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 direct the Secretary and the Attorney General to promptly take all steps necessary or appropriate to execute and implement the San Luis Rey settlement agreement.
would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a lease involving the South Central Agricultural Laboratory in Clay County, Nebraska, to facilitate the improvement of the laboratory to support cooperative state and federal agricultural research.
would reauthorize and update certain provisions of the Secure Water Act.
would amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require, in counting the number of a species in a state for purposes of determining whether the species is an endangered or threatened species, inclusion of the number of the species on state and private lands as determined by the state.
would permanently withdraw, reserve, and transfer BLM lands used for military purposes in Alaska, Nevada, and New Mexico to the appropriate secretary of the military department concerned.
would prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use agreement on the transfer, relinquishment, or other impairment of any water right to the United States by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, was passed by the House.
would reauthorize the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program.
would provide drought assistance to the State of California and other affected western states.
which allow the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in the State of Minnesota to lease or transfer certain land, was passed by the Senate.
would ensure that oil transported through the Keystone XL pipeline into the United States is used to reduce United States dependence on Middle Eastern oil.