A plan in Congress to prevent the federal government from taking control of private property to develop a national electric transmission corridor has the support of four Republicans in the Kansas congressional delegation.
U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall and U.S. Reps. Tracey Mann and Ron Estes voiced their support of a bill to prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from overruling rejection of electric transmission projects by state regulators.
The bill would ban the use of any federal funding to condemn private property for the proposed system of National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors reported the Kansas Reflector.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law by President Biden granted FERC the power to issue permits for transmission lines within a national corridor despite the denial of such applications by state officials.
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