IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 214 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that extensive scientific 
and technical studies and analyses by the Department of State and 
other Federal agencies have affirmed that the proposed Keystone XL 
pipeline is an environmentally sound project. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 15, 2013 
Mr. WEBER of Texas (for himself, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. HALL, Mr. 
NEUGEBAUER, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. STOCKMAN, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. 
SCHWEIKERT, and Mr. STEWART) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
extensive scientific and technical studies and analyses 
by the Department of State and other Federal agencies 
have affirmed that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline 
is an environmentally sound project. 
Whereas safe and responsible production, transportation, and 
use of oil and petroleum products provide the foundation 
of America’s energy economy, helping to secure and ad-
vance our economic prosperity, national security, and 
overall quality of life; 
Whereas Department of State assessments found that the 
Keystone XL pipeline ‘‘is not likely to impact the amount 
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of crude oil produced from the oil sands’’ and that ‘‘ap-
proval or denial of the proposed Project is unlikely to 
have a substantial impact on the rate of development in 
the oil sands’’; 
Whereas the Department of State found that the incremental 
life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with the 
Keystone XL project are estimated 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; 
Whereas after extensive evaluation of potential impacts to 
land and water resources along the Keystone XL pipe-
line’s 875 mile proposed route, the Department of State 
found that ‘‘The analyses of potential impacts associated 
with construction and normal operation of the proposed 
Project suggest that there would be no significant im-
pacts to most resources along the proposed Project route 
(assuming Keystone complies with all laws and required 
conditions and measures).’’; 
Whereas transportation of oil via pipeline has a record of un-
matched safety and environmental protection, and the 
Department of State found that ‘‘Spills associated with 
the proposed Project that enter the environment are ex-
pected to be rare and relatively small’’, and that ‘‘there 
is no evidence of increased corrosion or other pipeline 
threat due to viscosity’’ of diluted bitumen oil that will 
be transported by the Keystone XL pipeline; and 
Whereas plans to incorporate 57 project-specific special con-
ditions related to the design, construction, and operations 
of the Keystone XL pipeline led the Department of State 
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to find that the pipeline will have ‘‘a degree of safety over 
any other typically constructed domestic oil pipeline’’: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that the Federal Government’s exhaustive sci-
entific and technical analysis of the potential environ-
mental impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline have repeat-
edly affirmed the environmental soundness and safety of 
the proposed project. 
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