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115TH CONGRESS REPT. 115-1057
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
INDIAN TRIBAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND SELF-
DETERMINATION ACT AMENDMENTS OF 2017
NOVEMBER 30, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 245]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (S. 245) to amend the Indian Tribal Energy Development and
Self Determination Act of 2005, and for other purposes, having con-
sidered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and
recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 245 is to amend the Indian Tribal Energy De-
velopment and Self Determination Act of 2005.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
For several years Congress has heard from concerned Indian
tribes that certain federal laws governing the development of tribal
energy resources are complex and often lead to significant cost,
delay and uncertainty for all parties to tribal energy transactions.
These costs, delays, and uncertainties tend to discourage develop-
ment of tribal trust energy resources and drive development invest-
ments to private or non-tribal lands that are not subject to these
same federal laws.
Title V of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which authorized tribal
energy resource agreements (TERA),1 was intended to address
these concerns by removing much of the bureaucracy and shifting
the approval requirements for these transactions from the Sec-
'Public Law 109-58, 25 U.S.C. 3504.
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