Title: A bill to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to issue an order continuing a stay of a hydroelectric license for the Mahoney Lake hydroelectric project in the State of Alaska, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
This bill requires the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), upon request, to issue a stay of the statutory deadline by which construction must commence on the Mahoney Lake Hydroelectric Project located in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska. (The City of Saxman, Alaska, was granted a construction license for the Mahoney Lake Hydroelectric Project on January 22, 1998.)
Additionally, upon request, FERC must reinstate the construction license and make it effective as of the date the stay is lifted.
FERC may reinstate the construction license if it is expired.
Subject to certain conditions, FERC may extend for up to six years the statutory deadline by which construction must commence on the project.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 215 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 215

To authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to issue an order 
   continuing a stay of a hydroelectric license for the Mahoney Lake 
 hydroelectric project in the State of Alaska, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 24, 2017

 Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. Sullivan) 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 authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to issue an order 
   continuing a stay of a hydroelectric license for the Mahoney Lake 
 hydroelectric project in the State of Alaska, 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. STAY AND REINSTATEMENT OF FERC LICENSE NO. 11393 FOR THE 
              MAHONEY LAKE HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal 
        Energy Regulatory Commission.
            (2) License.--The term ``license'' means the license for 
        the Commission project numbered 11393.
            (3) Licensee.--The term ``licensee'' means the holder of 
        the license.
    (b) Stay of License.--On the request of the licensee, the 
Commission shall issue an order continuing the stay of the license.
    (c) Lifting of Stay.--On the request of the licensee, but not later 
than 10 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Commission 
shall--
            (1) issue an order lifting the stay of the license under 
        subsection (b); and
            (2) make the effective date of the license the date on 
        which the stay is lifted under paragraph (1).
    (d) Extension of License.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding the time period specified 
        in section 13 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 806) that 
        would otherwise apply to the Commission project numbered 11393, 
        the Commission may, at the request of the licensee, and after 
        reasonable notice, in accordance with the good faith, due 
        diligence, and public interest requirements of, and the 
        procedures of the Commission under, that section, extend the 
        time period during which the licensee is required to commence 
        the construction of the project for not more than 3 consecutive 
        2-year periods from the date of the expiration of the extension 
        originally issued by the Commission.
            (2) Reinstatement of expired license.--
                    (A) In general.--If the period required for the 
                commencement of construction of the project described 
                in paragraph (1) has expired prior to the date of 
                enactment of this Act, the Commission may reinstate the 
                license effective as of the date of the expiration of 
                the license.
                    (B) Extension.--If the Commission reinstates the 
                license under subparagraph (A), the first extension 
                authorized under paragraph (1) shall take effect on the 
                date of that expiration.
    (e) Effect.--Nothing in this Act prioritizes, or creates any 
advantage or disadvantage to, Commission project numbered 11393 under 
Federal law, including the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 791a et seq.) 
or the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2601 
et seq.), as compared to--
            (1) any electric generating facility in existence on the 
        date of enactment of this Act; or
            (2) any electric generating facility that may be examined, 
        proposed, or developed during the period of any stay or 
        extension of the license under this Act.
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