I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1049 
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to direct the 
Council on Environmental Quality to report to Congress annually on 
the number of permits required under Federal law for which applications 
have been submitted and that have not been issued because an environ-
mental impact statement is pending, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 11, 2011 
Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio (for himself, Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina, Mr. MIL-
LER of Florida, Mrs. SCHMIDT, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. 
SCOTT of South Carolina, Mr. PEARCE, Mr. HARPER, Mr. MCHENRY, 
Mr. HARRIS, Mr. TIBERI, Mr. STIVERS, Mr. LANDRY, Mr. MCKINLEY, 
Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mr. NUNES, and Mr. AUS-
TRIA) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
to direct the Council on Environmental Quality to report 
to Congress annually on the number of permits required 
under Federal law for which applications have been sub-
mitted and that have not been issued because an environ-
mental impact statement is pending, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Regulatory Openness, 
Accountability, and Disclosure to Jobs Act of 2011’’ or 
the ‘‘ROAD to Jobs Act of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTS ON PERMITS FOR WHICH ENVI-
RONMENTAL 
IMPACT 
STATEMENTS 
ARE 
PENDING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 102 of the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before 
the first sentence; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) ANNUAL REPORT ON PENDING STATEMENTS 
AND DISAPPROVED PERMITS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than December 
31 of each year, the Council on Environmental Qual-
ity shall submit a report to the Congress on— 
‘‘(A) the number of Federal permits for 
which applications have been submitted to Fed-
eral agencies or departments and that have not 
been issued during that year because a state-
ment under subsection (a)(2) has not been 
issued; and 
‘‘(B) descriptions of the Federal permits 
for which statements were issued under sub-
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section (a)(2), that were rejected or otherwise 
disapproved in that year. 
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—Each report under this sec-
tion shall contain— 
‘‘(A) a description of the economic impact 
of not issuing each permit, including— 
‘‘(i) the impact for the industry con-
cerned; 
‘‘(ii) an estimate of the direct eco-
nomic output of the project to be carried 
out under the permit once the project is 
completed; and 
‘‘(iii) the number of jobs that would 
be directly created by the activity to be 
carried out under the permit; 
‘‘(B) the date the application for each per-
mit was submitted to the Federal agency or de-
partment; 
‘‘(C) the status of each permit application 
in the approval process; and 
‘‘(D) the date on which a decision on each 
permit application is expected to be made. 
‘‘(3) PERMIT DEFINED.—In this subsection, the 
term ‘permit’ means any license, certificate, ap-
proval, registration, charter, membership, exemption, 
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