S182-119

In Committee

Northwest Energy Security Act

119th Congress Introduced Jan 22, 2025

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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

Energy Government Operations Defense

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers
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energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers
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federal implementing agencies:
energy producers, utilities, and energy consumers:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Jan 22, 2025

Mr. Risch (for himself, Mr. Daines, Mr. Sheehy, Mr. Crapo, …

Jan 22, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and …

Jan 22, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Energy Government Operations Defense
Actor Mappings
"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

1 term
"FCRPS" §HBE38B3F40DBD46A0A3DF016966ED89FC

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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