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Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act Amendments of 2015 [S.209]
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Indian Tribal Energy Development and Self-Determination Act Amendments of 2015 TITLE I--INDIAN TRIBAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND SELF-DETERMINATION ACT AMENDMENTS (Sec. 101) This bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Department of the Interior to provide Indian tribes with technical assistance in planning their energy resource development programs. The Department of Energy (DOE) Indian energy education planning and management assistance program is expanded to make intertribal organizations eligible for grants and to allow grants to
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Sponsored by: Sen. John McCain
Referred To The Subcommittee On Energy And Power. on 12/18/2015
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Gold King Mine Spill Recovery Act of 2015 [S.2063]
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Gold King Mine Spill Recovery Act of 2015 This bill entitles persons to compensation for allowable damages (i.e., property, business, or financial losses) under the Federal Tort Claims Act if they were injured by the spill into Cement Creek from the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado. The spill occurred on August 5, 2015. The bill establishes an Office of Gold King Mine Spill Claims within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to process and pay compensation claims. The EPA must work with affected states and Indian tribes to develop, fund,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Tom Udall
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On The Judiciary. on 09/22/2015
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Stop Nuclear Waste by Our Lakes Act of 2015 [S.2026]
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Stop Nuclear Waste by Our Lakes Act of 2015 This bill directs the Department of State to request that the International Joint Commission: review the long-term impacts of the location of the Deep Geological Repository (proposed by the Ontario Power Generation for disposal of 7 million cubic feet of low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste at the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant in Kincardine, Ontario), including an examination of the conclusions reached in the Environmental Assessment Report of the Joint Review Panel, and whether those conclusions would
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Sponsored by: Sen. Sherrod Brown
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Foreign Relations. on 09/10/2015
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Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Water Rights Settlement Act [S.1983]
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Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Water Rights Settlement Act Authorizes, ratifies, and confirms the Pechanga Settlement Agreement, entered into by the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians, the Rancho California Water District (RCWD), and the United States, except to the extent that it is modified by or conflicts with this Act. Confirms a Tribal Water Right that must be held in trust by the United States on behalf of the Band and its allottees. (Allottees are individuals who hold a beneficial real property interest in an Indian allotment
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Committee On Indian Affairs. Ordered To Be Reported Without Amendment Favorably. on 02/03/2016
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New Mexico Drought Preparedness Act of 2015 [S.1936]
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New Mexico Drought Preparedness Act of 2015 Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Commissioner of Reclamation (Secretary), to carry out a water acquisition program in specified basins in New Mexico, under which the Secretary shall: (1) make acquisitions of water by lease or purchase of water rights or contractual entitlements from willing lessors or sellers; and (2) take other actions to enhance stream flow to benefit fish and wildlife, water quality, and river ecosystem restoration and to enhance stewardship and conservation
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Sponsored by: Sen. Tom Udall
Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. Hearings Held. on 10/08/2015
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Drought Recovery and Resilience Act of 2015 [S.1837]
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Drought Recovery and Resilience Act of 2015 TITLE I--EMERGENCY DROUGHT RESPONSE APPROPRIATIONS FROM RECLAMATION FUND This bill provides emergency supplemental appropriations for FY2015 from the Reclamation Fund to the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Army Corps of Engineers for water projects, programs, grants, or loans in states impacted by drought. Interior is provided additional amounts for the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation),
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Sponsored by: Sen. Barbara Boxer
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 07/22/2015
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Restoring America's Watersheds Act of 2015 [S.1780]
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Restoring America's Watersheds Act of 2015 Directs the Forest Service to establish a Water Source Protection Program for National Forest System land derived from the public domain. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to enter into water source investment partnerships with specified end water users to protect and restore the condition of National Forest watersheds that provide water to non-federal partners. Authorizes USDA to produce a water source management plan.Directs the Forest Service to establish a Watershed Condition Framework
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Flake
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. on 07/15/2015
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Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Phase III Act of 2015 [S.1694]
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Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project Phase III Act of 2015 (Sec. 2) This bill expands the purposes of the Yakima River Basin Water Conservation Program to include: protection, mitigation, and enhancement of fish and wildlife and the recovery and maintenance of self-sustaining harvestable populations of fish and other aquatic life, both anadromous and resident species, throughout their historic distribution range in the Yakima River Basin; improving the reliability of municipal, industrial, and domestic water supply and use purposes, especially
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Sponsored by: Sen. Patty Murray
Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. Reported By Senator Murkowski With An Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute. With Written Report No. 114-187. on 12/16/2015
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National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act of 2015 [S.1691]
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National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act of 2015 This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA), acting through the Forest Service, to identify, prioritize, and carry out ecosystem restoration projects on National Forest System land in accordance with applicable land and resource management plans, if any, to accomplish one or more of the following objectives: restore terrestrial habitat; sustain water quality, water flows, or watershed health and function; create, improve, or increase early seral habitat; carry out a needed timber stand
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Flake
Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. Hearings Held. on 07/16/2015
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Long Island Sound Restoration and Stewardship Act [S.1674]
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Long Island Sound Restoration and Stewardship Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to expand the duties of the Office of Management Conference of the Long Island Sound Study to include: (1) a study on environmental impacts on the Long Island Sound watershed; (2) planning initiatives for the Long Island Sound; (3) developing and implementing strategies to increase public education and awareness about the ecological health and water quality conditions of the Long Island Sound;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Blumenthal
Committee On Environment And Public Works. Reported By Senator Inhofe Without Amendment. With Written Report No. 114-212. on 02/24/2016
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Columbia River Basin Restoration Act of 2015 [S.1394]
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Columbia River Basin Restoration Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a Columbia River Basin Restoration Program to reduce toxic contamination and clean up contaminated sites. The program must be collaborative and stakeholder-based. The EPA must: (1) assess trends in water quality and toxic contamination or toxics reduction; (2) collect, characterize and assess data on toxics and water quality to identify possible
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Wyden
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Environment And Public Works. on 05/20/2015
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Klamath Basin Water Recovery and Economic Restoration Act of 2015 [S.133]
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Klamath Basin Water Recovery and Economic Restoration Act of 2015 Authorizes, ratifies, and confirms the Hydroelectric Settlement (Settlement), the Klamath River Basin Restoration Agreement for the Sustainability of Public and Trust Resources and Affected Communities (Restoration Agreement), and the Upper Klamath Basin Comprehensive Agreement (Upper Basin Agreement) and any amendments that are executed to make them consistent with this Act. Directs: (1) the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary), the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Agriculture
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. (sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure: Cr S102) on 01/08/2015
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Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2015 [S.132]
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Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2015 Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2015 - Amends the O&C Lands Act of 1937 to establish uses and management requirements for the Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land and other Oregon land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Forest Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers. Designates separate portions of the land for conservation and timber harvesting. Specifies requirements for managing the land, including: prohibiting the harvesting of trees of a
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Wyden
Committee On Energy And Natural Resources. Hearings Held. on 07/16/2015
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of State should ensure that the Canadian Government does not permanently store nuclear waste in the Great Lakes Basin. [HR-194]
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of State should ensure that the Canadian Government does not permanently store nuclear waste in the Great Lakes Basin. Declares the sense of the House of Representatives that: the Canadian government should not allow a permanent nuclear waste repository to be built within the Great Lakes Basin, the President and the Secretary of State should take appropriate action to work with the Canadian government to prevent a permanent nuclear waste repository from being
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Sponsored by: Rep. Janice Schakowsky
Referred To The Subcommittee On The Western Hemisphere. on 05/20/2015
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Supporting the designation of the year of 2015 as the International Year of Soils and supporting locally led soil conservation. [HCR-30]
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Supporting the designation of the year of 2015 as the International Year of Soils and supporting locally led soil conservation. Supports the designation of an International Year of Soils, and supports locally-led soil conservation. Encourages public participation in activities celebrating the importance of soils to the United States. Supports soil conservation through landowner participation in federal conservation programs in partnership with local soil and water conservation districts.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Cicilline
Referred To The Subcommittee On Conservation And Forestry. on 04/08/2015
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Douglas County Conservation Act of 2015 [HB-925]
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Douglas County Conservation Act of 2015 Directs the Forest Service to convey approximately 67 acres of certain Forest Service land (Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park) to the state of Nevada to be used for the conservation of wildlife or natural resources or for a public park. Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to make publicly available a prospectus to solicit one or more concessionaires for the approximately 125 acres of land identified as the Round Hill Pines Resort and the approximately 448 acres of land identified as the Zephyr Shoals.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dina Titus
Referred To The Subcommittee On Federal Lands. on 03/16/2015
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To extend the authorization of the Highlands Conservation Act. [HB-894]
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To extend the authorization of the Highlands Conservation Act. (Sec. 1) This bill amends the Highlands Conservation Act to reauthorize through FY2021: (1) land conservation partnership projects in the highlands regions of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania; and (2) Forest Service and Department of Agriculture programs to assist states, units of local government, and private forest and farm landowners in the conservation of land and natural resources in that region.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Maloney
Reported By The Committee On Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-515, Part I. on 04/21/2016
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Healthy Forest Management and Wildfire Prevention Act [HB-695]
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Healthy Forest Management and Wildfire Prevention Act Declares that the bark beetle epidemic, drought, and deteriorating forest health conditions on National Forest System land and public lands, with the resulting imminent risk of devastating wildfires, is an imminent threat within the meaning of roadless area management regulations applicable to a state. Allows a state governor or the Department of Agriculture, with respect the National Forest System, or the Department of the Interior, with respect to public lands, to designate high-risk areas
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Sponsored by: Rep. Dan Newhouse
Referred To The Subcommittee On Federal Lands. on 03/16/2015
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Reservoir Operations Improvement Act [HB-5595]
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Reservoir Operations Improvement Act This bill directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to submit a report with respect to each drought state (a state for which the governor has declared a drought or that contains at least one county for which the Department of Agriculture has designated a drought disaster) during water year 2015 or 2016 that includes: a list of flood control projects in such state; the year during which the original water manual (water operations manuals, flood control rule curves, and water control manuals) for each project was
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Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Introduced In House on 06/28/2016
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Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 [HB-5538]
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Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 Provides FY2017 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Provides appropriations to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for: Management of Lands and Resources; Land Acquisition; Oregon and California Grant Lands; Range Improvements; Service Charges, Deposits, and Forfeitures; and Miscellaneous Trust Funds. Prohibits appropriations provided by this bill
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Calvert
Received In The Senate. Read Twice. Placed On Senate Legislative Calendar Under General Orders. Calendar No. 587. on 09/06/2016