In CommitteeFiled Apr 13, 2026
Sponsor: Rep. Gottheimer, Josh [D-NJ-5] (D)
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Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Apr 13, 2026
Summary
The bill forms a short‑lived team of the Energy, Interior and Agriculture secretaries and the FERC commissioners to coordinate environmental review exemptions. Within a year they must adopt each other's existing exclusions and create new ones for interstate electric transmission and battery storage projects, then report to Congress. The group dissolves after the report is submitted.
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