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 ensure the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Mexican wolf nonessential experimental population rule has no force or effect.
would establish an interagency working group to study the use of unmanned aircraft systems for wildland firefighting.
would adopt the bison as the national mammal of the United States.
would amend the Flood Disaster Protection Act to require that certain buildings and personal property be covered by flood insurance.
would establish the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area in Washington.
would provide drought relief in California.
would amend the Homeland Security Act to direct FEMA to modernize the integrated public alert and warning system.
would amend the CWA to modify a provision relating to discharges of dredged or fill material into navigable waters at specified disposal sites.
would require the Army Corps of Engineers to establish a loan program to enable eligible public entities to purchase credits from mitigation banks or in-lieu fee programs, or acquire interests in real property that is acquired pursuant to mitigation projects required under certain CWA permits.
would designate certain land administered by BLM and the National Forest Service in Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas, and would make additional wild and scenic river designations.