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H. Rept. 114-285 1 (2015-10-06)

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                     114TH CONGRESS                                          REPORT
                        1st Session    HOUSE   OF  REPRESENTATIVES           114-285







                           NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY CORRIDORS ACT



                      OCTOBER 6, 2015.-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

                                                together with

                                            DISSENTING VIEWS

                                            [To accompany H.R. 2295]

                               [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

                       The Committee   on  Natural Resources,  to whom   was referred the
                     bill (H.R. 2295) to amend  the  Mineral  Leasing Act  to require the
                     Secretary of the Interior to identify and designate National Energy
                     Security Corridors for the construction  of natural gas pipelines on
                     Federal land, and  for other purposes, having  considered the  same,
                     report favorably thereon with  an amendment and recommend 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 National Energy Security Corridors Act.
                     SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY CORRIDORS ON FEDERAL LANDS.
                     (a) IN GENERAL.-Section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 185) is amend-
                     ed as follows:
                          (1) In subsection (b)-
                             (A) by striking (b)(1) For the purposes of this section 'Federal lands'
                             means and inserting the following:
                      (b)(1) For the purposes of this section 'Federal lands'-
                          (A) except as provided in subparagraph (B), means; and
                             (B) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (1) and inserting
                             and and by adding at the end of paragraph (1) the following:
                          (B) for purposes of granting an application for a natural gas pipeline right-
                        of-way, means all lands owned by the United States except-
                             (i) such lands held in trust for an Indian or Indian tribe; and
                             (ii) lands on the Outer Continental Shelf..
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