I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6163 
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to allow Federal 
agencies to rely on certain previously completed environmental assess-
ments and environmental impact statements to satisfy the requirements 
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 19, 2025 
Mr. VALADAO 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 allow Federal agencies to rely on certain previously 
completed environmental assessments and environmental 
impact statements to satisfy the requirements of the 
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 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 ‘‘Determination of 
NEPA Adequacy Streamlining Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. RELIANCE ON PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED ENVIRON-
MENTAL 
ASSESSMENTS 
AND 
ENVIRON-
MENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS. 
Section 108 of the National Environmental Policy 
Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4336b) is amended— 
(1) 
in 
the 
heading 
by 
striking 
‘‘PRO-
GRAMMATIC ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT’’ and 
inserting 
‘‘PROGRAMMATIC
ENVIRONMENTAL 
DOCUMENTS AND RELIANCE ON PREVIOUSLY 
COMPLETED ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘When an agency prepares’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(a) 
PROGRAMMATIC
ENVIRONMENTAL
DOCU-
MENTS.—When an agency prepares’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) RELIANCE ON PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED ENVI-
RONMENTAL DOCUMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) ACTIONS THAT ARE SUBSTANTIALLY THE 
SAME.—A lead agency may satisfy the requirements 
of this Act with respect to a new major Federal ac-
tion by relying on an environmental assessment or 
environmental impact statement that the lead agen-
cy, another Federal agency, or a project sponsor 
under the supervision of a Federal agency completed 
for another major Federal action if the lead agency 
determines that— 
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‘‘(A) the new major Federal action is sub-
stantially the same as the other major Federal 
action or an alternative analyzed in such envi-
ronmental assessment or environmental impact 
statement; and 
‘‘(B) the effects of the new major Federal 
action are substantially the same as the effects 
analyzed in such environmental assessment or 
environmental impact statement. 
‘‘(2) ACTIONS THAT ARE NOT SUBSTANTIALLY 
THE SAME.—If a new major Federal action is not 
substantially the same as another major Federal ac-
tion or an alternative analyzed in an environmental 
assessment or environmental impact statement com-
pleted by the lead agency, another Federal agency, 
or a project sponsor under the supervision of a Fed-
eral agency, the lead agency may modify any such 
previously completed environmental assessment or 
environmental impact statement as necessary to sat-
isfy the requirements of this Act with respect to the 
new major Federal action. The lead agency shall 
make such modified environmental assessment or en-
vironmental impact statement publicly available as a 
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