Recent Federal Bills

would amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to repeal the requirement to establish catch limits for the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery.

would determine the feasibility of additional agreements for long-term use of existing or expanded non-federal storage and conveyance facilities to augment federal water supply, ecosystem, and operational flexibility benefits in certain areas.

would authorize the continued use of certain water diversions located on National Forest System land in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the State of Idaho.

would provide for the conveyance of certain land inholdings owned by the United States to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.

would direct the Administrator of General Services, on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, to convey certain federal property located in the State of Alaska to the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska.

would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator of EPA to consider projects involving rural communities in the selection of alternative water source projects.

would establish a WaterSense program within the EPA.

would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the energy credit for microturbine property.

would provide for no net increase in the total acreage of certain federal land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Forest Service.

would amend the ESA to require periodic review of listings of endangered species and threatened species under that Act, support protection and conservation measures for endangered or threatened species under that Act, and alleviate the need to list a species as an endangered or threatened species; and would convey small parcels of National Forest System land and Department of the Interior land to generate revenues for such protection and conservation measures.

would provide for the conveyance of certain federal land in Clark County, Nevada, for the environmental remediation and reclamation of the Three Kids Mine Project Site.

would provide for the release of the property interests retained by the United States in certain land conveyed in 1954 by the United States, acting through the Director of the BLM, to the State of Oregon for the establishment of the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center of Oregon State University in Hermiston, Oregon.

would require the Administrator of EPA to set reasonable limits on the stringency and timing of proposed regulations for new residential wood heaters, new residential hydronic heaters, new forced-air furnaces, and new residential masonry heaters.

would prohibit any federal agency or official, in carrying out any Act or program to reduce the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on climate change, from imposing a fee or tax on gaseous emissions emitted directly by livestock.