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Clean Electricity and Transmission Acceleration Act of 2023

H.R. 6747 Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL-6) In committee
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  1. Introduced Dec 13
  2. Committee Dec 13
  3. Passed House Next
  4. Passed Senate Not yet
  5. To President Not yet
  6. Law Not yet
Where it stands
In committee, Dec 13, 2023Next: House vote
1007d ago Jan 25, 2024: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forestry.
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Summary

This bill aims to accelerate the deployment of electricity transmission and clean energy while ensuring input from affected communities. It is organized into six titles covering transmission capacity, grid governance, electricity ratemaking, clean energy on public land, offshore renewable energy permitting, and community empowerment.

TITLE I, Improvement of National Electricity Transmission Capacity: Amends the Federal Power Act to improve interregional transmission planning, allocate costs for transmission facilities of national significance and interconnection upgrades, deploy grid enhancing assets, protect reliability through improved interregional transfer capability, increase FERC transmission siting authority, facilitate efficient environmental review of National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors, increase flexibility for federal transmission financing, and establish a transmission investment tax credit.

TITLE II, Improvement of Governance and Efficiency of the Grid: Authorizes FERC to establish an Office of Electricity Transmission, supports FERC staffing, requires periodic review of FERC fee assessments, establishes independent transmission monitors, requires a study on offshore electric transmission interoperability, allows aggregator bidding into organized wholesale electric markets, expands community solar, establishes a program for streamlined local permitting of distributed energy systems, authorizes $2,100,000,000 to mitigate transformer shortages, and requires a study on siting transmission lines on highway rights-of-way.

TITLE III, Modernization of Electricity Ratemaking: Requires FERC to reflect the cost of greenhouse gas emissions in rates and charges, and facilitates performance-based ratemaking for transmission.

TITLE IV, Facilitation of Clean Energy Deployment on Public Land: Establishes national goals for renewable energy production on federal land, requires land use planning and updates to programmatic environmental impact statements for priority areas, provides limited exemptions from new requirements for certain projects, distributes revenues from wind and solar projects to states and counties, allows incentives for development in priority areas, and includes a savings clause for multiple-use management.

TITLE V, Modernization of Offshore Renewable Energy Permitting: Establishes national offshore wind permitting targets, increases responsible development of offshore renewable energy projects, and establishes an Offshore Renewable Energy Compensation Fund.

TITLE VI, Empowerment of Communities: Establishes an Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights at EPA and a White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council, prohibits disparate impact discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, provides a right of action and rights of recovery for aggrieved persons, requires community impact reports, mandates engagement with environmental justice communities and Indian Tribes in NEPA reviews, requires notices of intent for environmental documents, addresses cumulative impacts, requires greenhouse gas projections in NEPA reviews, establishes community benefits agreements, requires timely public release of NEPA documentation, establishes grants for capacity building, establishes fees for environmental reviews, creates an interagency environmental data system, allows transfer of unobligated balances for Endangered Species Act use, designates senior community engagement officers, establishes a FERC environmental justice liaison, requires intervenor funding at FERC, and requires a technical conference on RTO and ISO governance.

Summary of the bill text as introduced in House (Dec 13, 2023), generated by SecBot from the official bill text; the Library of Congress summary is not yet published.

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