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 authorize the Administrator of EPA to award grants to individuals that may be affected by a reported disease cluster.

would improve the energy and water efficiency of federal buildings.

would reauthorize and amend the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Establishment Act.

would direct the Administrator of EPA to investigate and address cancer and disease clusters, including in infants and children.

would amend OCSLA to permanently prohibit the conduct of offshore drilling on the outer Continental Shelf off the coast of California, Oregon, and Washington.

would sustain the economic development and recreational use of National Forest System land and other public land in the state of Montana, add certain land to the National Wilderness Preservation System, release certain wilderness study areas, and designate new areas for recreation.

would convey a small parcel of National Forest System land in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah to Brigham Young University.

would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the development of hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the Central Utah Project.

would designate as wilderness certain land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the state of Michigan.

would amend TSCA to clarify the jurisdiction of the EPA with respect to certain sporting good articles, and to exempt those articles from a definition under that Act.