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 implement the Convention on the Conservation and Management of the High Seas Fishery Resources in the South Pacific Ocean, as adopted at Auckland on November 14, 2009.
would implement the Convention on the Conservation and Management of the High Seas Fisheries Resources in the North Pacific Ocean, as adopted at Tokyo on February 24, 2012.
would require the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain federal land to Elko County, Nevada, and to take land into trust for certain Indian tribes.
would provide for a land conveyance in Nevada.
would provide for DOE fundamental science, basic research activities, and applied energy research and development.
would provide for certain land to be taken into trust for the benefit of Morongo Band of Mission Indians.
would reverse the DOI's listing of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species under the ESA and prevent further consideration of listing of such species as a threatened species or endangered species under that Act pending implementation of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies' Lesser Prairie-Chicken Range-Wide Conservation Plan and other conservation measures.
would establish the San Gabriel National Recreation Area as a unit of the National Park System in California.
would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify when the Administrator of EPA has the authority to prohibit the specification of a defined area, or deny or restrict the use of a defined area for specification, as a disposal site under section 404 of such Act.
would amend the CAA to prohibit the regulation of emissions of carbon dioxide from new or existing power plants under certain circumstances.