https://publicrecordservice.com/Energy and permitting policy, read from the public record.en-usThu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/11/senate-cloture-vote-hr-2347-permitting-vehicle/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/11/senate-cloture-vote-hr-2347-permitting-vehicle/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceA unanimous-consent order entered Sept. 30 brings the Senate back at 3 p.m. Monday to a 5:30 p.m. cloture vote on H.R. 2347, a House-passed tax bill described as the vehicle for the 417-page Lee-Capito-Heinrich-Whitehouse permitting bill, S. 5653.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/11/ferc-opens-scoping-longboard-lng-hawaii-import-terminal-pf26-10/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/11/ferc-opens-scoping-longboard-lng-hawaii-import-terminal-pf26-10/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceA notice at 91 FR 68507 sets a Nov. 27 deadline for comments on JERA Americas' planned mooring, subsea pipeline and receiving facility at Kalaeloa. The floating regasification unit and the 500-megawatt power plant it would supply sit outside the Commission's review.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/10/epa-approves-virginia-partial-coal-ash-permit-program-91-fr-66643/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/10/epa-approves-virginia-partial-coal-ash-permit-program-91-fr-66643/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe final decision at 91 FR 66643 lets Virginia regulators run most of the federal coal combustion residuals program in its place. The 2024 legacy-impoundment and CCR management unit rules stay federal, and existing state permits get no federal permit shield until each is reopened for public comment.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/10/boem-proposed-notice-of-sale-cook-inlet-lease-sale-bbc2-boem-2026-0925/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/10/boem-proposed-notice-of-sale-cook-inlet-lease-sale-bbc2-boem-2026-0925/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe proposed notice of sale repeats the lease terms and nine stipulations of the March 2026 sale that drew no bids, because Pub. L. 119-21 requires them. Alaska's governor and affected local governments have until Dec. 14 to comment.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/10/nrc-direct-final-rule-renews-ap1000-design-certification-revision-20-91-fr-65091/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/10/nrc-direct-final-rule-renews-ap1000-design-certification-revision-20-91-fr-65091/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe rule folds Vogtle Units 3 and 4 changes into Westinghouse's certified design and takes effect Dec. 28 unless the NRC receives significant adverse comments by Nov. 13 in Docket NRC-2026-2377.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/10/ferc-staff-final-eis-sabine-pass-stage-5-expansion-cp24-75/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/10/ferc-staff-final-eis-sabine-pass-stage-5-expansion-cp24-75/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe final environmental impact statement for three new liquefaction trains in Cameron Parish and a 55.6-mile Texas pipeline arrived on its September 25 target date. It starts a 90-day clock for other federal permits; the Commission's own order and DOE's non-FTA export decision are still ahead.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/blm-supplemental-eis-seminoe-pumped-storage-p-14787-license-order-2027/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/blm-supplemental-eis-seminoe-pumped-storage-p-14787-license-order-2027/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe Bureau of Land Management will reopen the environmental record on the 972-megawatt Wyoming project to weigh a Rawlins resource plan amendment. Scoping comments are due Oct. 13, and FERC's target for a license order moves from Sept. 17, 2026, to Oct. 21, 2027.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/epa-repeals-most-2024-power-plant-carbon-standards-proposes-full-repeal-91-fr-58954/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/epa-repeals-most-2024-power-plant-carbon-standards-proposes-full-repeal-91-fr-58954/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceA final rule published Sept. 17 removes the existing-plant guidelines and the carbon-capture standards from the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, effective Nov. 16. A companion supplemental proposal would repeal every remaining section 111 greenhouse gas standard for power plants; comments are due Nov. 2.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/doe-rfi-bulk-power-system-equipment-executive-order-14421-91-fr-57322/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/doe-rfi-bulk-power-system-equipment-executive-order-14421-91-fr-57322/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceA Sept. 9 request for information from DOE's cybersecurity office poses 36 numbered questions on which transformers, inverters, batteries and control systems the Aug. 26 bulk-power emergency order should reach. Responses are due Oct. 9, 2026; no country or vendor has yet been named.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/blm-proposes-npr-a-production-site-streamlined-permitting-rin-1004-af57/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/blm-proposes-npr-a-production-site-streamlined-permitting-rin-1004-af57/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceA proposed subpart 3139 would let leaseholders win approval for pads, roads and pipelines within 25 miles of existing infrastructure without project-level NEPA review. Comments are due November 9, 2026, while most of the supporting EIS is still unwritten.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/doe-stays-federal-buildings-fossil-fuel-rule-march-2027-91-fr-56371/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/doe-stays-federal-buildings-fossil-fuel-rule-march-2027-91-fr-56371/Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceA notice filed under a docket titled for repeal pushes back compliance with the 2024 Clean Energy Rule for new and renovated federal buildings. No repeal proposal has been published, and the statutory targets the rule implements are unchanged.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/osm-approves-navajo-mine-no-name-coal-permit-feis-rod-91-fr-56204/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/09/osm-approves-navajo-mine-no-name-coal-permit-feis-rod-91-fr-56204/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe Office of Surface Mining's decision covers 11,526 acres of Navajo Nation coal that would last to 2136 at the low production rate. The only named customer, the Four Corners Power Plant, is assumed in the analysis to stop running in 2041.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/nrc-notices-nextera-dominion-nuclear-license-transfer-nrc-2026-4060/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/nrc-notices-nextera-dominion-nuclear-license-transfer-nrc-2026-4060/Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe notice covers Surry, North Anna, V.C. Summer and Millstone, plus the unbuilt North Anna Unit 3 license and the North Anna early site permit. Hearing requests are due Sept. 16 and comments Sept. 28.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/doe-montana-deq-final-eis-north-plains-connector-doe-eis-0568/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/doe-montana-deq-final-eis-north-plains-connector-doe-eis-0568/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe 422-mile review of the Montana-to-North Dakota transmission line sets up five federal and state decisions, including whether DOE finalizes a conditional $605 million grid grant. None of those decisions is in the record yet.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/ngpl-horizon-north-extension-project-wisconsin-electric-cp26-564/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/ngpl-horizon-north-extension-project-wisconsin-electric-cp26-564/Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe $438 million application would add 185,000 dekatherms a day of firm service through new Illinois compression and an 11.5-mile lateral into Kenosha County. FERC set a Sept. 9 intervention deadline and has asked the applicants for more data.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/nrc-sets-mandatory-hearing-long-mott-xe-100-construction-permit-91-fr-53900/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/nrc-sets-mandatory-hearing-long-mott-xe-100-construction-permit-91-fr-53900/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe uncontested hearing on Long Mott Energy's four-reactor application in Calhoun County, Texas, will run as a staff-led public meeting in Port Lavaca under the NRC's June policy statement. Written comments close Oct. 6.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/ferc-opens-scoping-cp2-lng-expansion-cp26-530/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/ferc-opens-scoping-cp2-lng-expansion-cp26-530/Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe expansion would add 11.7 million tonnes a year of liquefaction in Cameron Parish and a 227,000-horsepower compressor station in Texas. Scoping comments are due Sept. 11, and staff has not yet said whether it will write an EA or an EIS.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/boem-proposed-leasing-notice-cnmi-seabed-minerals-sale-pacm-2/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/boem-proposed-leasing-notice-cnmi-seabed-minerals-sale-pacm-2/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe proposed leasing notice offers five lease areas covering about 67.2 million acres east and west of the islands, with a $3 million minimum bid and a Dec. 16 sale date. The CNMI governor has until Oct. 19 to comment.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/ferc-staff-issues-ea-mountain-valley-pipeline-boost-cp26-14/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/ferc-staff-issues-ea-mountain-valley-pipeline-boost-cp26-14/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe assessment finds no significant impact from 265,750 horsepower of added compression in West Virginia and Virginia and recommends 13 conditions. Comments are due September 8, while Virginia's air permit for the new Swann station has not been issued.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/doe-publishes-dpa-nuclear-fuel-consortium-plans-of-action-91-fr-51474/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/doe-publishes-dpa-nuclear-fuel-consortium-plans-of-action-91-fr-51474/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThree Office of Nuclear Energy notices, published August 10, print the plans that define what consortium members may do jointly under the Defense Production Act antitrust defense, with 60-day reports from a uranium permitting lane to a recycled-fuel offtake program.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/ferc-seeks-post-conference-comment-pjm-governance-ad26-7/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/ferc-seeks-post-conference-comment-pjm-governance-ad26-7/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceA notice at 91 FR 49430 asks for comments and a completed issues list after the Commission's July 23 technical conference on PJM's board, filing rights and stakeholder process, and says an Alternative Dispute Resolution forum will begin September 1.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/bsee-boem-propose-arctic-exploratory-drilling-rule-revisions-rin-1082-aa05/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/bsee-boem-propose-arctic-exploratory-drilling-rule-revisions-rin-1082-aa05/Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe Interior bureaus would let Arctic offshore operators use a subsea isolation device in place of a standby relief rig, end the 45-day shoulder season and drop the Integrated Operations Plan. Comments are due October 5.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/nrc-draft-fonsi-duane-arnold-restart-91-fr-48951/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/08/nrc-draft-fonsi-duane-arnold-restart-91-fr-48951/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff made a preliminary determination that no environmental impact statement is needed for an exemption and three license amendments that would let NextEra return the Iowa reactor to power through February 2034. Comments are due September 2.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/doe-extends-comment-appliance-standards-process-rule-91-fr-47155/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/doe-extends-comment-appliance-standards-process-rule-91-fr-47155/Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe Department of Energy gave commenters 15 more days on its July 7 proposal to make the Process Rule binding on stricter standards, restore a significant-energy-savings threshold and add consumer cost cutoffs. Six manufacturer groups had asked for a Sept. 8 deadline.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/ferc-adds-categorical-exclusion-hydropower-license-terminations-rm26-7/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/ferc-adds-categorical-exclusion-hydropower-license-terminations-rm26-7/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceA final rule published at 91 FR 46267 lets FERC skip an environmental assessment when it ends an abandoned or noncompliant hydro license with only minor ground disturbance and flow changes. It takes effect August 24; voluntary surrenders are left out.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/nrc-proposes-reactor-licensing-overhaul-40-year-renewals-91-fr-44560/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/nrc-proposes-reactor-licensing-overhaul-40-year-renewals-91-fr-44560/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe 157-page proposed rule in Docket NRC-2025-0975 would double the maximum license renewal term, let some construction start when an application is docketed, and set emergency planning zones at about 2 to 10 miles. Comments are due August 31.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/doe-releases-draft-2026-national-transmission-needs-study-91-fr-42429/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/doe-releases-draft-2026-national-transmission-needs-study-91-fr-42429/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe Office of Electricity's 112-page draft, required every three years under Federal Power Act section 216(a), puts load growth at the center of transmission need. Unlike the 2023 study, it publishes no national percentage estimate of future build-out, and its own notices give two different comment deadlines.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/doe-publishes-final-dpa-nuclear-fuel-cycle-consortium-agreement-91-fr-40991/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/doe-publishes-final-dpa-nuclear-fuel-cycle-consortium-agreement-91-fr-40991/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe Office of Nuclear Energy notice, published July 6, sets the terms under which invited fuel cycle companies can share data and plan jointly with an antitrust defense. It answers nine commenters on the November draft but names no participants and publishes no plan of action.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/ceq-withdraws-18-nepa-guidance-documents-91-fr-39086/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/07/ceq-withdraws-18-nepa-guidance-documents-91-fr-39086/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe Council on Environmental Quality notice, applicable June 29, pulls nine Federal Register guidance documents and nine agency memoranda dating to 1976 and says more withdrawals may follow. It takes no comment and names no replacements.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/06/onrr-proposes-oil-gas-coal-valuation-amendments-rin-1012-aa39/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/06/onrr-proposes-oil-gas-coal-valuation-amendments-rin-1012-aa39/Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceThe proposed rule, published today at 91 FR 39754, would redraw where offshore gathering ends, let lessees value arm's-length gas sales at an index price and drop the 2016 default provision. Comments are due Aug. 31.https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/06/ferc-schedules-ea-constitution-pipeline-reissuance/https://publicrecordservice.com/record/2026/06/ferc-schedules-ea-constitution-pipeline-reissuance/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTPublic Record ServiceA June 24 notice, published in the Federal Register today, says FERC staff will prepare an environmental assessment rather than a new impact statement for the 125-mile Pennsylvania-to-New York gas line certificated in 2014 and never built.