NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT

Amendments

Dept. of the Interior: develop a categorical exclusion for covered vegetative management activities to establish or improve the habitat of the greater sage grouse and mule deer (S. 1417), S6062, S6102 [6SE]

Bills and resolutions

FCC: ensure any required environmental reviews as a condition of permitting the placement and installation of communications facilities are limited to the areas of impact (see H. Res. 701), H553 [18JA]

——— reexamine and revise broadband deployments that are subject to review under the National Historic Preservation Act or the National Environmental Policy Act (see S. 2576), S1845 [20MR] (see H.R. 5378), H1754 [21MR]

——— remove requirement to perform certain environmental reviews as a condition of permitting the placement and installation of communications facilities (see H.R. 4842), H553 [18JA]

——— remove requirement to perform certain environmental reviews as a condition of permitting the placement, installation, or rebuilding of communications facilities following a major disaster or emergency (see H.R. 4845), H581 [19JA]

Infrastructure: improve Federal permitting processes for certain projects (see S. 3017), S3035 [6JN] (see H.R. 7389), H10586 [21DE]

Power resources: improve process to authorize construction, connection, operation, and maintenance of international border-crossing facilities for import and export of oil and natural gas and transmission of electricity (see S. 3056), S3760 [12JN]

Roads and highways: require economic review and agreement by Washington (State) and Oregon Governors before allowing collection of tolls on Interstates 5 and 205 between such States (see H.R. 6673), H7756 [17AU]

Letters

Forest Service reform of Federal forest conservation regulations: several environmental organizations, H3997 [16MY]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Transportation: reduce judicial review period when litigants can challenge State environmental reviews of transportation projects, H3652 [26AP]

Forest Service: consider only proposed forest management activity or no action in environmental assessments or impact statements relative to collaborative forest management plans, H4167, H4168 [17MY]

——— reform Federal forest conservation regulations, H3996 [16MY]

Forests: implement proactive forest management standards on public lands to reduce threat of wildfire and other risks, H4859 [7JN], H9745 [30NO], H10119 [12DE]

——— implement proactive forest management standards on public lands to reduce threat of wildfire and other risks (H.R. 2936), H9086 [26SE]

——— reduce risk posed by wildfires to communities and the most at-risk federally owned forests, H1752 [21MR]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of the Interior: develop a categorical exclusion for covered vegetative management activities to establish or improve the habitat of the greater sage grouse and mule deer (S. 1417), S6102 [6SE]

Reports filed

Bureau of Reclamation and BIA Water Project Streamlining Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 4419) (H. Rept. 115–1001), H9462 [2NO]

Enhancing Geothermal Production on Federal Lands Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 4568) (H. Rept. 115–502), H82 [9JA]

National Monument Creation and Protection (National Monument CAP) Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 3990) (H. Rept. 115–1081), H10335 [19DE]