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 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.
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.