which would allow the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in the State of Minnesota to lease or transfer certain land, was signed into law on March 21, 2014.

which would amend SMCRA to implement the final rule on excess spoil, mining waste, and buffers for perennial and intermittent streams, was passed by the House.

would authorize a land exchange involving Fort Hood, Texas, and the City of Copperas Cove, Texas, to support the city's efforts to improve arterial transportation routes in the vicinity of Fort Hood and to promote economic development.

would amend Pub. L. No. 94-241 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands.

would authorize the approval of natural gas pipelines and establish deadlines and expedite permits for certain natural gas gathering lines on federal land and Indian land.

would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to confirm the scope of the authority of the Administrator of EPA to deny or restrict the use of defined areas as disposal sites.

would direct federal investment in carbon capture and storage and other clean coal technologies.

which would designate as wilderness certain land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of Michigan, was signed into law on March 13, 2014.

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.