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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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117TH CONGRESS [REPT. 117-636
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
PUBLIC LAND RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ACT
OF 2021
DECEMBER 14, 2022.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 3326]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3326) to promote the development of renewable energy on
public lands, and for other purposes, having considered the same,
reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends
that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 3326 is to promote the development of re-
newable energy on public lands.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The urgent need to address climate change demands a rapid
transition away from fossil fuels and towards a clean-energy econ-
omy. Renewable energy resources on public lands and waters can
and must play a leading role in driving this energy transition.
Thanks to decades of innovation, steeply declining costs, and smart
policies at both the federal and state levels, the amount of elec-
tricity generated by wind and solar in the United States has in-
creased tremendously. The United States currently generates ap-
proximately 20 percent of its electricity from renewable energy re-
sources-two times more than a decade ago.1
Key provisions of the Public Land Renewable Energy Develop-
ment Act of 2019 were passed by Congress and signed into law in
December 2020 as part of the Energy Act of 2020 (which was in-
cluded in the Fiscal Year 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act).
12021 Sustainable Energy in American Factbook. Business Council for Sustainable Energy
and Bloomberg New Energy Finance. https://bcse.org/factbook/.
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