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Calendar No. 81 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MAY 23, 2013 
Received; read the first time 
JUNE 3, 2013 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To approve 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 ‘‘Northern Route Ap-
proval Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) To maintain our Nation’s competitive edge 
and ensure an economy built to last, the United 
States must have fast, reliable, resilient, and envi-
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ronmentally sound means of moving energy. In a 
global economy, we will compete for the world’s in-
vestments based in significant part on the quality of 
our infrastructure. Investing in the Nation’s infra-
structure provides immediate and long-term eco-
nomic benefits for local communities and the Nation 
as a whole. 
(2) The delivery of oil from Canada, a close ally 
not only in proximity but in shared values and 
ideals, to domestic markets is in the national inter-
est because of the need to lessen dependence upon 
insecure foreign sources. 
(3) The Keystone XL pipeline would provide 
both short-term and long-term employment opportu-
nities and related labor income benefits, such as gov-
ernment revenues associated with taxes. 
(4) The State of Nebraska has thoroughly re-
viewed and approved the proposed Keystone XL 
pipeline reroute, concluding that the concerns of Ne-
braskans have had a major influence on the pipeline 
reroute and that the reroute will have minimal envi-
ronmental impacts. 
(5) The Department of State and other Federal 
agencies have over a long period of time conducted 
extensive studies and analysis of the technical as-
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pects and of the environmental, social, and economic 
impacts of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, 
and— 
(A) the Department of State assessments 
found that the Keystone XL pipeline ‘‘is not 
likely to impact the amount of crude oil pro-
duced from the oil sands’’ and that ‘‘approval 
or denial of the proposed project is unlikely to 
have a substantial impact on the rate of devel-
opment in the oil sands’’; 
(B) the Department of State found that 
incremental life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions 
associated with the Keystone XL project are es-
timated in the range of 0.07 to 0.83 million 
metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents, with 
the upper end of this range representing twelve 
one-thousandths of one percent of the 6,702 
million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted in 
the United States in 2011; and 
(C) after extensive evaluation of potential 
impacts to land and water resources along the 
Keystone XL pipeline’s 875 mile proposed 
route, the Department of State found that 
‘‘The analyses of potential impacts associated 
with construction and normal operation of the 
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