagraph id="id8f603a7cfb484cf4a6184af432a2a3fd"><enum>(A)</enum><text>there is an unforeseen, uncontrollable natural event or disaster (including extreme weather conditions, drought, and infestation), that impedes the use by the permittee or lessee of the grazing allotment under established terms and conditions;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="ideaa49f3a679b4ef1a1746d841267bdf7"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the use of the vacant grazing allotment or the adjustment in the authorized use would be limited to 2 grazing seasons;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idb7573c9cd0984edc97557bac894b44fd"><enum>(C)</enum><text>a temporary adjustment in the existing season of use to immediately respond to localized resource conditions does not fluctuate more than 14 days prior to, or immediately following, the existing season of use date;</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idfef8c13713954ef5bbfa3a8b4e56a669"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the permittee or lessee is in compliance with—</text><clause id="id02E3B0EB28F844B6A212C79541CA8A1A"><enum>(i)</enum><text>all other terms and conditions of the applicable permit or lease; and</text></clause><clause id="id2DB8B21975B840949C6E02B37E12B36E"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>any applicable regulations;</text></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="id7a44ce3ef36e41baa87db56fd80d13be"><enum>(E)</enum><text>the vacant grazing allotment considered for temporary use pursuant to section 405 has been assessed or evaluated; and</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="idc54c3b2f56cf4d8da642ae98dc5f3be2"><enum>(F)</enum><text>the use of the vacant grazing allotment or adjustment in the authorized use does not alter the original grazing allotment of the permittee or lessee.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></section><section id="ida75166d7fa994375bde5d5af9fd4b3a2"><enum>4005.</enum><header>Withdrawal of BLM proposed rule</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">The Director of the Bureau of Land Management—</text><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id4fd744b8127f47d4818fe10b0bb948f9"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">shall withdraw the proposed rule of the Bureau of Land Management entitled <quote>Conservation and Landscape Health</quote> (88 Fed. Reg. 19583 (April 3, 2023)); and</text></paragraph><paragraph id="id537e8dce554f4efbbda60e4eee10a725" commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline"><enum>(2)</enum><text>may not take any action to finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed rule described in paragraph (1) or any substantially similar rule. </text></paragraph></section>