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 Agriculture to convey the Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, Arizona.
would establish a Wildfire Intelligence Center.
would prohibit Big Cypress National Preserve from being designated as wilderness or as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
would establish the Fort Ontario Holocaust Refugee Shelter National Historical Park in the state of New York as a unit of the National Park System.
would amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for additional entities to be eligible to complete the maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado.
would amend the Internal Revenue Code to exclude property and facilities located on prime farmland from certain credits relating to renewable energy production and investment.
would direct the Secretary of the Interior to provide technical and financial assistance to identify, conserve, restore, and interpret natural, recreational, historical, and cultural resources within the Great Lakes watershed.
would amend the Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention Act of 2004 to require the establishment of an additional institute under the Act.
would amend the Internal Revenue Code to modify the carbon oxide sequestration credit to ensure parity for different uses and utilizations of qualified carbon oxide.
would enhance safety requirements for trains transporting hazardous materials.