NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT

Articles and editorials

Bipartisan Energy Deal? Overriding Biden’s NEPA Rules Blockade Is Essential for Fossil Fuels and Solar and Wind Power, S2631 [19MY]

How To Kill American Infrastructure on the Sly—The White House Revises NEPA Rules That Will Scuttle New Roads, Bridges and Oil and Gas Pipelines, S2631 [19MY], S2886 [9JN]

Bills and resolutions

Council on Environmental Quality: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions’’ (see S.J. Res. 55), S3270 [13JY] (see H.J. Res. 91), H6882 [19JY]

Dept. of Energy: exempt certain Federal hydrogen programs that utilize zero-carbon emission sources from National Environmental Policy Act permitting requirements (see H.R. 8117), H5644 [16JN]

Depts. of Agriculture and the Interior: establish deadlines to complete certain environmental reviews and establish notification rules for receipt of onshore right-of-way applications (see H.R. 9006), H8220 [28SE]

——— use certain previously completed environmental assessments and environmental impact statements to satisfy National Environmental Policy Act review requirements (see H.R. 9025), H8221 [28SE]

Federal Highway Administration: improve environmental review process for Federal aid highway projects through use of interactive, digital, cloud-based platforms (see S. 3), S6778 [17NO] (see H.R. 9339), H8587 [17NO]

Government regulations: codify certain reforms to regulations and implementation (see H.R. 7654), H4713 [3MY]

——— limit scope of environmental reviews for projects not involving Federal land or originating from Federal agency (see H.R. 9012), H8221 [28SE]

——— reform Federal regulatory permitting and project review processes for energy and infrastructure projects (see S. 4815), S4541 [12SE] (see H.R. 8966), H8112 [22SE]

Native Americans: recognize tribal cooperation in environmental review of proposed actions affecting revised Yurok Reservation (see H.R. 7581), H4510 [26AP]

Pipelines: facilitate pipeline construction and limit regulatory and litigation delays under Federal Water Pollution Control Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and Endangered Species Act (see S. 5165), S6941 [1DE] (see H.R. 9372), H8707 [1DE]

Power resources: restart onshore and offshore oil and gas leasing, streamline permitting for energy infrastructure, and ensure transparency in energy development on Federal lands (see H.R. 9087), H8316 [29SE]

Roads and highways: streamline environmental review process for major projects (see H.R. 8418), H6881 [19JY]

Remarks in House

Dept. of the Interior: improve permitting process for critical mineral projects, H182 [13JA]

——— improve permitting process for critical mineral projects (H.R. 2604), H7401 [28JY]

Ecology and environment: clarify ambiguous provisions, align with relevant case law, reflect modern technologies, optimize interagency coordination, and improve environmental review process (H.R. 2515), H3736 [15MR]

Forests: allow funding for forest management activities that modify, improve, enchance, or create and protect wildlife habitats from wildfires, H5517, H5518 [14JN]

——— implement proactive forest management standards on public lands to reduce threat of wildfire and other risks, H1258 [2MR], H8782 [6DE]

——— implement proactive forest management standards on public lands to reduce threat of wildfire and other risks (H.R. 4614), H3739 [15MR]

Government regulations: reform environmental regulations to benefit rural communities, H3736–H3740 [15MR]

Natural Gas Act: provide for Federal and State agency coordination in approval of certain authorizations (H.R. 1616), H6665 [15JY]

Remarks in Senate

Biden, President: evaluation of administration relative to energy policy, S2630–S2633 [19MY], S3314–S3318 [14JY]

Council on Environmental Quality: disapprove rule entitled ‘‘National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions’’ (S.J. Res. 55), S3312–S3314 [14JY], S3770–S3772 [28JY], S3905 [3AU], S4003, S4004, S4009–S4014 [4AU], S4434 [6SE]

Government regulations: codify certain reforms to regulations and implementation, S4182 [6AU]

——— reform Federal regulatory permitting and project review processes for energy and infrastructure projects, S4836 [20SE], S4961 [22SE], S5037, S5041, S5042 [27SE], S7179 [14DE], S7230–S7232 [15DE]

——— reform Federal regulatory permitting and project review processes for energy and infrastructure projects (S. 4815), S5117 [28SE]

Infrastructure: improve Federal permitting processes for certain projects, S2885–S2887 [9JN]

New Mexico: increase consultation between Federal Government and governing bodies of land grant-mercedes and acequias and recognize historic-traditional boundaries of land grant-mercedes (S. 2708), S10103 [22DE]

Reports filed

Land Grant-Mercedes Traditional Use Recognition and Consultation Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 2708) (S. Rept. 117–242), S7100 [12DE]

Texts of

S. 2708, Land Grant-Mercedes Traditional Use Recognition and Consultation Act, S10103 [22DE]