# 114-hr-2358: Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act

114-hr-2358, Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act, is a 114th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-1] (R-MT); status Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 219. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 114-hr-2358
- Congress: 114
- Title: Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act
- Status: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 219.
- Introduced: 2015-05-15
- Sponsor: Rep. Zinke, Ryan K. [R-MT-1] (R-MT)
- Cosponsors: 14
- Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act This bill requires the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to lands under their respective jurisdictions, to provide direction under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to ensure that all existing and future rights-of-way for electrical transmission and distribution facilities on such lands include requirements for utility vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance activities that: are developed in consultation with the holder of the right-of-way; enable the owner or operator of a facility to operate it in good working order and comply with federal, state, and local electric system reliability and fire safety requirements; and minimize the need for case-by-case or annual approvals, and instead provide for expedited review and approval, for routine vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance activities within existing electrical transmission and distribution rights-of-way, as well as utility vegetation management activities necessary to control danger trees within or adjacent to electrical transmission and distribution rights-of-way. Interior and the USDA shall give facility owners and operators the option to submit to the appropriate Department a vegetation management, facility inspection, and operation and maintenance plan. Interior and the USDA shall apply its categorical exclusion process under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to plans developed under this Act on existing transmission and distribution rights-of-way located on lands under their respective jurisdictions. (A "categorical exclusion" under NEPA is a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect in procedures adopted by a federal agency in implementing environmental regulations and for which, therefore, neither an Environmental Assessment nor an Environmental Impact Statement is required.)

## Cosponsors (14)

- Rep. Schrader, Kurt [D-OR-5] (D-OR), 2015-05-15T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9] (R-AZ), 2015-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kline, John [R-MN-2] (R-MN), 2015-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] (R-WA), 2015-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] (R-WY), 2015-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Pearce, Stevan [R-NM-2] (R-NM), 2015-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3] (D-WI), 2015-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kirkpatrick, Ann [D-AZ-1] (D-AZ), 2015-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4] (R-OK), 2015-06-12T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4] (R-AR), 2015-06-17T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] (R-AK), 2015-06-23T00:00:00.000Z
- WALTER JONES (R-NC), 2015-06-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Pompeo, Mike [R-KS-4] (R-KS), 2015-06-25T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Guthrie, Brett [R-KY-2] (R-KY), 2015-07-16T00:00:00.000Z

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- 114-hr-2903: Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 2015
- 114-hr-1624: Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act
- 114-hr-1475: Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance Act
- 114-hr-1190: Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2015

## Sources
- [114-hr-2358 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2358)

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- [114-hr-160: Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2015](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-160)
- [114-hr-2903: Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act of 2015](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-2903)
- [114-hr-1624: Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-1624)
- [114-hr-1475: Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-1475)
- [114-hr-1190: Protecting Seniors' Access to Medicare Act of 2015](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-1190)
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