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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 100
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-81
AMENDING THE FEDERAL POWER ACT TO MODERNIZE
AUTHORIZATIONS FOR NECESSARY HYDROPOWER AP-
PROVALS
MAY 24, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 724]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to which was
referred the bill (S. 724) to amend the Federal Power Act to mod-
ernize authorizations for necessary hydropower approvals, having
considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment
and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 724 is to amend the Federal Power Act (FPA)
to modernize authorizations for necessary hydropower approvals.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Pursuant to section 5 of the FPA (16 U.S.C. 798), the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) is authorized to issue
preliminary permits for hydropower projects for up to three years
and may extend the time period of a preliminary permit once, for
up to two additional years, if the Commission finds that the per-
mittee has proceeded in good faith and with reasonable diligence.
Preliminary permits guarantee that a license application filed by a
permittee will be considered first by the Commission before any
other application to construct a project at a particular site. Because
permittees are sometimes unable to complete a license application
within the necessary time frame due to a variety of extenuating
circumstances, Congress has occasionally enacted legislation, on a
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