Recent Federal Bills

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 impose limitations on consent decrees and settlement agreements whose terms require agencies to take regulatory action.

would provide for the establishment of nationally uniform standards governing discharges incidental to normal vessel operation. 

would remove a limitation on a prohibition relating to permits for discharges incidental to normal vessel operation.

would improve rangeland conditions and restore grazing levels within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.

would direct DOI to sell federal lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, previously identified as suitable for disposal.

would provide for consideration of H.R. 527, which would amend the Regulatory Flexibility Act to ensure complete analysis of rulemakings' potential impacts on small entities. 

would amend the African Elephant Conservation Act of 1988 to conserve elephants while appropriately regulating ivory in the United States.

would expanding authorities established in the Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 to provide emergency measures for high-risk areas.

would establish the Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area. 

would require each agency to include a link to a 100-word, plain language summary of the proposed rule when providing notice of a rulemaking.