[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10302 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10302

  To amend the Federal Power Act with respect to the coordination of 
   Federal authorizations for transmission facilities, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 4, 2026

   Mr. Peters (for himself and Mr. Evans of Colorado) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Power Act with respect to the coordination of 
   Federal authorizations for transmission facilities, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Certainty in Litigation for Electric 
Asset Reliability (CLEAR) Act of 2026''.

SEC. 2. COORDINATION OF FEDERAL AUTHORIZATIONS FOR TRANSMISSION 
              FACILITIES.

    Section 216(h) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824p(h)) is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``to site a transmission 
        facility'' each place it appears and inserting ``to site and 
        construct a transmission facility'';
            (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``, except that the 
        Commission shall act as the lead agency in the case of a 
        facility to be permitted under subsection (b)'' before the 
        period at the end; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(10) Publication.--The head of each Federal agency with 
        authority to issue a Federal authorization shall publish in the 
        Federal Register each final agency action relating to a Federal 
        authorization.
            ``(11) Consolidated record.--To the extent practicable for 
        each transmission facility for which a Federal authorization is 
        required, the Secretary shall consolidate all records relating 
        to review and permit decisions for all Federal authorizations 
        for the transmission facility into a single joint record of 
        decision.
            ``(12) Rehearing and judicial review.--With respect to any 
        transmission facility the Federal authorization and review 
        process for which is coordinated under this subsection--
                    ``(A) each approval of a Federal authorization for 
                the transmission facility shall be deemed to be an 
                order issued by the Commission for purposes of section 
                313;
                    ``(B) such section shall be applied by substituting 
                `the lead agency under section 216(h)' for `the 
                Commission' each place it appears; and
                    ``(C) notwithstanding any other provision of law 
                providing for rehearing or judicial review of an 
                approval of a Federal authorization, a person may 
                obtain rehearing and judicial review of such an 
                approval only under such section 313.''.
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