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 amend the SMCRA to implement the final rule on excess spoil, mining waste, and buffers for perennial and intermittent streams.

would require the Administrator of EPA and the Secretary of Energy to conduct a fuel system requirements harmonization study.

would prohibit the Administrator of EPA from promulgating certain energy-related rules that are estimated to cost more than $1 billion as final.

would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish national standards for discharges from cruise vessels.

would provide regulatory parity among alternative fuel vehicles.

would exclude compensation provided for victims of the March 29, 2013, pipeline oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas from gross income.

which would amend subtitle D of SWDA to encourage recovery and beneficial use of coal combustion residuals and establish requirements for the proper management and disposal of coal combustion residuals, was passed by the House.

would amend the Water Supply Act of 1958 to establish a mechanism to permit state and local interests to release to the United States future water storage rights associated with Corps of Engineers reservoir projects.

would designate certain National Forest System land in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Salt Lake County, Utah, as wilderness, and facilitate a land exchange involving certain land in such National Forest.

would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the special rule for contributions of qualified conservation contributions.