H.R. 1146
would amend SMCRA to authorize partnerships between states and nongovernmental entities for the purpose of reclaiming and restoring land and water resources adversely affected by coal mining activities before August 3, 1977.
would amend SMCRA to authorize partnerships between states and nongovernmental entities for the purpose of reclaiming and restoring land and water resources adversely affected by coal mining activities before August 3, 1977.
would reauthorize the Highlands Conservation Act and authorize states to use funds from the Act for administrative purposes.
would improve the provision of federal resources to help build capacity and fund risk-reducing, cost-effective mitigation projects for eligible state, local, tribal, and territorial governments and certain private nonprofit organizations.
would amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to increase the threshold for eligibility for assistance under §§403, 406, 407, and 502 of the Act.
would require the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to digitize and make publicly available geographic information system mapping data relating to public access to federal land and waters for outdoor recreation.
would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to continue to implement endangered fish recovery programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins.
would reauthorize the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act.
would designate certain land administered by BLM and the Forest Service in Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas, and withdraw certain land located in Curry and Josephine Counties, Oregon, from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws.
would establish the Chiricahua National Park in the state of Arizona as a unit of the National Park System.
The bill would withdraw the National Forest System land in the Ruby Mountains subdistrict of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and the National Wildlife Refuge System land in Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Elko and White Pine Counties, Nevada, from operation under the mineral leasing laws.