by Katy Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow and California Globe Editor
As Appearing in the California Globe
Legislation would also preempt state and local permitting requirements that could delay or block designated projects
A new House bill introduced Thursday would allow the president to designate certain interstate oil and natural gas pipelines as critical to national security, triggering expedited FERC reviews and limiting state permitting authority.
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif., CA-41) introduced the National Security Interstate Pipeline Act H.R. 9838. The bill would authorize an expedited federal permitting process for interstate oil and natural gas pipelines that the President designates as critical to U.S. national security.
Specifically, it would allow designation of projects needed to ensure energy supply for military installations, the defense industrial base, or critical infrastructure resilience.
“Radical energy policies put in place in Democrat-led states, like California, continue to hurt working families as well as threaten our national security,” said Rep. Calvert. “The National Security Interstate Pipeline Act will ensure California and other states can be connected to energy-producing regions and keep oil and gas flowing to the critical national security facilities that depend on them. We cannot let radical Democrats threaten our national and economic security by cutting off oil and gas through regulatory roadblocks.”
