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Securing America's Ports of Entry Act of 2019 [S.1004]
[Immigration ]
[National Security ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requires U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to increase the number of field operations officers to specified levels. If the CBP does not adequately increase personnel, the Government Accountability Office must report on CBP hiring practices.
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Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act [S.1057]
[Water ]
[Energy ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
Requires the Department of the Interior to carry out the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan which was submitted to Congress on March 19, 2019, by Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Interior must execute the plan without delay and operate applicable Colorado River System reservoirs accordingly.
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Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act [HB-2030]
[Water ]
[Energy ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Environmental ]
Requires the Department of the Interior to carry out the Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan which was submitted to Congress on March 19, 2019, by Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Interior must execute the plan without delay and operate applicable Colorado River System reservoirs accordingly.
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Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2019 [S.947]
[Healthcare ]
[Science ]
[Energy ]
[Mining ]
[Public Health ]
[Environmental ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Veterans ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Increases the amount of compensation provided to individuals exposed to radiation and expands eligibility requirements for compensation to include additional individuals. Specifically, the bill extends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund until 19 years after this bill's enactment. The trust fund compensates individuals who contract cancer or other diseases as a result of their exposure to radiation during nuclear testing undertaken by the United States during the Cold War. The bill revises the requirements governing the compensation of
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Flagstaff Federal Reversion Relief Act [S.883]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Real Estate ]
Releases any land (including the parcel of land in Flagstaff, Arizona, that is owned by Win Oil Co., Inc.,) that is subject to a federal reversionary interest pursuant to the Act of July 27, 1866, from any longer being subject to that interest. (That Act granted lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line extending from Missouri and Arkansas to the West Coast.)
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Downwinders Compensation Act of 2019 [S.776]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Expands eligibility for restitution that is provided to certain individuals who were exposed to atmospheric nuclear testing and developed specified cancers. Specifically, the bill expands eligibility to include qualified individuals who were exposed in any part of Clark County, Nevada, or Mohave County, Arizona.
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Judicial Efficiency Improvement Act [S.722]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Divides the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit into two judicial circuits: (1) the Ninth Circuit, and (2) a new Twelfth Circuit. The new Ninth Circuit shall be composed of California, Guam, Hawaii, and Northern Mariana Islands. The new Twelfth Circuit shall be composed of the following states: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. The bill creates five additional circuit court judgeships—four in the Ninth Circuit and one in the new Twelfth Circuit. It creates 56 additional district court judgeships in specified
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A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to add Flagstaff and Yuma to the list of locations in which court shall be held in the judicial district for the State of Arizona. [S.688]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Adds Flagstaff and Yuma to the list of locations where court must be held in the U.S. District of Arizona.
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To amend title 28, United States Code, to add Flagstaff and Yuma to the list of locations in which court shall be held in the judicial district for the State of Arizona. [HB-1569]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Adds Flagstaff and Yuma to the list of locations where court must be held in the U.S. District of Arizona.
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Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act [HB-1373]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Mining ]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
Withdraws 1,006,545 acres of federal lands in Arizona, including any land or interest in land acquired by the United States after enactment of this bill, from entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws and mineral materials laws.
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Directing the Secretary of the Senate to make a correction in the enrollment of the bill S. 47. [HCR-21]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Recreation ]
This concurrent resolution directs the Secretary of the Senate to make the following corrections in the enrollment of the bill S. 47 by renaming the short title for S. 47 to the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act; and changing the heading for section 9003 to the JOHN S. MCCAIN III 21ST CENTURY CONSERVATION SERVICE CORPS ACT.
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REUNITE Act Reunite Every Unaccompanied Newborn Infant, Toddler and other children Expeditiously Act [S.557]
[Immigration ]
[Human Rights ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to reunite children and their parents or legal guardians who were apprehended for illegal entry into the United States. DHS and HHS shall develop procedures and programs, including procedures to (1) identify separated family members, (2) allow apprehended parents or legal guardians to have frequent no-cost contact with their separated children, and (3) coordinate with foreign consulates to locate apprehended individuals. DHS and HHS shall ensure
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ANTIQUITIES Act America’s Natural Treasures of Immeasurable Quality Unite, Inspire, and Together Improve the Economies of States Act [S.367]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Environmental ]
[Recreation ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Science ]
Provides for the administration of certain National Monuments and the designation of certain lands in New Mexico and Nevada as wilderness. directs the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to administer each specified national monument in accordance with (1) the one or more presidential proclamations that apply to the monument, (2) any Act of Congress enacted before December 4, 2017, that provides for an adjustment to the boundary
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Black Mountain Range and Bullhead City Land Exchange Act of 2019 [S.243]
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[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
Directs the Department of the Interior, upon request by Bullhead City, Arizona, to convey to to the city 345.2 acres of specified federal land in exchange for 1,100 acres of city-owned land in the Black Mountain Range. The lands acquired by Interior shall be, upon acquisition, automatically and permanently withdrawn from appropriation and disposal under the public land laws and specified laws regarding geothermal resources.
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Lowell Observatory Conveyance Act [S.242]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Science ]
Directs the Forest Service, if the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, requests the conveyance of a certain parcel of land in Coconino National Forest that was originally conveyed by the United States to Percival Lowell and his heirs for observatory purposes, to convey all interest of the United States in such land to the observatory.
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Save Oak Flat Act [S.173]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Mining ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Environmental ]
Repeals the requirement for the Department of Agriculture to convey 2,422 acres of Forest Service land located in Pinal County, Arizona, to Resolution Copper Mining, LLC, in exchange for various parcels of land owned by Resolution Copper.
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Udall Park Land Exchange Completion Act [S.55]
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[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Directs the Department of the Interior to convey without consideration, to the city of Tucson, Arizona, the reversionary interest of the United States in and to an approximately 172.8-acre parcel of land owned by the city for the purpose of unencumbering the title to such land to enable its economic development.
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La Paz County Land Conveyance Act of 2019 [S.54]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Mining ]
[Environmental ]
[Recreation ]
Directs the Department of the Interior, after receiving a request from La Paz County, Arizona, to convey to the county 5,935 acres of specified federal land. Interior shall exclude from such conveyance any federal land that contains significant cultural, environmental, wildlife, or recreational resources. The federal land is withdrawn from the operation of U.S. mining and mineral leasing laws.
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Cottonwood Land Exchange Act of 2019 [S.48]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Agriculture ]
Directs the Department of Agriculture, upon request by Yavapai County, Arizona, to convey to the county 80 acres of land within Coconino National Forest in exchange for 369 acres of county land.
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John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act [S.47]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Environmental ]
[Recreation ]
[Energy ]
[Science ]
[Funding ]
[Water ]
[Mining ]
[Education ]
[Climate Change ]
Sets forth provisions regarding various programs, projects, activities, and studies for the management and conservation of natural resources on federal lands. Specifically, the bill addresses, among other matters land conveyances, exchanges, acquisitions, withdrawals, and transfers; national parks, monuments, memorials, wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers, historic and heritage sites, and other conservation and recreation areas; wildlife conservation; helium extraction; small miner waivers of claim maintenance fees; wildland fire operations;
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