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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-682
ELECTRONIC PERMITTING MODERNIZATION ACT
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024.-Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee
of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 5509]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5509) to modernize permitting systems at the Depart-
ment of the Interior, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Electronic Permitting Modernization Act.
SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PERMIT ACCESSIBILITY.
In order to improve the overall economy, efficiency, and management of operations
and activities of the Department of the Interior (referred to in this section as the
Department), reduce paperwork, and provide high-quality services and access to
the public, the Secretary of the Interior shall, to the extent practicable-
(1) design and deliver modernized electronic permitting systems to accept,
process, and record applications (including plan submissions, payment activity,
and other related correspondence) for permits, forms, and other paperwork re-
quired for activities regulated by the Department;
(2) provide a centralized electronic permitting system online repository, avail-
able to the public on the Department's website, that includes-
(A) hyperlinks to facilitate navigation to all Department electronic per-
mitting systems; and
(B) with respect to permits, the contact information for the appropriate
Department employees providing assistance to State, Tribal, and local gov-
ernments; and
(3) provide to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Represent-
atives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate peri-
odic updates on the implementation of paragraphs (1) and (2).
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