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Certainty in Litigation for Electric Asset Reliability (CLEAR) Act of 2026

To amend the Federal Power Act with respect to the coordination of Federal authorizations for transmission facilities, and for other purposes.

Introduced Sep 4, 2026

Latest action (Sep 4, 2026) Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Referred to
Energy and Commerce Committee
Policy area
Energy

Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Scott H. Peters’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • RA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT $19,800
  • BLACKSTONE $17,500
  • GENERAL ATOMICS $15,400
  • QUALCOMM $13,300
  • RA CAPITAL $13,200

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Scott H. Peters → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Sep 4, 2026 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. · house
  2. Sep 4, 2026 Introduced in House

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Sep 4, 2026

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 4, 2026

Mr. Peters (for himself and Mr. Evans of Colorado) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend the Federal Power Act with respect to the coordination of Federal authorizations for transmission facilities, 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 “Certainty in Litigation for Electric Asset Reliability (CLEAR) Act of 2026”.

SEC. 2. COORDINATION OF FEDERAL AUTHORIZATIONS FOR TRANSMISSION FACILITIES.

Section 216(h) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 824p(h)) is amended—

(1) in paragraph (1), by striking “to site a transmission facility” each place it appears and inserting “to site and construct a transmission facility”;

(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting “, except that the Commission shall act as the lead agency in the case of a facility to be permitted under subsection (b)” before the period at the end; and

(3) by adding at the end the following:

“(10) Publication.—The head of each Federal agency with authority to issue a Federal authorization shall publish in the Federal Register each final agency action relating to a Federal authorization.

“(11) Consolidated record.—To the extent practicable for each transmission facility for which a Federal authorization is required, the Secretary shall consolidate all records relating to review and permit decisions for all Federal authorizations for the transmission facility into a single joint record of decision.

“(12) Rehearing and judicial review.—With respect to any transmission facility the Federal authorization and review process for which is coordinated under this subsection—

“(A) each approval of a Federal authorization for the transmission facility shall be deemed to be an order issued by the Commission for purposes of section 313;

“(B) such section shall be applied by substituting ‘the lead agency under section 216(h)’ for ‘the Commission’ each place it appears; and

“(C) notwithstanding any other provision of law providing for rehearing or judicial review of an approval of a Federal authorization, a person may obtain rehearing and judicial review of such an approval only under such section 313.”. <all>

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