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Hydropower Licensing Affordability Act

S. 5048 Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) In committee
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  1. Introduced Jul 21
  2. Committee Jul 21
  3. Passed Senate Next
  4. Passed House Not yet
  5. To President Not yet
  6. Law Not yet
Where it stands
In committee, Jul 21, 2026Next: Senate vote
42d ago Sep 16, 2026: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.
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Summary

This bill amends the Federal Power Act to narrow the scope of certain conditions and requirements in the hydropower licensing process, focusing on limiting them to reasonably mitigating direct adverse effects. Sec. 2, Ensuring proper scope of federal reservation license conditions: This section amends section 4(e) of the Federal Power Act to require that any conditions the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission deems necessary for the protection of federal reservations must be limited to those that reasonably mitigate 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 any prescription for fishways must be limited to those that reasonably mitigate 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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