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 take certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Montana.

would direct the Secretary of Agriculture to select and implement landscape-scale forest restoration projects, and assist communities in increasing their resilience to wildfire.

would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to permit removal of trees around electrical lines on National Forest System land without conducting a timber sale.

would take certain mineral interests into trust for the benefit of the Crow Tribe of Montana.

would ensure that there is no net gain in federal land ownership in any fiscal year.

would limit the ability of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to penalize an owner of livestock for grazing by such livestock on certain federal lands on which grazing is permitted on or after the date of enactment of the Act and subsequently prohibited.

would provide greater regional access to the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in the state of Maine.

would release a federal reversionary interest and convey mineral interests in Chester County, Tennessee.

would amend the Internal Revenue Code to extend expensing of environmental remediation costs.

would direct the Administrator of NOAA to maintain a program that improves wildfire forecasting and detection.