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 provides for the conveyance of approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita National Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the Boy Scouts of America, was signed into law by President Obama on April 2, 2012.
would limit the authority of the Administrator of EPA to implement certain actions related to Chesapeake Bay watershed total maximum daily loads.
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 direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to require residential carbon monoxide detectors to meet the applicable ANSI/UL standard by treating that standard as a consumer product safety rule, and encourage states to require the installation of such detectors in homes.
would clarify that a state has the sole authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal land within the boundaries of the state.
would prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide that contains atrazine.
would amend the CZMA to require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a coastal climate change adaptation planning and response program.
would correct the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Unit L06, Topsail, North Carolina.
would amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to prohibit the importation, exportation, transportation, and sale, receipt, acquisition, or purchase of any live animal of any prohibited wildlife species in interstate or foreign commerce.
would clarify the definition of navigable waters.