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 convey the Forest Service Lake Hill Administrative Site in Summit County, Colorado.
would amend the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an expeditious program of competitive leasing of oil and gas in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, including at least one lease sale in the Reserve each year in the period 2013 through 2023.
would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to take certain federal lands located in El Dorado County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.
would provide for certain improvements to the Denali National Park and Preserve in the state of Alaska.
would modify the boundary of the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota.
would direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey two parcels of surplus land within the boundary of the Natchez Trace Parkway to the state of Mississippi.
would require the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain federal land to the Powell Recreation District in the state of Wyoming.
would amend the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 to expand the authorization of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior to provide service opportunities.
would designate certain land in the state of Oregon as wilderness and make additional wild and scenic river designations.
would authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with state foresters authorizing them to provide certain forest, rangeland, and watershed restoration and protection services.