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 authorize loan guarantees for projects to construct renewable fuel pipelines.
would prohibit the conducting of invasive research on great apes.
would direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a boundary study of the lands and waters in the greater Salem Sound and the city of Salem to determine the suitability and feasibility for inclusion within the boundary of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
would create clean energy jobs and set efficiency standards for small-duct high-velocity air conditioning and heat pump systems.
would amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining.
would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ban the use of the arsenic compound known as roxarsone as a food additive.
would require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to expedite forest management projects relating to hazardous fuels reduction, forest restoration, forest health, and watershed restoration.
would delay enforcement and establishment of certain water quality standards within the Great Bay Estuary.
would amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the city of Hermiston, Oregon, water recycling and reuse project.
would rescind certain instruction memoranda of the BLM and amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for an impact determination of proposed policy modifications.