To authorize the President or a designee of the President to waive any legal requirement under any provision of Federal law otherwise applicable to a covered energy project as the President or such designee determines necessary to ensure expeditious conduct of such project, and for other purposes.
Latest action · Sep 16, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Progress
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- IntroducedSep 11, 2008
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Authorizes the President or a designee to waive any legal requirement under any federal law otherwise applicable to a covered energy project, including any provision of law relating to any administrative protest of any agency action taken with respect to such a project, as the President or such designee determines necessary to ensure expeditious conduct of such project.
Defines "covered energy project" as the construction, operation, or maintenance of any building, structure, or other facility for the development, production, processing, or transmission of energy, including: (1) construction, operation, or maintenance of any oil or natural gas pipeline or refinery; and (2) the leasing of federal lands (including submerged lands) for the exploration, development, production, processing, or transmission of oil, natural gas, or any other source or form of energy.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 16, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- Sep 11, 2008Introduced in House
- Sep 11, 2008Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
- Sep 11, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Building construction
- Department of Energy
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Energy
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- General public lands matters
- Judicial review and appeals
- Land transfers
- Oil and gas
- Pipelines
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 11, 2008Introduced in House
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