Supporting Home Owner Rights Enforcement Act

Supporting Home Owner Rights Enforcement Act

Amends the Federal Power Act, regarding the issuance of licenses for construction of dams, conduits, and reservoirs, to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, when deciding whether to issue a license for project works, to give equal consideration to minimizing infringement on the useful exercise and enjoyment of property rights held by nonlicensees.

Requires the licensee, in developing any recreational resource within the project boundary, to consider private landownership as a means to encourage and facilitate private investment, increased tourism, and recreational use.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2929 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2929

To amend the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory 
 Commission to minimize infringement on the exercise and enjoyment of 
property rights in issuing hydropower licenses, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 25, 2015

 Mr. Hurt of Virginia (for himself, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Griffith, Mr. 
  Mullin, and Mr. Goodlatte) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Power Act to require the Federal Energy Regulatory 
 Commission to minimize infringement on the exercise and enjoyment of 
property rights in issuing hydropower licenses, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Supporting Home Owner Rights 
Enforcement Act''.

SEC. 2. HYDROPOWER LICENSES.

    (a) Section 4(e) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 797(e)) is 
amended--
            (1) by designating the first, second, and third sentences 
        as paragraphs (1) through (3) respectively; and
            (2) in paragraph (3) (as so designated)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' after ``recreational 
                opportunities,''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``, and minimizing infringement on 
                the useful exercise and enjoyment of property rights 
                held by nonlicensees'' after ``aspects of environmental 
                quality''.
    (b) Section 10 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 803) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting ``, including 
        minimizing infringement on the useful exercise and enjoyment of 
        property rights held by nonlicensees'' after ``section 4(e)''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(k) Private Landownership.--In developing any recreational 
resource within the project boundary, the licensee shall consider 
private landownership as a means to encourage and facilitate--
            ``(1) private investment; and
            ``(2) increased tourism and recreational use.''.
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