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 amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to reauthorize the National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System.
would amend the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015, to reauthorize the Colorado River System conservation pilot program.
would provide for conservation and economic development in the state of Nevada.
would direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to encourage and expand the use of prescribed fire on land managed by DOI or the Forest Service, with an emphasis on units of the National Forest System in the western United States, and acknowledge and support the long-standing use of cultural burning by tribes and Indigenous practitioners.
would extend the authorization of the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991.
would amend the Boulder Canyon Project Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to expend amounts in the Colorado River Dam fund.
would provide for economic development and conservation in Washoe County, Nevada
would amend the Southwest Forest Health and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2004 to require the establishment of an additional institute under the Act.
would require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a pilot program for the establishment and use of a pre-fire-suppression stand density index.
would improve federal activities relating to wildfires.