Sec. 13. Expediting completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline
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In this section, the term Mountain Valley Pipeline means the Mountain Valley Pipeline project, as generally described and approved in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Docket Nos. CP16–10 and CP19–477. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not later than 21 days after the date of enactment of this Act and for the purpose of facilitating the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline— the Secretary of the Army shall issue all permits or verifications necessary— to complete the construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline across the waters of the United States; and to allow for the operation and maintenance of the Mountain Valley Pipeline; the Secretary of Agriculture shall amend the Land and Resource Management Plan for the Jefferson National Forest in a manner that is substantively identical to the record of decision with respect to the Mountain Valley Pipeline issued on January 11, 2021, as may be modified by a subsequently issued record of decision following the supplemental environmental impact statement issued on April 13, 2023; and the Secretary of the Interior shall— continue to maintain the biological opinion and incidental take statement for the Mountain Valley Pipeline in a manner that is substantively identical to the biological opinion and incidental take statement issued on February 28, 2023; and grant and maintain all necessary rights-of-way and temporary use permits in a manner that is substantively identical to those rights-of-way and temporary use permits approved in the record of decision with respect to the Mountain Valley Pipeline issued on January 14, 2021, or as may be modified by any subsequently issued rights-of-way and temporary use permits.
No action taken by the Secretary of the Army, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Secretary of Agriculture, or the Secretary of the Interior that grants an authorization, permit, verification, biological opinion, incidental take statement, or any other approval related to the Mountain Valley Pipeline, including the issuance of any authorization, permit, verification, biological opinion, incidental take statement, or other approval for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, whether issued prior to, on, or after the date of enactment of this section, shall be subject to judicial review.
Any lawsuit (including any lawsuit pending in a court on the date of enactment of this Act) seeking judicial review of an agency order or action described in paragraph (1)— shall not be maintained in any court; and shall be promptly dismissed. This section supersedes any other provision of law (including any other section of this Act or another Act of Congress), any regulation, any judicial decision, or any agency guidance that is inconsistent with the issuance of any authorization, permit, verification, biological opinion, incidental take statement, or other approval for the Mountain Valley Pipeline.