Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025 or the POWER Act of 2025 This bill authorizes electric utilities receiving certain emergency assistance for the restoration of power to also carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities in combination with the power restoration activities. Additionally, the bill specifies that electric utilities receiving such assistance for a facility may, if otherwise eligible, also receive hazard mitigation assistance for the same facility under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Public Assistance program.
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1Short title
This section states that the Act may be cited as the Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025, or the POWER Act of 2025.
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1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Promoting Opportunities to Widen Electrical Resilience Act of 2025 or the POWER Act of 2025 .
2Essential assistance
This section would amend Section 403 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170b) by adding a new provision about electric utilities. Under the new provision, an electric utility could carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities jointly with, or in combination with, power restoration activities that receive federal assistance under Section 403. The new provision would also state that if an electric utility facility receives Section 403 assistance for the emergency restoration of power, receiving that assistance would not make the facility ineligible for hazard mitigation assistance under Section 406 of the same Act, as long as the facility is otherwise eligible for that Section 406 assistance. This amendment would apply only to amounts appropriated on or after the date this Act becomes law.
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2. Essential assistance
(a) In general
Section 403 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5170b ) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(e) Electric utilities
(1) Hazard mitigation activities
An electric utility may carry out cost-effective hazard mitigation activities jointly or otherwise in combination with activities for the restoration of power carried out with assistance provided under this section.
(2) Eligibility for additional assistance
In any case in which an electric utility facility receives assistance under this section for the emergency restoration of power, the receipt of such assistance shall not render such facility ineligible for any hazard mitigation assistance under section 406 for which such facility is otherwise eligible.
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(b) Applicability
The amendment made by subsection (a) shall only apply to amounts appropriated on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
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Who is lobbying on this
AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATIONvia AMERICAN PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION FKA PROPERTY CASUALTY INSURERS ASSOC. OF AMERICA
6 filings
BUILDSTRONG AMERICA, INC.via NAVIGATORS GLOBAL LLC (FORMERLY DC NAVIGATORS, LLC)
6 filings
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIESvia NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANIES
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NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)via NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NRECA)
6 filings
AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATIONvia AMERICAN PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATION
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NORTHEAST PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATIONvia MEGUIRE WHITNEY
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ALASKA POWER ASSOCIATIONvia ALASKA POWER ASSOCIATION
1 filing
DESIMONE CONSULTING GROUP ON BEHALF OF THE NORTHWEST PUBLIC POWER ASSOCIATIONvia LEBLANC GOVERNMENT RELATIONS, LLC
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Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (2025-01-16).