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Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009 [S.796]
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Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009 - Prohibits the issuance of a federal patent for any mining claim, millsite, or tunnel site (claim or site) unless the Secretary of the Interior determines that: (1) a patent application was filed by September 30, 1994; and (2) all application requirements were fully complied with by such date. Prescribes a mandatory claim maintenance fee and location fee for each claim or site. States that failure to perform assessment work, pay a mandatory maintenance or location fee, or file timely notice of location
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Safety for Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing Act [S.600]
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Safety for Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing Act - Deems the resumption of underground nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site or the use of any other location for such testing to be a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment for which a separate environmental impact statement is required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Outlines information required to be included in such statement, including: (1) the possibility of radiation containment failure and the effects of such failure; (2)
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National Commission on High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel Establishment Act of 2009 [S.591]
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National Commission on High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel Establishment Act of 2009 - Establishes the National Commission on High-Level Radioactive Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel to evaluate alternatives to high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel strategies of the federal government.
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Clean Renewable Energy and Economic Development Act [S.539]
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Clean Renewable Energy and Economic Development Act - Amends the Federal Power Act to require the President to designate as national renewable energy zones areas that have: (1) the potential to generate in excess of one giawatt of electricity from renewable energy; (2) insufficient electric transmission capacity to achieve such potential; and (3) the capability to contain additional renewable energy generating facilities if there were a sufficient transmission capacity. Excludes specified areas from such zones, including national parks, wilderness
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A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to establish pilot project offices to improve Federal permit coordination for renewable energy. [S.523]
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Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy to: (1) designate field or district offices of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana, and Wyoming to serve as Renewable Energy Pilot Project Offices for coordination of federal permits for renewable energy projects and transmission lines to integrate renewable energy; and (2) enter into an amended memorandum of understanding with the Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and
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A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Nevada to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and for other purposes. [S.508]
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Provides for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Nevada to the Nevada Speedway, LLC. Requires: (1) Nevada Speedway, LLC, to pay to the Secretary of the Interior the appraised value of such land; and (2) any costs of the conveyance to be paid by Nevada Speedway, LLC.
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A bill to expand the authority of the Secretary of the Air Force to convey certain relocatable military housing units to Indian tribes located in Idaho and Nevada. [S.390]
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Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2009 to include Idaho and Nevada among specified states to which the Secretary of the Air Force may convey certain relocatable military housing units to Indian tribes.
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Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2011 [S.3635]
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Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2011 - Makes appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for FY2011. Title I: Corps of Engineers-Civil - Makes appropriations for FY2011 to the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers-Civil, for: (1) civil functions pertaining to rivers and harbors, flood and storm damage reduction, shore protection, and aquatic ecosystem restoration (including the Mississippi River alluvial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri); (2) the regulatory program pertaining
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Department of Energy National Security Act for Fiscal Year 2011 [S.3457]
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Department of Energy National Security Act for Fiscal Year 2011 - Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI [sic]: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations - (Sec. 3101) Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY2011 for activities of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in carrying out programs necessary for national security, with specified allocations for new plant projects, defense
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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 [S.3454]
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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - (Sec. 101) Authorizes appropriations for FY2011 for procurement for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, and Department of Defense (DOD) for aircraft, missiles, weapons and combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, communications systems, equipment, and other procurement. Subtitle B: Army Programs - (Sec. 111) Prohibits Army aircraft funds from being
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Sloan Hills Withdrawal Act [S.3313]
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Sloan Hills Withdrawal Act - Withdraws certain federal land located in the Sloan Hills area of Clark County, Nevada, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws and disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials. Identifies such land as the "Withdrawal Zone" on the map entitled "Sloan Hills Area," dated June 24, 2010.
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Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2010 [S.3224]
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Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2010 - Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund until 19 years after enactment of this Act. Prescribes additional periods of required presence in an affected area during atmospheric nuclear testing for individuals filing leukemia or specified disease claims. Increases the amount of compensation an individual filing a claim may receive to $150,000. Expands "affected area" to include Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and New Mexico, as well as
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Elko Motocross and Tribal Conveyance Act [S.3185]
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Elko Motocross and Tribal Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Elko County, Nevada, without consideration, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to approximately 300 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Elko District, Nevada, as depicted on the map as "Elko Motocross Park." Requires the land conveyed to be used only: (1) as a motocross, off-highway vehicle, and stock car racing area; or (2) for any other public purpose consistent with the Recreation and Public Purposes
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A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5070 Vegas Valley Drive in Las Vegas, Nevada, as the "Joseph A. Ryan Post Office Building". [S.3092]
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Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5070 Vegas Valley Drive in Las Vegas, Nevada, as the "Joseph A. Ryan Post Office Building."
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Invasive Species Emergency Response Fund Act [S.3063]
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Invasive Species Emergency Response Fund Act - Establishes the Invasive Species Emergency Response Fund to provide loans to qualified organizations to prevent and remediate the impacts of invasive species on habitats and ecosystems. Requires the submission of specified reports.
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A bill to prohibit the further extension or establishment of national monuments in Nevada except by express authorization of Congress. [S.3041]
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Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Nevada from being undertaken except by express authorization of Congress.
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Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2009 [S.2891]
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Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2009 - Amends the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984 (HPPA) to modify, commencing October 1, 2017, certain statutory schedules governing contracts for delivery to specified localities in Arizona, California, and Nevada of hydroelectric power generated at Hoover Dam. Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) create, from certain apportioned allocations of contingent capacity and firm energy, a resource pool equal to 5% of the full rated capacity of 2.074 million kilowatts and associated firm energy; (2) offer Schedule D contingency
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National Forest Insect and Disease Emergency Act of 2010 [S.2798]
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National Forest Insect and Disease Emergency Act of 2010 - (Sec. 4) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to identify high-risk areas within the National Forest System in the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming (the affected states). Defines "high-risk area" to mean a road, trail, or other area that poses a high risk to public health or safety due to hazard trees resulting from landscape-scale tree mortality caused by an insect or disease epidemic.
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Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2009 [S.2724]
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Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2010 - Reauthorizes the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act. (Sec. 2) Restates the findings and purposes of such Act. Sets forth as its purposes to: (1) enable the Chief of the Forest Service, the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to fund, plan, and implement significant new environmental restoration activities and forest management activities to address specified watershed issues in the Lake Tahoe Basin; (2) ensure that governmental and private
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Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 [S.22]
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Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 - Title I: Additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System - Subtitle A: Wild Monongahela Wilderness - (Sec. 1001) Designates specified federal lands in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia, as wilderness and as either a new component, or an addition to an existing component, of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to continue the competitive running event permitted from 2003 through 2007 in the vicinity of the boundaries of the Dolly Sods
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