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 Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit the importation, exportation, transportation, and sale, receipt, acquisition, or purchase in interstate or foreign commerce, of any live animal of any prohibited wildlife species.
would conserve fish and aquatic communities in the United States through partnerships that foster fish habitat conservation.
would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program.
would amend and reauthorize certain provisions relating to Long Island Sound restoration and stewardship.
would direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to build on and help coordinate funding for the restoration and protection efforts of the Four-State Delaware River Basin region.
would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to use designated funding to pay for construction of authorized rural water projects.
would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that sewage treatment plants monitor for and report discharges of raw sewage.
would repeal a limitation on annual payments under SMCRA.
would designate the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Conservation Area in the state of California.
would amend the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 to establish criteria for the rate of fees charged for grazing private livestock on public rangelands.