A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to describe the scope of activities subject to a presumption of the applicability of an exclusion under the National…
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Oct 6, 2021
Introduced in Senate
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This bill revises the environmental review of projects on federal lands to expedite geothermal exploration or development activities.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2949: A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to describe the scope of activities subject to a presumption of the applicability of an exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2949/
"S. 2949: A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to describe the scope of activities subject to a presumption of the applicability of an exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2949/.
S. 2949, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2949/.
[S. 2949: A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to describe the scope of activities subject to a presumption of the applicability of an exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.](https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-2949/)