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 establish the Rio Grande del Norte National Conservation Area in the state of New Mexico.
would expand the boundaries of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve.
would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue right-of-way permits for a natural gas transmission pipeline in nonwilderness areas within the boundary of Denali National Park.
would expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the state of Washington and designate the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River and Pratt River as wild and scenic rivers.
The bill would direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the state of Mississippi two parcels of surplus land within the boundary of the Natchez Trace Parkway.
would designate as wilderness certain land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the state of Michigan.
would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a grant program to support the restoration of San Francisco Bay.
would establish uniform administrative and enforcement procedures and penalties for the enforcement of the High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act and similar statutes.
which would allow a state or local government to construct levees on certain properties otherwise designated as open space lands, was passed by the Senate.
which would revise the boundaries of John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Sachuest Point Unit RI-04P, Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond Unit RI-06, and Hazards Beach Unit RI-07 in the state of Rhode Island, was passed by the Senate.