Below are summaries of Bills Introduced, Committee Reports, Chamber Actions, and Public Laws reported in the most recent issue of ELR's Weekly Update.
which would authorize the continued use of certain water diversions located on National Forest System land in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Idaho, was passed by the House.
would direct the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy certain federal land in Churchill County, Nevada.
would amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to reauthorize the volunteer programs and community partnerships for the benefit of national wildlife refuges.
would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with state foresters authorizing foresters to provide certain forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration and protection services.
would amend the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 to require recordkeeping and authorize investigations and enforcement actions for violations of such Act.
would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish the Coal Mitigation Trust Fund funded by a tax on coal extraction.
would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to take certain federal lands located in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.
would reauthorize the Rivers of Steel, the Lackawanna Valley, the Delaware and Lehigh, and the Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Areas.
would repeal the fossil fuel consumption percentage reduction requirements for federal buildings under the Energy Conservation and Production Act.
would withdraw and reserve certain public land in the state of Montana for the Limestone Hills Training Area.
 
    