STEAM Act

Susie Lee

Democrat · NV · Representative

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• Celeste Maloy (R-UT-2)Original· 2025-02-06
• Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1)· 2025-03-14
• Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA-3)· 2025-03-31
• Adam Gray (D-CA-13)· 2025-09-15
• Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3)· 2026-01-21

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 570.

2026-05-20

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Streamlining Thermal Energy through Advanced Mechanisms Act or the STEAM Act This bill expedites the environmental review of certain geothermal energy activities under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). Specifically, the bill expands the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to include certain geothermal exploration or development activities in an existing categorical exclusion from NEPA for certain oil or gas activities. A categorical exclusion applies to a class of actions that do not require an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement under NEPA. The categorical exclusion established by the bill applies to drilling a geothermal well (1) in an area where drilling has occurred previously within the five years prior to the date when drilling begins; or (2) within a developed field for which an approved land use plan or environmental document prepared under NEPA determined drilling to be a reasonably foreseeable activity, so long as the plan or document was approved within the five years prior to the date when drilling begins.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 1077 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1077 To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to expedite geothermal exploration and development in previously studied or developed areas. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 6, 2025 Ms. Lee of Nevada (for herself and Ms. Maloy) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to expedite geothermal exploration and development in previously studied or developed areas. 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 ``Streamlining Thermal Energy through Advanced Mechanisms Act'' or the ``STEAM Act''. SEC. 2. NEPA REVIEW. Section 390 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 15942) is amended-- (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``, or the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) for the purpose of exploration or development of geothermal resources'' after ``or gas''; and (2) in subsection (b)-- (A) in paragraph (2), by striking ``or gas'' and inserting ``, gas, or geothermal''; and (B) in paragraph (3), by striking ``or gas'' and inserting ``, gas, or geothermal''. <all>

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