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“Federal agencies should make permitting for wind, solar, storage, and related transmission projects no tougher than fossil fuel permitting, and project sponsors should get fast federal court review when certain agency actions stop a project.”
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“The President should not be able to cancel an existing covered Presidential or similar permit for a border-crossing energy facility unless Congress passes a law specifically allowing that cancellation.”
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“The Energy Department should consult transportation officials, energy regulators, national labs, utilities, railroads, and other affected groups, and should review real corridor power-line projects to learn what problems came up and how similar projects could be planned, permitted, financed, and built.”
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“Cross-border electric transmission lines should have to follow applicable grid reliability standards, and new lines should be approved only if the Energy Secretary finds they would not harm U.S. power supply or coordinated grid operation.”
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“The Energy Department should study how building and operating high-voltage lines in covered highway and rail corridors could affect the environment, nearby communities, rail operations, rail signals and communications, and future road or rail maintenance, rebuilding, or expansion.”
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“Grid upgrades in existing utility corridors should be allowed to move faster even if that means less federal environmental review.”
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“After environmental review is finished, agencies should have 120 days to decide covered border-crossing energy certificates, and FERC should have 30 days to approve complete natural gas import or export applications involving Canada or Mexico.”
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“FERC should have more authority to approve major transmission lines when state siting or permitting rules would otherwise block covered projects, and developers should identify affected landowners and explain project details, contacts, and landowner rights.”
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“Regions should plan large power lines that connect different parts of the country, maintain enough ability to move power between regions, and follow rules for who pays for nationally significant transmission lines.”
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“Federal offshore renewable energy rules should be updated, payment or compensation policies tied to offshore projects should change, and offshore transmission systems should work together rather than operate only as isolated lines.”
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“A crossing certificate should not erase other federal laws that apply to covered projects, and FERC should keep its separate authority over natural gas approvals and oil pipeline transportation rates and terms.”
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“The older special federal order for sending electricity from the United States to another country should end, with covered new border electric facilities handled through the crossing certificate process and its power supply and grid checks.”
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“The federal crossing certificate should cover only the part of an oil pipeline, natural gas pipeline, or electric transmission line within 1,000 feet of where it crosses the U.S. international border.”
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“For corridors that may be suitable, the Energy Department should compare power-line designs, costs, funding options, possible payments or benefits for affected property owners, and possible effects on the grid, consumer energy costs, and road or rail safety and efficiency.”
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“Border-crossing energy facilities already operating, already permitted, pending in the old permit process, or later changed in specified ways should often be able to continue without getting a new crossing certificate or Presidential permit.”
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“A transmission right-of-way over or across Tribal land should not be granted under the new federal siting authority without proper Tribal consent.”
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