All Roll Calls
Yes: 224 • No: 203
119-hr-3062119th CongressWALLET
Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act
Sponsored By: Representative Fedorchak, Julie [R-ND-At Large]
Passed House
Summary
Creates a unified, certificate-based federal system for authorizing cross-border oil, natural gas, and electric transmission facilities. It would replace some Presidential-permit requirements and set firm approval timelines to speed cross-border energy projects.
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- Project developers and utilities: Would need a "certificate of crossing" to construct, connect, operate, or maintain a facility within 1,000 feet of an international boundary. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission handles oil and natural gas pipelines and the Secretary of Energy handles electric lines, with certificates generally due within 120 days after final agency action.
- Natural gas exporters and importers: Adds a requirement that the Commission grant applications to export or import natural gas to Canada or Mexico no later than 30 days after a complete application is filed, accelerating cross-border gas approvals.
- Regulators and reliability: Removes the requirement for a Presidential permit for these projects and repeals the Federal Power Act provision that previously governed some electric exports. The Secretary of Energy must condition certificates on meeting Electric Reliability Organization and regional standards, and the bill preserves existing FERC and other federal authorities.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Easier power trade with Canada, Mexico
If enacted, the bill would repeal the current federal order required to send electricity to Canada or Mexico. Related changes would shift certain hearings and findings to the Energy Secretary. The Secretary would need to find that proposed transmission would not harm U.S. power supply or public-interest coordination. These changes would start 1 year after enactment.
New rules to build cross-border energy lines
This bill would create one certificate of crossing to build, connect, or run oil, gas, or electric lines at the border. FERC would decide oil and gas pipelines; the Energy Secretary would decide electric lines and require compliance with grid reliability standards. For projects under NEPA, the agency would decide within 120 days after the final NEPA action, unless the project is not in the public interest. No Presidential permit would be needed going forward, and the President could not revoke listed existing permits unless Congress authorizes it. Facilities already operating, already permitted, or with an application pending at enactment would be exempt (pending cases until denial or two years after enactment). Many changes would not need a new certificate, like reversing flow, changing owners or volume, or adding or removing interconnections; a border-crossing facility would mean the part within 1,000 feet of the border. Other federal approvals still apply (Natural Gas Act sections 3 and 7 and FERC oil-pipeline authority). Agencies would propose rules within 180 days and issue final rules within 1 year, and most changes would start 1 year after enactment.
Faster gas trade with Canada, Mexico
If enacted, FERC would have 30 days to grant a complete application to import gas from or export gas to Canada or Mexico. The 30-day clock would start when FERC receives a complete filing. This change would take effect 1 year after enactment.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Fedorchak, Julie [R-ND-At Large]
ND • R
Cosponsors
Rep. Dunn, Neal P. [R-FL-2]
FL • R
Sponsored 6/23/2025
Rep. Joyce, John [R-PA-13]
PA • R
Sponsored 7/2/2025
Roll Call Votes
house vote • 9/18/2025
On Passage
Yes: 224 • No: 203