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 provide for a land exchange with the Trinity Public Utilities District of Trinity County, California, involving the transfer of land to BLM and the Six Rivers National Forest in exchange for National Forest System land in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
would officially replace President Obama's Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program with a congressional plan that will conduct additional oil and natural gas lease sales.
would approve the construction, operation, and maintenance of the northern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline from the Canadian border to the South Dakota/Nebraska border.
would prohibit the sale of billfish.
would amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in Connecticut and Rhode Island for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
which provides for an exchange of land between the Department of Homeland Security and the South Carolina State Ports Authority, was signed into law on July 18, 2012.
would provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah to Brigham Young University.
would promote the development of renewable energy on public lands.
would require the Secretary of the Interior to convey the McKinney Lake National Fish Hatchery to the state of North Carolina.
would amend the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to reauthorize grants for and require applied water supply research regarding the water resources research and technology institutes established under that Act.