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Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act or the APPROVAL Act This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to prohibit the Department of Energy and the Southwestern and Western Area Power Administrations from using the power of eminent domain to implement modernization of electricity transmission infrastructure, unless they have received explicit permission to do so by: (1) the state governor and the head of each applicable public utility commission or public service commission of the affected state, and (2) the head of the governing body of each Indian tribe whose land would be affected. An electricity transmission infrastructure project, to the greatest extent practicable, must be sited upon either an existing federal right-of-way or upon federal land managed by either: (1) the Bureau of Land Management, (2) the Forest Service, (3) the Bureau of Reclamation, or (4) the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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2017 · fourth_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced in Senate
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H.R.1373/S.529, APPROVAL Act; electrical transmission infrastructure issues.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · fourth_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
S.529, H.R. 1373, Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act (APPROVAL Act).
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · fourth_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
HR 1373 and S 529, the APPROVAL Act.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · fourth_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
Legislation and regulatory policies impacting renewable energy project development (including siting, permitting, interconnection or contracting), electricity market design, transmission, energy storage, transportation electrification, demand response or micro grid projects. H.R. 649, Protection of Military Airfields from Wind Turbine Encroachment Act; H.R. 825, Public Land Renewable Energy Development Act; H.R. 2872, the Promoting Hydropower Development at Existing Nonpowered Dams Act; H.R. 3043, the Hydropower Policy Modernization Act of 2017; H.R. 4239, SECURE American Energy Act; H.R. 4476, PURPA Modernization Act of 2017; S. 201, Protection of Military Airfields from Wind Turbine Encroachment Act; S. 282, Public Land Renewable Energy Development Act; S. 529, APPROVAL Act; S. 613, Ratepayer Fairness Act; S. 1029, to amend the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to exempt certain small hydroelectric power projects that are applying for relicensing under the Federal Power Act from the licensing requirements of that Act; S. 1180, the Clean Energy Grid Act; S. 1455, Energy Storage Goals and Demonstration Projects Act; S. 1460, Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017; S. 1851, Advancing Grid Storage Act; S. 1874, Distributed Energy Demonstration Act; S. 1875, Flexible Grid Infrastructure Act; S. 1876, Reducing the Cost of Energy Storage Act; S. 2232, Next Generation Grid Resources and Infrastructure Development Act.
Client expense: $60,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Army, Dept of (Other), Commerce, Dept of (DOC), Defense, Dept of (DOD), Energy, Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), Transportation, Dept of (DOT), Treasury, Dept of, U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), White House Office
2017 · third_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
HR 1373 and S 529, the APPROVAL Act.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · third_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
H.R.1373/S.529, APPROVAL Act; Electrical transmission infrastructure issues.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $20,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · third_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
S.529, H.R. 1373, Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act (APPROVAL Act).
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · second_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
HR 1373 and S 529, the APPROVAL Act.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $15,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · second_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
H.R.1373/S.529, APPROVAL Act; Electrical transmission infrastructure issues.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $30,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · first_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
H.R.1373/S.529, APPROVAL Act; Electrical transmission infrastructure issues.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $50,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · second_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
S.529, H.R. 1373, Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act (APPROVAL Act).
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · second_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
H.R.1373/S.529, APPROVAL Act; Electrical transmission infrastructure issues.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
2017 · first_quarter · Utilities
Lobbied in support of wholesale electricity market reforms with focus on capacity markets and protecting customer interests. Lobbied on the need to protect public power and consumer interests in the potential expansion of the California ISO. Lobbied in support of FAIR Rates Act (H.R. 238). Discussed views on cybersecurity recommendations in the Quadrennial Energy Review 1.2. Lobbied on S. 79 to establish pilot program to examine whether to add manual controls on electric grid. Discussed Electric Power Research Institute report on electromagnetic pulse. Lobbied on S. 529, bill to require the Department of Energy to get approval from state public utility commission and governor before exercising eminent domain to acquire property for S. 1222 transmission lines. Discussed need for legislation to improve the hydropower licensing and relicensing reform. Discussed need for legislation to improve interstate natural gas pipeline permitting process. Discussed need for legislation on vegetation management and in support of H.R. 1873. Lobbied in support of congressional oversight of the implementation of the Federal Power Act. Discussed issues related to distributed generation, including rate design and microgrids. Discussed APPA's comments on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proceeding on energy storage. Discussed transmission policy. Discussed the importance of the electric utility industry and government partnership to share information and work together on grid security. Discussed bulk power system reliability, including compliance with NERC standards.
Client expense: $188,681 · Firm income: Not reported
2017 · first_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
HR 1373 and S 529, the APPROVAL Act.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $15,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · first_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
H.R.1373/S.529, APPROVAL Act; Electrical transmission infrastructure issues.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $50,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2017 · first_quarter · Energy/Nuclear
S.529, H.R. 1373, Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land Act (APPROVAL Act).
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Government targets: Energy, Dept of, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE