Title: A bill to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to submit to Congress a report on certain hydropower projects.
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
This bill directs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)	to submit to Congress a report on hydropower projects that:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1030 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1030

   To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to submit to 
           Congress a report on certain hydropower projects.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 3, 2017

  Mr. King (for himself and Mr. Flake) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to submit to 
           Congress a report on certain hydropower projects.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FERC REPORT ON CERTAIN HYDROPOWER PROJECTS.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (referred to in this section 
as the ``FERC'') shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
House of Representatives a report that--
            (1) identifies each hydropower project licensed by the FERC 
        that is located at a nonpowered site that serves as storage to 
        support downstream power generation (referred to in this 
        section as a ``project'');
            (2) analyzes the value of electric power generation 
        associated with each project, relative to the value of nonpower 
        generation functions associated with the same project, 
        including recreation and environmental functions;
            (3) describes the range of options that exist under current 
        law with respect to surrender or transfer of a FERC license for 
        a project, including a representative range of actual measures 
        required by the FERC of project owners that have surrendered or 
        transferred a FERC license;
            (4) identifies any barriers to the surrender or transfer of 
        a FERC license for a project; and
            (5) identifies the costs incurred by project owners 
        resulting from the requirements imposed by a FERC license, 
        including applicable costs broken down by categories relating 
        to--
                    (A) the environment, including fish and wildlife 
                measures;
                    (B) human safety;
                    (C) electric reliability;
                    (D) recreation;
                    (E) cultural resources;
                    (F) flood control;
                    (G) navigation;
                    (H) irrigation; and
                    (I) any other relevant category, as determined by 
                the FERC.
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