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 prohibit royalty incentives for deepwater drilling.
would provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, and authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States.
would amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Molalla River in the State of Oregon, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
would direct the Administrator of EPA to allow for the distribution, sale, and consumption in the United States of remaining inventories of over-the-counter CFC epinephrine inhalers.
would amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to provide that Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida have exclusive fishery management authority over reef fish in the Gulf of Mexico in waters that, on average, are 20 fathoms or less in depth.
would amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to make technical corrections to the segment designations for the Chetco River, Oregon.
would approve the construction, operation, and maintenance of the Keystone XL pipeline.
would establish a program to provide grants to nonprofit organizations to enable such organizations to assign and support volunteers to assist foreign countries in the administration of their natural resources in an environmentally sustainable manner.
would provide that the Secretary of the Interior may accept bids on any new oil and gas leases of federal lands only from bidders certifying that all natural gas produced shall be offered for sale only in the United States.
would provide that the Secretary of the Interior may accept bids on any new oil and gas leases of federal lands only from bidders certifying that all oil produced shall be offered for sale only in the United States.