Northwest Energy Security Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill, Northwest Energy Security Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers. The main policy domain is Energy, Government Operations, Defense.
Who Benefits and How
energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.
Who Bears the Burden and How
federal implementing agencies, energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.
Key Provisions
- Section H05DADC71F5BB4AA68859F1968D065676: 1. Short title The Act may be cited as the Northwest Energy Security Act.
- Section HBE38B3F40DBD46A0A3DF016966ED89FC: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term FCRPS means those portions of the Federal Columbia River Power System that are the subject of the Supplemental Opinion....
- Section HDC7B4772AE20455B82D23F1D45CC8D14: 3. Operation of FCRPS The Secretaries shall operate the FCRPS in a manner consistent with the reasonable and prudent alternative described in the Supplemental...
- Section H7A36BBAA5C824E07A5C0F1C4239CCE08: 4. Amendments to supplemental opinion Notwithstanding section 3, the Secretaries may amend portions of the Supplemental Opinion and operate the FCRPS in...
- Section HAA6CEB3E83A342C58B48B6B4CEB4E1CB: 5. Limitation on restricting FCRPS electrical generation; clarification No structural modification, action, study, or engineering plan that restricts...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill, Northwest Energy Security Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers.
Key Policy Areas
Energy, Government Operations, Defense
Primary Purpose
This bill, Northwest Energy Security Act, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers.
Policy Domains
Whole bill
Identified Gains
- energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers
Identified Costs
- federal implementing agencies
- energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Risch (for himself, Mr. Daines, Mr. Sheehy, Mr. Crapo, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and …
Introduced in Senate
Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_commission"
- → The commission identified in the operative section
- "the_administrator"
- → The Administrator identified in the operative section
- "secretary_of_energy"
- → Secretary of Energy
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
those portions of the Federal Columbia River Power System that are the subject of the Supplemental Opinion. The term Secretaries means— the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation
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