Recent Federal Bills

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 withdraw certain federal land and interests in that land from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws and would preserve existing uses.

would provide for the use of hand-propelled vessels in Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and the National Elk Refuge, and for other purposes.

would prohibit an increase in the lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management until a centralized database of all lands identified as suitable for disposal by Resource Management Plans for lands under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau is easily accessible to the public on a website of the Bureau.

would provide for the addition of certain real property to the reservation of the Silertz Tribe in the State of Oregon.

would designate as wilderness certain land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of Michigan.

would provide direction to the Administrator of EPA regarding the establishment of standards for emissions of any greenhouse gas from fossil fuel-fired electric utility generating units.

would amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to implement the final rule on excess spoil, mining waste, and buffers for perennial and intermittent streams.

would authorize the construction of the Upper San Joaquin River Storage in California.

would authorize the construction of the expansion of San Luis Reservoir in California.

would authorize the construction of the expansion of Shasta Dam in California.