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Hydropower Licensing Affordability Act

H.R. 9337 Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-OR-2) In committee
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  1. Introduced Jun 18
  2. Committee Jun 18
  3. Passed House Next
  4. Passed Senate Not yet
  5. To President Not yet
  6. Law Not yet
Where it stands
In committee, Jun 18, 2026Next: House vote
132d ago Jun 18, 2026: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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Summary

This bill amends the Federal Power Act to modernize the hydropower licensing process by limiting the scope of certain federal conditions and fishway requirements. Sec. 2, Ensuring proper scope of federal reservation license conditions: This section amends section 4(e) of the Federal Power Act to require that conditions deemed necessary for the protection of federal reservations must be limited to reasonably mitigating the direct adverse effect of the applicable project on that reservation. Sec. 3, Ensuring proper scope of prescribed fishways: This section amends section 18 of the Federal Power Act to require that fishway prescriptions must be limited to reasonably mitigating the direct adverse effect of the applicable project on the population of a species of fish in the applicable river system.

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