Title: Of inquiry requesting the President, and directing the Secretary of Energy, to transmit to the House of Representatives certain information relating to plans to protect baseload bulk power system generation and transmission to maintain bulk power system reliability.
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
This resolution requests the President and directs the Department of Energy to provide the House of Representatives documents and information about any plans to ensure the reliability of the bulk power system in terms of electricity generation and transmission as well as the expected effects of regulations and closures on the bulk power system.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1326 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1326

  Of inquiry requesting the President, and directing the Secretary of 
Energy, to transmit to the House of Representatives certain information 
relating to plans to protect baseload bulk power system generation and 
        transmission to maintain bulk power system reliability.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 26, 2022

Mr. Pence submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Of inquiry requesting the President, and directing the Secretary of 
Energy, to transmit to the House of Representatives certain information 
relating to plans to protect baseload bulk power system generation and 
        transmission to maintain bulk power system reliability.

    Resolved, That the President is requested, and the Secretary of 
Energy is directed, to transmit to the House of Representatives, not 
later than 14 days after the date of adoption of this resolution, 
copies of all documents, memoranda, and advisory legal opinions, 
including notes from meetings, memos, and telephone and electronic mail 
records, to the extent that any such one or more items are within the 
possession of the President or the Secretary, respectively, and refer 
or relate to the following:
            (1) How the Secretary of Energy plans to respond to the 
        insufficient baseload electricity generation and transmission 
        described by the North American Electric Reliability 
        Corporation in the document titled ``2022 Summer Reliability 
        Assessment'' (May, 2022) to ensure the bulk power system is 
        able to provide reliable, affordable, and dispatchable baseload 
        electricity generation and transmission.
            (2) Correspondence between the Secretary of Energy and bulk 
        power system operators, the Chair of the Federal Energy 
        Regulatory Commission, and the Administrator of the 
        Environmental Protection Agency relating to how the generation 
        and transmission of electricity in the bulk power system, and 
        the reliability of the bulk power system, is expected to be 
        affected by--
                    (A) premature retirements or temporary closures of 
                baseload electric generating units as a result of 
                enforcement actions with respect to the requirements of 
                section 257.103(f) of title 40, Code of Federal 
                Regulations;
                    (B) any approved demonstrations for extensions 
                submitted under section 257.103(f) of title 40, Code of 
                Federal Regulations (relating to alternative closure 
                requirements for coal combustion residuals landfills 
                and surface impoundments); and
                    (C) finalization of the proposed rule published by 
                the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
                Agency on April 6, 2022, titled ``Federal 
                Implementation Plan Addressing Regional Ozone Transport 
                for the 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality 
                Standard'' (87 Fed. Reg. 20036).
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