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 provide lasting protection for inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System.

would direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by DOI or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western and southeastern United States, and acknowledge and support the long-standing use of cultural burning by Indian tribes and Indigenous practitioners.

would require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to utilize grazing for wildfire risk reduction.

would provide for the establishment of a land health management program on federal land in Malheur County, Oregon.

would authorize funding for electric vehicle charging infrastructure programs to be used for other highway projects.

would amend the FWPCA to reauthorize the National Estuary Program.

would amend the FWPCA with respect to the period during which areas may be prohibited from being specified as disposal sites for dredged or fill material.

would amend the FWPCA to require states to hold public hearings to review water quality standards applicable to a body of water into which a municipal combined storm and sanitary sewer discharges.

would amend the FWPCA to make changes with respect to water quality certification.

would amend the FWCPA with respect to general permits for the discharge of dredged or fill material.