I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3703 
To provide for the expedited approval of the construction, operation, and 
maintenance of the Keystone XL pipeline, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 11, 2013 
Mr. KINGSTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Com-
mittees on Foreign Affairs, Energy and Commerce, and Natural Re-
sources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the expedited approval of the construction, 
operation, and maintenance of the Keystone XL pipeline, 
and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Approve the Pipeline 
Now Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE AND ENVIRONMENTAL IM-
PACT STATEMENT APPROVAL. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
shall— 
(1) issue a Presidential permit approving the 
pipeline described in the application filed on May 4, 
2012, by TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. to 
the Department of State for the Keystone XL pipe-
line, as supplemented to include the Nebraska re-
route evaluated in the Final Evaluation Report 
issued by the Nebraska Department of Environ-
mental Quality in January 2013 and approved by 
the Nebraska governor; and 
(2) issue a final environmental impact state-
ment for such pipeline. 
(b) SATISFACTION OF REQUIREMENTS.—The final 
environmental impact statement described in subsection 
(a)(2), coupled with the Final Evaluation Report described 
in subsection (a)(1), shall be considered to satisfy all re-
quirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), of the National Historic 
Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.), and of section 
7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 
1536). 
(c) CONSEQUENCE OF FAILURE TO COMPLY.— 
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(1) GENERAL RULE.—If either the Presidential 
permit described in subsection (a)(1) or the environ-
mental impact statement described in subsection 
(a)(2) remains unissued upon the expiration of 30 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, until 
such permit and environmental impact statement are 
both issued no Federal funds may be expended to 
pay more than 75 percent of the salary of any senior 
official in the Department of State. 
(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘‘senior official in the Department of State’’ means 
the Secretary of State and any Deputy Secretary or 
Under Secretary at the Department of State. 
SEC. 3. ASSOCIATED PERMITS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act— 
(1) the Secretary of the Interior shall issue all 
permits associated with the pipeline project de-
scribed in section 2(a) that were applied for before 
the date of enactment of this Act, including a grant 
of right-of-way and temporary use permit under sec-
tion 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 185) 
and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and any permit re-
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quired under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 
U.S.C. 703 et seq.); and 
(2) the Secretary of the Army shall issue all 
permits associated with such pipeline project that 
were applied for before the date of enactment of this 
Act under section 404 of the Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344). 
(b) CONSEQUENCE OF FAILURE TO COMPLY.— 
(1) GENERAL RULE.—If any permit described 
in subsection (a) remains unissued upon the expira-
tion of 30 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, until all such permits are issued no Federal 
funds may be expended to pay more than 75 percent 
of the salary of— 
(A) in the case of a permit described in 
subsection (a)(1), any senior official in the De-
partment of the Interior; and 
(B) in the case of a permit described in 
subsection (a)(2), the Secretary of the Army 
and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Civil Works. 
(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 
‘‘senior official in the Department of the Interior’’ 
means the Secretary of the Interior and any Deputy 
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Secretary or Under Secretary at the Department of 
the Interior. 
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