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 authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with state foresters authorizing foresters to provide certain forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration and protection services.
would amend the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 to require recordkeeping and authorize investigations and enforcement actions for violations of such Act.
would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish the Coal Mitigation Trust Fund funded by a tax on coal extraction.
would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to take certain federal lands located in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.
would reauthorize the Rivers of Steel, the Lackawanna Valley, the Delaware and Lehigh, and the Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Areas.
would repeal the fossil fuel consumption percentage reduction requirements for federal buildings under the Energy Conservation and Production Act.
would withdraw and reserve certain public land in the state of Montana for the Limestone Hills Training Area.
would require the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain federal land to Elko County, Nevada, and to take land into trust for the Te-moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada.
would authorize the Administrator of NOAA to provide certain funds to eligible entities for activities undertaken to address the marine debris impacts of the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
would provide for the development of a fishery management plan for the Gulf of Mexico red snapper.