And I want to thank Chairman Cole and especially Chairman Fleischman as well as the committee staff for their hard work on this bill and pulling this forward to the floor. I'm particularly satisfied that This legislation includes my provision to block a rule that was established by the Department of Energy to actually weaken environmental oversight for battery electric storage systems, or BESS facilities. Or BESS facilities. These bess sites are essentially giant lithium batteries lined up side by side and stacked on top of each other, in many cases connected to the larger power grid. (00:32–00:47)
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