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 Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Water Rights Settlement.
would ratify a water settlement agreement affecting the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.
would amend the Natural Gas Act to provide certainty with respect to the timing of DOE decisions to approve or deny applications to export natural gas.
would amend the ESA to require the basis for determining that species are endangered species or threatened species to be published in the Internet.
which would take certain federal lands located in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, was signed on July 16, 2014.
would amend the ESA to conform citizen suits under that Act with other existing law.
would amend the ESA to require disclosure to states of the basis of determinations under such Act and ensure use of information provided by state, tribal, and county governments in decisionmaking under such Act.
would amend the ESA to improve the disclosure of certain expenditures under that Act.
would amend the ESA to require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species.
would authorize early repayment of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within the Northport Irrigation District in Nebraska.