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HR 6527 IH
110th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6527
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to exempt any solar energy project on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management from an environmental impact statement requirement.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 16, 2008
Mr. ROHRABACHER (for himself, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. AKIN, Mr. BROUN of Georgia, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, and Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
A BILL
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to exempt any solar energy project on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management from an environmental impact statement requirement.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
SEC. 2. EXEMPTION OF SOLAR ENERGY PROJECTS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT REQUIREMENT.
(a) In General- Title I of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4331 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
‘Sec. 106. No action relating to the development, deployment, or operation of a solar energy project on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management shall be considered a major Federal action for the purposes of section 102(2)(C).’.
(b) Effect for Statements Underway- Each department and agency of the Federal Government shall cease the preparation of a statement, commenced pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)), for any action described in the amendment made by subsection (a), to the extent that the preparation of such statement would delay or otherwise interfere with such action.
U.S. Congress - Text of H.R.6527 as Introduced in House Emergency Solar Power Permit Act
