Title: Determination of NEPA Adequacy Streamlining Act
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
Determination of NEPA Adequacy Streamlining Act
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior to use a previously completed environmental assessment or environmental impact statement required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 for a proposed transmission, pipeline, or renewable energy facility project if the proposed project is substantially the same as one addressed in the previous assessment or statement.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9025 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9025

     To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
     Agriculture to use certain previously completed environmental 
 assessments and environmental impact statements to satisfy the review 
requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2022

 Mr. Valadao (for himself and Mr. Westerman) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
     addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
     To direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
     Agriculture to use certain previously completed environmental 
 assessments and environmental impact statements to satisfy the review 
requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 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 ``Determination of NEPA Adequacy 
Streamlining Act''.

SEC. 2. DETERMINATION OF NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT ADEQUACY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary concerned shall use previously 
completed environmental assessments and environmental impact statements 
to satisfy the requirements of section 102 of the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) with respect to any 
proposed transmission project, any proposed project to construct, 
connect, operate, or maintain a pipeline facility to transport an 
energy resource, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, or natural gas, or any 
proposed project to construct or maintain a renewable energy facility 
if such Secretary determines that--
            (1) the new proposed action is substantially the same as a 
        previously analyzed proposed action or alternative analyzed in 
        a previous environmental assessment or environmental impact 
        statement; and
            (2) the effects of the proposed action are substantially 
        the same as the effects analyzed in such existing environmental 
        assessments or environmental impact statements.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Renewable energy facility.--The term ``renewable energy 
        facility'' means any equipment or facility that produces 
        electricity from a renewable energy resource, including wind, 
        solar, tidal, biomass, landfill gas, geothermal, methane, 
        hydrogen, or water.
            (2) Secretary concerned.--The term ``Secretary concerned'' 
        means--
                    (A) with respect to public lands, the Secretary of 
                the Interior; and
                    (B) with respect to National Forest System Lands, 
                the Secretary of Agriculture.
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