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 require the Secretary of State to act on a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.

would modify the criteria used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to dredge small ports.

would authorize states to enforce pipeline safety requirements related to wellbores at interstate storage facilities.

would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for the retrofit conversion of a nonhybrid motor vehicle to a hybrid.

would exclude ecosystem component stocks of fish from certain annual catch limits.

would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit for performance based home energy improvements.

would prohibit the Department of Energy from subordinating its position in energy loan guarantees to outside investors.

would protect inventoried roadless areas in the National Forest System.

would amend the Food Security Act of 1985 with respect to maximum enrollment and eligible land in the conservation reserve program.

would amend the ESA to authorize permits for takings of wolves to protect from wolf depredation in states where wolf populations exceed the recovery goals in a recovery plan under that Act.