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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1049 

To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to direct the 

Council on Environmental Quality to report to Congress annually on 

the number of permits required under Federal law for which applications 

have been submitted and that have not been issued because an environmental impact statement is pending, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 11, 2011 

Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio (for himself, Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mrs. SCHMIDT, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. 

SCOTT of South Carolina, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. HARPER, Mr. MCHENRY, 

Mr. HARRIS, Mr. TIBERI, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. LANDRY, Mr. MCKINLEY, 

Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. NUNES, and Mr. AUSTRIA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

to direct the Council on Environmental Quality to report 

to Congress annually on the number of permits required 

under Federal law for which applications have been submitted and that have not been issued because an environmental impact statement is pending, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Regulatory Openness, 

3 Accountability, and Disclosure to Jobs Act of 2011’’ or 

4 the ‘‘ROAD to Jobs Act of 2011’’. 

5 SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTS ON PERMITS FOR WHICH ENVI6 RONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS ARE 

7 PENDING. 

8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 102 of the National Envi9 ronmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) is amend10 ed— 

11 (1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before 

12 the first sentence; and 

13 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

14 ‘‘(b) ANNUAL REPORT ON PENDING STATEMENTS

15 AND DISAPPROVED PERMITS.— 

16 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than December 

17 31 of each year, the Council on Environmental Qual18 ity shall submit a report to the Congress on— 

19 ‘‘(A) the number of Federal permits for 

20 which applications have been submitted to Fed21 eral agencies or departments and that have not 

22 been issued during that year because a state23 ment under subsection (a)(2) has not been 

24 issued; and 

25 ‘‘(B) descriptions of the Federal permits 

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1 section (a)(2), that were rejected or otherwise 

2 disapproved in that year. 

3 ‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—Each report under this sec4 tion shall contain— 

5 ‘‘(A) a description of the economic impact 

6 of not issuing each permit, including— 

7 ‘‘(i) the impact for the industry con8 cerned; 

9 ‘‘(ii) an estimate of the direct eco10 nomic output of the project to be carried 

11 out under the permit once the project is 

12 completed; and 

13 ‘‘(iii) the number of jobs that would 

14 be directly created by the activity to be 

15 carried out under the permit; 

16 ‘‘(B) the date the application for each per17 mit was submitted to the Federal agency or de18 partment; 

19 ‘‘(C) the status of each permit application 

20 in the approval process; and 

21 ‘‘(D) the date on which a decision on each 

22 permit application is expected to be made. 

23 ‘‘(3) PERMIT DEFINED.—In this subsection, the 

24 term ‘permit’ means any license, certificate, ap25 proval, registration, charter, membership, exemption, 


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1 or other form of permission required by Federal law 

2 for the conduct of activity.’’. 

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