United States · Bill · HR
H.R. 2358 (114th)
Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act
Introduced
15 May 2015
Last action
6 October 2015 · Discharge
Status
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 219.
Sponsors
Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-1], Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5], Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9], Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2], Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4], Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY], Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2], Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3], Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-2], Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4], Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4], Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large], Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3], Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4], Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2]
Subjects
Environment, Agriculture, Energy
Source updated
7 April 2025
Environment · Agriculture · Energy
Summary
Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to lands under their respective jurisdictions, to provide direction under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to ensure that all existing and future rights-of-way for electrical transmission and distribution facilities on such lands include requirements for utility vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance activities that: are developed in consultation with the holder of the right-of-way; enable the owner or operator of a facility to operate it in good working order and comply with federal, state, and local electric system reliability and fire safety requirements; and minimize the need for case-by-case or annual approvals, and instead provide for expedited review and approval, for routine vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance activities within existing electrical transmission and distribution rights-of-way, as well as utility vegetation management activities necessary to control danger trees within or adjacent to electrical transmission and distribution rights-of-way. Interior and the USDA shall give facility owners and operators the option to submit to the appropriate Department a vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance plan. Interior and the USDA shall apply its categorical exclusion process under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to plans developed under this Act on existing transmission and distribution rights-of-way located on lands under their respective jurisdictions. (A "categorical exclusion" under NEPA is a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect in procedures adopted by a federal agency in implementing environmental regulations and for which, therefore, neither an Environmental Assessment nor an Environmental Impact Statement is required.)
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Timeline
15 May 2015
Introduced
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.
Source: IntroReferral
15 May 2015
Introduced
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.
Source: IntroReferral
15 May 2015
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
15 May 2015
Introduced
Introduced in House
Source: IntroReferral
4 June 2015
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Source: Committee
8 June 2015
Referred
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Source: Committee
10 June 2015
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
11 June 2015
Vote
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 22 - 15.
Source: Committee
11 June 2015
Committee
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Source: Committee
11 June 2015
Committee
Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.
Source: Committee
6 October 2015
Committee
Committee on Agriculture discharged.
Source: Committee
6 October 2015
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-287, Part I.
Source: Committee
6 October 2015
Reported
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-287, Part I.
Source: Committee
6 October 2015
Calendars
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 219.
Source: Calendars
6 October 2015
Discharge
Committee on Agriculture discharged.
Source: Discharge
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
- Reported in House · 6 October 2015 · Download file
- Introduced in House · 15 May 2015 · Download file
Documents
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Reported in House (text)
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Reported in House (text)
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Reported in House (PDF)
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Reported to House amended, Part I
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Sponsors
- Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-1] · R · Sponsor
- Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5] · D · Sponsor
- Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] · R · Cosponsor
- Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3] · D · Cosponsor
- Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-2] · D · Cosponsor
- Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4] · R · Cosponsor
- Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2] · R · Cosponsor
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Sources
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2358
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/114/hr/2358
- us · 114-hr-2358 · source updated 7 April 2025