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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 124 
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 
JANUARY 4, 2005 
Mr. ISSA 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’’.
SEC. 2. ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION LINE RIGHT-OF-WAY, 
CLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST AND ADJA-
CENT PUBLIC LANDS, CALIFORNIA. 
(a) ISSUANCE.—Subject to subsection (c), the Sec-
retary 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 Na-
tional 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 authorization from the Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture for 
the routing, construction, operation, and maintenance of 
a 500 KV transmission line capable of meeting the long- 
term electricity transmission needs of the region between 
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.— 
(1) DEPARTMENT
OF
INTERIOR
OR
LOCAL 
AGENCY.—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). 
(2) NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LAND.—For the 
portions of the corridor on National Forest System 
land, the Secretary of Agriculture shall complete all 
required environmental reviews and administrative 
actions, in coordination with the Secretary of the In-
terior. 
(3) EXPEDITOUS
COMPLETION.—The reviews 
required for issuance of the approvals under sub-
section (a) shall be completed not later than one 
year after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(d) TIME
FOR ISSUANCE.—The necessary grants, 
easements, permits, plan amendments, and other approv-
als for the transmission line right-of-way shall be issued
within 60 days after the completion of the environmental 
review under subsection (c). 
(e) OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The trans-
mission line right-of-way shall be subject to such terms 
and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture consider necessary, as a result 
of the environmental review under subsection (c), to pro-
tect the value of historic, cultural, and natural resources 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior 
or the Department of Agriculture. 
(f) PREFERENCE AMONG PROPOSALS.—The Sec-
retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall give a preference to any application or preapplication 
proposal for a transmission line right-of-way, as described 
in subsection (a), that was submitted before December 31, 
2002, over all other applications and proposals for the 
same or similar right-of-way submitted on or after that 
date. 
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