Recent Federal Bills

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 promote the use of clean cookstoves and fuels.

would provide for the conveyance of small parcels of lands to landowners who share a boundary with the National Forest System or public lands

would amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the mainstem of the Nashua River and its tributaries in the commonwealth of Massachusetts for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for clean energy and to repeal fossil fuel subsidies for oil companies.

would include the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands in the California Coastal National Monument as a part of the National Landscape Conservation System.

would preserve existing rights and responsibilities with respect to waters of the United States.

would allow for innovations and alternative technologies that meet or exceed desired energy efficiency goals.

would direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue commercial use authorizations to commercial stock operators for operations in designated wilderness within the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

would prevent certain taxation of natural gas pipeline property.

would amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to require the President to certify that the Yucca Mountain site remains the designated site for the development of a repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive waste, and for other purposes.