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 the Interior to convey certain federal land to Idaho County in Idaho.

would establish the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area in Washington.

would amend Title 5, United States Code, to provide for certain special congressional review procedures for EPA rulemakings.

would ban the use of bisphenol A in food containers.

which would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain federal land in San Juan County, New Mexico, was passed by the Senate, after agreeing to the committee amendments.

which would amend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act to extend to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Commission, was passed by the Senate, after agreeing to an amendment in the nature of a substitute.

which would expand geothermal production, was passed by the Senate.

which would direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating sites in the Lower Mississippi River Area in Louisiana as a unit of the National Park System, was passed by the Senate.

which would allow for the harvest of gull eggs by the Huna Tlingit people within Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, was passed by the Senate.

which 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 Idaho, was passed by the Senate.