Edgely Community Protection and Transparency Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10261 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10261

   To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require 
additional information and analysis in environmental impact statements 
  prepared for major Federal actions that involve the acquisition of 
                           private property.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 3, 2026

     Mr. Fitzpatrick (for himself and Mr. Davis of North Carolina) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL

 
   To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require 
additional information and analysis in environmental impact statements 
  prepared for major Federal actions that involve the acquisition of 
                           private property.

    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 ``Edgely Community Protection and 
Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR MAJOR FEDERAL ACTIONS THAT INVOLVE THE 
              ACQUISITION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.

    Section 106(b)(1) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
(42 U.S.C. 4336(b)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``An agency shall issue'' and inserting the 
        following:
                    ``(A) In general.--An agency shall issue''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Actions that involve the acquisition of 
                private property.--If an agency is required to prepare 
                an environmental impact statement under this Act for a 
                proposed agency action that involves the acquisition 
                (including through the exercise of eminent domain) of 
                private property, the agency shall--
                            ``(i) identify in the environmental impact 
                        statement an estimate of the acreage or other 
                        measure of private property anticipated to be 
                        acquired for the proposed agency action and 
                        each alternative to the proposed agency action 
                        analyzed in the environmental impact statement; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) if the environmental impact 
                        statement identifies a preferred alternative--
                                    ``(I) identify whether the 
                                preferred alternative results in the 
                                least amount of acquisition of private 
                                property compared to the proposed 
                                agency action and the other 
                                alternatives to the proposed agency 
                                action analyzed in the environmental 
                                impact statement; and
                                    ``(II) include in the environmental 
                                impact statement an analysis of how 
                                public comments regarding the 
                                acquisition (including through the 
                                exercise of eminent domain) of private 
                                property were taken into account when 
                                identifying the preferred 
                                alternative.''.
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