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 withdraw certain federal lands and interests located in Pima and Santa Cruz counties, Arizona, from the mining and mineral leasing laws of the United States.

would amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study with respect to stormwater runoff from oil and gas operations.

would direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Reclamation, to conve to the City of Fernley, Nevada, any federal land within that city that is under the jurisdiction of either of those agencies.

would direct the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy certain federal land in Churchill County, Nevada.

would direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management, to convey to the City of Carlin, Nevada, any federal land within that city that is under the jurisdiction of that agency.

would quitclaim surface rights to certain federal land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in Virginia City, Nevada, to Storey County, Nevada, to resolve conflicting ownership and title claims.

would terminate federal prohibitions on the domestic production of offshore oil and natural gas.

would modify the project for navigation, Mississippi River Ship Channel, Gulf of Mexico to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundary of the Stephen Mather Wilderness and the North Cascades National Park to allow the rebuilding of a road outside of the floodplain with no net loss of acreage to the Park or the Wilderness.

would amend CAA to eliminate the exemption for aggregation of emissions from oil and gas sources.