HR 2172 · 112th Congress · Public Lands and Natural Resources

Utilizing America's Federal Lands for Wind Energy Act

Introduced 2011-06-14· Sponsored by Rep. Noem, Kristi L. [R-SD-At Large]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
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Committee
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House Vote
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Senate
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Enacted
Latest: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 200.(2011-12-01)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Utilizing America's Federal Lands for Wind Energy Act - Exempts projects determined by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or the Forest Service to be meteorological site testing and monitoring projects from environmental impact statement requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). Defines a "meteorological site testing and monitoring project" as a project that is carried out on land administered by BLM or the Forest Service to test or monitor weather using towers or other devices, that is decommissioned within five years of its commencement, that provides meteorological information to such agencies, that causes less than one acre of soil or vegetation disruption at the location of each meteorological tower or other device and no more than five acres of soil or disruption within the proposed right-of-way for the project, and that is installed: (1) using existing access roads, (2) in a manner that does not require off-road motorized access other than one installation activity and one decommissioning activity along an identified off-road route approved by the BLM Director or the Chief of the Forest Service, (3) without construction of new roads other than…

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CBO Cost Estimate

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H.R. 2172, Utilizing America's Federal Lands for Wind Energy Act

Aug 2, 2011

Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 13, 2011

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Cosponsors (11)

11 Republicans