Steve Daines
120:04 - 120:34
"with 40% of the nation's hydropower fleet being up for relicensing, 40% in the next 4 years, do you agree that we need to streamline and look for ways to simplify the hydropower licensing and relicensing process at a time when we are constrained brain as we look forward here. Just like to hear from each of you. Do you think we need to simplify and streamline it?"
“with 40% of the nation's hydropower fleet being up for relicensing, 40% in the next 4 years, do you agree that we need to streamline and look for ways to simplify the hydropower licensing and relicensing process at a time when we are constrained brain as we look forward here. Just like to hear from each of you. Do you think we need to simplify and streamline it?”
- Speaker
- Steve Daines
- Timestamp
- 120:04 – 120:34
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- July 22, 2026
From the transcript
Under Section 4 and Section 18 of the Federal Power Act. That's my best impression of Mike Lee I can do right there. For each of you, with 40% of the nation's hydropower fleet being up for relicensing, 40% in the next 4 years, do you agree that we need to streamline and look for ways to simplify the hydropower licensing and relicensing process at a time when we are constrained brain as we look forward here. Just like to hear from each of you. Do you think we need to simplify and streamline it?
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