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 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 provide for the designation of certain wilderness areas, recreation management areas, and conservation areas in the state of Colorado.

would establish the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site in the state of Maryland and provide for its administration as an affiliated area of the National Park System.

would designate the Flatside-Bethune Wilderness in the Ouachita National Forest.

would establish the Fort Monroe National Historical Park in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

would amend the Grand Ronde Reservation Act to address the hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community.

would redesignate land within certain wilderness study areas in the state of Wyoming.

would provide for congressional disapproval under Chapter 8 of Title 5, U.S. Code, of the rule submitted by the National Park Service relating to "Glen Canyon National Recreation Area; Motor Vehicles."

would designate certain land administered by BLM and the Forest Service in the state of Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas, and withdraw certain land located in Curry and Josephine Counties, Oregon, from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws.

would express findings relating to the recreational trails program.