Public Land Renewal Energy Development Act of 2013

Advisor

Semester

Summer 2013

This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require amounts received through 2020 (currently 2010) from leases under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to be available to the Secretary of the Interior for implementing the Energy Policy Act of 2005. It requires the Secretary of Agriculture to (1) prepare and publish a notice of intent to prepare a programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to develop solar and wind energy on National Forest System land and any necessary amendments to land use plans for such land, and (2) amend such plans to provide for the development of renewable energy on completion of the programmatic EIS.