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 require the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain federal land to the Powell Recreation District in the state of Wyoming.
would amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to expand the authorization of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior to provide service opportunities.
would designate certain land in the state of Oregon as wilderness and make additional wild and scenic river designations.
would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with state foresters authorizing them to provide certain forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration and protection services.
would designate certain lands in San Miguel, Ouray, and San Juan Counties, Colorado, as wilderness.
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.
would designate the Valles Caldera National Preserve as a unit of the National Park System.
would designate the Wovoka Wilderness and provide for certain land conveyances in Lyon County, Nevada.
would convey a small parcel of National Forest System land in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah to Brigham Young University.
which authorizes all Bureau of Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development under Federal Reclamation law, was signed into law on August 9, 2013.