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 authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the development of hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the Central Utah Project.
would designate as wilderness certain land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the state of Michigan.
would provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, and authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States.
would establish the Columbine-Hondo Wilderness in New Mexico and convey certain parcels of National Forest System land in the state.
would transfer certain facilities, easements, and rights-of-way to Fort Sumner Irrigation District, New Mexico.
would provide whistleblower protections to certain workers in the offshore oil and gas industry.
would amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Great Lakes basin initiative for agricultural nonpoint source pollution prevention.
would amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining.
would convey small parcels of National Forest System land and small parcels of public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management to private landowners, state, county, and local governments, or Indian tribes whose lands share a boundary with the National Forest System land or public lands.
would designate certain federal portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in Utah as wilderness.