(KLZA)--Missouri 6th District Congressman Sam Graves from Tarkio has introduced the "Rails to Trails Landowner Rights Act" to insure landowners get a voice.
In his weekly report Graves said that landowners were told their land, taken for use to build railroad lines would be returned to them when the railroad was abandoned. However, much of the land is not returned to the landowner. Instead, Congress authorized the federal government to take the land from the railroads and give it to others to turn into a walking trail.
Graves says this practice unconstitutionally takes land away from the private landowner without just compensation, creating a new set of headaches for them. Graves notes that tucked away in a Biden-Harris Administration so-called "infrastructure" bill was a provision to give the federal government the authority to overrule state permitting decisions for electrical transmission lines, giving them all they need to greenlight projects to get "green-energy" from the West to the East Coast with no benefit to Missouri.
Graves introduction of the "Protecting Farmers from the Green New Deal Act" is designed to repeal these provisions, return the permitting decisions to states, and protect the rights of Missouri landowners.
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