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 delay the effective date of certain EPA rules until a report is submitted and a law is enacted setting the rules' effective date.

would amend the National Historic Preservation Act to provide that if the head of the agency managing federal property objects to the inclusion of certain property on the National Register or its designation as a National Historic Landmark for reasons of national security, the federal property shall be neither included nor designated until the objection is withdrawn.

would prohibit federal funding of foreign travel by the administrator of EPA until the Agency conducts public listening sessions on rulemaking targeting carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants in each of the 15 states with the highest percentage of electricity generated by coal in 2012.

would amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to improve United States-Israel energy cooperation.

would designate certain federal land in Chaffee County, Colorado, as a national monument and as wilderness.

would modify the boundary of the Shiloh National Military Park located in the states of Tennessee and Mississippi in order to establish Parker's Crossroads Battlefield as an affiliated area of the National Park System.

would amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to improve United States-Israel energy cooperation.

would improve timber management on Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land.

would amend the CAA to clarify the definition of accidental release.

would amend the SDWA to exempt fire hydrants from the prohibition on the use of lead pipes, fittings, fixtures, solder, and flux.