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 establish a moratorium on oil and gas-related seismic activities off the coast of Florida.
would modify the boundaries of the Pole Creek Wilderness, the Owyhee River Wilderness, and the North Fork Owyhee Wilderness, and authorize the continued use of motorized vehicles for livestock monitoring, herding, and grazing in certain wilderness areas in Idaho.
would amend the Horse Protection Act to provide increased protection for horses participating in shows, exhibitions, or sales.
would amend the Public Land Corps Act to expand the authorization of the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, and DOI to provide service
opportunities for young Americans to help restore the nation's natural, cultural, historic, archaeological, recreational and scenic resources, and train a new generation of public land managers and enthusiasts.
would establish a direct loan program for high risk geothermal exploration wells, and amend the Energy Independence and Security Act to improve geothermal energy technology and demonstrate the use of geothermal energy in large scale applications.
would reverse DOI and the Department of Agriculture's designation of certain communities in Alaska as nonrural.
would provide legal certainty to property owners along the Red River in Texas.
would make the authority of Washington, Oregon, and California to manage Dungeness crab fisheries permanent.
would clarify that noncommercial species found entirely within the borders of a single state are not in interstate commerce or subject to regulation under the ESA or any other provision of law enacted as an exercise of the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce.
would require the Army Corps of Engineers and EPA to propose a regulation revising the definition of ''waters of the United States.'