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 adjust the boundary of the Arapaho National Forest in Colorado.
would take certain property in McIntosh County, Oklahoma, into trust for the benefit of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
would require the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust four parcels of federal land for the benefit of certain Indian Pueblos in New Mexico.
would adopt the bison as the national mammal of the United States.
would require states to establish highway stormwater management programs.
would nullify certain EPA rules relating to greenhouse gas emissions from existing, new, and modified or reconstructed electric utility generating units.
which would amend the Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998, was passed by the House.
would require the Secretary of Energy to prepare a report on the impact of thermal insulation on both energy and water use for potable hot water.
would conserve fish and aquatic communities in the United States.
would provide for environmental restoration activities and forest management activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin and amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit the importation or shipment of quagga mussels.