I 
107TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5409
To provide an environmentally sound process for the expeditious consideration 
and approval of a high-voltage electricity transmission line right-of-way 
through the Trabuco Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest 
in the State of California and adjacent lands under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 19, 2002
Mr. ISSA (for himself, Mr. CALVERT, Mrs. BONO, Mr. RADANOVICH, Mr. 
CUNNINGHAM, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. DOOLITTLE, and Mr. OSE) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources 
A BILL 
To provide an environmentally sound process for the expedi-
tious consideration and approval of a high-voltage elec-
tricity transmission line right-of-way through the 
Trabuco Ranger District of the Cleveland National For-
est in the State of California and adjacent lands under 
the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management and 
the Forest Service.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cleveland National 
Forest Responsible Electricity Transmission Act of 2002’’. 
SEC. 2. ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION LINE RIGHT-OF-WAY. 
(a) ISSUANCE.—Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
Agriculture shall issue all necessary grants, easements, 
permits, plan amendments, and other approvals to allow 
for the siting and construction of a high-voltage electricity 
transmission line right-of-way running approximately 
north to south through the Trabuco Ranger District of 
the Cleveland National Forest in the State of California 
and adjacent lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau 
of Land Management and the Forest Service. The right-
of-way approvals shall provide all necessary Federal au-
thorization from the Secretaries of Agriculture and the In-
terior for the routing, construction, operation, and mainte-
nance of a 500 KV transmission line capable of meeting 
the region’s long-term electricity transmission needs be-
tween the existing Valley-Serrano transmission line to the 
north and the Telega-Escondido transmission line to the 
south, and for connecting to future generating capacity 
that may be developed in the region. 
(b) PROTECTION OF WILDERNESS AREAS.—The Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall not allow any portion of a transmission line right-
of-way corridor identified in subsection (a) to enter any 
identified wilderness area in existence as of the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
(c) ENVIRONMENTAL
AND
ADMINSTRATIVE
RE-
VIEW.—The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
Bureau of Land Management, shall be the lead Federal 
agency with overall responsibility to ensure completion of 
required environmental and other reviews of the approvals 
to be issued under subsection (a). For the portions of the 
corridor on Forest Service land, the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall complete all required environmental reviews 
and administrative actions, in coordination with the Sec-
retary of the Interior. It is anticipated that the right-of-
way route through the Trabuco Ranger District of the 
Cleveland National Forest will make it unnecessary to con-
struct regional transmission lines through heavily popu-
lated lands in the Temecula Valley. 
(d) TIME
FOR ISSUANCE.—The necessary grants, 
easements, permits, plan amendments and other approvals 
for the transmission line right-of-way shall be issued with-
in 60 days after the completion of the environmental re-
view under subsection (c), or no later than September 30, 
2003, whichever comes first. 
(e) OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The trans-
mission line right-of-way shall be subject to such terms