United StatesHouse Bill 1HR 1

Lower Energy Costs Act

Energy

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Last progress March 30, 2023 (2 years ago)

Introduced on March 14, 2023 by Steve Scalise

Sponsors (50)

House Votes

225 Yea · 6 Not Voting · 204 No — 215 needed

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Amendments

HAMDT 164March 30, 2023An amendment numbered 33 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to add a reporting requirement to sec. 20209 on non-Federal entities.

HAMDT 161March 30, 2023An amendment numbered 30 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to express the Sense of Congress that the royalty rate for onshore Federal oil and gas leases be 12.5%.

HAMDT 168March 30, 2023An amendment numbered 37 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to provide regulatory certainty by explicitly authorizing the common practice of NPDES general permits and providing for continuances during times of administrative delay.

HAMDT 165March 30, 2023An amendment numbered 34 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to add to sec. 20305 an exception for certain actions under the Defense Production Act.

HAMDT 167March 30, 2023An amendment numbered 36 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require the Government Accountability Office to publish a report on all potential adverse effects of wind energy development in the North Atlantic Planning Area.

HAMDT 162March 30, 2023An amendment numbered 31 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to provide that any entity subject to the jurisdiction of the Government of the Peoples Republic of China, or any entity that is owned by the Government of the Peoples Republic of China may not acquire any interest with respect to lands leased for oil or gas under the Mineral Leasing Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, and may not acquire claims subject to the General Mining Law of 1872.

HAMDT 163March 30, 2023An amendment numbered 32 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to add a prohibition to sec. 20209 on contributions from CCP entities.

HAMDT 166March 30, 2023An amendment numbered 35 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require a Government Accountability Office study of sufficiency of the environmental review process for offshore wind.

HAMDT 149March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 18 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require a report on the current status of American uranium, how America's uranium compares to the global supply of uranium in terms of quantity and quality.

HAMDT 147March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 16 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to shorten the timetable to file a petition for judicial review of a permit, license, or approval of a major infrastructure project, such as a highway or public transit project, from 150 days to 90 days.

HAMDT 146March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 15 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to amend the FAST Act to expand eligibility for FAST 41 permitting for projects related to the extraction, recovery, or processing of critical minerals, rare-earth elements, microfine carbon, or carbon from coal, coal waste, coal processing waste, pre- or post-combustion coal byproducts, or acid mine drainage from coal mines.

HAMDT 148March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 17 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require DOT to apply the One Federal Decision procedures to pipeline projects under NEPA review to streamline the environmental review/permitting process.

HAMDT 144March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 12 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to repeal section 115 of the Clean Air Act.

HAMDT 142March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 10 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to prohibit the Secretary of Energy from implementing its proposed rule regarding gas stoves, or any other rule that would limit consumer access to gas stoves.

HAMDT 141March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 9 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require a GAO study on how banning natural gas appliances will affect the rates and charges for electricity.

HAMDT 143March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 11 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to prohibit the Delaware River Basin Commission, Susquehanna River Basin Commission, and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin from finalizing, implementing, or enforcing any regulations relating to hydraulic fracturing other than those issued by the State in which the regulation is to be implemented or enforced.

HAMDT 140March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 8 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require the Secretary of Energy to report annually on the ongoing assessments of critical energy resources and actions taken to strengthen supply chains to advance American energy security.

HAMDT 158March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 27 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to specify that Division B shall not take effect until the Coun cil on Environmental Quality, in consultation with affected Federal agencies, certifies that all agencies have the funding and staffing capacity to meet the Division's new timelines for environmental review without reducing the quality of such review.

HAMDT 152March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 21 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require the Department of the Interior, Department of Agriculture, US Army Corps of Engineers, and Department of Commerce to determine technological needs for permitting programs and report them to Congress annually.

HAMDT 136March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 4 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require the Secretary of Energy to use an index-based pricing bid system when purchasing petroleum products for the SPR.

HAMDT 138March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 6 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to prohibit export or sale of petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China, North Korea, Russia, Iran or any country subject to sanctions imposed by the United States.

HAMDT 135March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 3 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to clarify the requisite timeline for making a decision on the approval or disapproval of a State underground injection control program, and for other purposes.

HAMDT 137March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 5 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to express the sense of Congress disapproving of the proposed tax hikes on the oil and natural gas industry in the President's fiscal year 2024 budget request.

HAMDT 134March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 2 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to add a Sense of Congress expressing disapproval of the denial of Jordan Cove Project permits.

HAMDT 132March 29, 2023Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 260, the amendment printed in part A of House Report 118-30 is considered as adopted in the House and in the Committee of the Whole.

HAMDT 133March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 1 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require a study on streamlining the regulatory approval timeline by examining certain licensing/permitting processes for other sources of energy under the jurisdiction of the Department of Energy.

HAMDT 139March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 7 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require the EPA, in consultation with the DOE, to submit a report to Congress identifying and assessing existing regulations that have negatively affected domestic energy independence and increased energy cost for Americans.

HAMDT 159March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 28 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require GAO to publish a report on the impact of wind energy, including the adverse effects of wind energy on military readiness, marine environment, and tourism, before the Secretary of the Interior can publish or hold a lease sale for energy development in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Planning Area, the South Atlantic Planning Area, or the Straits of Florida Planning Area.

HAMDT 156March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 25 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to require each local unit of the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and Forest Service to develop a plan to disseminate and advertise open civil service positions with functions relating to permitting and natural resources in their offices. Also, each plan shall include outreach to local high schools, community colleges, institutions of higher education, and any other relevant institutions.

HAMDT 145March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 13 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to direct FERC to withdraw its policy statements titled "Certification of New Interstate Natural Gas Facilities (87 Fed. Reg. 11548) and "Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Natural Gas Infrastructure Project Reviews (87 Fed. Reg. 14104).

HAMDT 157March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 26 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to strike Title V of Division B, to prevent the bill from repealing the Inflation Reduction Act's reforms to the oil and gas leasing program.

HAMDT 160March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 29 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to express the sense of Congress that major components of wind infrastructure, including turbines, are imported in large quantities from other countries including countries that are national security threats, such as the Government of the Peoples Republic of China.

HAMDT 154March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 23 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to allow wildfire mitigation activities within 300 feet of a road on Federal lands to be carried out without regard to NEPA or ESA requirements.

HAMDT 155March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 24 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to expand the definition of "hazard trees" identified and removed along electric power lines as part of a utility's vegetation management plan to trees within 50 feet, from 10 feet. Such plans will also be automatically approved after 60 days.

HAMDT 153March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 22 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to create a national strategy for America to re-shore mineral supply chains and challenge the CCP.

HAMDT 150March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 19 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to strike Section 20103, which requires the Secretary of Interior to resolve any protest to a lease sale within 60 days.

HAMDT 151March 29, 2023An amendment numbered 20 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to prohibit the Communist Party of China (or a person acting on behalf of the Communist Party of China) from acquiring any interest with respect to American farmland or any lands used for American renewable energy production.