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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 626 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To provide for operations of the Federal Columbia River Power System |
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| 6 | 6 | | pursuant to a certain operation plan for a specified period of time, |
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| 7 | 7 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | JANUARY22, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. N |
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| 11 | 11 | | EWHOUSE(for himself, Mr. BAUMGARTNER, Mr. FULCHER, and Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | B |
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| 13 | 13 | | ENTZ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com- |
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| 14 | 14 | | mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Trans- |
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| 15 | 15 | | portation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined |
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| 16 | 16 | | by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall |
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| 17 | 17 | | within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 18 | 18 | | A BILL |
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| 19 | 19 | | To provide for operations of the Federal Columbia River |
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| 20 | 20 | | Power System pursuant to a certain operation plan for |
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| 21 | 21 | | a specified period of time, and for other purposes. |
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| 22 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 23 | 23 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 25 | 25 | | The Act may be cited as the ‘‘Northwest Energy Se-4 |
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| 26 | 26 | | curity Act’’. 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 6 |
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| 28 | 28 | | In this Act: 7 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (1) FCRPS.—The term ‘‘FCRPS’’ means those 1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | portions of the Federal Columbia River Power Sys-2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | tem that are the subject of the Supplemental Opin-3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | ion. 4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2) S |
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| 37 | 37 | | ECRETARIES.—The term ‘‘Secretaries’’ 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | means— 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (A) the Secretary of the Interior, acting 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | through the Commissioner of Reclamation; 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (B) the Secretary of Energy, acting 9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | through the Administrator of the Bonneville 10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | Power Administration; and 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (C) the Secretary of the Army, acting 12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | through the Chief of Engineers. 13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (3) S |
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| 47 | 47 | | UPPLEMENTAL OPINION .—The term ‘‘Sup-14 |
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| 48 | 48 | | plemental Opinion’’ means the document entitled 15 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘Columbia River System Operations Environmental 16 |
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| 50 | 50 | | Impact Statement Record of Decision’’ and dated 17 |
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| 51 | 51 | | September 2020. 18 |
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| 52 | 52 | | SEC. 3. OPERATION OF FCRPS. 19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | The Secretaries shall operate the FCRPS in a man-20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ner consistent with the reasonable and prudent alternative 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | described in the Supplemental Opinion. 22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | SEC. 4. AMENDMENTS TO SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION. 23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (a) I |
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| 58 | 58 | | NGENERAL.—Notwithstanding section 3, the 24 |
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| 59 | 59 | | Secretaries may amend portions of the Supplemental 25 |
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| 63 | 63 | | Opinion and operate the FCRPS in accordance with those 1 |
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| 64 | 64 | | amendments if all of the Secretaries determine, in the sole 2 |
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| 65 | 65 | | discretion of each Secretary, that— 3 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (1) the amendment is necessary for public safe-4 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ty or transmission and grid reliability; or 5 |
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| 68 | 68 | | (2) the actions, operations, or other require-6 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ments that the amendment would remove are no 7 |
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| 70 | 70 | | longer warranted. 8 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (b) R |
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| 72 | 72 | | ESTRICTION ON AMENDMENTS.—The process 9 |
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| 73 | 73 | | described in subsection (a) shall be the only method by 10 |
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| 74 | 74 | | which the Secretaries may operate the FCRPS in any way 11 |
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| 75 | 75 | | that is not consistent with the reasonable and prudent al-12 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ternative set forth in the Supplemental Opinion. 13 |
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| 77 | 77 | | SEC. 5. LIMITATION ON RESTRICTING FCRPS ELECTRICAL 14 |
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| 78 | 78 | | GENERATION; CLARIFICATION. 15 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (a) R |
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| 80 | 80 | | ESTRICTINGFCRPS ELECTRICALGENERA-16 |
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| 81 | 81 | | TION.—No structural modification, action, study, or engi-17 |
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| 82 | 82 | | neering plan that restricts electrical generation at any 18 |
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| 83 | 83 | | FCRPS hydroelectric dam, or that limits navigation on 19 |
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| 84 | 84 | | the Snake River in the State of Washington, Oregon, or 20 |
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| 85 | 85 | | Idaho, shall proceed unless such proposal is specifically 21 |
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| 86 | 86 | | and expressly authorized by a Federal statute enacted 22 |
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| 87 | 87 | | after the date of the enactment of this Act. 23 |
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| 88 | 88 | | (b) C |
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| 89 | 89 | | LARIFICATION.—Nothing in this section affects 24 |
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| 90 | 90 | | or interferes with the authority of the Secretaries to con-25 |
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| 94 | 94 | | duct operation and maintenance activities or make capital 1 |
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| 95 | 95 | | improvements necessary to meet authorized project pur-2 |
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| 96 | 96 | | poses of FCRPS facilities. 3 |
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