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 require the Secretary of Commerce to establish a grant program to foster enhanced coexistence between ocean users and North Atlantic right whales and other large cetacean species.

would approve the settlement of water rights claims of Ohkay Owingeh in the Rio Chama stream system, and restore the bosque on Pueblo land in the state of New Mexico.

would establish milestone-based development and demonstration projects relating to nuclear fuel.

would amend Title 49, U.S. Code, to make the method used by DOE for calculating electric vehicle-equivalent petroleum fuel economy more accurate.

would provide for the implementation of certain recommendations from the Report of the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission.

would require the Administrator of NOAA to reform NMFS' Marine Recreational Information Program.

would amend the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to direct research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities in support of supercritical geothermal and closed-loop geothermal systems in supercritical various conditions.

would extend and repeal the waiver authority under the Protecting Europe's Energy Security Act of 2019.

would conditionally prohibit commercial offshore wind energy development in the Columbia Management Area.

would amend the Energy Conservation and Production Act to direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a weatherization readiness program.