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handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxagaz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP 118TH CONGRESS [REPT. 118-420 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1 RIGHT-OF-WAY APPLICATION TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT MARCH 12, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following R E P O R T [To accompany H.R. 6011] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 6011) to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec- retary of Agriculture to notify applicants of the completion status of right-of-way applications under section 501 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do pass. The amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the Right-Of-Way Application Transparency and Ac- countability Act or the ROWATA Act. SEC. 2. DETERMINATION REGARDING RIGHTS-OF-WAY. (a) NOTICE.-Not later than 90 days after the Secretary concerned receives an ap- plication to grant a right-of-way, the Secretary concerned shall- (1) notify the applicant as to whether the application is complete; or (2) notify the applicant that information is missing and specify any informa- tion that is required to be submitted for the application to be complete. (b) DEFINITIONS.-In this Act: (1) RJGHT-OF-WAY.-The term right-of-way means- (A) a right-of-way issued, granted, or renewed under section 501 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1761); or (B) a right-of-way granted under section 28 of the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 185). (2) SECRETARY CONCERNED.-The term Secretary concerned means- (A) with respect to public lands, the Secretary of the Interior; and 49-006