I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9326 
To amend the Federal Power Act to authorize the allocation of the costs 
of certain interstate electric power transmission lines and electric power 
transmission lines that are located offshore, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 17, 2022 
Ms. CASTOR of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To amend the Federal Power Act to authorize the allocation 
of the costs of certain interstate electric power trans-
mission lines and electric power transmission lines that 
are located offshore, 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 ‘‘Enhancing Electric 
Grid Resilience Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ALLOCATION OF COSTS OF CERTAIN TRANSMISSION 
FACILITIES. 
Part II of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 224. ALLOCATION OF COSTS OF CERTAIN TRANS-
MISSION FACILITIES. 
‘‘(a) ALLOCATION OF COSTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Any entity that proposes to 
own, control, or operate a transmission facility of 
national significance may file a tariff with the Com-
mission in accordance with section 205 and the reg-
ulations of the Commission allocating the costs of 
such transmission facility of national significance. 
‘‘(2) COST CAUSATION PRINCIPLE.—The Com-
mission shall require that any tariff filed under 
paragraph (1) allocate the costs of a transmission 
facility of national significance to customers within 
the applicable transmission planning region or re-
gions in a manner that is at least roughly commen-
surate with the estimated anticipated benefits de-
scribed in paragraph (3). 
‘‘(3) COST ALLOCATION PRINCIPLE.—The Com-
mission shall require that any tariff filed under 
paragraph (1) allocate costs based on the broad 
range of reliability, economic, public policy, resil-
ience, and other reasonably anticipated benefits of 
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the applicable transmission facility of national sig-
nificance. 
‘‘(b) TRANSMISSION FACILITY OF NATIONAL SIG-
NIFICANCE.—In this section, the term ‘transmission facil-
ity of national significance’ means— 
‘‘(1) an interstate electric power transmission 
line (and any facilities necessary for the operation of 
such electric power transmission line) or an electric 
power transmission line that is located offshore (and 
any facilities necessary for the operation of such 
electric power transmission line)— 
‘‘(A) that has a transmission capacity of 
not less than 1,000 megawatts; and 
‘‘(B) the construction of which is com-
pleted on or after the date of enactment of this 
section; or 
‘‘(2) an expansion of, or upgrade to, an inter-
state electric power transmission line (and any facili-
ties necessary for the operation of such electric 
power transmission line) or an electric power trans-
mission line that is located offshore (and any facili-
ties necessary for the operation of such electric 
power transmission line) that— 
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‘‘(A) increases the transmission capacity of 
such electric power transmission line by at least 
500 megawatts; and 
‘‘(B) is completed on or after the date of 
enactment of this section. 
‘‘(c) SAVINGS PROVISION.—This section does not af-
fect the authority of the Commission to approve the alloca-
tion of costs of transmission facilities other than trans-
mission facilities of national significance.’’. 
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