Tribal Energy Self-Sufficiency Act
Latest action · Mar 19, 2003 Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-61.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 14, 2003
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish an Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs within the Department of Energy.
Authorizes Indian tribes to: (1) grant leases of tribal lands for electrical generation, transmission, or distribution facilities and facilities to refine or otherwise process energy resources developed on tribal lands; and (2) grant rights-of-way over tribal lands, without separate approval by the Secretary of the Interior, for pipelines and electrical transmission or distribution lines.
Requires Indian tribes to establish environmental review processes that identify and evaluate the significant environmental impacts of proposed Indian Energy Policy and Programs.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to review the activities that have been carried out by the government of Indian tribes under the Indian Mineral Development Act of 1982 and to recommend to specified committees ways to ensure that Indian tribes have the opportunity to develop nonrenewable energy resources and the barriers they face to do so.
Requires the Administrators of the Bonneville Power Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, and other pertinent power administrations to take specified actions to encourage Indian tribal energy developments.
Requires the Secretary of Energy to study and report to Congress on the cost and feasibility of developing a demonstration project that would use wind energy generated by Indian tribes and hydropower generated by the Army Corps of Engineers on the Missouri River to supply firming power to the Western Area Power Administration.
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to revise and extend renewable energy production incentives.
Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to provide grants to units of local government, private, nonprofit community development organizations, and tribal economic development entities for use in improving energy efficiency, identifying and developing alternative renewable and distributed energy supplies, and increasing energy conservation in low-income rural and urban communities.
Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide rural and remote communities electrification grants to State, local, or tribal governments, or tribal colleges or universities to increase energy efficiency, siting or upgrading transmission and distribution lines, or for providing or modernizing electric facilities.
Cosponsors 4
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 14, 2003 to Mar 6, 2003; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-CO | Ben Nighthorse Campbell | Original | Feb 14, 2003 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Inouye | Original | Feb 14, 2003 |
| D-SD | Thomas A. Daschle | Original | Feb 14, 2003 |
| D-ND | Byron L. Dorgan | Mar 6, 2003 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Indian Affairs Committee | Referred Feb 14, 2003Hearings Mar 19, 2003 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 19, 2003Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-61.
- Feb 14, 2003Introduced in Senate
- Feb 14, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2540)
- Feb 14, 2003Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2540-2544)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2540, S2544Text printed S2540–S2544 | Daniel K. Inouye D-HI, Jeff Bingaman D-NM (text) | Feb 14, 2003 |
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 108-61 | INDIAN ENERGY LEGISLATION, S. 434, THE TRIBAL ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY ACT, AND S. 522, THE NATIVE AMERICAN ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND SELF- DETERMINATION ACT OF 2003176 pages | Indian Affairs Committee | Mar 19, 2003 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to establish, reauthorize, and improve energy programs relating to Indian tribes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Tribal Energy Self-Sufficiency Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Native Americans.
- Alaska
- Alternative energy sources
- Civil engineering
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Dams
- Department of Energy
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electric power
- Electric power distribution
- Electric power production
- Electric power transmission
- Electric utilities
- Electric utility rates
- Energy
- Energy assistance for the poor
- Energy development
- Energy efficiency
- Energy facilities
- Energy research
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental Protection
- Executive reorganization
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to Indians
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government Operations and Politics
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Hydroelectric power
- Indian economic development
- Indian education
- Indian lands
- Infrastructure
- Law
- Leases
- Mineral reserves
- Minorities
- Missouri River development
- Native Americans
- Oklahoma
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Renewable natural resources
- Right-of-way
- Rural economic development
- Water power
- Water Resources Development
- West (U.S.)
- Wind power
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 14, 2003Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.