HR 3062 114th Congress House Energy Electric power generation and transmission Federal-Indian relations Intergovernmental relations Land transfers Land use and conservation State and local government operations

APPROVAL Act

Introduced: July 14, 2015 Introduced by: Womack, Steve Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov

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Dec 8, 2016

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669.

Dec 8, 2016

Referred sequentially to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce for a period ending not later than Dec. 8, 2016 for consideration of such provisions of the bill as fall within the jurisdiction of that committee pursuant to clause 1(f) of rule X..

Dec 8, 2016

Committee on Energy and Commerce discharged.

Dec 8, 2016

Reported by the Committee on 114-856, Part I.

Jun 15, 2016

Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 11.

Jun 15, 2016

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

Jun 14, 2016

Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

Jun 14, 2016

Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans Discharged.

Oct 28, 2015

Subcommittee Hearings Held.

Aug 31, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.

Jul 14, 2015

Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Jul 14, 2015

Introduced in House

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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act or the APPROVAL Act

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Department of Energy and the Southwestern and Western Area Power Administration from using the power of eminent domain to implement modernization of electricity transmission infrastructure, unless they have received explicit permission to do so by: (1) the state governor and the head of each applicable public utility commission or public service commission of the affected state, and (2) the head of the governing body of each Indian tribe whose land would be affected.

An electricity transmission infrastructure project, to the greatest extent practicable, must be sited upon either an existing federal right-of-way or upon federal land managed by either: (1) the Bureau of Land Management, (2) the Forest Service, (3) the Bureau of Reclamation, or (4) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

What's happening now December 8, 2016

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 669.

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