Advance the Disaster Safe Power Grid Act to require power companies to reduce blackout and wildfire risks through grid upgrades, safety equipment, and vegetation management.
Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.
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Disaster Safe Power Grid Act : This bill ensures that power companies do their part to reduce the risk of power blackouts and wildland fires through power system upgrades, fire and disaster safety equipment installation, and proper vegetation management.
Neguse presents legislation to require utility actions that reduce blackout and wildfire risk.
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By Mr. NEGUSE (for himself and Mr. SCHRADER): H.R. 3209.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official Congressional Record entry shows Neguse introduced the House version of the Disaster Safe Power Grid Act in the 117th Congress.
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Neguse | Democratic | CO | Yea
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The House Clerk roll call shows Neguse voted for H.R. 3684, the infrastructure bill that carried the grid-resilience program into law.
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reduce the risk of any power lines owned or operated by the eligible entity causing a wildfire
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The enacted infrastructure law created the relevant DOE grant program and includes the wildfire-risk reduction function central to the promise.
signed into law today as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): An official Senate release directly ties the Wyden-Neguse Disaster Safe Power Grid proposal to enactment in the infrastructure law.
awarded nearly $1.3 billion in Grid Resilience State and Tribal formula grant funds
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): DOE award data shows the enacted grid-resilience program moved beyond authorization into funded implementation, including Colorado subawards for vegetation, fire prevention, undergrounding, and related upgrades.
A grant program to strengthen and modernize America's power grid against wildfires, extreme weather, and other natural disasters.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, DOE still listed the Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants Program as an active extreme-weather resiliency effort matching the commitment’s policy substance.