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 enhance the federal government’s planning and preparation for extreme weather and its dissemination of best practices to respond to extreme weather, thereby increasing resilience, improving regional coordination, and mitigating the financial risk from such extreme weather.

would require the Secretary of Energy to establish a grant program to support hydrogen-fueled equipment at ports and conduct a study with the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Homeland Security on the feasibility and safety of using hydrogen-derived fuels, including ammonia, as a shipping fuel.

would require the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to establish a grant program to demonstrate the performance and reliability of heavy-duty fuel cell vehicles that use hydrogen as a fuel source.

which would amend the Siletz Reservation Act to address the hunting, fishing, trapping, and animal gathering rights of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, was passed by the House.

which would prohibit the importation into the United States of unirradiated low-enriched uranium that is produced in the Russian Federation, was passed by the House.

which would amend the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to improve the administration of the Marine Debris Foundation, and amend the Marine Debris Act to improve the administration of NOAA’s Marine Debris Program, was passed by the Senate.

would provide compensation to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community for the taking without just compensation of land by the United States inside the exterior boundaries of the L'Anse Indian Reservation that were guaranteed to the Community under a treaty signed in 1854.

would enhance safety requirements for trains transporting hazardous materials.

would establish the Cesar E. Chavez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park in California and Arizona.

would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to La Paz County, Arizona.