Commonsense Review Act

This bill creates a federal interagency group made up of the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, each member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Secretary of Agriculture, with the Secretary of Energy as chair. Within 360 days, each member must adopt categorical exclusions from environmental review that another member already uses, after consultation under the National Environmental Policy Act. Members must also jointly create new categorical exclusions for interstate electric transmission and battery energy storage projects they determine normally do not significantly affect the environment. The group must report to Congress on the exclusions adopted or created, reasons for any not adopted, and recommendations, and then dissolve.

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Sponsors

• Josh Gottheimer Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors