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Summary
- Changes geothermal lease sales from once every two years to annual sales.
- Requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct replacement lease sales during the same year if a scheduled sale is canceled or delayed.
- Requires the Secretary to offer at least 75 percent of nominated parcels eligible for geothermal development for lease, with the remaining 25 percent withholdable only with written justification.
- Requires the Secretary to notify geothermal drilling permit applicants within 30 days whether their application is complete.
- Requires the Secretary to issue a geothermal drilling permit within 30 days after an application is deemed complete, or defer the decision and issue it within 10 days after applicable steps are completed.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Fulcher, Russ [R-ID-1] (R-ID)
4 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Russ Fulcher’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- TREE TOP RANCHES $12,000
- HARRIS FAMILY LIMITED PARTNERSHIP $8,267
- NULL $7,550
- THE PACIFIC COMPANIES $6,600
- ULINE $6,600
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Actions (17)
- Jul 15, 2026 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. · senate
- Jun 3, 2026 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. · senate
- Jun 2, 2026 Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. · house
- Jun 2, 2026 On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3758-3759) · house
- Jun 2, 2026 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H3758-3759)
- Jun 2, 2026 DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1687. · house
- Jun 2, 2026 Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3758-3760) · house
- Jun 2, 2026 Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. · house
- May 20, 2026 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 571. · house
- May 20, 2026 Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-657. · house
- Apr 21, 2026 Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Unanimous Consent. · house
- Apr 21, 2026 Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held · house
- Apr 21, 2026 Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Discharged · house
- Dec 16, 2025 Subcommittee Hearings Held · house
- Dec 9, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. · house
- Feb 27, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · house
- Feb 27, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
AN ACT
To amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to increase the frequency of lease sales, to require replacement sales, 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 “Committing Leases for Energy Access Now Act” or the “CLEAN Act”.
SEC. 2. GEOTHERMAL LEASING.
(a) Annual Leasing.—Section 4(b) of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1003(b)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking “2 years” and inserting “year”;
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs
(5) and (6), respectively; and
(3) after paragraph (2), by inserting the following:
“(3) Replacement sales.—If a lease sale under paragraph
(1) for a year is canceled or delayed, the Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a replacement sale during the same year.
“(4) Requirement.—Of the nominated parcels eligible for geothermal development and utilization under the resource management plan in effect for the State, the Secretary shall, in conducting a lease sale under paragraph (2), offer for lease—
“(A) 75 percent of such nominated parcels; and
“(B) the remaining 25 percent of such nominated parcels, unless the Secretary provides a written justification that identifies a statutory, environmental, or administrative basis that prevents the Secretary from offering such nominated parcels for lease.”.
(b) Deadlines for Consideration of Geothermal Drilling Permits.— Section 4 of the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1003) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(h) Deadlines for Consideration of Geothermal Drilling Permits.—
“(1) Notice.—Not later than 30 days after the date on which the Secretary receives an application for any geothermal drilling permit, the Secretary shall—
“(A) provide written notice to the applicant that the application is complete; or
“(B) notify the applicant that information is missing and specify any information that is required to be submitted for the application to be complete.
“(2) Issuance or deferral.—
“(A) In general.—Not later than 30 days after the Secretary has provided written notice to an applicant for a geothermal drilling permit that the application for such permit is complete pursuant to paragraph
(1)(A), the Secretary shall—
“(i) issue the permit, if the requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and other applicable law have been completed within such timeframe; or
“(ii) defer the decision on the permit and provide to the applicant a notice—
“(I) that specifies any steps that the applicant could take for the permit to be issued; and
“(II) that includes a list of actions that need to be taken by the agency to comply with applicable law, together with timelines and deadlines for taking such actions, which shall not exceed the deadlines specified in section 107(g) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4336a(g)).
“(B) Deadline for deferred decisions.—If the Secretary defers a decision on a permit under subparagraph (A)(ii), the Secretary shall issue a decision on the permit not later than 10 days after the applicant takes any steps specified pursuant to subparagraph (A)(ii)(I) and the agency takes the actions listed pursuant to subparagraph (A)(ii)(II) in accordance with any applicable timelines and deadlines.”.
Passed the House of Representatives June 2, 2026.
Attest:
Clerk. 119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 1687
AN ACT
To amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to increase the frequency of lease sales, to require replacement sales, and for other purposes.
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