ARCTIC REGIONS

Bills and resolutions

Coast Guard: enhance U.S. ability to carry out icebreaking in polar regions (see S. 2635), S1277 [3MR]

Dept. of the Interior: express that Arctic lease sales already included in the Draft Proposed Plan must stay in the proposed 2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (see H. Res. 788), H3914 [15JN]

NOAA: reauthorize and amend John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program (see S. 3059), S3984 [15JN] (see H.R. 5776), H4925 [13JY]

Remarks in House

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: preserve the Arctic coastal plain as wilderness, H981, H982 [26FE]

Coast Guard: provide multiyear procurement authority for the procurement of up to six polar icebreakers to be owned and operated by the Coast Guard, H5897, H5903 [26SE]

Dept. of the Interior: prohibit funding to implement a final plan to designate areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as wilderness, H4888, H4889 [13JY]

——— prohibit funding to implement or enforce new regulations on offshore Arctic energy exploration and development, H4887, H4888 [13JY]

——— prohibit funding to remove certain Arctic Sales from the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Program, H4891 [13JY]

Reports filed

Marine Mammal Research and Response Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 3059) (S. Rept. 114–386), S6516 [28NO]