Title: To authorize the expansion of an existing hydroelectric project, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
This bill authorizes the licensee for the Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project in Kodiak Island, Alaska, to occupy not more than 20 acres of federal land to construct, operate, and maintain the Upper Hidden Basin Diversion Expansion without further authorization under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act or from the Department of the Interior.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 220 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 220

 To authorize the expansion of an existing hydroelectric project, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

 Mr. Young of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the expansion of an existing hydroelectric project, and 
                          for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. TERROR LAKE HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT UPPER HIDDEN BASIN 
              DIVERSION AUTHORIZATION.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Terror lake hydroelectric project.--The term ``Terror 
        Lake Hydroelectric Project'' means the project identified in 
        section 1325 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation 
        Act (16 U.S.C. 3212), and which is Federal Energy Regulatory 
        Commission project number 2743.
            (2) Upper hidden basin diversion expansion.--The term 
        ``Upper Hidden Basin Diversion Expansion'' means the expansion 
        of the Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project as generally described 
        in Exhibit E to the Upper Hidden Basin Grant Application dated 
        July 2, 2014, and submitted to the Alaska Energy Authority 
        Renewable Energy Fund Round VIII by Kodiak Electric 
        Association, Inc.
    (b) Authorization.--The licensee for the Terror Lake Hydroelectric 
Project may occupy not more than 20 acres of Federal land to construct, 
operate, and maintain the Upper Hidden Basin Diversion Expansion 
without further authorization of the Secretary of the Interior or under 
the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3101 et 
seq.).
    (c) Savings Clause.--The Upper Hidden Basin Diversion Expansion 
shall be subject to appropriate terms and conditions included in an 
amendment to a license issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission pursuant to the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.), 
including section 4(e) of that Act (16 U.S.C. 797(e)), following an 
environmental review by the Commission under the National Environmental 
Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).
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