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HR 6244 112th Congress House Energy Administrative law and regulatory procedures Dams and canals Department of Energy Electric power generation and transmission Energy efficiency and conservation Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Fishes Floods and storm protection Intergovernmental relations Lakes and rivers Licensing and registrations Outdoor recreation State and local government operations Water use and supply Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Leave our Lakes Alone Act

Introduced: August 1, 2012 See on congress.gov
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Aug 3, 2012
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Aug 1, 2012
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Aug 1, 2012
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Leave our Lakes Alone Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from considering public use and environmental purposes in issuing a license, or enforcing any public use and environmental requirements of a license, for a project in a state whose law expressly authorizes such a prohibition.

Defines "public use and environmental purposes" to mean the purposes of energy conservation, the protection, mitigation of damage to, and enhancement of, fish and wildlife, the protection of recreational opportunities, the preservation of other aspects of environmental quality, and other beneficial public uses, including irrigation, flood control, and water supply, as such purposes apply to land within a project boundary above the highest target elevation for normal operations of the project.

Exempts projects on federal land from application of this Act.

What's happening now August 3, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 6
All 6 Republican 3
AKIN, W.
· Aug 1, 2012
 R
Cole, Tom
Oklahoma · Aug 1, 2012
 R
Graves, Sam
Missouri · Aug 1, 2012
Jenkins, Lynn
· Aug 1, 2012
 R
Lankford, James
Oklahoma · Aug 1, 2012
SHIMKUS, JOHN
· Aug 1, 2012
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6244: Leave our Lakes Alone Act. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-6244/
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"H.R. 6244: Leave our Lakes Alone Act." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-6244/.
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H.R. 6244, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-6244/.
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