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 establish milestone-based development and demonstration projects relating to nuclear fuel.

would require the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the state of Utah certain federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of BLM within the boundaries of Camp Williams, Utah.

would expedite under NEPA and improve forest management activities on National Forest System lands, on public lands under the jurisdiction of BLM, and on tribal lands to return resilience to overgrown, fire-prone forested lands.

would provide for a land exchange in the Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota. 

would modernize permitting systems at DOI.

would reaffirm the applicability of the Indian Reorganization Act to the Lytton Rancheria of California.

would establish and maintain a coordinate program within NOAA that improves wildfire, fire weather, fire risk, and smoke related forecasting, detection, modeling, observations, and service delivery, and to address growing needs in the wildland-urban interface.

would amend the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation Restoration Act to provide for the transfer of additional federal land to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.

would require the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the state of Utah certain federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of BLM within the boundaries of Camp Williams, Utah.

would amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to provide cost-recovery authority for DOI.