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Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2016 [HB-5895]
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[Public Lands and National Parks ]
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[Water ]
Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2016
Sponsored by: Rep. Elise Stefanik
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water, Power And Oceans. on 08/04/2016
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Brownfields Authorization Increase Act of 2016 [HB-5782]
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Brownfields Authorization Increase Act of 2016
Sponsored by: Rep. Frank Pallone
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water Resources And Environment. on 07/15/2016
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Pershing County Economic Development and Conservation Act [HB-5752]
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Pershing County Economic Development and Conservation Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct sales or exchanges of eligible lands in Pershing County, Nevada, identified as the "Checkerboard Lands Resolution Area." Interior and the county shall jointly select which parcels of eligible land to offer for sale or acre-for-acre exchange. For purposes of acre-for-acre exchanges, Interior shall identify management priority areas within the Checkerboard Lands Resolution Area, including those considered to be: greater sage-grouse
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dina Titus
Referred To The Subcommittee On Federal Lands. on 07/25/2016
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Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act [HB-5556]
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Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act This bill establishes the Great Bend of the Gila National Monument in Arizona. The Department of the Interior shall manage the Monument as part of the National Landscape Conservation System to maintain its undeveloped character and to protect and restore its cultural resources, species, and ecosystems. Interior shall conduct an inventory of invasive plant species in the Monument. Interior may carry out vegetation management treatments within the Monument, including efforts to control salt
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Federal Lands. on 06/28/2016
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Stamp Out Invasive Species Act [HB-5334]
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Stamp Out Invasive Species Act This bill directs the U.S. Postal Service to issue and sell a Combating Invasive Species Semipostal Stamp. Proceeds from the sale of the stamp must be transferred in equal proportion to the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture for combating invasive species. (Invasive species are nonnative species whose introduction poses a serious threat to natural ecosystems and causes detrimental economic damage to local communities.) The stamp must be made available to the public for two years.
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Conservation And Forestry. on 06/03/2016
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Water Resources Development Act of 2016 [HB-5303]
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Water Resources Development Act of 2016 TITLE I--GENERAL PROVISIONS (Sec. 101) This title expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) water resources development projects are critical to maintaining economic prosperity, national security, and environmental protection; (2) Congress has required timely delivery of project and study authorization proposals from nonfederal project sponsors and the Corps of Engineers; and (3) Congress should consider a Water Resources Development Act at least once every Congress. (Sec. 102) The Corps of Engineers must
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Sponsored by: Rep. Grace F. Napolitano
Received In The Senate. on 09/29/2016
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Recreation Not Red-Tape Act [HB-4790]
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Recreation Not Red-Tape Act This bill amends the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act to require the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service to adopt a consistent and uniform special recreation permitting process with respect to outfitters and guides. The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) shall sell National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Passes entrance and recreation fees through federal websites. Interior and USDA should: work with the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans
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Sponsored by: Rep. Earl Blumenauer
Referred To The Subcommittee On Early Childhood, Elementary, And Secondary Education. on 09/19/2016
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Border Security and Accountability Act of 2015 [HB-4303]
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Border Security and Accountability Act of 2015 This bill directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), together with other specified departments, to submit to Congress and the Government Accountability Office a U.S. border protection strategy. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 is amended to require that international land border control actions accord with that strategy. DHS shall implement: a monitoring and mitigation plan to address the ecological and environmental impacts of security infrastructure along
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On The Western Hemisphere. on 02/12/2016
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Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act [HB-394]
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Prevention of Escapement of Genetically Altered Salmon in the United States Act This bill prohibits a person from: shipping, transporting, offering for sale, selling, or purchasing a genetically altered finfish, or a food product containing those fish, in commerce; having custody, control, or possession of those fish or food products with the intent to ship, transport, offer for sale, sell, or purchase them in commerce; engaging in net-pen aquaculture (pens of fish contained by nets) of those fish; releasing those fish into a natural environment;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Don Young
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water, Power And Oceans. on 03/02/2015
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AIPM Act of 2015 Areawide Integrated Pest Management Act of 2015 [HB-3893]
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AIPM Act of 2015 Areawide Integrated Pest Management Act of 2015 This bill amends the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998 to expand the Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Integrated Research, Education, and Extension Competitive Grants Program to include grants to colleges, universities, and other entities for qualified areawide integrated pest management projects to prevent the spread of pests and invasive species. The bill establishes an areawide integrated pest management committee to consider stakeholder feedback
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jerry McNerney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Biotechnology, Horticulture, And Research. on 11/16/2015
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Bureau of Land Management Foundation Act [HB-3844]
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Bureau of Land Management Foundation Act (Sec. 3) This bill establishes the Bureau of Land Management Foundation as a charitable, nonprofit organization to encourage, accept, obtain, administer, and use private gifts of money, devises, and bequests of real and personal property for the benefit of, or in connection with, the activities and services of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The foundation shall conduct and encourage programs and activities that support: educational, technical, scientific, and other assistance or activities to support
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jody B. Hice
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. on 07/06/2016
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Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2015 [HB-3382]
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Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2015 This bill revises and reauthorizes through FY2025 the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act. The U.S. Forest Service must conduct forest management activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit in a manner that promotes multiple management benefits, unless the attainment of those benefits would excessively increase a project's cost. The Forest Service must also support the attainment of the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact's environmental standards for the Basin. Activities that reduce forest fuels in the Basin are categorically
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark E. Amodei
Placed On The Union Calendar, Calendar No. 307. on 02/01/2016
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Long Island Sound Restoration and Stewardship Act [HB-2930]
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Long Island Sound Restoration and Stewardship Act This bill reauthorizes the Management Conference of the Long Island Sound Study, the Long Island Sound Stewardship Act of 2006, the Long Island Sound Grants, and Long Island Sound Stewardship Grants through FY2020. The bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to direct the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of the Management Conference of the Long Island Sound Study to include in studies on strengthening the implementation of the Comprehensive
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Sponsored by: Rep. Gregory W. Meeks
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water, Power And Oceans. on 07/14/2015
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SAFE Act Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act [HB-2804]
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SAFE Act Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act This bill requires the President to establish an interagency National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy Joint Implementation Working Group to adopt the National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy (released March 26, 2013) to protect, manage, and conserve fish, wildlife, and plants to maintain the inherent resilience and adaptability of fish, wildlife, and plants to withstand the ongoing and expected effects of extreme weather and climate change. Each
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On Energy And Mineral Resources. on 07/01/2015
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Tribal Coastal Resiliency Act [HB-2719]
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Tribal Coastal Resiliency Act This bill amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to authorize the Department of Commerce to award grants to qualified Indian tribes to further achievement of any of the following tribal coastal zone objectives: protecting, restoring, or preserving areas in the zone that hold important ecological, cultural, or sacred significance for the tribes, or traditional, historic, and esthetic values essential to the tribes; preparing and implementing a special area management plan and technical planning for important
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Subcommittee Hearings Held. on 11/04/2015
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Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2015 [HB-2717]
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Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2009 to revise and reauthorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) ocean acidification programs through FY2019. The scope of the Act is expanded to cover acidification in estuaries and the Great Lakes, not just oceans. Acidification is the decrease in pH of those waters and changes in their chemistry caused by chemical inputs, including
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Quigley
Referred To The Subcommittee On Environment. on 08/18/2015
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Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015 [HB-2647]
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Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015 TITLE I--MAJOR DISASTER FOR WILDFIRE ON FEDERAL LAND (Sec. 101) The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act is amended to define "major disaster for wildfire on federal lands" to mean any wildfire or wildfires that warrant assistance to supplement the efforts and resources of the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture (USDA) on federal lands or on nonfederal lands pursuant to a fire protection agreement or cooperative agreement. (Sec. 102) A process is established
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Sponsored by: Rep. Doug LaMalfa
Placed On Senate Legislative Calendar Under General Orders. Calendar No. 634. on 09/19/2016
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National Forest Collaborative Incentive Act of 2015 [HB-2644]
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National Forest Collaborative Incentive Act of 2015 This bill shall apply whenever the Department of Agriculture (USDA), through the Forest Service, with respect to National Forest System lands derived from the public domain, prepares an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 for a forest management activity that is: developed through a collaborative process, proposed by a resource advisory committee, or covered by a community wildfire protection plan. In such an environmental
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Zinke
Referred To The Subcommittee On Conservation And Forestry. on 07/13/2015
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Federal Lands Invasive Species Control, Prevention, and Management Act [HB-1485]
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Federal Lands Invasive Species Control, Prevention, and Management Act Directs the Department of the Interior (respecting federal lands administered through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) (respecting federal lands administered through the U.S. Forest Service) to plan and carry out activities on lands directly managed by the department concerned to control and manage invasive species in order to inhibit
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark E. Amodei
Referred To The Subcommittee On Conservation And Forestry. on 04/08/2015
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RENEW Conservation Corps Act Restore Employment in Natural and Environmental Work Conservation Corps Act [HB-8746]
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To establish a Restore Employment in Natural and Environmental Work Conservation Corps in the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bobby L. Rush
Referred To The Subcommittee On Water Resources And Environment. on 11/13/2020