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House Bill 8312
117th Congress(2021-2022)
To direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a Natural Disaster Grid Mitigation Map that identifies critical electric grid infrastructure that is vulnerable to natural disasters, and for other purposes.
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H. R. 8312 (Introduced-in-House)


117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8312


To direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a Natural Disaster Grid Mitigation Map that identifies critical electric grid infrastructure that is vulnerable to natural disasters, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 7, 2022

Mr. O'Halleran introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a Natural Disaster Grid Mitigation Map that identifies critical electric grid infrastructure that is vulnerable to natural disasters, 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. Natural Disaster Grid Mitigation Map.

(a) Establishment.—The Secretary shall establish and maintain a Natural Disaster Grid Mitigation Map that identifies critical electric grid infrastructure in each State that is vulnerable to natural disasters.

(b) Report.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall develop a report that—

(A) analyzes how vulnerable critical electric grid infrastructure in each State is to natural disasters; and

(B) identifies parts of such critical electric grid infrastructure that are high risk for energy disruptions caused by natural disasters.

(2) AVAILABILITY.—The Secretary shall make the report developed under paragraph (1) available to other relevant Federal agencies to consider when funding disaster mitigation and resiliency efforts.

(c) Definitions.—In this section:

(1) CRITICAL ELECTRIC GRID INFRASTRUCTURE.—The term “critical electric grid infrastructure” includes transmission lines of 66 kilovolt-amperes and above and other infrastructure, as determined by the Secretary.

(2) NATURAL DISASTER.—The term “natural disaster” means a wildfire, hurricane, tornado, extreme temperature, storm, flood, earthquake, volcanic eruption, or other natural occurrence of such magnitude or severity so as to be considered disastrous, as determined by the Secretary.

(3) SECRETARY.—The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Energy.

(4) STATE.—The term “State” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, any territory or possession of the United States, and any federally recognized Indian Tribe.