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 provide for a smart water resource management pilot program.

would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the energy credit for microturbine property.

would promote the domestic development and deployment of clean energy technologies required for the 21st century.

would provide for no net increase in the total acreage of certain federal land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Forest Service.

would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to use designated funding to pay for construction of authorized rural water projects.

would amend the ESA to require periodic review of listings of endangered species and threatened species under that Act, support protection and conservation measures for endangered or threatened species under that Act, and alleviate the need to list a species as an endangered or threatened species; and would convey small parcels of National Forest System land and Department of the Interior land to generate revenues for such protection and conservation measures.

would designate as wilderness certain public land in the Cherokee National Forest in the State of Tennessee.

would provide for the conveyance of certain federal land in Clark County, Nevada, for the environmental remediation and reclamation of the Three Kids Mine Project Site.

which would preserve the Green Mountain Lookout in the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, was passed by the House.

would provide for the release of the property interests retained by the United States in certain land conveyed in 1954 by the United States, acting through the Director of the BLM, to the State of Oregon for the establishment of the Hermiston Agricultural Research and Extension Center of Oregon State University in Hermiston, Oregon.