Making Reviews Certain Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8249 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8249 To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify the scope of review, establish limits for judicial review of environmental documents relating to energy infrastructure, and for other purposes. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 13, 2026 Mr. Gottheimer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to clarify the scope of review, establish limits for judicial review of environmental documents relating to energy infrastructure, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Making Reviews Certain Act''. SEC. 2. SCOPE OF REVIEW. Section 106 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4336) is amended-- (1) in the heading, by inserting ``; scope of review'' after ``level of review''; and (2) by adding at the end the following: ``(c) Scope of Review.--In preparing an environmental document for a proposed agency action, a Federal agency is only required to consider those effects that share a reasonably close causal relationship to, and are proximately caused by, the immediate project or action under consideration, to comply with the requirements of this Act.''. SEC. 3. LIMITATIONS ON JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE. Title I of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4331 et seq.) is amended-- (1) by redesignating section 112 as section 110A and moving such section so as to appear after section 110; and (2) by inserting before section