Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act
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What it doesSummary introduced in senate (Feb 12, 2015)
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 Secretary of Energy and the Administrators of the Western Area Power Administration and of the Southwestern Power Administration 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 Corps of Engineers.
What just happenedMay 14, 2015
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in SenateFeb 12, 2015
- May 14, 2015Committee
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
Energy and Natural Resources Committee - Feb 12, 2015IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Energy and Natural Resources Committee - Feb 12, 2015IntroReferral10000
Introduced in Senate