Work with Senate colleagues to pass the STEAM Act and the Geothermal Ombudsman for National Deployment and Optimal Reviews Act through the Senate and send them to the President's desk to expedite geothermal development and streamline federal geothermal permitting.

I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Senate to make sure these bills pass on the Floor of the Senate and make it to the President’s desk.

After two Cortez Masto-led geothermal bills passed the House, she committed to working with Senate colleagues to pass them on the Senate floor and send them to the President.

BREAKING: Cortez Masto Bills to Promote Geothermal Energy Pass House of Representatives
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Congress.gov lists S.4753 as sponsored by Sen. Joe Manchin, introduced July 23, 2024, referred to Senate Energy and Natural Resources, with latest action December 19, 2024: placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar. The tracker says: This bill has the status Introduced.

The main Senate vehicle containing geothermal permitting reforms did not pass the Senate, did not go to the House, and was not sent to the President; it remained at introduced/calendar status in the 118th Congress.

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S.4753 - Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024
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Congress.gov action history shows four actions: read twice and referred on July 23, 2024; ordered reported favorably by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on July 31, 2024; reported with S. Rept. 118-336 on December 19, 2024; and placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on December 19, 2024.

The official action list stops at committee reporting and calendar placement, with no Senate passage, House passage, enrollment, or presidential presentation.

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Actions - S.4753 - Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024
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The reported text includes Section 208, Geothermal leasing and permitting improvements, with deadlines for geothermal drilling permits, annual geothermal lease-sale changes, a federal permitting process for concurrent consideration of multiple geothermal project phases, and a Geothermal Ombudsman within the Bureau of Land Management.

The bill contained provisions matching the substance of expediting geothermal development and creating a geothermal ombudsman, but the text was never enacted.

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Text - S.4753 - Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee listed S.4753 as an agenda item and reported it, as amended, by roll call vote of 15-4. The page also lists amendments considered at the July 31, 2024 business meeting.

The committee did advance the permitting bill, showing legislative movement, but this was only committee action and not Senate passage or presidential presentation.

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Business Meeting to Consider Nominations and Pending Legislation
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Congress.gov lists Sen. Joe Manchin as sponsor and Sen. John Barrasso as the only cosponsor of S.4753. Catherine Cortez Masto is not listed as sponsor or cosponsor.

The official sponsor/cosponsor record does not show Cortez Masto as introducing or cosponsoring this geothermal permitting vehicle.

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Cosponsors - S.4753 - Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee announced that Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso released the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 to accelerate permitting for energy and mineral projects. The release attributes the bill to Manchin and Barrasso after committee hearings and negotiations.

The relevant permitting reform package was released by other Senate colleagues, not by Cortez Masto, and later failed to reach the President's desk.

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Manchin, Barrasso Release Bipartisan Energy Permitting Reform Legislation
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