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 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.

would amend the Mineral Leasing Act to provide for the leasing of federal lands for uranium mining.

would prohibit the Administrator of EPA from regulating, based on material composition, any type of firearm ammunition or fishing tackle.

would seek to reduce oil consumption and improve energy security.