APPROVAL Act

Summary

Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act or the APPROVAL Act This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Department of Energy and the Southwestern and Western Area Power Administrations from using the power of eminent domain to implement modernization of electricity transmission infrastructure, unless they have received explicit permission to do so by: (1) the state governor and the head of each applicable public utility commission or public service commission of the affected state, and (2) the head of the governing body of each Indian tribe whose land would be affected. An electricity transmission infrastructure project, to the greatest extent practicable, must be sited upon either an existing federal right-of-way or upon federal land managed by either: (1) the Bureau of Land Management, (2) the Forest Service, (3) the Bureau of Reclamation, or (4) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Timeline

1. 6 March 2017

   Introduced

   Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 6 March 2017

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 6 March 2017

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

4. 10 March 2017

   Referred

   Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.

   Source: Committee

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Versions

• Introduced in House · 6 March 2017 · Official file

Documents

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 6 March 2017

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• Introduced in House (PDF)

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 6 March 2017

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Sponsors

• Steve Womack · R · Sponsor
• Eric Crawford · R · Sponsor
• Bruce Westerman · R · Sponsor
• J. Hill · R · Sponsor
• · hsii00 · Standing

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