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 Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to expedite forest management projects relating to hazardous fuels reduction, forest restoration, forest health, and watershed restoration.

would delay enforcement and establishment of certain water quality standards within the Great Bay Estuary.

would amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the city of Hermiston, Oregon, water recycling and reuse project.

would rescind certain instruction memoranda of the BLM and amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for an impact determination of proposed policy modifications.

would designate the Organ Mountains and other public land as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System and the National Landscape Conservation System in the state of New Mexico.

would authorize the Mescalero Apache Tribe to lease adjudicated water rights.

would provide local communities with tools to make solar permitting more efficient.

would authorize the President to provide assistance to the Government of Haiti to end within five years the deforestation in Haiti and restore within 30 years the extent of tropical forest cover in existence in Haiti in 1990.

would reauthorize the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act.

would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the taxable income limit on percentage depletion for oil and natural gas produced from marginal properties.