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 amend Pub. L. No. 94-241 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands.
would authorize the approval of natural gas pipelines and establish deadlines and expedite permits for certain natural gas gathering lines on federal land and Indian land.
would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to confirm the scope of the authority of the Administrator of EPA to deny or restrict the use of defined areas as disposal sites.
would direct federal investment in carbon capture and storage and other clean coal technologies.
which would designate as wilderness certain land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of Michigan, was signed into law on March 13, 2014.
would free the private sector to harness domestic energy resources by removing statutory and administrative barriers.
vwould facilitate state and local governmental entities in developing and implementing private sector job-creating programs through local government financing of the installation of energy efficiency, water conservation, and renewable energy generation improvements on privately owned property, with the financing to be repaid from assessments that may be levied on the local property tax bill.
would amend the ESA to encourage greater state input and authority over species and habitat management by allowing states to propose and implement State Protective Action before species are listed under that Act.
would stop implementation and enforcement of the Forest Service travel management rule and would require the Forest Service to incorporate the needs, uses, and input of affected communities before taking any travel management action affecting access to units of the National Forest System derived from the public domain.
would amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of the South Sacramento County Agriculture and Habitat Lands Water Recycling Project in Sacramento County, California.