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 correct the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Unit P16.
would direct DOI to reissue final rules relating to listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under the ESA.
would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve environmental literacy to better prepare students for postsecondary education and careers.
would promote energy efficiency.
would extend federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe-Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
would empower states to control the development and production of all forms of energy on all available federal land.
would provide a categorical exclusion under NEPA to allow BLM and Forest Service to remove pinyon-juniper trees in order to conserve and restore greater sage-grouse and mule deer habitat.
would extend federal recognition to the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, the Chickahominy Indian Tribe- Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Indian Nation, and the Nansemond Indian Tribe.
would amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit the paying of premium subsidies on policies based on the actual market price of an agricultural commodity at the time of harvest.
would reauthorize the predisaster hazard mitigation program of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.