Below are summaries of Bills Introduced, Committee Reports, Chamber Actions, and Public Laws reported in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update.
would designate the West Indian manatee as an endangered species under the ESA.
would require the Secretary of the Interior to reissue regulations removing the gray wolf from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife under the ESA.
would amend the ESA to provide for improved precision in the listing, delisting, and downlisting of endangered species and potentially endangered species.
would amend the ESA to prevent a species that is not native to the United States from being listed as an endangered species or a threatened species, and prohibit certain types of financial assistance.
would amend the ESA to further restrict the Secretary of the Interior from designating certain lands used for national defense-related purposes as critical habitat for any species under the Act and to broaden exclusions and exemptions from the Act for such defense-related purposes.
would provide for the standardization, consolidation, and publication of data relating to public outdoor recreational use of federal waterways among federal land and water management agencies.
would amend the Marine Debris Act to improve the administration of NOAA's Marine Debris Program and improve the administration of the Marine Debris Foundation.
would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to administratively transfer covered parcels of National Forest System land to the Secretary of the Interior to be held in trust for the benefit of Indian tribes.
would provide for a land exchange in the Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota.
would amend the Act of December 19, 1913, to expand access to the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and Lake Eleanor Basin areas for recreational purposes.