Hearing Information
Amendment Deadline
Monday, November 6, 2017 - 10:00am H-312, The Capitol View Announcement »
Meeting Information
Monday, November 6, 2017 - 5:00pm H-313, The Capitol View Announcement »
Monday, November 6, 2017 - 10:00am H-312, The Capitol View Announcement »
Monday, November 6, 2017 - 5:00pm H-313, The Capitol View Announcement »
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY RECORD VOTE of 9-2 on Monday, November 6, 2017.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 607:
Agreed to by record vote of 233-182, after agreeing to the previous questions by record vote of 233-182 on Tuesday, November 7, 2017.
MANAGERS: Byrne/McGovern
1. Structured rule for H.R. 3043.
2. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
3. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
4. Makes in order as original text for the purpose of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Energy and Commerce now printed in the bill and provides that it shall be considered as read.
5. Waives all points of order against that amendment in the nature of a substitute.
6. Makes in order only those further amendments printed in the Rules Committee report. Each such amendment may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
7. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in the report.
8. Provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
9. Closed rule for H.R. 3441.
10. Provides one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce.
11. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
12. Provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on Education and the Workforce now printed in the bill shall be considered as adopted and that the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
13. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
14. Provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
# | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
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1 | Version 1 | Sarbanes (MD) | Democrat | Exempts actions taken by states and Indian tribes pursuant to their delegated authorities under the Clean Water Act from the provisions of the bill. | Submitted |
2 | Version 1 | Pallone (NJ) | Democrat | Adds a new definition to the bill of a completed application and makes conforming changes to the bill to incorporate the new definition. | Submitted |
3 | Version 1 | Dingell (MI) | Democrat | Preserves states’ and tribal rights to have sufficient time to obtain all necessary information to support their decisions on hydropower projects that impact water quality and water management within their boundaries in accordance with Federal, state, and tribal laws. | Submitted |
4 | Version 1 | Ruiz (CA) | Democrat | Provides Indian tribes with authority to determine the conditions that may be applied to a hydropower license after the Secretary of the Interior determines the Indian tribe has demonstrated: (1) financial stability and management capability, and (2) the ability to plan, conduct, and administer all activities that would be otherwise be administered by the Secretary on their behalf. | Submitted |
5 | Version 1 | Pocan (WI), Grothman (WI) | Bi-Partisan | Requires the U.S. Department of Interior consider the threat of invasive species when it makes decisions on hydropower licensing. | Made In Order |
6 | Version 2 | Rush (IL) | Democrat | SUBSTITUTE Revised Adds a new section to the Federal Power Act (FPA) to improve the hydropower licensing process. It directs the Commission and the Federal resource agencies to convene a negotiated rulemaking within 90 days of enactment with state and local government representatives, Indian tribes, and stakeholders to develop a process that will coordinate all necessary Federal authorizations and enable the Commission to make a final decision on a license not later than 3 years of receiving a completed license application. | Made In Order |
7 | Version 1 | Jenkins, Evan (WV) | Republican | Late Ensures that when hydro projects have an existing Memorandum of Understanding for non-federal hydropower with FERC that all relevant federal agencies are authorized to fully study and review the potential expansion of non-federal hydropower, including a review of seasonal pool levels and slowing flood releases. | Made In Order |
8 | Version 2 | Babin (TX), Higgins, Clay (LA) | Republican | Late Revised Allows FERC to examine the licenses of any project located in an area that was declared by the President to be a disaster area in 2017. | Made In Order |
9 | Version 1 | Garamendi (CA), LaMalfa (CA) | Bi-Partisan | Late Requires FERC to conduct a supplemental environmental review for a project that meets certain criteria. | Submitted |
10 | Version 1 | LaMalfa (CA) | Republican | Late Ensures that local communities and governments have a greater say in the dam removal/modification process initiated and approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Specifically, this amendment would amend section 6 of the Federal Power Act to include specific provisions such as: impacts to local government revenue, impacts to general employment, impacts to water supply/availability, impacts to energy reliability, and impacts to energy prices within the region(s) serviced by the operator of such dam(s), that the licensee must consider prior to the application’s submission. | Submitted |
11 | Version 1 | LaMalfa (CA) | Republican | Late Prohibits FERC from approving the surrender of a hydropower license unless Congress has passed legislation approving the surrender. | Submitted |
12 | Version 1 | LaMalfa (CA) | Republican | Late Prohibits FERC from approving an application to surrender a hydroelectric license unless the Secretaries of Energy and the Interior have submitted letters finding that surrender of the license will not result in any negative impacts to energy supply or reliability, or negative impacts to the environment. | Submitted |
Motion by Ms. Slaughter to provide H.R. 3441 and H.R. 3043 each an open rule. Defeated: 2–9
Motion by Mr. Cole to report the rule. Adopted: 9-2