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.

which provides for the conveyance of certain land inholdings owned by the United States to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, was signed into law on July 25, 2014.

which clarifies authority granted under the Act entitled "An Act to define the exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah," was signed into law on July 25, 2014.

which provides for the conveyance of certain cemeteries that are located on National Forest System land in Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota, was signed into law on July 25, 2014.

which would amend the ESA to require publication on the Internet of the basis for determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species, was passed by the House.

would direct the Administrator of General Services, on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior, to convey certain federal property located in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to the Olgoonik Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reinstate the financing for the Hazardous Substance Superfund.

would remove the American burying beetle from the list of endangered species under the ESA.

would reverse the listing by the Secretary of the Interior of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species under the ESA and prevent further consideration of listing of the species as a threatened species or endangered species under that Act pending implementation of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies' Lesser Prairie-Chicken Range-Wide Conservation Plan and other conservation measures.

would ratify a water settlement agreement affecting the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe.

would amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund to limit the use of funds available from the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to use for maintenance.