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RECOMMENDATIONS IN BRIEF: Siting and Permitting of TS&D Infrastructure Allocate resources to key Federal agencies involved in the siting, permitting, and review of infrastructure projects. Federal agencies responsible for infrastructure siting, review, and permitting have experienced dramatic appropriations cuts and reductions in staff. Many of the components of the overall effort to improve the Federal siting and permitting processes have been stymied in recent years by appropriations shortfalls. Congress should fully fund these priorities. Prioritize meaningful public engagement through consultation with Indian Tribes, coordination with state and local governments, and facilitation of non-Federal partnerships. Early and meaningful public engagement with affected residential communities, nonprofit organizations, and other non-Federal stakeholders through the National Environmental Policy Act process and other forums can reduce siting conflicts. Federal agency coordination with state and local governments and government-to-government consultation with affected Indian Tribes should remain a Federal Government priority. When possible, Federal agencies should co-locate energy infrastructure environmental review and permitting staff from multiple Federal agencies’ regional and field offices. Expand landscape- and watershed-level mitigation and conservation planning. When adverse impacts to the Nation’s landscape cannot be avoided or minimized any further, Federal agencies should seek innovative approaches to compensate for adverse project impacts commensurate with the scope and scale of the project and effects to resources. Through mitigation planning at a landscape, ecosystem, or watershed scale, agencies can locate mitigation activities in the most ecologically important areas. Enact statutory authorities to improve coordination across agencies. Congress should authorize and fund the Interagency Infrastructure Permitting Improvement Center in the Department of Transportation, as set forth in Section 1009 of the Administration’s draft legislation for the Generating Renewal, Opportunity, and Work with Accelerated Mobility, Efficiency, and Rebuilding of Infrastructure and Communities throughout America Act, or GROW AMERICA Act. Adopt Administration proposals to authorize recovery of costs for review of project applications. Consistent with the proposal in the President’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget request, additional flexibility for certain agencies to accept funds from applicants would be appropriate and could expedite the Federal permitting and review process. QER Report: Energy Transmission, Storage, and Distribution Infrastructure | April 2015 9-19
Chapter IX: Siting and Permitting of TS&D Infrastructure Endnotes 1. The White House. “Presidential Memorandum - Speeding Infrastructure Development through More Efficient and Effective Permitting and Environmental Review.” August 31, 2011. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pressoffice/2011/08/31/presidential-memorandum-speeding-infrastructure-development-through-more. Accessed March 19, 2015. 2. Executive Order No. 13604. “Improving Performance of Federal Permitting and Review of Infrastructure Projects.” 77 Fed. Reg. 18887. March 22, 2012. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/22/executive-order-improvingperformance-federal-permitting-and-review-infr. Accessed January 15, 2015. 3. Government Accountability Office. “2013 Pipeline Permitting: Interstate and Intrastate Natural Gas Permitting Processes Include Multiple Steps, and Time Frames Vary.” February 15, 2013. http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/652225. pdf. Accessed January 15, 2015. 4. Vann, A. “The Federal Government’s Role in Electric Transmission Facility Siting.” Congressional Research Service. October 2010. http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40657.pdf. Accessed March 27, 2015. 5. IOGCC/NARUC Pipeline Siting Work Group. “Final Report: Recommendations of the naruc/iogcc Pipeline Work Group.” July 2001. http://www.naruc.org/Publications/pipelineworkgroup.pdf. Accessed March 27, 2015. 6. 25 C.F.R. § 169. 7. 15 U.S.C. § 717f(c). 8. Executive Order No. 11423. “Providing for the Performance of Certain Functions Heretofore Performed by the President with Respect to Certain Facilities Constructed and Maintained on the Borders of the United States.” 33 Fed. Reg. 11741. August 20, 1968. http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/11423. html.; Executive Order No. 13337. “Issuance of Permits with Respect to Certain Energy-Related Facilities and Land Transportation Crossings on the International Boundaries of the United States.” 69 Fed. Reg. 25299. May 5, 2004. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2004-05-05/pdf/04-10378.pdf.; Executive Order No. 10485. “Providing for the Performance of Certain Functions Heretofore Performed by the President with Respect to Electric Power and Natural Gas Facilities Located on the Borders of the United States.” 18 Fed. Reg. 5397. September 9, 1953. http://www.archives. gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10485.html. Accessed January 20, 2015.; Executive Order No. 12038. “Relating to Certain Functions Transferred to the Secretary of Energy by the Department of Energy Organization Act.” 43 Fed. Reg. 4957. February 3, 1978. http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12038. html. Accessed January 20, 2015. 9. Natural Gas Act §§ 3 and 7, 15 U.S.C. § 717f, 42 U.S.C. § 7151(b). June 21, 1938. 10. Department Of Energy Organization Act. 15 U.S.C. § 717b(a). August 4, 1977. 11. Executive Order No. 10485. “Providing for the Performance of Certain Functions Heretofore Performed by the President with Respect to Electric Power and Natural Gas Facilities Located on the Borders of the United States.” 18 Fed. Reg. 5397. September 3, 1953. http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10485.html. 12. Executive Order No. 12038. “Relating to Certain Functions Transferred to the Secretary of Energy by the Department of Energy Organization Act.” 43 Fed. Reg. 4957. February 3, 1978. http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/ executive-order/12038.html. 13. 16 U.S.C. § 824a(e). 14. Executive Order No. 10485. “Providing for the Performance of Certain Functions Heretofore Performed by the President with Respect to Electric Power and Natural Gas Facilities Located on the Borders of the United States.” 18 Fed. Reg. 5397. September 3, 1953. http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/10485.html. Accessed January 20, 2015. 9-20 QER Report: Energy Transmission, Storage, and Distribution Infrastructure | April 2015
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Preface In June 2013, through the P
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface..........
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LIST OF FIGURES Figure SPM-1. Age b
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Summary TRANSFORMING U.S. ENERGY IN
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Aging Infrastructure and Changing R
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Key Findings Mitigating energy disr
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Improve grid communication through
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Key Findings The United States has
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Promote Caribbean energy TS&D infra
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Recommendations in Brief Improve qu
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Chapter I INTRODUCTION This chapter
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Increases in U.S. Oil and Natural G
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Figure 1-3. Percent Change in Retai
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Climate Science The key conclusions
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Figure 1-7. Change in Annual Averag
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The Importance of Resilient, Reliab
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Electricity TS&D Vulnerabilities Va
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Biofuels and TS&D Infrastructure Is
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Administration Activities and Plans
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Risk and Resilience in the Caribbea
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