News & Analysis In the Congress
Volume 55 Issue 2
would provide long-term water supply and regulatory reliability to drought-stricken California.
would require the Secretary of the Interior to annually submit to Congress, and make publicly available on a website, a report on decommissioning offshore oil and gas wells, platforms, and pipeline
which would reauthorize certain U.S. Geological Survey water data enhancement programs, was passed by the House.
would amend Title 23, U.S. Code, to establish a grant program to rebuild and improve transportation infrastructure at urban waterfronts.
which would establish the Chesapeake National Recreation Area as a unit of the National Park System, was passed by the Senate.
would direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to establish a wildfire technology testbed pilot program.
would amend FIFRA and the FWPCA to clarify congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters.
would prohibit drilling in the outer continental shelf and prohibit coal leases on federal land.
which would assist tribal governments in the management of buffalo and buffalo habitat and the reestablishment of buffalo on Indian land, was passed by the Senate.
would require the administrator of NOAA to provide support to state governments in the production by those governments of quadrennial state climate assessments.