Short title; table of contents

(a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026. (b) Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. DIVISION A—Committee on Environment and Public Works TITLE I—National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 Subtitle A—Declaration of Environmental Policy Sec. 1101. Purposes; procedure; savings provision. Sec. 1102. Definitions. Sec. 1103. Implementing procedures. Sec. 1104. Cooperation of agencies; reports; availability of information; recommendations; international and national coordination of efforts. Sec. 1105. Procedure for determination of level of review. Sec. 1106. Timely and unified Federal reviews. Sec. 1107. Programmatic environmental document. Sec. 1108. Use of categorical exclusions by other agencies. Sec. 1109. Applications for authorizations. Sec. 1110. Judicial review. Subtitle B—Council on Environmental Quality Sec. 1121. Council on Environmental Quality. Subtitle C—Federal Permitting Improvement Sec. 1131. Definitions. Sec. 1132. Environmental Review and Permitting Tracker. Sec. 1133. Permitting Improvement Fund. TITLE II—Clean Water Act Sec. 1201. Water quality criteria. Sec. 1202. Clean Water Act permitting and State certification. Sec. 1203. Permit term for NPDES permits. Sec. 1204. Permits for dredged or fill material. Sec. 1205. Judicial review timeline clarity. TITLE III—Endangered Species Act of 1973 Sec. 1301. Definitions. Sec. 1302. Timeline for Section 7 consultations. Sec. 1303. Projects in the operational right-of-way. Sec. 1304. State assumption of consultation responsibilities. Sec. 1305. Judicial review. Sec. 1306. Listing determinations. Sec. 1307. Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 1308. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Coastal State Fund. TITLE IV—Project certainty Sec. 1401. Maintaining Federal authorizations or permits for projects with non-Federal sponsors. Sec. 1402. Ensuring fairness for specific types of covered projects. Sec. 1403. Avoiding unreasonable delays in permitting. DIVISION B—Committee on Energy and Natural Resources TITLE I—Electric transmission Sec. 2101. Transmission permitting. Sec. 2102. Reconductoring and other activities in existing rights-of-way. Sec. 2103. Transmission planning. Sec. 2104. Improvements relating to local transmission planning and development. Sec. 2105. Prohibition of right of first refusal. Sec. 2106. Consolidated planning process. Sec. 2107. Ratepayer protection. Sec. 2108. Dispatchable energy systems market access. Sec. 2109. Advanced transmission technologies. Sec. 2110. Expediting generator interconnection queues. Sec. 2111. Grid data access. Sec. 2112. Power marketing administrations. Sec. 2113. FERC fee assessments. Sec. 2114. Collection of data on computational load entities. Sec. 2115. Conforming amendments; savings provision. TITLE II—Energy Permitting Subtitle A—Accelerating claims Sec. 2201. Accelerating claims. Subtitle B—Federal onshore energy leasing and permitting Sec. 2211. Permitting compliance on non-Federal land. Sec. 2212. Rights-of-way across Indian land. Sec. 2213. Accelerating renewable energy permitting. Sec. 2214. Electric grid projects. Sec. 2215. Hardrock mining mill sites. Subtitle C—Geothermal leasing and permitting Sec. 2221. Geothermal observation test projects. Sec. 2222. Geothermal royalties. Sec. 2223. Geothermal leasing reform. Sec. 2224. Geothermal ombudsman and permitting task force. Sec. 2225. No Federal permit required for geothermal activities on certain land. Sec. 2226. Effect of pending civil actions on processing applications relating to geothermal leasing. Sec. 2227. Cost recovery from geothermal leasing, permitting, and inspections. Sec. 2228. Publication of Gold Book for geothermal operations on Federal land. Sec. 2229. NEPA Review. Subtitle D—Hydropower Sec. 2231. Identifying and removing market barriers to hydropower. Sec. 2232. Certain conditions on issuance of licenses. Sec. 2233. Hydropower maintenance and temporary adjustments. Sec. 2234. Micro hydrokinetic energy projects. Subtitle E—Hiring and retention Sec. 2241. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staffing. Sec. 2242. Northwest Power and Conservation Council. Sec. 2243. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission personnel safety. Subtitle F—Offshore energy Sec. 2251. Offshore energy. Sec. 2252. Offshore energy transmission. TITLE III—Historic Preservation Sec. 2301. Historic preservation. Sec. 2302. Funding for the Historic Preservation Fund; use and availability; grants for Tribal Historic Preservation officers; additional funding.