Title: Service Pilot Protection Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Service Pilot Protection Act
This bill addresses the process of consultation with military installations in cases of applications for wind farm projects filed with the Department of Transportation.
It provides that, with respect to an application for a wind farm project, the Military Aviation and Installation Assurance Siting Clearinghouse shall (1) verify whether the appropriate commander, in consultation with each such installation, approved or objected to the application; (2) publish the procedures for notifying each installation of the application; and (3) at least annually, report to Congress a list of approvals and objections and an assessment of whether approved wind farm projects impacted the training capabilities, operations, or readiness of the military department concerned.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1580 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1580

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve consultation by the 
Military Aviation and Installation Assurance Siting Clearinghouse with 
  installations affected by windfarm projects, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 21, 2019

Mr. Cornyn (for himself and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to improve consultation by the 
Military Aviation and Installation Assurance Siting Clearinghouse with 
  installations affected by windfarm projects, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Service Pilot Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSULTATION BY MILITARY AVIATION AND INSTALLATION ASSURANCE 
              SITING CLEARINGHOUSE WITH INSTALLATIONS AFFECTED BY 
              WINDFARM PROJECTS.

    Section 183a(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(4) With respect to an application described in paragraph (1) for 
a windfarm project, in ensuring that affected local military 
installations are consulted under such paragraph, the Clearinghouse 
shall--
            ``(A) verify whether the commander of the appropriate major 
        command or forces command, in consultation with each such 
        installation, approved or objected to the application;
            ``(B) publish on an publicly available internet website of 
        the Department of Defense the procedures for notifying each 
        such installation of the application; and
            ``(C) not less frequently than annually, submit to the 
        Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Commerce, 
        Science, and Transportation, and the Committee on Energy and 
        Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Armed 
        Services and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House 
        of Representatives--
                    ``(i) a list of approvals and objections under 
                subparagraph (A) during the year covered by the report; 
                and
                    ``(ii) an assessment of whether approved windfarm 
                projects, either individually or collectively, impacted 
                the training capabilities, operations, or readiness of 
                the military department concerned during such year.''.
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