Hydropower Licensing Affordability Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5048 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5048

 To amend the Federal Power Act to modernize the hydropower licensing 
                    process, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 21, 2026

 Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Risch, and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL

 
 To amend the Federal Power Act to modernize the hydropower licensing 
                    process, 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 ``Hydropower Licensing Affordability 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ENSURING PROPER SCOPE OF FEDERAL RESERVATION LICENSE 
              CONDITIONS.

    Section 4(e) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 797(e)) is 
amended, in the first proviso, by inserting ``to reasonably mitigate 
the direct adverse effect of the applicable project on such 
reservation, so as to provide'' after ``deem necessary''.

SEC. 3. ENSURING PROPER SCOPE OF PRESCRIBED FISHWAYS.

    Section 18 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 811) is amended, in 
the first sentence, by inserting ``, to reasonably mitigate the direct 
adverse effect of the applicable project on the population of a species 
of fish in the applicable river system'' before the period at the end.
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