[House Report 112-752]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


                                                 Union Calendar No. 554

112th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House Report 112-752



                       REPORT ON LEGISLATIVE AND

                          OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES

                                 of the

                     COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES

                                 of the

                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                               during the

                      ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS

                             together with

                            DISSENTING VIEWS

                            (FOURTH QUARTER)

                                    


                                    


January 3, 2013.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed


                     COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES

                   DOC HASTINGS, Washington, Chairman
       EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts, Ranking Democratic Member
DON YOUNG, Alaska                    DALE E. KILDEE, Michigan
JOHN J. DUNCAN, Jr., Tennessee       PETER A. DeFAZIO, Oregon
LOUIE GOHMERT, Texas                 ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA, American 
ROB BISHOP, Utah                         Samoa
DOUG LAMBORN, Colorado               FRANK PALLONE, Jr., New Jersey
ROBERT J. WITTMAN, Virginia          GRACE F. NAPOLITANO, California
PAUL C. BROUN, Georgia               RUSH D. HOLT, New Jersey
JOHN FLEMING, Louisiana              RAUL M. GRIJALVA, Arizona
MIKE COFFMAN, Colorado               MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, Guam
TOM McCLINTOCK, California           JIM COSTA, California
GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania         DAN BOREN, Oklahoma
JEFF DENHAM, California              GREGORIO KILILI CAMACHO SABLAN, 
DAN BENISHEK, Michigan                   CNMI
DAVID RIVERA, Florida                MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico
JEFF DUNCAN, South Carolina          BEN RAY LUJAN, New Mexico
SCOTT R. TIPTON, Colorado            BETTY SUTTON, Ohio
PAUL A. GOSAR, Arizona               NIKI TSONGAS, Massachusetts
RAUL R. LABRADOR, Idaho              PEDRO R. PIERLUISI, Puerto Rico
KRISTI L. NOEM, South Dakota         COLLEEN W. HANABUSA, Hawaii
STEVE SOUTHERLAND, II, Florida       PAUL D. TONKO, New York
BILL FLORES, Texas                     Vacancy
ANDY HARRIS, Maryland                  Vacancy
JEFFREY M. LANDRY, Louisiana
JON RUNYAN, New Jersey
BILL JOHNSON, Ohio
MARK AMODEI, Nevada

----------
On January 5, 2011, pursuant to H. Res. 6, Chairman Doc Hastings of 
Washington, was elected to the Committee.
On January 5, 2011, pursuant to H. Res. 7, Ranking Member Edward J. 
Markey of Massachusetts, was elected to the Committee.
On January 18, 2011, pursuant to H. Res. 37, the Majority (Republican) 
Members were elected to the Committee.
On January 19, 2011, pursuant to H. Res. 39, the Minority (Democrat) 
Members were elected to the Committee.
On March 2, 2011, the Honorable Donna M. Christensen of the U.S. Virgin 
Islands, resigned from the Committee.
On October 25, 2011, the Honorable Charles J. ``Chuck'' Fleischmann of 
Tennessee, resigned from the Committee.
On October 25, 2011, pursuant to H. Res. 447, the Honorable Mark Amodei 
of Nevada, was elected to the Committee.
On February 16, 2012, pursuant to H. Res. 553, the Honorable Paul D. 
Tonko of New York, was elected to the Committee.
On March 20, 2012, the Honorable John P. Sarbanes of Maryland, resigned 
from the Committee.
On November 28, 2012, the Honorable John Garamendi of California, 
resigned from the Committee.

      STANDING SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES
              Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources

                       DOUG LAMBORN, CO, Chairman
              RUSH D. HOLT, NJ, Ranking Democratic Member
LOUIE GOHMERT, TX                    PETER A. DeFAZIO, OR
PAUL C. BROUN, GA                    MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, GU
JOHN FLEMING, LA                     JIM COSTA, CA
MIKE COFFMAN, CO                     DAN BOREN, OK
GLENN THOMPSON, PA                   GREGORIO KILILI CAMACHO SABLAN, 
DAN BENISHEK, MI                         CNMI
DAVID RIVERA, FL                     MARTIN HEINRICH, NM
JEFF DUNCAN, SC                      BETTY SUTTON, OH
PAUL A. GOSAR, AZ                    NIKI TSONGAS, MA
BILL FLORES, TX                      PAUL D. TONKO, NY
JEFFREY M. LANDRY, LA                  Vacancy
BILL JOHNSON, OH                     EDWARD J. MARKEY, MA, ex officio
MARK AMODEI, NV
DOC HASTINGS, WA, ex officio

    Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs

                       JOHN FLEMING, LA, Chairman
    GREGORIO KILILI CAMACHO SABLAN, CNMI, Ranking Democratic Member
DON YOUNG, AK                        ENI F. H. FALEOMAVAEGA, AS
ROBERT J. WITTMAN, VA                FRANK PALLONE, Jr., NJ
JEFF DUNCAN, SC                      MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO, GU
STEVE SOUTHERLAND, II, FL            PEDRO R. PIERLUISI, PR
BILL FLORES, TX                      COLLEEN W. HANABUSA, HI
ANDY HARRIS, MD                      DAN BOREN, OK
JEFFREY M. LANDRY, LA                EDWARD J. MARKEY, MA, ex officio
JON RUNYAN, NJ
DOC HASTINGS, WA, ex officio
            Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs

                        DON YOUNG, AK, Chairman
              BEN RAY LUJAN, NM, Ranking Democratic Member
TOM McCLINTOCK, CA                   DALE E. KILDEE, MI
JEFF DENHAM, CA                      ENI F. H. FALEOMAVAEGA, AS
DAN BENISHEK, MI                     COLLEEN W. HANABUSA, HI
PAUL A. GOSAR, AZ                    RAUL M. GRIJALVA, AZ
RAUL R. LABRADOR, ID                 EDWARD J. MARKEY, MA, ex officio
KRISTI L. NOEM, SD
DOC HASTINGS, WA, ex officio

        Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands

                        ROB BISHOP, UT, Chairman
            RAUL M. GRIJALVA, AZ, Ranking Democratic Member
DON YOUNG, AK                        DALE E. KILDEE, MI
JOHN J. DUNCAN, Jr., TN              PETER A. DeFAZIO, OR
DOUG LAMBORN, CO                     RUSH D. HOLT, NJ
PAUL C. BROUN, GA                    MARTIN HEINRICH, NM
MIKE COFFMAN, CO                     BETTY SUTTON, OH
TOM McCLINTOCK, CA                   NIKI TSONGAS, MA
DAVID RIVERA, FL                       Vacancy
SCOTT R. TIPTON, CO                    Vacancy
RAUL R. LABRADOR, ID                 EDWARD J. MARKEY, MA, ex officio
KRISTI L. NOEM, SD
MARK AMODEI, NV
DOC HASTINGS, WA, ex officio

                    Subcommittee on Water and Power

                      TOM McCLINTOCK, CA, Chairman
           GRACE F. NAPOLITANO, CA, Ranking Democratic Member
LOUIE GOHMERT, TX                    JIM COSTA, CA
JEFF DENHAM, CA                      BEN RAY LUJAN, NM
SCOTT R. TIPTON, CO                  PAUL D. TONKO, NY
PAUL A. GOSAR, AZ                      Vacancy
RAUL R. LABRADOR, ID                 EDWARD J. MARKEY, MA, ex officio
KRISTI L. NOEM, SD
DOC HASTINGS, WA, ex officio


                         LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

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                          House of Representatives,
                            Committee on Natural Resources,
                                                   January 3, 2013.
Hon. Karen L. Haas,
Clerk of the House of Representatives,
The Capitol, Washington, DC.
    Dear Ms. Haas: Pursuant to clause 1(d) of rule XI and rule 
X of the Rules of the House of Representatives, here is the 
fourth quarter report of the legislative and oversight 
activities of the Committee on Natural Resources during the 
112th Congress.
            Sincerely,
                                              Doc Hastings,
                                                          Chairman.


                            C O N T E N T S

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                                                                   Page
Letter of Transmittal............................................     V
Oversight and Legislative Accomplishments........................     1
Organization/Jurisdiction........................................    16
Statistics.......................................................    17
    Full Committee...............................................    17
        Legislative Activities...................................    17
        Oversight Activities.....................................    27
    Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.................    29
        Legislative Activities...................................    29
        Oversight Activities.....................................    31
    Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
      Affairs....................................................    32
        Legislative Activities...................................    32
        Oversight Activities.....................................    35
    Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.............    36
        Legislative Activities...................................    36
        Oversight Activities.....................................    37
    Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.....    38
        Legislative Activities...................................    38
        Oversight Activities.....................................    45
    Subcommittee on Water and Power..............................    46
        Legislative Activities...................................    46
        Oversight Activities.....................................    47
Appendices:
  I. Printed Hearings................................................49
 II. Legislation Passed House........................................67
III. List of Public Laws.............................................76
 IV. Committee Prints................................................81
  V. Committee Legislative Reports...................................83
 VI. Dissenting Views................................................94


                                                 Union Calendar No. 554
112th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     112-752

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   LEGISLATIVE AND OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL 
                 RESOURCES 112TH CONGRESS (4TH QUARTER)

                                _______
                                

January 3, 2013.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

 Mr. Hastings of Washington, from the Committee on Natural Resources, 
                        submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                             together with

                            DISSENTING VIEWS

               Oversight and Legislative Accomplishments


                             Full Committee

    During the 112th Congress, the Committee on Natural 
Resources focused extensively on how to keep and create new 
American jobs, protect the environment and grow our economy 
through the responsible use and management of our natural 
resources. Through over 200 oversight and legislative hearings 
and markups, the Committee advanced important legislation and 
worked to balance the need to be responsible stewards of our 
resources while also protecting our most treasured lands and 
waters.
    Nearly every bill and oversight advanced by this Committee 
helped foster American job creation and economic growth. Our 
Nation's natural resources--from energy to minerals, water and 
timber--are integral to our daily lives and necessary for a 
strong, competitive economy. Increasing all-of-the-above 
American energy production, protecting public access to public 
lands and waters, and reducing burdensome government 
regulations and red tape are all essential in order to put 
people back to work and strengthen our Nation's economic 
competitiveness. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration has 
chosen to impose red tape and policy after policy on American 
families and small businesses that are impeding our economic 
recovery.
    These federal policies that delay or outright block access 
to our country's natural resources send American jobs overseas, 
forfeit new government revenue and increase our reliance on 
often hostile foreign countries. The House passed nearly 40 
jobs bills, including over a dozen from the Natural Resources 
Committee, aimed at reducing barriers to private-sector job 
creation on which the Democrat-controlled Senate failed to take 
action.
    The Committee also took very seriously its responsibility 
to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch. The Committee 
took a close and thoughtful look at numerous Obama 
Administration policies, regulations and actions, including the 
Endangered Species Act, the National Ocean Policy, the re-write 
of coal regulations, the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of 
Mexico, and many more. Through investigations and oversight 
hearings, the Committee sought answers from the Administration 
on behalf of the American people and promoted accountability 
and transparency.

Endangered Species Act

    This Congress, the Committee held a series of oversight 
hearings to review the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and conduct 
a fair and open assessment of both the law's strengths and 
weaknesses. Congress last renewed the ESA in 1988, which means 
it has been 24 years since any substantial updates have been 
made. With only a one percent recovery rate, the law is failing 
to achieve its primary purpose of recovering endangered 
species.
    One of the greatest obstacles to the success of the ESA is 
the way in which it has become a tool for excessive litigation. 
Instead of focusing on recovering endangered species, groups 
are using the ESA to file hundreds of lawsuits against the 
government. In response, agencies have to spend time and 
financial resources addressing those lawsuits instead of 
species recovery. In 2011, the Obama Administration's 
Department of the Interior (DOI) announced it had negotiated 
ESA settlement agreements, behind closed doors, with two 
litigious environmental organizations. The settlements raise 
questions about the Obama Administration's scope of authority 
and lack of transparency on the ESA. The settlements require 
DOI to decide by 2016 whether to list 779 species and designate 
critical habitat in all 50 states and Puerto Rico 
expeditiously. In the year since the settlements have been 
signed, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has already moved 
ahead to list 107 more species. The Committee has also learned 
that over the last four years, more than 500 lawsuits have cost 
taxpayers millions of dollars--dollars that go straight to the 
pockets of special interest lawyers and are then used to sue 
the federal government again. According to information obtained 
from the Justice Department, over $21 million has been paid out 
in attorneys' fees in recent years.
    The Committee held two Full Committee hearings on ESA 
litigation, and multiple witnesses testified about the need to 
address the impact of litigation and improve implementation of 
ESA. Since March of 2012, the Committee has been awaiting 
responses from the Obama Administration on two oversight and 
document requests regarding DOI's negotiation of settlements.
    The Committee also held several budget oversight hearings 
to closely examine the merit and spending levels of ESA 
programs submitted by agencies within the Committee's 
jurisdiction. In Fiscal Year 2010, federal agencies spent a 
combined $1.4 billion in taxpayer and electricity ratepayer 
dollars on ESA implementation. For FY 2013, the U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service requested more than $250 million for ESA-
related programs. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration (NOAA) requested $184 million. Amidst huge 
deficits and a soaring national debt, these requests represent 
$200 million more than Congress appropriated the previous year. 
The result: more petitions to list species, more critical 
habitat designations, and more lawsuits.

National Ocean Policy

    The Committee conducted thorough oversight over President 
Obama's plan to unilaterally implement a new National Ocean 
Policy and mandatory ocean zoning. Established through 
Executive Order, the President is using the ocean as his latest 
regulatory weapon to impose new bureaucratic restrictions on 
nearly every sector of our economy. While marketed as a common 
sense plan for the development and protection of our oceans, it 
is instead being used to create a massive new bureaucracy that 
would harm our economy.
    The reach of the President's ocean zoning initiative is not 
limited to just our oceans and would grant new federal 
authority to regulate as far inland as necessary. That means 
that all activities that occur on lands adjacent to rivers, 
tributaries or watersheds that drain into the ocean could be 
impacted. This has the potential to affect a multitude of 
industries including agriculture, fishing, construction, 
manufacturing, mining, oil and natural gas, and renewable 
energy. These industries currently support tens of millions of 
jobs and contribute trillions of dollars to the U.S. economy.
    The President's initiative would also create uncertainty 
for businesses and job creators and open the floodgates for 
litigation. According to testimony received by the Committee, 
the regulatory uncertainty created by this policy will likely 
increase costs to private landowners and businesses, cause 
companies to cut back on investment and job creation, and 
severely limit American energy production both on and offshore. 
It is also unclear how much this initiative will cost the 
taxpayers. This is an entirely new initiative that will take 
money away from existing agency budgets at a time when budgets 
are already being cut.
    The Natural Resources Committee held a series of oversight 
hearings to better understand how this initiative has been 
funded, the breadth of its reach, and the impacts it will have 
on jobs, our economy, and energy security. Unfortunately, the 
Obama Administration has failed to answer the majority of the 
Committee's questions. This led to a bipartisan vote of the 
House to pause funding for the President's initiative until its 
true job and economic impacts are known. This effort was 
supported by over 80 organizations, including the U.S. Chamber 
of Commerce, American Farm Bureau Federation, National 
Association of Homebuilders, American Forest and Paper 
Association, and the National Fisheries Institute.

Obama Administration's Efforts To Rewrite Regulations on Coal 
        Production

    Almost immediately after taking office, the Obama 
Administration began rewriting a recently completed coal 
regulation, the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule. This unnecessary 
action, carried out through the Office of Surface Mining 
Reclamation and Enforcement at the Department of the Interior, 
proposed to dramatically alter a regulation that took over five 
years of environmental analysis and careful scientific 
consideration to complete. The Interior Department then entered 
into a lawsuit agreement with environmental groups to rewrite 
and produce a final rule by June 29, 2012. The Department has 
missed this deadline, and to date has failed to even publish a 
draft rule.
    The Department's process in rewriting this regulation has 
been rushed and unorthodox. After tossing aside the 2008 plan, 
the Department spent millions of taxpayer dollars and hired new 
contractors to complete a new environmental impact statement, 
even though one was already completed for the 2008 rule. Those 
contractors were dismissed after it was publically revealed 
that the Administration's new proposed regulation would cost 
7,000 jobs and cause economic harm in 22 states. It's now 
unclear where the Administration is at in the process of 
conducting this rewrite and if it was hiding the ball and 
intentionally concealing the true economic impacts until after 
the November election.
    The Committee has been conducting a more than year-long 
investigation into why this rewrite was initiated, whether 
proper procedures are being followed and the economic costs of 
the proposed regulation. The Department has failed to meet a 
single deadline for document requests and is now flouting two 
Congressional subpoenas for further information.
    In September, the House passed legislation by 
Representative Bill Johnson (OH-06) that would prohibit the 
Secretary of the Interior from approving any new rules or 
regulations that could adversely impact employment in coal 
mines, cause a reduction in federal, state or tribal revenue 
from coal mining, or diminish the ability of the American 
people to produce coal.

The Obama Administration's Editing of the Gulf Drilling Moratorium 
        Report

    The Committee has conducted an extensive investigation into 
how and why an Obama Administration report that recommended a 
six-month drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico was edited 
to make it appear as though the moratorium was supported by a 
panel of engineering experts when it was not.
    After the release of the report, the experts were forced to 
rebut the implication that they had approved the six-month 
moratorium. The experts noted that ``A blanket moratorium is 
not the answer. It will not measurably reduce risk further and 
it will have a lasting impact on the nation's economy which may 
be greater than that of the oil spill.''
    Following calls from Committee Chairman Hastings and other 
Natural Resources Committee Republicans, an Office of Inspector 
General (IG) investigation was conducted. A report was issued 
that confirmed that White House officials were responsible for 
editing the report's Executive Summary, but the IG was unable 
to independently verify whether the authors intended to mislead 
the public.
    Documents obtained by the Committee raise red flags about 
the IG's investigation into the Drilling Moratorium Report. 
Emails from the IG's investigators detail how they were not 
able to obtain all DOI documents that may have been relevant to 
their investigation, and they were not allowed to interview DOI 
Secretary Salazar or White House staff involved in editing the 
report. The IG report is being used by the Obama Administration 
as a defense that this matter has been investigated and 
resolved. In reality, the Department has never had to disclose 
key documents or answer questions on how and why this report 
was edited.
    The Department claims to be forthright and transparent, but 
has refused to comply with document requests seeking answers 
and has ignored a Congressional subpoena issued to Secretary 
Salazar in April 2012.

               ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES SUBCOMMITTEE

    Chaired by Representative Doug Lamborn (CO-05), the Energy 
and Minerals Subcommittee was extremely active during the 112th 
Congress. The Subcommittee held over 32 legislative and 
oversight hearings focused on protecting and expanding access 
to American energy and mineral resources in order to create 
jobs, grow our economy and strengthen our national security.

Offshore Energy Production

    The Subcommittee conducted thorough oversight of the Obama 
Administration's plan to lock up our offshore energy resources. 
The Obama Administration's offshore drilling plan for 2012-2017 
would place 85 percent of America's offshore areas off limits 
to energy production. It includes only 15 lease sales, which 
according to the Congressional Research Service is the lowest 
number of lease sales ever included in a five-year plan since 
the program began. It would set our Nation's energy production 
back to the days before 2008 when two moratoria prohibited 
drilling in the vast majority of America's offshore areas. In a 
bipartisan vote, the House rejected President Obama's offshore 
drilling plan and voted to replace it with a robust plan (H.R. 
6082, the Congressional Replacement of President Obama's 
Energy-Restricting and Job-Limiting Offshore Drilling Plan) 
that offers 29 lease sales in areas known to contain the most 
oil and natural gas.
    At the beginning of the Congress, the Subcommittee also 
helped advance numerous bills that were passed by the House to 
promote further offshore energy production. H.R. 1230, 
Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act, requires the 
Administration to promptly move forward to conduct offshore 
lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Virginia that 
the Obama Administration has delayed or canceled. A lease sale 
off the coast of Virginia was supposed to take place in 2011, 
but due to the Obama Administration the earliest a lease sale 
could now take place is 2017. By delaying and cancelling lease 
sales, the Obama Administration is blocking American energy 
production, preventing American job creation and forfeiting 
much needed revenue that could be used to pay down the national 
debt. H.R. 1230 would reverse the Obama Administration's 
actions and proceed with the scheduled lease sales in a prompt, 
timely and safe manner.
    The House also passed H.R. 1231, Reversing President 
Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act. The bill would lift the 
President's ban on new offshore drilling by requiring the 
Administration to move forward on American energy production in 
areas containing the most oil and natural gas resources.
    The Subcommittee, along with the Full Committee, has also 
worked to promote the safe and responsible production of 
American energy. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon, the 
Committee held numerous hearings on offshore safety and 
stressed the vital need for American energy production to 
remain the safest in the world. The Committee passed 
legislation (H.R. 3403) to formally abolish the former Minerals 
Management Service and create three separate offshore agencies 
to ensure robust and safe American energy production to create 
jobs and strengthen national security.
    Numerous hearings were also held examining the job, energy 
and economic impacts of the Obama Administration's six-month 
drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico and the subsequent de 
facto moratorium. At a field hearing in Louisiana, Members of 
the Committee heard first-hand from local citizens and 
businesses about recovery efforts, the impacts of the 
Administration's de facto moratorium on drilling and the 
deployment of new technology to improve the safety of offshore 
drilling. The House also passed H.R. 1229, Putting the Gulf of 
Mexico Back to Work Act, to end the de facto moratorium by 
setting firm timelines to act on permits to drill.
    The Subcommittee also held an oversight hearing to hear 
perspectives on offshore revenues sharing. The House later 
passed H.R. 3410, the Energy Security and Transportation Act, 
which established a fair and equitable revenue sharing for 
coastal states.

Onshore

    The Subcommittee also took steps to encourage the 
responsible production of our onshore energy and mineral 
resources, including oil, natural gas, shale gas, oil shale, 
coal and critical minerals.
    The House passed bipartisan legislation (H.R. 3408) to open 
less than three percent of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 
in Alaska to energy production, encourage the timely and 
efficient production of resources in the National Petroleum 
Reserve--Alaska, streamline the permitting process for onshore 
energy development, reform the leasing process for onshore 
energy development, promote U.S. oil shale development, and 
require the U.S. to have a reliable plan in place to ensure 
sufficient production to meet the Nation's energy needs moving 
forward.
    The Subcommittee conducted aggressive oversight of the 
Obama Administration's new regulations on hydraulic fracturing 
on federal lands, including holding field hearings in Colorado 
and Ohio. The Administration's duplicative, burdensome 
regulations on the state- regulated, safe practice of hydraulic 
fracturing will stifle energy production and cost American 
jobs.
    The Subcommittee also conducted oversight hearings on the 
Obama Administration's war on coal, and the House passed 
legislation to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from 
issuing new rules or regulations that would adversely impact 
mining jobs and our economy.
    The House has also passed legislation (H.R. 4402, the 
National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act) to 
streamline government red tape to allow the U.S. to more 
efficiently develop our Nation's strategic and critical 
minerals, such as rare earth elements, that are vital to job 
creation, economic competitiveness and national security.

Renewable Energy

    House Republicans are committed to utilizing America's 
abundant and diverse energy resources to implement an all-of-
the-above, American-made energy strategy. This includes 
utilizing our public lands for renewable energy projects that 
too often get caught up in government red tape.
    That's why the Committee approved four renewable energy 
bills (H.R. 2170, H.R. 2171, H.R. 2172 and H.R. 2173) to help 
promote wind, solar and geothermal energy production on federal 
lands and waters. The bills streamline burdensome regulations 
and cumbersome government permitting processes that have 
greatly slowed renewable energy development on public lands.

Rising Gasoline Prices

    Obama Administration policies that block access to American 
energy increase the price of gasoline and increase our 
dependence on hostile foreign nations. Gasoline prices more 
than doubled during President Obama's first term in office
    Several oversight hearings were held this Congress on 
rising gasoline prices and the impact on families, small 
businesses, farmers and ranchers, and our economy. According to 
an analyst from Cameron Hanover, for every penny the price of 
gasoline increases, it costs consumers an additional $4 million 
per day. That equals $1.4 billion over an entire year. Even the 
smallest increase in gasoline prices has a significant impact 
on our economy.

      FISHERIES, WILDLIFE, OCEANS AND INSULAR AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE

    The Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs, chaired by Representative John Fleming (LA-04), held 
27 oversight and legislative hearings this Congress focused on 
promoting responsible management and conservation of our 
fisheries, wildlife, and ocean resources as well as economic 
development and fiscal responsibility in insular areas. The 
fundamental goal was to balance responsible stewardship of our 
natural resources with the need to protect and create American 
jobs.
    Subcommittee Members examined a number of threats to jobs 
in our coastal communities including: regulations that are 
causing overly precautionary management decisions which are 
adversely affecting both recreational and commercial fishermen; 
decisions to restrict recreational and commercial fishing 
activities without adequate scientific basis; and an Executive 
Order creating a new National Ocean Policy that could restrict 
existing activities as well as hinder new economic activities 
in both the ocean and coastal environments.
    A series of oversight and legislative hearings relating to 
federal fishery management challenges and, in particular, the 
implementation of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act, the law governing fisheries management in 
federal waters, were held. Almost a dozen legislative efforts 
to revise the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act were introduced in the 112th Congress, 
culminating with H.R. 6350, The Transparent and Science-Based 
Fishery Management Act of 2012, introduced by Representative 
Jon Runyan (NJ-03). The legislation combined the most pressing 
provisions into one measure which addressed issues raised 
during the hearings including: basing annual catch limits on 
better science, requiring participant approval of new catch 
share programs, allowing rebuilding flexibility for certain 
fisheries, using NOAA enforcement funds to acquire better 
fisheries information, requiring better transparency for the 
activities and decisions of the regional fishery management 
councils, and requiring decisions on commercial fisheries 
disaster assistance in a timely manner.
    The Subcommittee also specifically examined how NOAA's 
fishery research affects jobs and impacts the economies of 
coastal communities that rely on commercial or recreational 
fisheries. In addition, local perspectives on how to improve 
fisheries and ocean management were heard not only in 
Washington, D.C., but also in Alaska, Florida, and Washington 
state.
    The Subcommittee carefully examined budget requests of the 
agencies under its jurisdiction including the Fish and Wildlife 
Service, the Office of Insular Affairs, and NOAA. As part of 
these hearings, the Subcommittee examined the operations and 
maintenance backlog of the National Wildlife Refuge System. 
Members heard from the Administration and associated parties on 
the current state of the System, the effects of the maintenance 
and operations backlog, and the Obama Administration's efforts 
to buy more land even though it cannot properly maintain the 
land we already own. Despite a substantial maintenance and 
operations backlog, the Obama Administration requested $450 
million to buy more land through the Land and Water 
Conservation Fund in the FY2013 budget, a $160 million spending 
increase for government land acquisition compared to funding 
levels when he first took office.
    During budget hearings, Subcommittee Members also reviewed 
federal funding for insular areas overseen by the Office of 
Insular Affairs and Administrative efforts to improve economic 
opportunities in the regions. There are many factors limiting 
territory economic growth, with the lack of revenue-generating 
industries being a leading one. Subcommittee Members discussed 
efforts to make the insular areas more attractive to industry 
endeavors and efforts by the Office of Insular Affairs, through 
its technical assistance grants and other programs, to improve 
energy, water, wastewater and solid waste issues on the 
islands.
    Other insular area-focused hearings included oversight of 
minimum wage requirements in American Samoa and minimum wage 
and immigration issues in the Northern Mariana Islands. 
Requirements to increase the wage rates by 50 cents every year 
were said to be hindering economic growth in American Samoa. 
Subcommittee Members discussed options of delaying upcoming 
increases to allow local industries to adjust to the 
requirements and prevent industries from leaving the territory. 
The Northern Mariana Islands has been more successful adapting 
to the wage increases, but has had labor issues relying on 
foreign workers. The Subcommittee reviewed the implementation 
of Public Law 110-229, which applied federal immigration laws 
to the Northern Mariana Islands. The Subcommittee also 
discussed H.R. 1466, a bill that would resolve the status of 
certain persons legally residing in the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands whose status was impacted through the 
enactment of Public Law 110-229.
    The Subcommittee held other insular area-related hearings 
reviewing: H.R. 3706, regarding a Chief Financial Officer for 
the U.S. Virgin Islands; H.R. 6040, a bill to approve a new 
financial agreement for the Compact of Free Association between 
Palau and the United States; and H.R. 670, a measure to give 
the Northern Mariana Islands jurisdiction over 3 miles of its 
submerged lands, an authority similar to jurisdiction given to 
the other U.S. territories.
    The Subcommittee also examined three specific national 
wildlife refuges in Florida, Georgia and Virginia. The first of 
these hearings involved the Obama Administration's efforts to 
administratively establish a 150,000-acre National Wildlife 
Refuge and Conservation Area in Central Florida. This proposal 
could cost taxpayers $700 million to purchase the land through 
fee title and conservation easements and it would prevent the 
creation of thousands of jobs by prohibiting economic 
activities on these lands in the future. The second hearing 
occurred in December 2011, when the Subcommittee conducted an 
oversight hearing on how the federal government obtained title 
to nearly 3000 acres of land in Georgia that became the Harris 
Neck National Wildlife Refuge. Third, the Subcommittee 
carefully examined the potential impact of a draft 
Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Chincoteague National 
Wildlife Refuge in Virginia.
    The Subcommittee also carefully examined the Lacey Act, our 
Nation's oldest conservation law, to protect native flora and 
fauna by banning the interstate transportation and sale of 
illegally obtained animal and certain plants. Since its 
enactment in 1900, the Lacey Act has been amended several times 
to including expansions to foreign laws, fish, and the 
importation and sale of illegally-obtained timber and other 
plant products. The broad expansion of the law has increased 
job-destroying red tape and resulted in unanticipated 
consequences that have negatively impacted individuals and 
American businesses. The Subcommittee examined several bills 
that would amend or alter varying aspects of the Lacey Act and 
the Full Committee passed H.R. 3210, the Retailers and 
Entertainers Lacey Implementation and Enforcement Fairness Act 
(RELIEF Act). The RELIEF Act would improve and strengthen the 
Lacey Act to safeguard American jobs and protect American 
businesses and individuals from the unintended consequences of 
the law. The Subcommittee also conducted a legislative hearing 
on a proposal to prohibit the importation of certain non-native 
species of constrictor snakes under the Lacey Act.
    The Subcommittee also held hearings examining how invasive 
species, including Asian carp, feral pigs, Giant Salvinia, and 
zebra mussels, are destroying valuable infrastructure and 
costing taxpayers millions of dollars. In 2012 the House passed 
legislation, H.R. 6007, The North Texas Zebra Mussel Barrier 
Act, an innovative proposal which would allow the North Texas 
Municipal Water District to transport invasive zebra mussels 
through a 46-mile closed pipeline to a treatment facility where 
these zebra mussels would be eradicated, thus insuring safe 
drinking water for the 1.6 million people living in North 
Texas.
    Finally, the Subcommittee conducted oversight on the impact 
of the white-nose syndrome disease in bats. Since 2006, more 
than 5 million hibernating bats have been killed by this 
previously unknown cold-loving fungus. While a solution to this 
ecological crisis has not yet been identified, without these 
bats, farmers will have to spend millions to purchase tons of 
additional pesticides. These costs will be passed on to those 
consumers who buy these agricultural products at their local 
grocery stores.

             INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE

    The Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs was 
established during the 112th Congress to promote increased 
consultation on legislation concerning Indians and Alaska 
Natives. Oversight and legislative responsibilities for Indian 
and Alaska Native matters were previously handled by the Full 
Committee. Chaired by Representative Don Young (AK-at large), 
the Subcommittee held 24 oversight and legislative hearings to 
promote job creation and economic growth on tribal and Alaska 
Native lands.
    The Subcommittee held multiple hearings on tribal 
development of energy resources and the creation of energy jobs 
on Indian lands. While Indian lands contain vast energy 
resources, actions by the Obama Administration have prevented 
many tribes from developing resources, creating jobs and 
improving their local tribal economies. Since taking office, 
the Obama Administration has implemented numerous roadblocks to 
Indian energy development. The Subcommittee has conducted 
vigorous oversight of the Administration to shine light on 
these policies and ensure accountability.
    For example, in 2009 the Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) ordered the cancellation of a permit for a Navajo Nation 
power plant that Navajo leadership called the most important 
development project the tribe has ever undertaken. The plant 
was expected to create 400 permanent jobs and generate $50 
million per year in revenue. A joint hearing was held with the 
Water and Power Subcommittee to examine the severe economic 
consequences of EPA's over regulation.
    An oversight hearing was also held on the impact of the 
Interior Department's Hydraulic Fracturing Rules on tribal 
energy development. Many tribes are concerned that they were 
left out of the rulemaking process and that the current draft 
rule could greatly impede tribes' ability to develop their own 
energy resources.
    The Subcommittee also traveled to Alaska to hold an 
oversight field hearing in Fairbanks to examine the hardships 
local Alaska Natives face with high energy prices and how 
federal laws and regulations are affecting energy prices in 
rural Alaska and Native Villages.
    In a bipartisan vote, the Committee passed H.R. 3973, The 
Native American Energy Act. This bill streamlines burdensome 
and duplicative government regulations and increases the 
opportunity for Indian tribes to develop energy resources on 
their own land to create jobs and increase American energy 
production. It also requires the consent of a tribe before the 
Department of the Interior can restrict hydraulic fracturing on 
the tribe's lands.
    After gathering input from tribal leaders across the 
country, Subcommittee Chairman Don Young and Ranking Member Dan 
Boren introduced H.R. 3532, The American Indian Empowerment Act 
of 2011. This bipartisan piece of legislation would enhance the 
authority America's tribes have wanted over their lands. 
Specifically, this bill would allow a tribe to request that the 
title to its tribal land be taken out of trust and conveyed to 
the tribe while also ensuring such lands retain their ``Indian 
Country'' status. The bill would also permit a tribe to lease 
its lands without having to gain approval from the Secretary of 
the Interior. Finally, this legislation would authorize a tribe 
to pass tribal laws that preempt applicable federal laws or 
regulations governing the tribe's land.
    The Subcommittee conducted aggressive oversight into the 
$3.4 billion Cobell v. Salazar settlement agreement. Signed 
into law in 2010, this agreement included a provision, signed 
by the plaintiff attorneys and the government, setting 
attorneys' fees between $50 million and $99.9 million. However, 
plaintiff attorneys filed a petition in U.S. District Court 
seeking $223 million in fees pursuant to a previously unknown 
contingency fee agreement, the exact details of which are still 
publicly undisclosed. Under this side deal, every dollar paid 
to an attorney is a dollar that comes out of the pocket of 
individual Indians. That's why Subcommittee Chairman Don Young 
and Full Committee Chairman Doc Hastings introduced 
legislation, H.R. 887, to cap attorneys' fees at $50 million.
    The Subcommittee held a legislative hearing on bills that 
would address the Supreme Court's Carcieri vs. Salazar 
decision, which states that the Secretary of the Interior has 
no authority under Section 5 of the Indian Reorganization Act 
to require lands in trust for a tribe. The bills would overturn 
the effects of the Supreme Court decision by delegating 
authority to the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands in 
trust for a tribe recognized at any time. The bills would also 
ratify and confirm lands that had been put in trust prior to 
the Supreme Court holding in February 2009. Further 
consideration of the legislation has been held up because the 
Interior Department refuses to provide key legal and historical 
information necessary for Members of Congress to determine an 
effective and just resolution to the controversy.
    The Subcommittee also conducted oversight on an Obama 
Administration plan to tax per capita payments derived from the 
development of timber resources on tribes' unallotted trust 
lands. The Internal Revenue Service has never before collected 
such taxes from recipients of these benefits because resources 
on trust lands are meant to be used for the exclusive benefit 
of Indians, not the benefit of the federal government. In 
addition, the Per Capita Act provides that non-gaming per 
capita payments from a tribe's trust account to its enrolled 
members are not taxable. Though usually modest in size, tribal 
trust per capita distributions supplement the income of tribal 
members living on reservations and trying to meet their 
families' basic needs, including warm clothes, electricity and 
food.

         NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS AND PUBLIC LANDS SUBCOMMITTEE

    Chaired by Representative Rob Bishop (UT-01), the National 
Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee held 40 oversight 
and legislative hearings this Congress, including numerous 
field hearings across the country. The Subcommittee focused on 
protecting and maintaining federal lands, while also ensuring 
that our multiple-use public lands remain open to public 
enjoyment and available to help build our economy and create 
jobs.
    One of the first actions of the Subcommittee was to conduct 
oversight of the Obama Administration's ``Wild Lands Policy.'' 
The Wild Lands Policy, established by Secretarial Order, was an 
attempt by the Interior Department to establish de facto 
wilderness areas without Congressional approval. Under this 
policy, the public's access to public lands could be limited or 
halted entirely--impacting our economy, jobs, recreational 
opportunities and American energy production. Although the 
Administration formally abandoned plans to implement this 
policy after the House passed language prohibiting 
implementation of the Secretarial Order, it continues to pursue 
restrictive policies under different names.
    The Subcommittee also conducted oversight of an internal 
document from the Interior Department that revealed the Obama 
Administration's potential plans to designate new National 
Monuments under the Antiquities Act. The proposed designations 
would lock up millions of acres of public lands in the West, 
without Congressional approval, and restrict access for energy 
production, recreation, and other job-creating economic 
activities. The Subcommittee held a legislative hearing on a 
series of bills to prevent unilateral administrative action by 
requiring either state approval or authorization by Congress 
prior to a National Monument designation.
    This year the House passed H.R. 2578, The Conservation and 
Economic Growth Act, a bipartisan package of public lands bills 
that remove red tape affecting responsible local economic 
development and job growth. The bill would encourage tourism 
and recreation, promote responsible use of our public lands and 
resources, protect the environment, secure federal lands along 
the U.S. border and promote the development of clean, renewable 
hydropower.
    To protect the rights of American sportsmen to fish and 
hunt, the House passed H.R. 4089, The Sportsmen's Heritage Act 
of 2012. The bill promotes American jobs and fosters economic 
growth by protecting recreational opportunities on these 
federal lands and strengthens existing law that bars the EPA 
from banning traditional ammunition and fishing tackle.
    The House also passed H.R. 1904, The Southeast Arizona Land 
Exchange Conservation Act. Authored by Representative Paul 
Gosar (AZ-01), this bill authorizes a fair value land exchange 
that would open up the third largest undeveloped copper 
resource in the world. The bill would create nearly 3,700 jobs, 
generate billions in revenue and strengthen our national 
security by developing our own U.S. copper resources.
    The Subcommittee conducted oversight on Forest Service 
regulations that stifle economic viability, job creation and 
access to our National Forests. It held hearings on the Forest 
Service's Planning Rule that will guide land and resource 
management plans for each of the agency's 155 national forests 
and 20 grasslands. Expert witnesses have cited the current 
Planning Rule as too complex, costly, and lengthy for efficient 
scientific management of our forests and too cumbersome for 
public involvement.
    The Subcommittee also held field hearings in South Dakota, 
Colorado, and Washington state to examine how the bark beetle 
epidemic, the Endangered Species Act, litigation and inadequate 
forest management have devastated federal lands throughout the 
West and left them susceptible to catastrophic wildfires.
    To help prevent wildfires, the Committee passed 
legislation, H.R. 6089, The Healthy Forest Management and 
Wildfire Prevention Act of 2012, introduced by Colorado Members 
Scott Tipton, Doug Lamborn, Mike Coffman and Cory Gardner. The 
bill would reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires, address 
factors that contribute to insect infestation, and restore 
forest health by prioritizing and implementing hazardous fuels 
reduction projects on federal land.
    The Committee also passed legislation to address the 
expiration of the Secure Rural Schools and Payment In Lieu of 
Taxes (PILT) programs. H.R. 4019, The Federal Forest County 
Revenue, Schools and Jobs Act of 2012, aims to restore economic 
stability in forested counties that lost valuable revenue used 
to support schools, infrastructure and emergency services when 
federal regulations and lawsuits forced our timber industry 
into sharp decline in the 1990s. The bill would create jobs, 
foster forest health and provide a steady revenue stream to 
rural communities through restoration of active, healthy forest 
management. It would also authorize a five year extension of 
the PILT program to compensate local governments for lost 
property tax revenues on non-taxable federally owned land.
    In September 2012, the House passed the bipartisan H.R. 
3397, The Cabin Fee Act of 2012. The bill modifies the current 
cabin fee formula to make it more predictable and affordable 
for families who own cabins in our National Forests. Recently, 
cabin owners have been faced with arbitrary, skyrocketing fees 
as a result of a faulty appraisal system that has allowed 
annual cabin fees to increase exponentially. The Cabin Fee Act 
of 2011 uses a new formula for calculating fees to ensure the 
bill is revenue neutral without imposing fees that American 
families cannot afford.
    The Subcommittee also conducted extensive oversight over 
public lands along the U.S. borders. Over 20.7 million acres 
along the U.S. southern border are federal lands managed by the 
Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture. 
Unfortunately, federal land managers are using environmental 
regulations to block the U.S. Border Patrol from regularly 
patrolling these lands and effectively securing the border.
    As a result, these federal lands have become a highway for 
criminals, drug smugglers, human traffickers and potential 
terrorists who endanger American lives and cause severe 
environmental damage. In June 2012, the House passed (as part 
of H.R. 2578) The National Security and Federal Lands 
Protection Act to increase border security on federal lands. 
Sponsored by Subcommittee Chairman Rob Bishop, the bill is a 
common-sense measure to ensure that Border Patrol has access to 
federal lands along the border and is not prohibited from doing 
its job due to bureaucratic red tape.
    Finally, the Subcommittee held several oversight hearings 
examining the spending and budget priorities for the U.S. 
Forest Service, National Park Service and the Bureau of Land 
Management. The Subcommittee also advanced numerous land 
exchange bills that passed the House with unanimous support.

                      WATER AND POWER SUBCOMMITTEE

    Led by Chairman Tom McClintock (CA-04), the Water and Power 
Subcommittee held 21 hearings during the 112th Congress and 
assisted with numerous Full Committee hearings. The focus of 
all hearings was creating new American jobs; protecting and 
promoting clean, renewable hydropower; increasing water 
supplies and storage; and saving ratepayers and taxpayer 
dollars.
    Throughout this Congress, numerous oversight hearings were 
held on protecting existing hydropower facilities from 
litigious special interest groups, protecting non-federal 
hydroelectric dams from costly, burdensome and often unrelated 
requirements imposed by federal agencies, and expanding large 
and small-scale hydropower production.
    The information gathered at these hearings led to the 
creation of legislative hydropower initiatives. For example, 
Full Committee Chairman Doc Hastings introduced H.R. 6247, The 
Saving Our Dams and New Hydropower Development and Jobs Act. 
The bill protects and promotes hydropower resources by ending 
practices that diminish existing hydropower, cutting regulatory 
red-tape, generating new non-federal funding for new projects, 
and improving transparency. A field hearing on the bill was 
held in Pasco, Washington, where it received support from local 
farmers, irrigators and elected officials.
    The Subcommittee has considered, and the House has passed, 
a number of other hydropower production bills.
    In March 2012, the House passed with bipartisan support 
H.R. 2842, The Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower 
Development and Rural Jobs Act of 2012, sponsored by 
Representative Scott Tipton (CO-03). The bill authorizes 
hydropower development on existing, manmade Bureau of 
Reclamation water canals and pipes; cuts government red-tape by 
eliminating duplicative federal regulation; and reduces 
administrative costs.
    The House also passed H.R. 460 by Representative Jason 
Chaffetz (UT-03) to facilitate the development of 50 megawatts 
of clean hydroelectric power. In addition, H.R. 6060 by 
Representative Rob Bishop (UT-01), which protects water and 
power supplies in parts of the intermountain West by keeping 
Endangered Species Act regulations at bay and eliminating 
bureaucratic overhead to expedite the delisting of four 
endangered fish, was enacted into law.
    The Subcommittee held several oversight hearings 
highlighting regulatory burdens that hinder vital water storage 
projects. New projects can store more water to help create 
jobs, grow the economy, increase agriculture production and 
generate hydropower. Cumbersome environmental regulations have 
delayed critical water storage projects for years while 
environmental litigation and age undermine current water 
storage infrastructure.
    Following a field hearing in Fresno, California, the House 
in February 2012 passed H.R. 1837, The Sacramento-San Joaquin 
Valley Water Reliability Act, to address the manmade California 
drought. In 2009, federal regulations to protect a 3-inch 
fish--the Delta smelt--led to the deliberate diversion of over 
300 billion gallons of water away from San Joaquin Valley 
farmers. This cost thousands of farm workers their jobs, 
inflicted up to 40 percent unemployment in certain communities, 
and fallowed hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile 
farmland. H.R. 1837 would restore water deliveries that have 
been cut off due to federal regulations and environmental 
lawsuits, protect tens of thousands of jobs, ensure a reliable 
water supply for people and fish, secure water rights, and save 
taxpayer money by ending unnecessary and dubious government 
projects.
    The Subcommittee also held a field hearing in Montrose, 
Colorado, to spotlight how inadequate forest management has 
left federal lands susceptible to catastrophic wildfire, 
endangered neighboring communities and putting water and power 
supplies at risk. This and other hearings led to provisions 
being included in H.R. 6089, sponsored by Representative Scott 
Tipton, and H.R. 6247, authored by Chairman Doc Hastings.
    In May 2011, the Water and Power Subcommittee and the 
Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Subcommittee held a joint 
hearing to examine the potential job and economic impacts of 
potential EPA mandates on the Navajo Generating Station (NGS). 
The proposals potentially impacting the NGS could shut down the 
plant, which has the generating capacity of two small nuclear 
plants. Closure would eliminate hundreds of Navajo and Hopi 
coal-mining and NGS jobs, reduce income into the reservations, 
undermine tribal water settlements and dramatically increase 
water costs for much of Arizona's population.
    The Subcommittee also conducted thorough oversight of 
Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu's Memorandum to the 
Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), which mandates new 
missions for the PMAs and could raise energy costs on over 40 
million Americans. Several hearings were held on the Chu 
Memorandum. At these hearings, electricity consumers expressed 
concerns that Secretary Chu's efforts would raise rates and 
socialize costs that failed to benefit those paying for such 
costs. Over 160 House members and Senators sent a bipartisan 
letter to Secretary Chu expressing concerns with the missions 
outlined in his Memorandum. The House also passed bipartisan 
appropriations language prohibiting funding for any new 
activities in the document.
    The Full Committee also passed H.R. 2915, The American 
Taxpayer and Western Area Power Administration Customer 
Protection Act of 2011, sponsored by Chairman Tom McClintock. 
The legislation repeals the 2009 Stimulus Act's new $3.25 
billion WAPA loan authority, including the bailout provision 
for failed renewable energy transmission projects that would 
leave taxpayers holding the bag.
    To protect taxpayer dollars, the Subcommittee conducted an 
investigation into the Department of the Interior's practice of 
mailing cash as an incentive to complete government surveys. In 
addition to sending oversight letters, the House in June 2012 
passed an amendment by Representative Scott Tipton to prohibit 
federal agencies funded in the Energy and Water appropriations 
bill from mailing out cash with government surveys.
    In this Congress, the Committee passed bills that cost 
nothing in taxpayer dollars, reduced spending by over $2.9 
billion and generated revenue in excess of $225 million when 
compared to the $800 million in taxpayer dollars authorized for 
expenditure in the last Congress. That is nearly a $4 billion 
difference in spending levels on legislation moved by the Water 
and Power Subcommittee during the Democrat-controlled 111th 
Congress and the Republican-controlled 112th Congress.

                              Organization

    The Committee on Natural Resources met on January 26, 2011, 
for an organizational meeting of the 112th Congress under the 
direction of Chairman Doc Hastings. The Committee Membership 
was 48 Members, with 27 Republicans and 21 Democrats.
    The Committee established five subcommittees: Energy and 
Mineral Resources (Doug Lamborn, Chairman); Fisheries, 
Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs (John Fleming, Chairman); 
Indian and Alaska Native Affairs (Don Young, Chairman); 
National Parks, Forests and Public Lands (Rob Bishop, 
Chairman); and Water and Power (Tom McClintock, Chairman).

                              Jurisdiction

    The jurisdiction of the Committee on Natural Resources, as 
prescribed by clause (m)(1) of Rule X of the Rules of the House 
is as follows:
    (1) Fisheries and wildlife, including research, 
restoration, refuges, and conservation.
    (2) Forest reserves and national parks created from the 
public domain.
    (3) Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, 
including alien ownership of mineral lands.
    (4) Geological Survey.
    (5) International fishing agreements.
    (6) Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters 
for irrigation purposes.
    (7) Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for 
reclamation projects and easements of public lands for 
irrigation projects; and acquisition of private lands when 
necessary to complete irrigation projects.
    (8) Native Americans generally, including the care and 
allotment of Native American lands and general and special 
measures relating to claims that are paid out of Native 
American funds.
    (9) Insular possessions of the United States generally 
(except those affecting the revenue and appropriations).
    (10) Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries 
administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within the 
District of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to the 
memory of individuals.
    (11) Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder.
    (12) Mineral resources of the public lands.
    (13) Mining interests generally.
    (14) Mining schools and experimental stations.
    (15) Marine affairs, including coastal zone management 
(except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of 
navigable waters).
    (16) Oceanography.
    (17) Petroleum conservation on public lands and 
conservation of the radium supply in the United States.
    (18) Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of 
interest in the public domain.
    (19) Public lands generally, including entry, easements, 
and the grazing thereon.
    (20) Relations of the United States with Native Americans 
and Native American tribes.
    (21) Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking).

                           Activities Report


               Committee on Natural Resources Statistics

Total number of bills and resolutions referred...................   691
Total number of meeting days:
    Full Committee (62)
    Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (32)
    Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
      Affairs (29)
    Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs (24)
    Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands (40)
    Subcommittee on Water and Power (21)
        Total....................................................   208
Total number of bills ordered reported from Committee............   151
Total number of reports filed....................................   149
Total number of bills referred to/discharged by Committee on 
  Natural Resources and passed by the House of Representatives...   106
Total number of public laws......................................    48
Total number of bills enacted into law*..........................    71

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*Includes House/Senate Resolutions and all bills awaiting signature by 
the President.

                             Full Committee


                       I. LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES

A. Legislative Hearings, Markups and Administrative Business Meetings

    January 26, 2011--Full Committee met to organize for the 
112th Congress; to adopt the Committee Rules, agree to an 
oversight plan, and adopt the Committee Staff Hiring 
Resolution.
    April 13, 2011--Markup held on H.R. 1229, to amend the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to facilitate the safe and 
timely production of American energy resources from the Gulf of 
Mexico; H.R. 1230, to require the Secretary of the Interior to 
conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease sales, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 1231, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act to require that each 5-year offshore oil and gas 
leasing program offer leasing in the areas with the most 
prospective oil and gas resources, to establish a domestic oil 
and natural gas production goal, and for other purposes.
    May 25, 2011--Markup held on H.R. 290, to amend title 36, 
United States Code, to ensure that memorials commemorating the 
service of the United States Armed Forces may contain religious 
symbols, and for other purposes; and H.R. 1670, to amend the 
Sikes Act to improve the application of that Act to State-owned 
facilities used for the national defense.
    June 15, 2011--Markup held on H.R. 295, to amend the 
Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize 
funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic 
services specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, 
delineating the United States extended continental shelf, and 
the monitoring and description of coastal changes; H.R. 320, to 
designate a Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial at the 
March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California; H.R. 441, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue permits for a 
microhydro project in nonwilderness areas within the boundaries 
of Denali National Park and Preserve, to acquire land for 
Denali National Park and Preserve from Doyon Tourism, Inc., and 
for other purposes; H.R. 470, to further allocate and expand 
the availability of hydroelectric power generated at Hoover 
Dam, and for other purposes; H.R. 489, to clarify the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to 
the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, and for other purposes; H.R. 
643, to provide for the exchange of certain land located in the 
Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests in the State of Colorado, 
and for other purposes; H.R. 670, to convey certain submerged 
lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 
order to give that territory the same benefits in its submerged 
lands as Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in 
their submerged lands; H.R. 686, to require the conveyance of 
certain public land within the boundaries of Camp Williams, 
Utah, to support the training and readiness of the Utah 
National Guard; H.R. 765, to amend the National Forest Ski Area 
Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the authority of the Secretary of 
Agriculture regarding additional recreational uses of National 
Forest System land that is subject to ski area permits, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 944, to eliminate an unused lighthouse 
reservation, provide management consistency by incorporating 
the rocks and small islands along the coast of Orange County, 
California, into the California Coastal National Monument 
managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and meet the original 
Congressional intent of preserving Orange County's rocks and 
small islands, and for other purposes; H.R. 1022, to authorize 
the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of 
alternatives for commemorating and interpreting the role of the 
Buffalo Soldiers in the early years of the National Parks, and 
for other purposes; H.R. 1141, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of 
designating prehistoric, historic, and limestone forest sites 
on Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as a 
unit of the National Park System; H.R. 1160, to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to convey the McKinney Lake National 
Fish Hatchery to the State of North Carolina, and for other 
purposes; and S. 266, a bill to redesignate the Noxubee 
National Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee 
National Wildlife Refuge.
    June 24, 2011--Business meeting held to approve the 112th 
Congress Semi-Annual Report on Legislative and Oversight 
Activities of the Committee on Natural Resources (First 
Quarter).
    July 13, 2011--Markup held on H.R. 1408, to provide for the 
settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act, and for other purposes; H.R. 1904, to 
facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral resources in 
southeast Arizona by authorizing and directing an exchange of 
Federal and non-Federal land, and for other purposes; H.R. 
2150, to amend the Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 
1976 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an 
expeditious program of competitive leasing of oil and gas in 
the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, including at least 
one lease sale in the Reserve each year in the period 2011 
through 2021, and for other purposes; H.R. 2170, streamlining 
Federal review to facilitate renewable energy projects; H.R. 
2171, to promote timely exploration for geothermal resources 
under existing geothermal leases, and for other purposes; H.R. 
2172, to facilitate the development of wind energy resources on 
Federal lands; and H.R. 2173, to facilitate the development of 
offshore wind energy resources.
    July 20, 2011--Markup held on H.R. 241, to authorize the 
conveyance of certain National Forest System lands in the Los 
Padres National Forest in California; H.R. 258, to require the 
Office of Management and Budget to prepare a crosscut budget 
for restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to 
require the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and 
implement an adaptive management plan, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 461, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
certain Federal features of the electric distribution system to 
the South Utah Valley Electric Service District, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 473, to provide for the conveyance of 
approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita National Forest 
in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the Boy 
Scouts of America, and for other purposes; H.R. 795, to expand 
small-scale hydropower; H.R. 818, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment contracts 
between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy 
District; H.R. 1158, to authorize the conveyance of mineral 
rights by the Secretary of the Interior in the State of 
Montana, and for other purposes; H.R. 1258, to provide for the 
conveyance of parcels of land to Mantua, Box Elder County, 
Utah; H.R. 1421, to amend the Water Resources Development Act 
of 1986 to clarify the role of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma 
with regard to the maintenance of the W.D. Mayo Lock and Dam in 
Oklahoma; H.R. 1560, to amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and 
Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to 
allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribe to determine blood 
quantum requirement for membership in that tribe; and H.R. 
2011, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an 
assessment of the capability of the Nation to meet our current 
and future demands for the minerals critical to United States 
manufacturing competitiveness and economic and national 
security in a time of expanding resource nationalism, and for 
other purposes.
    October 5, 2011--Markup held on H.R. 306, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement to provide 
for management of the free-roaming wild horses in and around 
the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge; H.R. 443, to provide 
for the conveyance of certain property from the United States 
to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska; H.R. 
588, to redesignate the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge as the 
Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge; H.R. 850, to 
facilitate a proposed project in the Lower St. Croix Wild and 
Scenic River, and for other purposes; H.R. 991, to amend the 
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of 
polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the 
date the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species 
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; H.R. 1162, to provide 
the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Protection, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 1461, to authorize the Mescalero Apache 
Tribe to lease adjudicated water rights; H.R. 1466, to resolve 
the status of certain persons legally residing in the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under the 
immigration laws of the United States; H.R. 1505, to prohibit 
the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from taking 
action on public lands which impede border security on such 
lands, and for other purposes; H.R. 1556, to amend the Omnibus 
Indian Advancement Act to allow certain land to be used to 
generate income to provide funding for academic programs, and 
for other purposes; H.R. 1740, to amend the Wild and Scenic 
Rivers Act to designate a segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit 
County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild and 
Scenic Rivers System; H.R. 2060, to amend the Wild and Scenic 
Rivers Act to adjust the Crooked River boundary, to provide 
water certainty for the City of Prineville, Oregon, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 2351, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the 
North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation 
Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area; H.R. 2352, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundary 
of the Stephen Mather Wilderness and the North Cascades 
National Park in order to allow the rebuilding of a road 
outside of the floodplain while ensuring that there is no net 
loss of acreage to the Park or the Wilderness, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2360, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands 
Act to extend the Constitution, laws, and jurisdiction of the 
United States to installations and devices attached to the 
seabed of the Outer Continental Shelf for the production and 
support of production of energy from sources other than oil and 
gas, and for other purposes; H.R. 2578, to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act related to a segment of the Lower Merced 
River in California, and for other purposes; H.R. 2752, to 
amend the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct onshore oil and gas lease sales through 
Internet-based live lease sales, and for other purposes; H.R. 
2803, to direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through 
the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and 
Enforcement, to conduct a technological capability assessment, 
survey, and economic feasibility study regarding recovery of 
minerals, other than oil and natural gas, from the shallow and 
deep seabed of the United States; H.R. 2842, to authorize all 
Bureau of Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower 
development under Federal Reclamation law, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2915, to repeal the Western Area Power 
Administration borrowing authority, and for other purposes; and 
H.R. 3069, to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to 
reduce predation on endangered Columbia River salmon and other 
nonlisted species, and for other purposes.
    November 17, 2011--Markup held on H.R. 200, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of water resources 
in the Rialto-Colton Basin in the State of California, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 205, to amend the Act titled ``An Act to 
authorize the leasing of restricted Indian lands for public, 
religious, educational, recreational, residential, business, 
and other purposes requiring the grant of long-term leases'', 
approved August 9, 1955, to provide for Indian tribes to enter 
into certain leases without prior express approval from the 
Secretary of the Interior; H.R. 1545, to establish the Waco 
Mammoth National Monument in the State of Texas, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2027, to revise the boundaries of John H. Chafee 
Coastal Barrier Resources System Sachuest Point Unit RI-04P, 
Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond Unit RI-06, and Hazards 
Beach Unit RI-07 in Rhode Island; H.R. 2070, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the World 
War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque 
or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. 
Roosevelt prayed with the nation on June 6, 1944, the morning 
of D-Day; H.R. 2087, to remove restrictions from a parcel of 
land situated in the Atlantic District, Accomack County, 
Virginia; H.R. 2154, to correct the boundaries of the John H. 
Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Gasparilla Island Unit 
FL-70P; H.R. 2236, to provide for the issuance of a Wildlife 
Refuge System Conservation Semipostal Stamp; H.R. 2336, to 
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of 
the York River and associated tributaries for study for 
potential inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
System; H.R. 2362, to facilitate economic development by Indian 
tribes and encourage investment by Turkish enterprises; H.R. 
2606, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to allow the 
construction and operation of natural gas pipeline facilities 
in the Gateway National Recreation Area, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2719, to ensure public access to the summit of 
Rattlesnake Mountain in the Hanford Reach National Monument for 
educational, recreational, historical, scientific, cultural, 
and other purposes; H.R. 2834, to recognize the heritage of 
recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting on Federal public 
lands and ensure continued opportunities for these activities; 
H.R. 2938, to prohibit certain gaming activities on certain 
Indian lands in Arizona; H.R. 3117, to grant the Secretary of 
the Interior permanent authority to authorize States to issue 
electronic duck stamps, and for other purposes; H.R. 3397, to 
modify the Forest Service Recreation Residence Program by 
implementing a simple, equitable, and predictable procedure for 
determining cabin user fees, and for other purposes; H.R. 3404, 
to establish in the Department of the Interior an Under 
Secretary for Energy, Lands, and Minerals and a Bureau of Ocean 
Energy, an Ocean Energy Safety Service, and an Office of 
Natural Resources Revenue, and for other purposes; and S. 535, 
a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease 
certain lands within Fort Pulaski National Monument, and for 
other purposes.
    December 1, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 594, to promote 
coastal jobs creation, promote sustainable fisheries and 
fishing communities, revitalize waterfronts, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 1013, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act to provide the New England 
Fishery Management Council additional resources to address 
research and monitoring priorities established by the Council; 
H.R. 1646, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation 
and Management Act to preserve jobs and coastal communities 
through transparency and accountability in fishery management, 
and for other purposes; H.R. 2304, to amend the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act 
of 2006 to provide the necessary scientific information to 
properly implement annual catch limits, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 2610, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation 
and Management Act to reform procedures for the payment of 
funds from the asset forfeiture fund, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 2753, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation 
and Management Act to provide Internet access to Regional 
Fishery Management Council meetings and meeting records, and 
for other purposes; H.R. 2772, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act to permit eligible 
fishermen to approve certain limited access privilege programs, 
and for other purposes; and H.R. 3061, to amend the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to extend the 
authorized time period for rebuilding of certain overfished 
fisheries, and for other purposes.
    February 1, 2012--Markup held on H.R. 3407, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a 
competitive oil and gas leasing program for the exploration, 
development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the 
Coastal Plain of Alaska, to ensure secure energy supplies for 
the continental Pacific Coast of the United States, lower 
prices, and reduce imports, and for other purposes; H.R. 3408, 
to set clear rules for the development of United States oil 
shale resources, to promote shale technology research and 
development, and for other purposes; and H.R. 3410, to require 
the Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain offshore oil 
and gas lease sales, to provide fair and equitable revenue 
sharing for all coastal States, to formulate future offshore 
energy development plans in areas with the most potential, to 
generate revenue for American infrastructure, and for other 
purposes.
    February 16, 2012--Markup held on H.R. 1837, to address 
certain water-related concerns on the San Joaquin River, and 
for other purposes; and H.R. 4019, to increase employment and 
educational opportunities in, and improve the economic 
stability of, counties containing Federal forest land, while 
also reducing the cost of managing such land, by providing such 
counties a dependable source of revenue from such land, and for 
other purposes.
    February 29, 2012--Markup held on H.R. 491, to modify the 
boundaries of Cibola National Forest in the State of New 
Mexico, to transfer certain Bureau of Land Management land for 
inclusion in the national forest, and for other purposes; H.R. 
1038, to authorize the conveyance of two small parcels of land 
within the boundaries of the Coconino National Forest 
containing private improvements that were developed based upon 
the reliance of the landowners in an erroneous survey conducted 
in May 1960; H.R. 1335, to revise the boundaries of the 
Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg 
Train Station, and for other purposes; H.R. 2050, to authorize 
the continued use of certain water diversions located on 
National Forest System land in the Frank Church-River of No 
Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the 
State of Idaho, and for other purposes; H.R. 2157, to 
facilitate a land exchange involving certain National Forest 
System lands in the Inyo National Forest, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2240, to authorize the exchange of land or 
interest in land between Lowell National Historical Park and 
the city of Lowell in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and 
for other purposes; H.R. 2512, to provide for the conveyance of 
certain Federal land in Clark County, Nevada, for the 
environmental remediation and reclamation of the Three Kids 
Mine Project Site, and for other purposes; H.R. 2745, to amend 
the Mesquite Lands Act of 1986 to facilitate implementation of 
a multispecies habitat conservation plan for the Virgin River 
in Clark County, Nevada; H.R. 2947, to provide for the release 
of the reversionary interest held by the United States in 
certain land conveyed by the United States in 1950 for the 
establishment of an airport in Cook County, Minnesota; H.R. 
3263, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to allow the 
storage and conveyance of nonproject water at the Norman 
project in Oklahoma, and for other purposes; H.R. 3409, to 
limit the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to issue 
regulations before December 31, 2013, under the Surface Mining 
Control and Reclamation Act of 1977; H.R. 3452, to provide for 
the sale of approximately 30 acres of Federal land in Uinta-
Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Salt Lake County, Utah, to 
permit the establishment of a minimally invasive transportation 
alternative for skiers, called ``SkiLink'', to connect two ski 
resorts in the Wasatch Mountains, and for other purposes; H.R. 
4089, to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational 
hunting, fishing and shooting; S. 271, a bill to require the 
Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a property conveyance 
with the city of Wallowa, Oregon, and for other purposes; S. 
292, a bill to resolve the claims of the Bering Straits Native 
Corporation and the State of Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon 
Lake in the State of Alaska and to provide for the conveyance 
to the Bering Straits Native Corporation of certain other 
public land in partial satisfaction of the land entitlement of 
the Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; 
S. 404, a bill to modify a land grant patent issued by the 
Secretary of the Interior; S. 684, a bill to provide for the 
conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, 
Utah; S. 897, a bill to amend the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and 
Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for 
certain noncoal reclamation projects and acid mine remediation 
programs.
    March 28, 2012--Business meeting held to consider a motion 
to authorize the Chairman to issue duces tecum subpoenas for 
the production of documents relating to investigations 
regarding: 1) the Secretary of the Interior's decision and the 
process to rewrite the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule under the 
Surface Mining Reclamation and Control Act; and 2) the process 
used in the preparation of a Department of the Interior report 
on offshore oil and natural gas operations under the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act that implied that peer reviewers 
from the National Academy of Engineers had endorsed an offshore 
oil and natural gas drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
    April 25, 2012--Markup held on H.R. 460, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the development of 
hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the Central 
Utah Project; H.R. 1237, to provide for a land exchange with 
the Trinity Public Utilities District of Trinity County, 
California, involving the transfer of land to the Bureau of 
Land Management and the Six Rivers National Forest in exchange 
for National Forest System land in the Shasta-Trinity National 
Forest, and for other purposes; H.R. 1272, to provide for the 
use and distribution of the funds awarded to the Minnesota 
Chippewa Tribe, et al, by the United States Court of Federal 
Claims in Docket Numbers 19 and 188, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 1818, to designate Mt. Andrea Lawrence, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2467, to take certain Federal lands in Mono 
County, California, into trust for the benefit of the 
Bridgeport Indian Colony; H.R. 2489, to authorize the 
acquisition and protection of nationally significant 
battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and 
the War of 1812 under the American Battlefield Protection 
Program; H.R. 2621, to establish the Chimney Rock National 
Monument in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes; H.R. 
3874, to provide for the conveyance of eight cemeteries that 
are located on National Forest System land in Black Hills 
National Forest, South Dakota; H.R. 4027, to clarify authority 
granted under the Act entitled ``An Act to define the exterior 
boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the 
State of Utah, and for other purposes''; H.R. 4222, to provide 
for the conveyance of certain land inholdings owned by the 
United States to the Tucson Unified School District and to the 
Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, and for other purposes; S. 363, 
a bill to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to convey 
property of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
to the City of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and for other purposes; 
and S. 925, a bill to designate Mt. Andrea Lawrence.
    May 16, 2012--Markup held on H.R. 1192, to extend the 
current royalty rate for soda ash; H.R. 3973, to facilitate the 
development of energy on Indian lands by reducing Federal 
regulations that impede tribal development of Indian lands, and 
for other purposes; H.R. 4043, to amend title 10, United States 
Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to establish Southern 
Sea Otter Military Readiness Areas for national defense 
purposes, and for other purposes; H.R. 4381, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to establish goals for an all-of-the-
above energy production plan strategy on a 4-year basis on all 
onshore Federal lands managed by the Department of the Interior 
and the Forest Service; H.R. 4382, to ensure Federal oil and 
natural gas lease sales occur, eliminate redundant leasing 
bureaucracy, and provide leasing certainty; H.R. 4383, to 
streamline the application for permits to drill process and 
increase funds for energy project permit processing, and for 
other purposes; and H.R. 4402, to require the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to more efficiently 
develop domestic sources of the minerals and mineral materials 
of strategic and critical importance to United States economic 
and national security and manufacturing competitiveness.
    June 7, 2012--Markup held on H.R. 1103, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to develop, maintain, and administer 
an annex in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, as an extension of the American Memorial Park located 
in Saipan, and for other purposes; H.R. 1171, to reauthorize 
and amend the Marine Debris Research, Prevention, and Reduction 
Act; H.R. 3065, to amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife 
Restoration Act to facilitate the establishment of additional 
or expanded public target ranges in certain States; H.R. 3100, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to expand the 
boundary of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, 
to conduct a study of potential land acquisitions, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 3210, to amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 
1981 to limit the application of that Act with respect to 
plants and plant products that were imported before the 
effective date of amendments to that Act enacted in 2008, and 
for other purposes; H.R. 3388, to amend the Wild and Scenic 
Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Beaver, Chipuxet, 
Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in the States of Connecticut 
and Rhode Island for study for potential addition to the 
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 3685, to amend the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group 
Forest Recovery Act to extend and expand the scope of the pilot 
forest management project required by that Act; H.R. 3706, to 
create the Office of Chief Financial Officer of the Government 
of the Virgin Islands, and for other purposes; H.R. 4039, to 
convey certain Federal land to the city of Yerington, Nevada; 
H.R. 4073, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to accept 
the quitclaim, disclaimer, and relinquishment of a railroad 
right of way within and adjacent to Pike National Forest in El 
Paso County, Colorado, originally granted to the Mt. Manitou 
Park and Incline Railway Company pursuant to the Act of March 
3, 1875; H.R. 4094, to authorize pedestrian and motorized 
vehicular access in Cape Hatteras National Seashore 
Recreational Area, and for other purposes; H.R. 4234, to amend 
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to improve 
the management of grazing leases and permits, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 4400, to designate the Salt Pond Visitor Center 
at Cape Cod National Seashore as the ``Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. 
Salt Pond Visitor Center'', and for other purposes; S. 270, a 
bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
Federal land to Deschutes County, Oregon; and S. 997, a bill to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to extend a water 
contract between the United States and the East Bench 
Irrigation District.
    June 27, 2012--Business meeting held to approve the 112th 
Congress Semi-Annual Report on Legislative and Oversight 
Activities of the Committee on Natural Resources (Third 
Quarter).
    July 11, 2012--Markup held on H.R. 3641, to establish 
Pinnacles National Park in the State of California as a unit of 
the National Park System, and for other purposes; H.R. 4100, to 
strengthen enforcement mechanisms to stop illegal, unreported, 
and unregulated fishing, to amend the Tuna Conventions Act of 
1950 to implement the Antigua Convention, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 4484, to provide for the conveyance of a small 
parcel of National Forest System land in the Uinta-Wasatch-
Cache National Forest in Utah to Brigham Young University, and 
for other purposes; H.R. 4606, to authorize the issuance of 
right-of-way permits for natural gas pipelines in Glacier 
National Park, and for other purpose; H.R. 5958, to name the 
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Contact Station of the 
Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge unit of Gateway National Recreation 
Area in honor of James L. Buckley; H.R. 5987, to establish the 
Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, 
Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington, and 
for other purposes.
    July 18, 2012--Markup held on H.R. 6082, to officially 
replace, within the 60-day Congressional review period under 
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, President Obama's 
Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing 
Program (2012-2017) with a congressional plan that will conduct 
additional oil and natural gas lease sales to promote offshore 
energy development, job creation, and increased domestic energy 
production to ensure a more secure energy future in the United 
States, and for other purposes.
    August 1, 2012--Business meeting held to consider a motion 
to authorize the Chairman to issue subpoenas to compel 
witnesses to appear before the Committee on Natural Resources 
regarding the Gulf Drilling Moratorium Report.
    August 1, 2012--Markup held on H.R. 2706, to prohibit the 
sale of billfish; H.R. 3319, to allow the Pascua Yaqui Tribe to 
determine the requirements for membership in that tribe; H.R. 
4194, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to 
provide that Alexander Creek, Alaska, is and shall be 
recognized as an eligible Native village under that Act, and 
for other purposes; H.R. 5319, to amend the Wild and Scenic 
Rivers Act to designate segments of the mainstem of the Nashua 
River and its tributaries in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
for study for potential addition to the National Wild and 
Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes; H.R. 5544, to 
authorize and expedite a land exchange involving National 
Forest System land in the Laurentian District of the Superior 
National Forest and certain other National Forest System land 
in the State of Minnesota that has limited recreational and 
conservation resources and lands owned by the State of 
Minnesota in trust for the public school system that are 
largely scattered in checkerboard fashion within the Boundary 
Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and have important recreational, 
scenic, and conservation resources, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 6007, to exempt from the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 
certain water transfers by the North Texas Municipal Water 
District and the Greater Texoma Utility Authority; H.R. 6060, 
to amend Public Law 106-392 to maintain annual base funding for 
the Upper Colorado and San Juan fish recovery programs through 
fiscal year 2019; and H.R. 6089, to address the bark beetle 
epidemic, drought, deteriorating forest health conditions, and 
high risk of wildfires on National Forest System land and land 
under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in the 
United States by expanding authorities established in the 
Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 to provide emergency 
measures for high-risk areas identified by such States, to make 
permanent Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management 
authority to conduct good-neighbor cooperation with States to 
reduce wildfire risks, and for other purposes.
    August 15, 2012--Legislative field hearing held in Pasco, 
Washington, on H.R. 6247, to protect the Federal Columbia River 
Power System, Power Marketing Administration customers, and 
Bureau of Reclamation dams and other facilities and to promote 
new Federal and other hydropower generation.
    December 5, 2012--Markup held on H.R. 752, to amend the 
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Molalla 
River in the State of Oregon, as components of the National 
Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes; H.R. 
6364, to establish a commission to ensure a suitable observance 
of the centennial of World War I, to designate memorials to the 
service of members of the United States Armed Forces in World 
War I, including a National World War I Memorial on the 
National Mall in the District of Columbia, and for other 
purposes; and S. 3193, a bill to make technical corrections to 
the legal description of certain land to be held in trust for 
the Barona Band of Mission Indians, and for other purposes.

  II. OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES OF THE FULL COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES

A. Oversight Hearings

    January 26, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``The Final Report 
from the President's National Commission on the BP Deepwater 
Horizon Spill and Offshore Drilling.''
    March 1, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``The Impact of the 
Administration's Wild Lands Order on Jobs and Economic 
Growth.''
    March 3, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Department of the 
Interior Spending and the President's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget 
Proposal.''
    March 16, 2011--Oversight hearing on the ``Obama 
Administration's De Facto Moratorium in the Gulf: State, 
Community and Economic Impacts.''
    March 17, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Harnessing American 
Resources to Create Jobs and Address Rising Gasoline Prices: 
Domestic Resources and Economic Impacts.''
    March 30, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the 
Spending Priorities and the Missions of the Bureau of Ocean 
Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), and the 
President's FY 2012 Budget Proposal.''
    March 31, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Harnessing American 
Resources to Create Jobs and Address Rising Gasoline Prices: 
Impacts on Businesses and Families.''
    April 18, 2011--Oversight field hearing in Houma, 
Louisiana, on ``Gulf of Mexico: A Focus on Community Recovery 
and New Response Technology.''
    May 3, 2011--Joint oversight hearing with the Committee on 
Agriculture on ``At Risk: American Jobs, Agriculture, Health 
and Species--The Costs of Federal Regulatory Dysfunction.''
    May 13, 2011--Oversight hearing on the ``American Energy 
Initiative: Identifying Roadblocks to Wind and Solar Energy on 
Public Lands and Waters, Part 1--Department of the Interior 
Officials.''
    May 25, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Harnessing American 
Resources to Create Jobs and Address Rising Gasoline Prices: 
Impacts on Seniors, Working Families and Memorial Day 
Vacations.''
    June 1, 2011--Oversight hearing on the ``American Energy 
Initiative: Identifying Roadblocks to Wind and Solar Energy on 
Public Lands and Waters, Part 2--The Wind and Solar Industry 
Perspective.''
    July 15, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Offshore Energy: 
Interior Department's Plans for Offshore Energy, Revenue, and 
Safety Reorganization.''
    July 27, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``State Perspectives on 
Offshore Revenue Sharing.''
    September 8, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Creating American 
Jobs by Harnessing Our Resources: U.S. Offshore and Renewable 
Energy Production.''
    September 14, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Creating 
American Jobs by Harnessing Our Resources: Domestic Mining 
Opportunities and Hurdles.''
    September 21, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``ANWR: Jobs, 
Energy and Deficit Reduction.'' (Part 1)
    October 4, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``The President's New 
National Ocean Policy--A Plan for Further Restrictions on 
Ocean, Coastal and Inland Activities.''
    October 12, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``One Year after 
President Obama's Gulf of Mexico 6-Month Moratorium Officially 
Lifted: Examining the Lingering Impacts on Jobs, Energy 
Production and Local Economies.''
    October 13, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``BOEMRE/U.S. Coast 
Guard Joint Investigation Team Report.'' (Part 1)
    October 17, 2011--Oversight field hearing in Seattle, 
Washington, on ``NOAA's Steller Sea Lion Science and Fishery 
Management Restrictions--Does the Science Support the 
Decisions?''
    October 26, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``The President's 
New National Ocean Policy--A Plan for Further Restrictions on 
Ocean, Coastal and Inland Activities.''
    October 27, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Gulf Coast 
Recovery: President Obama's BP Compensation Fund, How Is It 
Working?''
    November 2, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``BOEMRE/U.S. Coast 
Guard Joint Investigation Team Report.'' (Part 2)
    November 16, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``The Future of 
U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Development on Federal Lands and 
Waters.''
    November 18, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``ANWR: Jobs, 
Energy and Deficit Reduction.'' (Part 2)
    December 6, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``The Endangered 
Species Act: How Litigation is Costing Jobs and Impeding True 
Recovery Efforts.''
    February 15, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Department of the 
Interior Spending and the President's Fiscal Year 2013 Budget 
Proposal.''
    March 7, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``The Council on 
Environmental Quality's FY 2013 Funding Request and the Effects 
on NEPA, National Ocean Policy and Other Federal Environmental 
Policy Initiatives.''
    March 21, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Harnessing American 
Resources to Create Jobs and Address Rising Gasoline Prices: 
Families and Cost-of-Life Impacts.''
    March 27, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Harnessing American 
Resources to Create Jobs and Address Rising Gasoline Prices: 
Family Vacations and U.S. Tourism Industry.''
    April 26, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Increased 
Electricity Costs for American Families and Small Businesses: 
The Potential Impacts of the Chu Memorandum.''
    May 9, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Evaluating President 
Obama's Offshore Drilling Plan and Impacts on Our Future.''
    June 19, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Taxpayer-Funded 
Litigation: Benefitting Lawyers and Harming Species, Jobs and 
Schools.''
    June 27, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Mandatory 
Conditioning Requirements on Hydropower: How Federal Resource 
Agencies are Driving Up Electricity Costs and Decreasing the 
Original Green Energy.''
    July 19, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Status of Obama 
Administration's Rewrite of the Stream Buffer Zone Rule and 
Compliance with Committee Subpoenas.''
    July 24, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``The Impact of 
Catastrophic Forest Fires and Litigation on People and 
Endangered Species: Time for Rational Management of our 
Nation's Forests.''
    August 2, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Oversight of the 
Actions, Independence and Accountability of the Acting 
Inspector General of the Department of the Interior.''
    August 25, 2012--Oversight field hearing in Panama City, 
Florida, on ``Fishing = Jobs: How Strengthening America's 
Fisheries Strengthens Our Economy.''
    September 11, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``The Chu 
Memorandum: Directives Could Increase Electricity Costs for 
over 40 Million Families and Small Businesses.''
    September 13, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Committee 
Oversight of the Department of the Interior: Questioning of Key 
Department of the Interior Officials.''

              Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources


                       I. LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES

A. Legislative Hearings

    April 6, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1229, to amend the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to facilitate the safe and 
timely production of American energy resources from the Gulf of 
Mexico; H.R. 1230, to require the Secretary of the Interior to 
conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease sales, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 1231, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act to require that each 5-year offshore oil and gas 
leasing program offer leasing in the areas with the most 
prospective oil and gas resources, to establish a domestic oil 
and natural gas production goal, and for other purposes.
    June 3, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1314, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a global rare earth 
element assessment, and for other purposes; and H.R. 2011, to 
require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an assessment 
of the capability of the Nation to meet our current and future 
demands for the minerals critical to United States 
manufacturing competitiveness and economic and national 
security in a time of expanding resource nationalism, and for 
other purposes.
    June 16, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 2150, to amend the 
Naval Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct an expeditious program of 
competitive leasing of oil and gas in the National Petroleum 
Reserve in Alaska, including at least one lease sale in the 
Reserve each year in the period 2011 through 2021, and for 
other purposes.
    June 23, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 2170, streamlining 
Federal review to facilitate renewable energy projects; H.R. 
2171, to promote timely exploration for geothermal resources 
under existing geothermal leases, and for other purposes; H.R. 
2172, to facilitate the development of wind energy resources on 
Federal lands; and H.R. 2173, to facilitate the development of 
offshore wind energy resources.
    September 13, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 2360, to amend the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to extend the Constitution, 
laws, and jurisdiction of the United States to installations 
and devices attached to the seabed of the Outer Continental 
Shelf for the production and support of production of energy 
from sources other than oil and gas, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 2752, to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct onshore oil and gas lease 
sales through Internet-based live lease sales, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 2803, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior, acting through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 
Regulation and Enforcement, to conduct a technological 
capability assessment, survey, and economic feasibility study 
regarding recovery of minerals, other than oil and natural gas, 
from the shallow and deep seabed of the United States.
    September 15, 2011--Hearing held on (Draft Bill) H.R. ___, 
to establish in the Department of the Interior an Under 
Secretary for Energy, Lands, and Minerals and a Bureau of Ocean 
Energy, an Ocean Energy Safety Service, and an Office of 
Natural Resources Revenue, and for other purposes.
    November 18, 2011--Hearing held on (Draft Bill) H.R. ___, 
to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain 
offshore oil and gas lease sales, to provide fair and equitable 
revenue sharing for all coastal States, to formulate future 
offshore energy development plans in areas with the most 
potential, to generate revenue for American infrastructure, and 
for other purposes; (Draft Bill) H.R. ___, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a 
competitive oil and gas leasing program for the exploration, 
development, and production of the oil and gas resources of the 
Coastal Plain of Alaska, to ensure secure energy supplies for 
the continental Pacific Coast of the United States, lower 
prices, and reduce imports, and for other purposes; (Draft 
Bill) H.R. ___, to set clear rules for the development of 
United States oil shale resources, to promote shale technology 
research and development, and for other purposes; and (Draft 
Bill) H.R. ___, to limit the authority of the Secretary of the 
Interior to issue regulations before December 31, 2013, under 
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.
    December 13, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 2512, to provide 
for the conveyance of certain Federal land in Clark County, 
Nevada, for the environmental remediation and reclamation of 
the Three Kids Mine Project Site, and for other purposes; and 
H.R. 3479, to reauthorize Federal natural hazards reduction 
programs, and for other purposes.
    February 17, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 785, to amend the 
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify 
that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to 
use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects.
    April 26, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 1192, to extend the 
current royalty rate for soda ash; H.R. 2176, to dedicate a 
portion of the rental fees from wind and solar energy projects 
on Federal land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land 
Management for the administrative costs of processing 
applications for new wind and solar projects, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 4381, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
establish goals for an all-of-the-above energy production plan 
strategy on a 4-year basis on all onshore Federal lands managed 
by the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service; H.R. 
4382, to ensure Federal oil and natural gas lease sales occur, 
eliminate redundant leasing bureaucracy, and provide leasing 
certainty; H.R. 4383, to streamline the application for permits 
to drill process and increase funds for energy project permit 
processing, and for other purposes; and H.R. 4402, to require 
the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 
to more efficiently develop domestic sources of the minerals 
and mineral materials of strategic and critical importance to 
United States economic and national security and manufacturing 
competitiveness.
    May 3, 2012--Legislative field hearing held in Colorado 
Springs, Colorado, on H.R. 1620, to improve Federal land 
management, resource conservation, environmental protection, 
and use of Federal real property, by requiring the Secretary of 
the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real 
property and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date 
Federal land inventories, and for other purposes; and H.R. 
4233, to establish the National Geospatial Technology 
Administration within the United States Geological Survey to 
enhance the use of geospatial data, products, technology, and 
services, to increase the economy and efficiency of Federal 
geospatial activities, and for other purposes.

  II. OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND MINERAL 
                               RESOURCES

A. Oversight Hearings

    March 9, 2011--Oversight hearing to ``Examine the Spending 
Priorities and the Missions of the U.S. Geological Survey and 
the President's FY 2012 Budget Proposal.''
    April 5, 2011--Oversight hearing on the ``Effect of the 
President's FY-2012 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the 
Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service's Energy 
and Minerals Programs on Private Sector Job Creation, Domestic 
Energy and Minerals Production and Deficit Reduction.''
    April 7, 2011--Oversight hearing on the ``Effect of the 
President's FY-2012 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the 
Office of Surface Mining on Private Sector Job Creation, 
Domestic Energy Production, State Programs and Deficit 
Reduction.''
    May 24, 2011--Oversight hearing on the ``Strategic and 
Critical Minerals Policy: Domestic Minerals Supplies and 
Demands in a Time of Foreign Supply Disruptions.''
    June 2, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Domestic Oil and 
Natural Gas: Alaskan Resources, Access and Infrastructure.''
    July 8, 2011--Joint oversight hearing with the Committee on 
Agriculture, Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry 
on ``Challenges Facing Domestic Oil and Gas Development: Review 
of Bureau of Land Management/U.S. Forest Service Ban on 
Horizontal Drilling on Federal Lands.''
    July 14, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Abandoned Mined 
Lands: Innovative Solutions for Restoring the Environment, 
Improving Safety and Creating Jobs.''
    August 24, 2011--Oversight field hearing in Grand Junction, 
Colorado, on ``American Jobs and Energy Security: Domestic Oil 
Shale--the Status of Research, Regulation and Roadblocks.''
    September 9, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Impacts to 
Onshore Jobs, Revenue, and Energy: Review and Status of Sec. 
390 Categorical Exclusions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.''
    September 26, 2011--Oversight field hearing in Charleston, 
West Virginia, on ``Jobs at Risk: Community Impacts of the 
Obama Administration's Effort to Rewrite the Stream Buffer Zone 
Rule.''
    November 2, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``North American 
Offshore Energy: Mexico and Canada Boundary Treaties and New 
Drilling by Cuba and Bahamas.''
    November 4, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Jobs at Risk: 
Waste and Mismanagement by the Obama Administration in 
Rewriting the Stream Buffer Zone Rule.''
    February 27, 2012--Oversight field hearing in Steubenville, 
Ohio, on ``Natural Gas--America's New Energy Opportunity: 
Creating Jobs, Energy and Community Growth.''
    March 6, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Effect of the 
President's FY 2013 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the 
Office of Surface Mining on Private Sector Job Creation, 
Domestic Energy Production, State Programs and Deficit 
Reduction.''
    March 8, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Effect of the 
President's FY 2013 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the 
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and Bureau of Safety 
and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) on Private Sector Job 
Creation, Domestic Energy Production, Safety and Deficit 
Reduction.''
    March 20, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Effect of the 
President's FY 2013 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the 
Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service's Energy 
and Minerals Programs on Private Sector Job Creation, Domestic 
Energy and Minerals Production and Deficit Reduction.''
    March 22, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Effect of the 
President's FY 2013 Budget for the U.S. Geological Survey on 
Private Sector Job Creation, Hazard Protection, Mineral 
Resources and Deficit Reduction.''
    May 2, 2012--Oversight field hearing in Denver, Colorado, 
on ``Federal Regulation: Economic, Job and Energy Security 
Implications of Federal Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation.''
    May 3, 2012--Oversight field hearing in Colorado Springs, 
Colorado, on ``Federal Geospatial Spending, Duplication and 
Land Inventory Management.''
    June 1, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Obama 
Administration's Actions Against the Spruce Coal Mine: Canceled 
Permits, Lawsuits and Lost Jobs.''
    July 20, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Helium: Supply 
Shortages Impacting our Economy, National Defense and 
Manufacturing.''

    Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs


                       I. LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES

A. Legislative Hearings

    April 7, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 258, to require the 
Office of Management and Budget to prepare a crosscut budget 
for restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to 
require the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and 
implement an adaptive management plan, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 306, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to enter into 
an agreement to provide for management of the free-roaming wild 
horses in and around the Currituck National Wildlife Refuge; 
H.R. 588, to redesignate the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge 
as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge; and S. 
266, a bill to redesignate the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge 
as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge.
    May 12, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 295, to amend the 
Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize 
funds to acquire hydrographic data and provide hydrographic 
services specific to the Arctic for safe navigation, 
delineating the United States extended continental shelf, and 
the monitoring and description of coastal changes; H.R. 670, to 
convey certain submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands in order to give that territory the 
same benefits in its submerged lands as Guam, the Virgin 
Islands, and American Samoa have in their submerged lands; H.R. 
991, to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow 
importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in 
Canada before the date the polar bear was determined to be a 
threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973; 
H.R. 1160, to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
the McKinney Lake National Fish Hatchery to the State of North 
Carolina, and for other purposes; and H.R. 1670, to amend the 
Sikes Act to improve the application of that Act to State-owned 
facilities used for the national defense.
    June 14, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 946, to amend the 
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to reduce predation on 
endangered Columbia River salmon, and for other purposes.
    July 14, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 44, to implement the 
recommendations of the Guam War Claims Review Commission; and 
H.R. 1466, to resolve the status of certain persons legally 
residing in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 
under the immigration laws of the United States.
    July 28, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 50, to reauthorize the 
African Elephant Conservation Act, the Rhinoceros and Tiger 
Conservation Act of 1994, and the Asian Elephant Conservation 
Act of 1997; H.R. 1760, to reauthorize the Great Ape 
Conservation Act, and for other purposes; and H.R. 1761, to 
reauthorize the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004, and for 
other purposes.
    October 25, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 2027, to revise the 
boundaries of John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System 
Sachuest Point Unit RI-04P, Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond 
Unit RI-06, and Hazards Beach Unit RI-07 in Rhode Island; H.R. 
2154, to correct the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal 
Barrier Resources System Gasparilla Island Unit FL-70P; H.R. 
2236, to provide for the issuance of a Wildlife Refuge System 
Conservation Semipostal Stamp; H.R. 2714, to amend the Marine 
Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the transport, purchase, 
and sale of pelts of, and handicrafts, garments, and art 
produced from, Southcentral and Southeast Alaska northern sea 
otters that are taken for subsistence purposes; H.R. 2719, to 
ensure public access to the summit of Rattlesnake Mountain in 
the Hanford Reach National Monument for educational, 
recreational, historical, scientific, cultural, and other 
purposes; H.R. 3009, to amend the National Wildlife Refuge 
System Administration Act of 1966 to require that any new 
national wildlife refuge may not be established except as 
expressly authorized by statute; and H.R. 3117, to grant the 
Secretary of the Interior permanent authority to authorize 
States to issue electronic duck stamps, and for other purposes.
    December 15, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1171, to 
reauthorize and amend the Marine Debris Research, Prevention, 
and Reduction Act; and S. 363, A bill to authorize the 
Secretary of Commerce to convey property of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the City of 
Pascagoula, Mississippi, and for other purposes.
    March 29, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 1917, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior, through the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service, to conduct a Joint Venture Program to 
protect, restore, enhance, and manage migratory bird 
populations, their habitats, and the ecosystems they rely on, 
through voluntary actions on public and private lands, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 1960, to extend the authorization of 
appropriations for allocation to carry out approved wetlands 
conservation projects under the North American Wetlands 
Conservation Act through fiscal year 2017; and H.R. 3074, to 
amend the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to delegate to States the 
authorities of the Secretary of the Interior under that Act 
with respect to cormorants, and for other purposes.
    April 19, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 4043, to amend title 
10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to 
establish Southern Sea Otter Military Readiness Areas for 
national defense purposes, and for other purposes.
    May 8, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 3210, to amend the Lacey 
Act Amendments of 1981 to limit the application of that Act 
with respect to plants and plant products that were imported 
before the effective date of amendments to that Act enacted in 
2008, and for other purposes; and H.R. 4171, to amend the Lacey 
Act Amendments of 1981 to repeal certain provisions relating to 
criminal penalties and violations of foreign laws, and for 
other purposes.
    May 17, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 3065, to amend the 
Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to facilitate the 
establishment of additional or expanded public target ranges in 
certain States; and H.R. 3706, to create the Office of Chief 
Financial Officer of the Government of the Virgin Islands, and 
for other purposes.
    June 19, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 2706, to prohibit the 
sale of billfish; H.R. 3472, to prevent forfeited fishing 
vessels from being transferred to private parties and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 4100, to strengthen enforcement mechanisms 
to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, to amend 
the Tuna Conventions Act of 1950 to implement the Antigua 
Convention, and for other purposes.
    July 19, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 3906, to amend the 
Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act to allow recreational 
fishing for Atlantic Striped Bass in the Block Island Sound 
transit zone; H.R. 6007, to exempt from the Lacey Act 
Amendments of 1981 certain water transfers by the North Texas 
Municipal Water District and the Greater Texoma Utility 
Authority; and H.R. 6096, to reauthorize various Acts relating 
to Atlantic Ocean marine fisheries.
    September 10, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 6040, to approve 
the Agreement providing terms for a continuation of the free 
association between the United States and Palau, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 6147, to designate the exclusive economic 
zone of the United States as the ``Ronald Wilson Reagan 
Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.''
    November 29, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 511, to amend title 
18, United States Code, to prohibit the importation of various 
injurious species of constrictor snakes.

 II. OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES, WILDLIFE, 
                       OCEANS AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

A. Oversight Hearings

    March 2, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``The Department of the 
Interior Spending for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and 
the Office of Insular Affairs and the President's Fiscal Year 
2012 Budget Request for the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service and the Office of Insular Affairs.''
    March 31, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Spending for the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the 
National Marine Fisheries Service and the President's Fiscal 
Year 2012 Budget Request for these Agencies.''
    May 26, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Buying More Land When 
We Can't Maintain What We Already Own: The National Wildlife 
Refuge System's Operations and Maintenance Backlog Story!''
    June 24, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Why We Should Care 
About Bats: Devastating Impact White-Nose Syndrome is Having on 
One of Nature's Best Pest Controllers.''
    June 27, 2011--Oversight field hearing in Shreveport, 
Louisiana, on ``Giant Salvinia: How Do We Protect Our 
Ecosystems?''
    July 14, 2011--Oversight hearing on Implementation of 
Public Law 110-229 to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands and Guam.
    July 26, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``NOAA's Fishery 
Science: Is the Lack of Basic Science Costing Jobs?''
    September 23, 2011--Oversight hearing to ``Review the 
Impact of Minimum Wage Increases in American Samoa and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.''
    November 3, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Florida Everglades 
Restoration: What Are the Priorities?''
    December 15, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Harris Neck 
National Wildlife Refuge and How the Federal Government 
Obtained Title to This Land and Promises Made to the Original 
Landowners.''
    February 17, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Fish and 
Wildlife Service's Proposed Comprehensive Conservation Plan and 
Its Potential Devastating Impact on the Economy of the Town of 
Chincoteague, Virginia.''
    March 6, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Spending for the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Office of 
Insular Affairs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the 
President's Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Request for These 
Agencies.''
    March 22, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Empty Hooks: The 
National Ocean Policy is the Latest Threat to Access for 
Recreational and Commercial Fishermen.''
    April 3, 2012--Oversight field hearing in Anchorage, 
Alaska, on ``Alaska's Sovereignty in Peril: The National Ocean 
Policy's Goal to Federalize Alaska.''

            Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs


                       I. LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES

A. Legislative Hearings

    April 5, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 887, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to submit a report on Indian land 
fractionation, and for other purposes.
    May 26, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1408, to provide for the 
settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act, and for other purposes.
    June 22, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1158, to authorize the 
conveyance of mineral rights by the Secretary of the Interior 
in the State of Montana, and for other purposes; and H.R. 1560, 
to amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta 
Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta del 
Sur Pueblo Tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for 
membership in that tribe.
    July 12, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1291, to amend the Act 
of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of 
the Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 1234, to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, 
to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to 
take land into trust for Indian tribes; and H.R. 1421, to amend 
the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to clarify the role 
of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma with regard to the 
maintenance of the W.D. Mayo Lock and Dam in Oklahoma.
    September 22, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 443, to provide 
for the conveyance of certain property from the United States 
to the Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska; H.R. 
1461, to authorize the Mescalero Apache Tribe to lease 
adjudicated water rights; H.R. 1556, to amend the Omnibus 
Indian Advancement Act to allow certain land to be used to 
generate income to provide funding for academic programs, and 
for other purposes; and H.R. 2444, to amend the Indian Self-
Determination and Education Assistance Act to provide further 
self-governance by Indian tribes, and for other purposes.
    October 4, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 2938, to prohibit 
certain gaming activities on certain Indian lands in Arizona.
    November 3, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 205, to amend the 
Act titled ``An Act to authorize the leasing of restricted 
Indian lands for public, religious, educational, recreational, 
residential, business, and other purposes requiring the grant 
of long-term leases,'' approved August 9, 1955, to provide for 
Indian tribes to enter into certain leases without prior 
express approval from the Secretary of the Interior; and H.R. 
2362, to facilitate economic development by Indian tribes and 
encourage investment by Turkish enterprises.
    January 25, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 2467, to take 
certain Federal lands in Mono County, California, into trust 
for the benefit of the Bridgeport Indian Colony; and S. 292, a 
bill to resolve the claims of the Bering Straits Native 
Corporation and the State of Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon 
Lake in the State of Alaska and to provide for the conveyance 
to the Bering Straits Native Corporation of certain other 
public land in partial satisfaction of the land entitlement of 
the Corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
    February 7, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 3532, to empower 
federally recognized Indian tribes to accept restricted fee 
tribal lands, and for other purposes.
    February 15, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 3973, to facilitate 
the development of energy on Indian lands by reducing Federal 
regulations that impede tribal development of Indian lands, and 
for other purposes.
    March 1, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 1272, to provide for 
the use and distribution of the funds awarded to the Minnesota 
Chippewa Tribe, et al., by the United States Court of Federal 
Claims in Docket Numbers 19 and 188, and for other purposes.
    March 20, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 4027, to clarify 
authority granted under the Act on ``An Act to define the 
exterior boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in 
the State of Utah, and for other purposes''; and H.R. 4194, to 
amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide that 
Alexander Creek, Alaska, is and shall be recognized as an 
eligible Native village under that Act, and for other purposes.
    July 24, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 726, to amend the Grand 
Ronde Reservation Act to make technical corrections, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 3319, to allow the Pascua Yaqui Tribe to 
determine the requirements for membership in that tribe; and 
H.R. 6141, to provide for the addition of certain real property 
to the reservation of the Siletz Tribe in the State of Oregon.
    December 4, 2012--Hearing held on S. 3193, a bill to make 
technical corrections to the legal description of certain land 
to be held in trust for the Barona Band of Mission Indians, and 
for other purposes.

   II. OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INDIAN AND ALASKA 
                             NATIVE AFFAIRS

A. Oversight Hearings

    March 8, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``The Effectiveness of 
Federal Spending on Native American Programs, and on the 
President's FY 2012 Budget Request for the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs and the Office of the Special Trustee for American 
Indians.''
    April 1, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Tribal Development of 
Energy Resources and the Creation of Energy Jobs on Indian 
Lands.''
    May 24, 2011--Joint oversight hearing with the Subcommittee 
on Water and Power on ``Protecting Long-Term Tribal Energy Jobs 
and Keeping Arizona Water and Power Costs Affordable: The 
Current and Future Role of the Navajo Generating Station.''
    March 6, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Fiscal Year 2013 
Budget Request of the Indian Health Service and of the Office 
of the Special Trustee for American Indians.''
    April 5, 2012--Oversight field hearing in Fairbanks, 
Alaska, on ``Federal Laws and Policies Affecting Energy Prices 
in Rural Alaska and their Effects on Native Villages.''
    April 19, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Bureau of Land 
Management's Hydraulic Fracturing Rule's Impacts on Indian 
Tribal Energy Development.''
    June 8, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Federal 
Communications Commission's Rule on the Universal Service Fund 
and its Impact on American Indians and Alaska Natives.''
    June 27, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Authorization, 
Standards, and Procedures for Whether, How, and When Indian 
Tribes should be Newly Recognized by the Federal Government.''
    August 2, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Indian Lands: 
Exploring Resolutions to Disputes Concerning Indian Tribes, 
State and Local Governments, and Private Landowners Over Land 
Use and Development.''
    September 14, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Per Capita 
Act and Federal Treatment of Trust Per Capita Distributions.''

        Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands


                       I. LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES

A. Legislative Hearings

    May 4, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 241, to authorize the 
conveyance of certain National Forest System lands in the Los 
Padres National Forest in California; H.R. 290, to amend title 
36, United States Code, to ensure that memorials commemorating 
the service of the United States Armed Forces may contain 
religious symbols, and for other purposes; H.R. 320, to 
designate a Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial at the 
March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California; H.R. 441, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue permits for a 
microhydro project in nonwilderness areas within the boundaries 
of Denali National Park and Preserve, to acquire land for 
Denali National Park and Preserve from Doyon Tourism, Inc., and 
for other purposes; H.R. 643, to provide for the exchange of 
certain land located in the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests 
in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes; H.R. 686, to 
require the conveyance of certain public land within the 
boundaries of Camp Williams, Utah, to support the training and 
readiness of the Utah National Guard; H.R. 765, to amend the 
National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the 
authority of the Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional 
recreational uses of National Forest System land that is 
subject to ski area permits, and for other purposes; H.R. 850, 
to facilitate a proposed project in the Lower St. Croix Wild 
and Scenic River, and for other purposes; H.R. 944, to 
eliminate an unused lighthouse reservation, provide management 
consistency by incorporating the rocks and small islands along 
the coast of Orange County, California, into the California 
Coastal National Monument managed by the Bureau of Land 
Management, and meet the original Congressional intent of 
preserving Orange County's rocks and small islands, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 1022, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a study of alternatives for commemorating 
and interpreting the role of the Buffalo Soldiers in the early 
years of the National Parks, and for other purposes; and H.R. 
1141, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the 
suitability and feasibility of designating prehistoric, 
historic, and limestone forest sites on Rota, Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands, as a unit of the National Park 
System.
    June 14, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 473, to provide for the 
conveyance of approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita 
National Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, 
Inc., of the Boy Scouts of America, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 869, to clarify the definition of flood control operations 
for the purposes of the operation and maintenance of Project 
No. 2179 on the Lower Merced River; H.R. 1258, to provide for 
the conveyance of parcels of land to Mantua, Box Elder County, 
Utah; H.R. 1545, to establish the Waco Mammoth National 
Monument in the State of Texas, and for other purposes; H.R. 
1740, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a 
segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a 
component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; and 
H.R. 1904, to facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral 
resources in southeast Arizona by authorizing and directing an 
exchange of Federal and non-Federal land, and for other 
purposes.
    July 8, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 587, to amend the Public 
Lands Corps Act of 1993 to expand the authorization of the 
Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior to 
provide service opportunities for young Americans; help restore 
the nation's natural, cultural, historic, archaeological, 
recreational and scenic resources; train a new generation of 
public land managers and enthusiasts; and promote the value of 
public service; and H.R. 1505, to prohibit the Secretaries of 
the Interior and Agriculture from taking action on public lands 
which impede border security on such lands, and for other 
purposes.
    July 26, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1581, to release 
wilderness study areas administered by the Bureau of Land 
Management that are not suitable for wilderness designation 
from continued management as defacto wilderness areas and to 
release inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest 
System that are not recommended for wilderness designation from 
the land use restrictions of the 2001 Roadless Area 
Conservation Final Rule and the 2005 State Petitions for 
Inventoried Roadless Area Management Final Rule, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 2578, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
Act related to a segment of the Lower Merced River in 
California, and for other purposes.
    September 9, 2011--Hearing held on (Draft Bill) H.R. ___, 
to modify the Forest Service Recreation Residence Program by 
implementing a simple, equitable, and predictable procedure for 
determining cabin user fees, and for other purposes; H.R. 1444, 
to require that hunting activities be a land use in all 
management plans for Federal land under the jurisdiction of the 
Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to 
the extent that such use is not clearly incompatible with the 
purposes for which the Federal land is managed, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 2834, to recognize the heritage of 
recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting on Federal public 
lands and ensure continued opportunities for these activities.
    September 13, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 302, to provide 
for State approval of national monuments, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 758, to amend the Act popularly known as the 
Antiquities Act of 1906 to require certain procedures for 
designating national monuments, and for other purposes; H.R. 
817, to amend the Antiquities Act of 1906 to place additional 
requirements on the establishment of national monuments under 
that Act, and for other purposes; H.R. 845, to prohibit the 
further extension or establishment of national monuments in 
Montana, except by express authorization of Congress, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 846, to prohibit the further extension or 
establishment of national monuments in Idaho, except by express 
authorization of Congress, and for other purposes; and H.R. 
2147, to prohibit the further extension or establishment of 
national monuments in Utah except by express authorization of 
Congress.
    September 15, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1162, to provide 
the Quileute Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Protection, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 2087, to remove restrictions from a parcel 
of land situated in the Atlantic District, Accomack County, 
Virginia; H.R. 2336, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
designate segments of the York River and associated tributaries 
for study for potential inclusion in the National Wild and 
Scenic Rivers System; H.R. 2351, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the 
North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation 
Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area; H.R. 2352, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundary 
of the Stephen Mather Wilderness and the North Cascades 
National Park in order to allow the rebuilding of a road 
outside of the floodplain while ensuring that there is no net 
loss of acreage to the Park or the Wilderness, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2606, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
to allow the construction and operation of natural gas pipeline 
facilities in the Gateway National Recreation Area, and for 
other purposes; and H.R. 2687, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to lease certain lands within Fort Pulaski 
National Monument, and for other purposes.
    September 22, 2011--Hearing held on (Draft Bill), H.R. ___, 
to increase employment and educational opportunities in, and 
improve the economic stability of, counties containing Federal 
forest lands, while also reducing the cost of managing such 
lands, by providing such counties a dependable source of 
revenue from such lands; and H.R. 2852, to authorize Western 
States to make selections of public land within their borders 
in lieu of receiving 5 percent of the proceeds of the sale of 
public land lying within said States provided by their 
respective enabling Acts.
    October 4, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 854, to authorize the 
Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation to establish a 
commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its 
environs, and for other purposes; H.R. 1335, to revise the 
boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include 
the Gettysburg Train Station, and H.R. 2563, to authorize a 
Wall of Remembrance as part of the Korean War Veterans Memorial 
and to allow certain private contributions to fund that Wall of 
Remembrance.
    October 25, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 41, to designate 
certain Federal lands in San Diego County, California, as 
wilderness, and for other purposes; H.R. 113, to provide for 
additions to the Cucamonga and Sheep Mountain Wilderness Areas 
in the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests and the 
protection of existing property rights in such additions, to 
require the Secretary of Agriculture to take steps to prevent 
and prepare for wildfires in the Cucamonga, Sheep Mountain, and 
San Gabriel Wilderness Areas and address the backlog of 
maintenance in the Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests, 
and for other purposes; H.R. 490, to modify the boundaries of 
Cibola National Forest in the State of New Mexico, to transfer 
certain Bureau of Land Management land for inclusion in the 
Manzano Mountain Wilderness, and for other purposes; H.R. 608, 
to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the State of 
Washington, to designate the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River and 
Pratt River as wild and scenic rivers, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 977, to designate as wilderness certain land and inland 
water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the 
State of Michigan, and for other purposes; H.R. 1126, to direct 
the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain Federal lands in 
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New 
Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, previously identified as 
suitable for disposal, and for other purposes; H.R. 1413, to 
provide for the designation of the Devil's Staircase Wilderness 
Area in the State of Oregon, to designate segments of Wasson 
and Franklin Creeks in the State of Oregon as wild or 
recreation rivers, and for other purposes; and H.R. 2050, to 
authorize the continued use of certain water diversions located 
on National Forest System land in the Frank Church-River of No 
Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the 
State of Idaho, and for other purposes.
    November 3, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1980, to authorize 
the Gold Star Mothers National Monument Foundation to establish 
a national monument in the District of Columbia; H.R. 2070, to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of 
the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a 
suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President 
Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the nation on June 6, 1944, 
the morning of D-Day; H.R. 2621, to establish the Chimney Rock 
National Monument in the State of Colorado, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 3155, to preserve the multiple use land 
management policy in the State of Arizona, and for other 
purposes.
    December 2, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1038, to authorize 
the conveyance of two small parcels of land within the 
boundaries of the Coconino National Forest containing private 
improvements that were developed based upon the reliance of the 
landowners in an erroneous survey conducted in May 1960; H.R. 
1237, to provide for a land exchange with the Trinity Public 
Utilities District of Trinity County, California, involving the 
transfer of land to the Bureau of Land Management and the Six 
Rivers National Forest in exchange for National Forest System 
land in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2157, to facilitate a land exchange involving 
certain National Forest System lands in the Inyo National 
Forest, and for other purposes; H.R. 2490, to amend the 
National Trails System Act to provide for a study of the 
Cascadia Marine Trail; H.R. 2504, to establish Coltsville 
National Historical Park in the State of Connecticut, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 2745, to amend the Mesquite Lands Act of 
1986 to facilitate implementation of a multispecies habitat 
conservation plan for the Virgin River in Clark County, Nevada; 
H.R. 2947, to provide for the release of the reversionary 
interest held by the United States in certain land conveyed by 
the United States in 1950 for the establishment of an airport 
in Cook County, Minnesota; H.R. 3222, to designate certain 
National Park System land in Olympic National Park as 
wilderness or potential wilderness, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 3452, to provide for the sale of approximately 30 acres of 
Federal land in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Salt 
Lake County, Utah, to permit the establishment of a minimally 
invasive transportation alternative for skiers, called 
``SkiLink'', to connect two ski resorts in the Wasatch 
Mountains, and for other purposes; and S. 684, a bill to 
provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the 
town of Alta, Utah.
    January 24, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 919, to provide for 
the conveyance of certain public land in Mohave Valley, Mohave 
County, Arizona, administered by the Bureau of Land Management 
to the Arizona Game and Fish Commission, for use as a public 
shooting range; H.R. 938, to establish a commission to ensure a 
suitable observance of the centennial of World War I and to 
designate memorials to the service of men and women of the 
United States in World War I; H.R. 1278, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resources study 
regarding the suitability and feasibility of designating the 
John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park and other sites in 
Tulsa, Oklahoma, relating to the 1921 Tulsa race riot as a unit 
of the National Park System, and for other purposes; H.R. 2240, 
to authorize the exchange of land or interest in land between 
Lowell National Historical Park and the city of Lowell in the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and for other purposes; H.R. 
2489, to authorize the acquisition and protection of nationally 
significant battlefields and associated sites of the 
Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 under the American 
Battlefield Protection Program; H.R. 3411, to modify a land 
grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior; and H.R. 
3440, to provide for certain oversight and approval on any 
decisions to close National Monument land under the 
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management to recreational 
shooting, and for other purposes.
    February 3, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 491, to modify the 
boundaries of Cibola National Forest in the State of New 
Mexico, to transfer certain Bureau of Land Management land for 
inclusion in the national forest, and for other purposes; H.R. 
3685, to amend the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest 
Recovery Act to extend and expand the scope of the pilot forest 
management project required by that Act; and S. 271, a bill to 
require the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a property 
conveyance with the city of Wallowa, Oregon, and for other 
purposes.
    March 8, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 752, to amend the Wild 
and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Molalla 
River in the State of Oregon, as components of the National 
Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes; H.R. 
1415, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to make technical 
corrections to the segment designations for the Chetco River, 
Oregon; H.R. 3377, to designate the Pine Forest Range 
Wilderness area in Humboldt County, Nevada; H.R. 3436, to 
expand the Wild Rogue Wilderness Area in the State of Oregon, 
to make additional wild and scenic river designations in the 
Rogue River area, and to provide additional protections for 
Rogue River tributaries, and for other purposes.
    March 29, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 1241, to establish the 
Rio Grande del Norte National Conservation Area in the State of 
New Mexico, and for other purposes; H.R. 1818, to designate Mt. 
Andrea Lawrence, and for other purposes; H.R. 2984, to 
designate certain Federal lands within the Cross Island 
National Wildlife Refuge and the Petit Manan National Wildlife 
Refuge, part of the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife 
Refuge Complex, in Lincoln County, Hancock County, and 
Washington County, Maine, as wilderness; and H.R. 4234, to 
amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to 
improve the management of grazing leases and permits, and for 
other purposes.
    April 17, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 3388, to amend the 
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the 
Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in the 
States of Connecticut and Rhode Island for study for potential 
addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 3874, to provide for the conveyance of 
eight cemeteries that are located on National Forest System 
land in Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota; H.R. 4039, 
to convey certain Federal land to the city of Yerington, 
Nevada; H.R. 4073, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to 
accept the quitclaim, disclaimer, and relinquishment of a 
railroad right of way within and adjacent to Pike National 
Forest in El Paso County, Colorado, originally granted to the 
Mt. Manitou Park and Incline Railway Company pursuant to the 
Act of March 3, 1875; H.R. 4193, to provide that there shall be 
no net increase in the acres of certain Federal land under the 
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, the National 
Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Forest 
Service unless the Federal budget is balanced for the year in 
which the land would be purchased; and H.R. 4222, to provide 
for the conveyance of certain land inholdings owned by the 
United States to the Tucson Unified School District and to the 
Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, and for other purposes.
    April 27, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 4094, to authorize 
pedestrian and motorized vehicular access in Cape Hatteras 
National Seashore Recreational Area, and for other purposes.
    May 17, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 1103, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to develop, maintain, and administer 
an annex in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, as an extension of the American Memorial Park located 
in Saipan, and for other purposes; H.R. 3100, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to expand the boundary of the San 
Antonio Missions National Historical Park, to conduct a study 
of potential land acquisitions, and for other purposes; H.R. 
3365, to reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation 
Act, and for other purposes; H.R. 4400, to designate the Salt 
Pond Visitor Center at Cape Cod National Seashore as the 
``Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Salt Pond Visitor Center'', and for 
other purposes; and S. 270, a bill to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to convey certain Federal land to Deschutes 
County, Oregon.
    June 8, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 3641, to establish 
Pinnacles National Park in the State of California as a unit of 
the National Park System, and for other purposes; H.R. 3894, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
resource study of the Pullman Historic Site in Chicago, 
Illinois, and for other purposes; H.R. 4606, to authorize the 
issuance of right-of-way permits for natural gas pipelines in 
Glacier National Park, and for other purpose; H.R. 5544, to 
authorize and expedite a land exchange involving National 
Forest System land in the Laurentian District of the Superior 
National Forest and certain other National Forest System land 
in the State of Minnesota that has limited recreational and 
conservation resources and lands owned by the State of 
Minnesota in trust for the public school system that are 
largely scattered in checkerboard fashion within the Boundary 
Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and have important recreational, 
scenic, and conservation resources, and for other purposes; and 
H.R. 5791, to provide for reasonable and necessary access to 
Wilderness Areas for the restoration of water sources, 
supplies, or infrastructure during a state of emergency 
declared by the Governor of a State.
    June 28, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 624, to establish the 
First State National Historical Park in the State of Delaware, 
and for other purposes; H.R. 3640, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to acquire not more than 18 acres of land and 
interests in land in Mariposa, California, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 4109, to designate additional National Forest 
System land in the Los Padres National Forest in the State of 
California as wilderness, to make certain wild and scenic river 
designations in that National Forest, to designate the Condor 
Ridge Scenic Area, to address off highway vehicle use in that 
National Forest, to facilitate a land exchange with the United 
Water Conservation District of California, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 4334, to establish a monument in Dona Ana 
County, New Mexico, and for other purposes; H.R. 4484, to 
provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest 
System land in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah 
to Brigham Young University, and for other purposes; H.R. 5319, 
to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments 
of the mainstem of the Nashua River and its tributaries in the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts for study for potential addition 
to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 5958, to name the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge 
Visitor Contact Station of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge unit 
of Gateway National Recreation Area in honor of James L. 
Buckley; and H.R. 5987, to establish the Manhattan Project 
National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, 
New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington, and for other purposes.
    July 20, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 5744, to address the 
forest health, public safety, and wildlife habitat threat 
presented by the risk of wildfire, including catastrophic 
wildfire, on National Forest System lands and public lands 
managed by the Bureau of Land Management by requiring the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to 
expedite forest management projects relating to hazardous fuels 
reduction, forest health, and economic development, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 5960, to amend the Healthy Forests 
Restoration Act of 2003 to improve the response to insect 
infestations and related diseases and to change the funding 
source for the Healthy Forests Reserve Program, to codify the 
stewardship end result contracting and good neighbor 
authorities, and to amend the emergency watershed protection 
program to improve post fire rehabilitation, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 6089, to address the bark beetle epidemic, 
drought, deteriorating forest health conditions, and high risk 
of wildfires on National Forest System land and land under the 
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in the United 
States by expanding authorities established in the Healthy 
Forest Restoration Act of 2003 to provide emergency measures 
for high-risk areas identified by such States, to make 
permanent Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management 
authority to conduct good-neighbor cooperation with States to 
reduce wildfire risks, and for other purposes.
    September 11, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 4969, to include 
the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands in the California 
Coastal National Monument as a part of the National Landscape 
Conservation System, and for other purposes; and H.R. 6364, to 
establish a commission to ensure a suitable observance of the 
centennial of World War I, to designate memorials to the 
service of members of the United States Armed Forces in World 
War I, including a National World War I Memorial on the 
National Mall in the District of Columbia, and for other 
purposes.

II. OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS 
                            AND PUBLIC LANDS

A. Oversight Hearings

    March 8, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the 
Spending, Priorities and the Missions of the Bureau of Land 
Management and the U.S. Forest Service and the President's FY 
2012 Budget Proposal.''
    March 10, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the 
Spending, Priorities and the Missions of the National Park 
Service and the President's FY 2012 Budget Proposal.''
    April 15, 2011--Joint oversight hearing with the Committee 
on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National 
Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations on ``The 
Border: Are Environmental Laws and Regulation Impeding Security 
and Harming the Environment?''
    June 22, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Opportunities for 
Outdoor Recreation on Public Lands.''
    July 10, 2011--Oversight field hearing in Hill City, South 
Dakota, on the ``Impact of the Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic in 
the Black Hills''.
    July 14, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Secure Rural Schools 
Reauthorization and Forest Management Options for a Viable 
County Payments Program.''
    September 19, 2011--Oversight field hearing in Sacramento, 
California, on ``Restoring Public Access to the Public's Lands: 
Issues Impacting Multiple-use on Our National Forests.''
    October 14, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Payments in Lieu 
of Taxes.''
    November 15, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Forest Service 
Regulatory Roadblocks to Productive Land Use and Recreation: 
Proposed Planning Rule, Special-use Permits, and Travel 
Management.''
    February 28, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``FY 2013 Budget 
Requests from the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land 
Management.''
    March 12, 2012--Oversight field hearing in Elko, Nevada, on 
``Explosion of Federal Regulations Threatening Jobs and 
Economic Survival in the West.''
    March 20, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Proposed Dwight 
D. Eisenhower Memorial.''
    April 27, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Access Denied: 
Turning Away Visitors in National Parks.''
    May 14, 2012--Joint oversight field hearing with the 
Subcommittee on Water and Power in Montrose, Colorado, on 
``Logs in the Road: Eliminating Federal Red Tape and Excessive 
Litigation to Create Healthy Forests, Jobs and Abundant Water 
and Power Supplies.''
    May 21, 2012--Oversight field hearing in Longview, 
Washington, on ``Failed Federal Forest Policies: Endangering 
Jobs, Forests and Species.''
    June 1, 2012--Oversight hearing on the ``Future of the 
National Mall.''
    August 2, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Concession Contract 
Issues for Outfitters, Guides and Smaller Concessions.''

                    Subcommittee on Water and Power


                       I. LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES

A. Legislative Hearings

    May 12, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 470, to further allocate 
and expand the availability of hydroelectric power generated at 
Hoover Dam, and for other purposes; H.R. 489, to clarify the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to 
the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, and for other purposes; and 
H.R. 818, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for 
prepayment of repayment contracts between the United States and 
the Uintah Water Conservancy District.
    June 2, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1837, to address certain 
water-related concerns on the San Joaquin River, and for other 
purposes. (Part 1)
    June 13, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1837, to address 
certain water-related concerns on the San Joaquin River, and 
for other purposes. (Part 2)
    June 23, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 461, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal features of 
the electric distribution system to the South Utah Valley 
Electric Service District, and for other purposes; H.R. 795, to 
expand small-scale hydropower; and H.R. 2060, to amend the Wild 
and Scenic Rivers Act to adjust the Crooked River boundary, to 
provide water certainty for the City of Prineville, Oregon, and 
for other purposes.
    September 14, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 200, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of water resources 
in the Rialto-Colton Basin in the State of California, and for 
other purposes; and H.R. 2842, to authorize all Bureau of 
Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development under 
Federal Reclamation law, and for other purposes.
    September 22, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 1719, to better 
inform consumers regarding costs associated with compliance for 
protecting endangered and threatened species under the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973; and H.R. 2915, to repeal the 
Western Area Power Administration borrowing authority, and for 
other purposes.
    December 2, 2011--Hearing held on H.R. 976, to terminate 
certain hydropower reservations, and for other purposes; and 
H.R. 3263, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to allow 
the storage and conveyance of nonproject water at the Norman 
project in Oklahoma, and for other purposes.
    April 17, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 460, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the development of 
hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the Central 
Utah Project; and H.R. 2664, to reauthorize the Water 
Desalination Act of 1996, and for other purposes.
    June 6, 2012--Hearing held on (Draft Bill), H.R.___, to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of 
repayment contracts between the United States and water users, 
and for other purposes; and S. 997, a bill to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to extend a water contract between 
the United States and the East Bench Irrigation District.
    July 10, 2012--Hearing held on H.R. 6060, to amend Public 
Law 106-392 to maintain annual base funding for the Upper 
Colorado and San Juan fish recovery programs through fiscal 
year 2019.

    II. OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON WATER AND POWER

A. Oversight Hearings

    March 2, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the 
Spending, Priorities and the Missions of the Bureau of 
Reclamation and the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources 
Program.''
    March 15, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the 
Spending, Priorities and the Missions of the Bonneville Power 
Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, the 
Southwestern Power Administration, and the Southeastern Power 
Administration.''
    April 5, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Creating Abundant 
Water and Power Supplies and Job Growth by Restoring Common 
Sense to Federal Regulations.''
    April 11, 2011--Oversight field hearing in Fresno, 
California, on ``Creating Jobs by Overcoming Man-Made Drought: 
Time for Congress to Listen and Act.''
    May 4, 2011--Oversight hearing on ``Protecting Federal 
Hydropower Investments in the West: A Stakeholder's 
Perspective.''
    May 24, 2011--Joint oversight hearing with the Subcommittee 
on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs on ``Protecting Long-Term 
Tribal Energy Jobs and Keeping Arizona Water and Power Costs 
Affordable: The Current and Future Role of the Navajo 
Generating Station.''
    October 18, 2011--Oversight field hearing in Highland, 
California on ``Questionable Fish Science and Environmental 
Lawsuits: Jobs and Water Supplies At Risk in The Inland 
Empire.''
    February 7, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Water for Our 
Future and Job Creation: Examining Regulatory and Bureaucratic 
Barriers to New Surface Storage Infrastructure.''
    March 20, 2012--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the 
Proposed Fiscal Year 2013 Spending, Priorities and the Missions 
of the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Geological Survey's 
Water Resources program and the Four Power Marketing 
Administrations.''
    May 14, 2012--Joint oversight field hearing with the 
Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands in 
Montrose, Colorado, on ``Logs in the Road: Eliminating Federal 
Red Tape and Excessive Litigation to Create Healthy Forests, 
Jobs and Abundant Water and Power Supplies.''
    June 4, 2012--Oversight field hearing in Phoenix, Arizona, 
on ``Evaporating Prosperity: How Federal Actions Are Driving Up 
Water and Power Costs, Threatening Jobs and Leaving Arizonans 
High and Dry.''
                               APPENDIX I

                            Printed Hearings

    112-1--Oversight hearing on the Final Report from The 
President's National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon 
Spill and Offshore Drilling. January 26, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Full Committee)
    112-2--Oversight hearing on ``The Impact of the 
Administration's Wild Lands Order on Jobs and Economic 
Growth.'' March 1, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-3--Oversight hearing on the Department of the Interior 
Spending for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Office 
of Insular Affairs and the President's Fiscal Year 2012 budget 
request for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the 
Office of Insular Affairs. March 2, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs)
    112-4--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the Spending, 
Priorities and the Missions of the Bureau of Reclamation and 
the U.S. Geological Survey's Water Resources Program.'' March 
2, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Water and Power)
    112-5--Oversight hearing on ``Department of the Interior 
Spending and the President's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget 
Proposal.'' March 3, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-6--Oversight hearing on ``The Effectiveness of Federal 
Spending on Native American Programs, and on the President's FY 
2012 Budget Request for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the 
Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians.'' March 8, 
2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska 
Native Affairs)
    112-7--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the Spending, 
Priorities and the Missions of the Bureau of Land Management 
and the U.S. Forest Service and the President's FY 2012 Budget 
Proposal.'' March 8, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on 
National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-8--Oversight hearing to ``Examine the Spending 
Priorities and the Missions of the U.S. Geological Survey and 
the President's FY 2012 Budget Proposal.'' March 9, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-9--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the Spending, 
Priorities and the Missions of the National Park Service and 
the President's FY 2012 Budget Proposal.'' March 10, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and 
Public Lands)
    112-10--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the Spending, 
Priorities and the Missions of the Bonneville Power 
Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, the 
Southwestern Power Administration, and the Southeastern Power 
Administration.'' March 15, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Water and Power)
    112-11--Oversight hearing on the ``Obama Administration's 
De Facto Moratorium in the Gulf: State, Community and Economic 
Impacts.'' March 16, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-12--Oversight hearing on ``Harnessing American 
Resources to Create Jobs and Address Rising Gasoline Prices: 
Domestic Resources and Economic Impacts.'' March 17, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-13--Oversight hearing on ``Examining the Spending 
Priorities and the Missions of the Bureau of Ocean Energy 
Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), and the 
President's FY 2012 Budget Proposal.'' March 30, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-14--Oversight hearing on ``Harnessing American 
Resources to Create Jobs and Address Rising Gasoline Prices: 
Impacts on Businesses and Families.'' March 31, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-15--Oversight hearing on ``Spending for the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine 
Fisheries Service and the President's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget 
Request for these Agencies.'' March 31, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs)
    112-16--Oversight hearing on ``Tribal Development of Energy 
Resources and the Creation of Energy Jobs on Indian Lands.'' 
April 1, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Indian and 
Alaska Native Affairs)
    112-17--Oversight hearing on the ``Effect of the 
President's FY 2012 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the 
Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service's Energy 
and Minerals Programs on Private Sector Job Creation, Domestic 
Energy and Minerals Production and Deficit Reduction.'' April 
5, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources)
    112-18--Hearing on H.R. 887, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to submit a report on Indian land fractionation, and 
for other purposes. April 5, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs)
    112-19--Oversight hearing on ``Creating Abundant Water and 
Power Supplies and Job Growth by Restoring Common Sense to 
Federal Regulations.'' April 5, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Water and Power)
    112-20--Hearing on H.R. 1229, to amend the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act to facilitate the safe and timely 
production of American energy resources from the Gulf of 
Mexico; H.R. 1230, to require the Secretary of the Interior to 
conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease sales, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 1231, to require the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease sales, 
and for other purposes. April 6, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-21--Oversight hearing on the ``Effect of the 
President's FY 2012 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the 
Office of Surface Mining on Private Sector Job Creation, 
Domestic Energy Production, State Programs and Deficit 
Reduction.'' April 7, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on 
Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-22--Hearing on H.R. 258, to require the Office of 
Management and Budget to prepare a crosscut budget for 
restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to 
require the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and 
implement an adaptive management plan, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 306, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to enter into 
an agreement with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, Currituck 
County, and the State of North Carolina to provide for the 
management of free-roaming wild horses in and around the 
Currituck National Wildlife Refuge; H.R. 588, to redesignate 
the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. Hamilton 
Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge; and S. 266, a bill to 
redesignate the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. 
Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. April 7, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans 
and Insular Affairs)
    112-23--Oversight field hearing in Fresno, California, on 
``Creating Jobs by Overcoming Man-made Drought: Time for 
Congress to Listen and Act.'' April 11, 2011, Fresno, 
California. (Subcommittee on Water and Power)
    112-24--Joint oversight hearing on ``The Border: Are 
Environmental Laws and Regulation Impeding Security and Harming 
the Environment?'' April 15, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands with 
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee 
on National Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations)
    112-25--Oversight field hearing in Houma, Louisiana, on 
``Gulf of Mexico: A Focus on Community Recovery and New 
Response Technology.'' April 18, 2011, Houma, Louisiana. (Full 
Committee)
    112-26--Joint oversight hearing on Federal Endangered 
Species Act consultations on pesticides registered under the 
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act on ``At 
Risk: American Jobs, Agriculture, Health and Species--The Costs 
of Federal Regulatory Dysfunction.'' May 3, 2011, Washington, 
D.C. (Committee on Natural Resources with the Committee on 
Agriculture)
    112-27--Oversight hearing on ``Protecting Federal 
Hydropower Investments in the West: A Stakeholders' 
Perspective.'' May 4, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on 
Water and Power)
    112-28--Hearing on H.R. 241, to authorize the conveyance of 
certain National Forest System lands in the Los Padres National 
Forest in California; H.R. 290, to amend title 36, United 
States Code, to ensure that memorials commemorating the service 
of the United States Armed Forces may contain religious 
symbols, and for other purposes; H.R. 320, to designate a 
Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial at the March Field 
Air Museum in Riverside, California; H.R. 441, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to issue permits for a microhydro 
project in nonwilderness areas within the boundaries of Denali 
National Park and Preserve, to acquire land for Denali National 
Park and Preserve from Doyon Tourism, Inc., and for other 
purposes; H.R. 643, to provide for the exchange of certain land 
located in the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests in the State 
of Colorado, and for other purposes; H.R. 686, to require the 
conveyance of certain public land within the boundaries of Camp 
Williams, Utah, to support the training and readiness of the 
Utah National Guard; H.R. 765, to amend the National Forest Ski 
Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the authority of the 
Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional recreational uses 
of National Forest System land that is subject to ski area 
permits, and for other purposes; H.R. 850, to facilitate a 
proposed project in the Lower St. Croix Wild and Scenic River, 
and for other purposes; H.R. 944, to eliminate an unused 
lighthouse reservation, provide management consistency by 
incorporating the rocks and small islands along the coast of 
Orange County, California, into the California Coastal National 
Monument managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and meet the 
original Congressional intent of preserving Orange County's 
rocks and small islands, and for other purposes; H.R. 1022, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of 
alternatives for commemorating and interpreting the role of the 
Buffalo Soldiers in the early years of the National Parks, and 
for other purposes; and H.R. 1141, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of 
designating prehistoric, historic, and limestone forest sites 
on Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as a 
unit of the National Park System. May 4, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-29--Hearing on H.R. 470, to further allocate and expand 
the availability of hydroelectric power generated at Hoover 
Dam, and for other purposes; H.R. 489, to clarify the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to 
the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, and for other purposes; and 
H.R. 818, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to allow for 
prepayment of repayment contracts between the United States and 
the Uintah Water Conservancy District. May 12, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Water and Power)
    112-30--Hearing on H.R. 295, to amend the Hydrographic 
Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire 
hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to 
the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States 
extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description 
of coastal changes; H.R. 670, to convey certain submerged lands 
to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in order to 
give that territory the same benefits in its submerged lands as 
Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in their 
submerged lands; H.R. 991, to amend the Marine Mammal 
Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear 
trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date the 
polar bear was determined to be a threatened species under the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973; H.R. 1160, to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to convey the McKinney Lake National 
Fish Hatchery to the State of North Carolina, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 1670, to amend the Sikes Act to improve the 
application of that Act to State-owned facilities used for the 
national defense. May 12, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee 
on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs)
    112-31--Oversight hearing on the ``American Energy 
Initiative: Identifying Roadblocks to Wind and Solar Energy on 
Public Lands and Waters, Part 1--Department of the Interior 
Officials.'' May 13, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-32--Joint oversight hearing on ``Protecting Long-Term 
Tribal Energy Jobs and Keeping Arizona Water and Power Costs 
Affordable: The Current and Future Role of the Navajo 
Generating Station.'' May 24, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Water and Power, and Subcommittee Indian and 
Alaska Native Affairs)
    112-33--Oversight hearing on the ``Strategic and Critical 
Minerals Policy: Domestic Minerals Supplies and Demands in a 
time of Foreign Supply Disruptions.'' May 24, 2011, Washington, 
D.C. (Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-34--Oversight hearing on ``Harnessing American 
Resources to Create Jobs and Address Rising Gasoline Prices: 
Impacts on Seniors, Working Families and Memorial Day 
Vacations.'' May 25, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-35--Oversight hearing on ``Buying More Land When We 
Can't Maintain What We Already Own: The National Wildlife 
Refuge System's Operations and Maintenance Backlog Story!'' May 
26, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs)
    112-36--Hearing on H.R. 1408, to provide for the settlement 
of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement 
Act, and for other purposes. May 26, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs)
    112-37--Oversight hearing on the ``American Energy 
Initiative: Identifying Roadblocks to Wind and Solar Energy on 
Public Lands and Waters, Part 2--The Wind and Solar Industry 
Perspective.'' June 1, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-38--Oversight hearing on ``Domestic Oil and Natural 
Gas: Alaskan Resources, Access and Infrastructure.'' June 2, 
2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources)
    112-39--Hearing on H.R. 1314, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to conduct a global rare earth element assessment, 
and for other purposes; and H.R. 2011, to require the Secretary 
of the Interior to conduct an assessment of the capability of 
the Nation to meet our current and future demands for the 
minerals critical to United States manufacturing 
competitiveness and economic and national security in a time of 
expanding resource nationalism, and for other purposes. June 3, 
2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources)
    112-40--Hearing on H.R. 473, to provide for the conveyance 
of approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita National 
Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the 
Boy Scouts of America, and for other purposes; H.R. 869, to 
clarify the definition of flood control operations for the 
purposes of the operation and maintenance of Project No. 2179 
on the Lower Merced River; H.R. 1258, to provide for the 
conveyance of parcels of land to Mantua, Box Elder County, 
Utah; H.R. 1545, to establish the Waco Mammoth National 
Monument in the State of Texas, and for other purposes; H.R. 
1740, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a 
segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, Washington, as a 
component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; and 
H.R. 1904, to facilitate the efficient extraction of mineral 
resources in southeast Arizona by authorizing and directing an 
exchange of Federal and non-Federal land, and for other 
purposes. June 14, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on 
National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
    112-41--Hearing on H.R. 946, to amend the Marine Mammal 
Protection Act of 1972 to reduce predation on endangered 
Columbia River salmon, and for other purposes. June 14, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans 
and Insular Affairs)
    112-42--Hearing on H.R. 2150, to amend the Naval Petroleum 
Reserves Production Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct an expeditious program of competitive 
leasing of oil and gas in the National Petroleum Reserve in 
Alaska, including at least one lease sale in the Reserve each 
year in the period 2011 through 2021, and for other purposes. 
June 16, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Energy and 
Mineral Resources)
    112-43--Hearing on H.R. 1158, to authorize the conveyance 
of mineral rights by the Secretary of the Interior in the State 
of Montana, and for other purposes; and H.R. 1560, to amend the 
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes 
of Texas Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo 
Tribe to determine blood quantum requirement for membership in 
that tribe. June 22, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on 
Indian and Native Alaska Affairs)
    112-44--Oversight hearing on ``Opportunities for Outdoor 
Recreation on Public Lands.'' June 22, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-45--Hearing on H.R. 2170, streamlining Federal review 
to facilitate renewable energy projects; H.R. 2171, to promote 
timely exploration for geothermal resources under existing 
geothermal leases, and for other purposes; H.R. 2172, to 
facilitate the development of wind energy resources on Federal 
lands; and H.R. 2173, to facilitate the development of offshore 
wind energy resources. June 23, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-46--Oversight hearing on ``Why We Should Care About 
Bats: Devastating Impact White-none Syndrome is Having on One 
of Nature's Best Pest Controllers.'' June 24, 2011, Washington, 
D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs)
    112-47--Oversight field hearing in Shreveport, Louisiana, 
on ``Giant Salvinia: How Do We Protect Our Ecosystems.'' June 
27, 2011, Shreveport, Louisiana. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs)
    112-48--Hearing on H.R. 1234, to amend the Act of June 18, 
1934, to reaffirm the authority of the Secretary of the 
Interior to take land into trust for Indian tribes; H.R. 1291, 
to amend the Act of June 18, 1934, to reaffirm the authority of 
the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust for 
Indian tribes, and for other purposes.; and H.R. 1421, to amend 
the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to clarify the role 
of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma with regard to the 
maintenance of the W.D. Mayo Lock and Dam in Oklahoma. July 12, 
2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska 
Native Affairs)
    112-49--Oversight hearing on ``Implementation of Public Law 
110-229 to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and 
Guam''; and Legislative hearing on H.R. 44, to implement the 
recommendations of the Guam War Claims Review Commission; and 
H.R. 1466, to resolve the status of certain persons legally 
residing in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 
under the immigration laws of the United States. July 14, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans 
and Insular Affairs)
    112-50--Oversight hearing on ``Secure Rural Schools 
Reauthorization and Forest Management Options for a Viable 
County Payments Program.'' July 14, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-51--Oversight hearing on ``Abandoned Mined Lands: 
Innovative Solutions for Restoring the Environment, Improving 
Safety and Creating Jobs''. July 14, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-52--Oversight hearing on ``NOAA's Fishery Science: Is 
the Lack of Basic Science Costing Jobs?'' July 26, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans 
and Insular Affairs)
    112-53--Hearing on H.R. 1581, to release wilderness study 
areas administered by the Bureau of Land Management that are 
not suitable for wilderness designation from continued 
management as defacto wilderness areas and to release 
inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System 
that are not recommended for wilderness designation from the 
land use restrictions of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation 
Final Rule and the 2005 State Petitions for Inventoried 
Roadless Area Management Final Rule, and for other purposes; 
and H.R. 2578, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act related 
to a segment of the Lower Merced River in California, and for 
other purposes. July 26, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee 
on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-54--Oversight hearing on ``State Perspectives on 
Offshore Revenue Sharing.'' July 27, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Full Committee)
    112-55--Hearing on H.R. 50, authorizes appropriations to 
carry out the African Elephant Conservation Act of 1988, the 
Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994, and the Asian 
Elephant Conservation Act of 1997 for FY2012-FY2016; H.R. 1760, 
to reauthorize the Great Ape Conservation Act, and for other 
purposes. ``Great Ape Conservation Reauthorization Amendments 
Act''; and H.R. 1761, to reauthorize the Marine Turtle 
Conservation Act of 2004, and for other purposes. July 28, 
2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, 
Oceans and Insular Affairs)
    112-56--Oversight field hearing in Grand Junction, 
Colorado, on ``American Jobs and Energy Security: Domestic Oil 
Shale--The Status of Research, Regulation and Roadblocks.'' 
August 24, 2011, Grand Junction, Colorado. (Subcommittee on 
Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-57--Hearing on (Draft Bill) H.R. ___, to modify the 
Forest Service Recreation Residence Program by implementing a 
simple, equitable, and predictable procedure for determining 
cabin user fees, and for other purposes; H.R. 1444, to require 
that hunting activities be a land use in all management plans 
for Federal land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 
Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to the extent that 
such use is not clearly incompatible with the purposes for 
which the Federal land is managed, and for other purposes; and 
H.R. 2834, to recognize the heritage of recreational fishing, 
hunting, and shooting on Federal public lands and ensure 
continued opportunities for these activities. September 9, 
2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests 
and Public Lands)
    112-58--Oversight hearing on the ``Impacts to Onshore Jobs, 
Revenue, and Energy: Review and Status of Sec. 390 Categorical 
Exclusions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.'' September 9, 
2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources)
    112-59--Hearing on H.R. 302, to provide for State approval 
of national monuments, and for other purposes; H.R. 758, to 
amend the Act popularly known as the Antiquities Act of 1906 to 
require certain procedures for designating national monuments, 
and for other purposes; H.R. 817, to amend the Antiquities Act 
of 1906 to place additional requirements on the establishment 
of national monuments under that Act, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 845, to prohibit the further extension or establishment of 
national monuments in Montana, except by express authorization 
of Congress, and for other purposes; H.R. 846, to prohibit the 
further extension or establishment of national monuments in 
Idaho, except by express authorization of Congress, and for 
other purposes; and H.R. 2147, to prohibit the further 
extension or establishment of national monuments in Utah except 
by express authorization of Congress. September 13, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and 
Public Lands)
    112-60--Hearing on H.R. 200, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a study of water resources in the Rialto-
Colton Basin in the State of California, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 2842, to authorize all Bureau of Reclamation 
conduit facilities for hydropower development under Federal 
Reclamation law, and for other purposes. September 14, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Water and Power)
    112-61--Hearing on (Draft Bill) H.R. ___, to establish in 
the Department of the Interior an Under Secretary for Energy, 
Lands, and Minerals and a Bureau of Ocean Energy, an Ocean 
Energy Safety Service, and an Office of Natural Resources 
Revenue, and for other purposes. September 15, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-62--Oversight hearing on ``ANWR: Jobs, Energy and 
Deficit Reduction.'' September 21, 2011 (Part 1); and November 
18, 2011 (Part 2), Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-63--Hearing on (Draft Bill) H.R. ___, to increase 
employment and educational opportunities in, and improve the 
economic stability of, counties containing Federal forest 
lands, while also reducing the cost of managing such lands, by 
providing such counties a dependable source of revenue from 
such lands; and H.R. 2852, to authorize Western States to make 
selections of public land within their borders in lieu of 
receiving 5 percent of the proceeds of the sale of public land 
lying within said States as provided by their respective 
enabling Acts. September 22, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-64--Hearing on H.R. 1719, to better inform consumers 
regarding costs associated with compliance for protecting 
endangered and threatened species under the Endangered Species 
Act of 1973; and H.R. 2915, to repeal the Western Area Power 
Administration borrowing authority, and for other purposes. 
September 22, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Water and 
Power)
    112-65--Oversight hearing on ``The Impact of Minimum Wage 
Increases in American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands.'' September 23, 2011, Washington, 
D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs)
    112-66--Oversight field hearing in Charleston, West 
Virginia, on ``Jobs at Risk: Community Impacts of the Obama 
Administration's Effort to Rewrite the Stream Buffer Zone 
Rule.'' September 26, 2011, Charleston, West Virginia. 
(Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-67--Hearing on H.R. 2938, to prohibit certain gaming 
activities on certain Indian lands in Arizona. October 4, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native 
Affairs)
    112-68--Oversight hearing on ``The President's New National 
Ocean Policy--A Plan for Further Restrictions on Ocean, Coastal 
and Inland Activities.'' October 4, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Full Committee) [First hearing; see also 112-76]
    112-69--Oversight hearing on ``One Year after President 
Obama's Gulf of Mexico 6-month Moratorium Officially Lifted: 
Examining the Lingering Impacts on Jobs, Energy Production and 
Local Economies.'' October 12, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full 
Committee)
    112-70--Oversight hearing on ``BOEMRE/U.S. Coast Guard 
Joint Investigation Team Report.'' October 13, 2011 (Part 1); 
and November 2, 2011 (Part 2), Washington, D.C. (Full 
Committee)
    112-71--Oversight hearing on ``Payments in Lieu of Taxes.'' 
October 14, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-72--Oversight field hearing in Seattle, Washington, on 
``NOAA's Steller Sea Lion Science and Fishery Management 
Restrictions--Does the Science Support the Decisions?'' October 
17, 2011, Seattle, Washington. (Full Committee)
    112-73--Oversight field hearing in Highland, California, on 
``Questionable Fish Science and Environmental Lawsuits: Jobs 
and Water Supplies At Risk in The Inland Empire.'' October 18, 
2011, Highland, California. (Subcommittee on Water and Power)
    112-74--Hearing on H.R. 2027, to revise the boundaries of 
John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Sachuest Point 
Unit RI-04P, Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond Unit RI-06, 
and Hazards Beach Unit RI-07 in Rhode Island; H.R. 2154, to 
correct the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier 
Resources System Gasparilla Island Unit FL-70P; H.R. 2236, to 
provide for the issuance of a Wildlife Refuge System 
Conservation Semipostal Stamp; H.R. 2714, to amend the Marine 
Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to allow the transport, purchase, 
and sale of pelts of, and handicrafts, garments, and art 
produced from, Southcentral and Southeast Alaska northern sea 
otters that are taken for subsistence purposes; H.R. 2719, to 
ensure public access to the summit of Rattlesnake Mountain in 
the Hanford Reach National Monument for educational, 
recreational, historical, scientific, cultural, and other 
purposes; H.R. 3009, to amend the National Wildlife Refuge 
System Administration Act of 1966 to require that any new 
national wildlife refuge may not be established except as 
expressly authorized by statute; and H.R. 3117, to grant the 
Secretary of the Interior permanent authority to authorize 
States to issue electronic duck stamps, and for other purposes. 
October 25, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Oceans, Wildlife and Insular Affairs)
    112-75--Hearing on H.R. 41, to designate certain Federal 
lands in San Diego County, California, as wilderness, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 113, to provide for additions to the 
Cucamonga and Sheep Mountain Wilderness Areas in the Angeles 
and San Bernardino National Forests and the protection of 
existing property rights in such additions, to require the 
Secretary of Agriculture to take steps to prevent and prepare 
for wildfires in the Cucamonga, Sheep Mountain, and San Gabriel 
Wilderness Areas and address the backlog of maintenance in the 
Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 490, to modify the boundaries of Cibola National 
Forest in the State of New Mexico, to transfer certain Bureau 
of Land Management land for inclusion in the Manzano Mountain 
Wilderness, and for other purposes; H.R. 608, to expand the 
Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the State of Washington, to 
designate the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River and Pratt River as 
wild and scenic rivers, and for other purposes; H.R. 977, to 
designate as wilderness certain land and inland water within 
the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of 
Michigan, and for other purposes; H.R. 1126, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to sell certain Federal lands in 
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New 
Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, previously identified as 
suitable for disposal, and for other purposes; H.R. 1413, to 
provide for the designation of the Devil's Staircase Wilderness 
Area in the State of Oregon, to designate segments of Wasson 
and Franklin Creeks in the State of Oregon as wild or 
recreation rivers, and for other purposes; and H.R. 2050, to 
authorize the continued use of certain water diversions located 
on National Forest System land in the Frank Church-River of No 
Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the 
State of Idaho, and for other purposes. October 25, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and 
Public Lands)
    112-76--Oversight hearing on ``The President's New National 
Ocean Policy--A Plan for Further Restrictions on Ocean, Coastal 
and Inland Activities.'' October 26, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Full Committee) [Second hearing; see also 112-68]
    112-77--Oversight hearing on ``Gulf Coast Recovery: 
President Obama's BP Compensation Fund, How Is It Working?'' 
October 27, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-78--Oversight hearing on ``North American Offshore 
Energy: Mexico and Canada Boundary Treaties and New Drilling by 
Cuba and Bahamas.'' November 2, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-79--Oversight hearing on ``Florida Everglades 
Restoration: What are the Priorities?'' November 3, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans 
and Insular Affairs)
    112-80--Hearing on H.R. 205, to amend the Act titled ``An 
Act to authorize the leasing of restricted Indian lands for 
public, religious, educational, recreational, residential, 
business, and other purposes requiring the grant of long-term 
leases'', approved August 9, 1955, to provide for Indian tribes 
to enter into certain leases without prior express approval 
from the Secretary of the Interior; and H.R. 2362, to 
facilitate economic development by Indian tribes and encourage 
investment by Turkish enterprises. November 3, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native 
Affairs)
    112-81--Hearing on H.R. 1980, to authorize the Gold Star 
Mothers National Monument Foundation to establish a national 
monument in the District of Columbia; H.R. 2070, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the World 
War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque 
or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. 
Roosevelt prayed with the nation on June 6, 1944, the morning 
of D-Day; H.R. 2621, to establish the Chimney Rock National 
Monument in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes; and 
H.R. 3155, to preserve the multiple use land management policy 
in the State of Arizona, and for other purposes. November 3, 
2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests 
and Public Lands)
    112-82--Oversight hearing on ``Jobs at Risk: Waste and 
Mismanagement by the Obama Administration in Rewriting the 
Stream Buffer Zone Rule.'' November 4, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-83--Oversight hearing on ``Forest Service Regulatory 
Roadblocks to Productive Land Use and Recreation: Proposed 
Planning Rule, Special-Use Permits, and Travel Management.'' 
November 15, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-84--Oversight hearing on ``The Future of U.S. Oil and 
Natural Gas Development on Federal Lands and Waters.'' November 
16, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-85--Hearing on (Draft Bill) H.R. ___, to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain offshore oil and 
gas lease sales, to provide fair and equitable revenue sharing 
for all coastal States, to formulate future offshore energy 
development plans in areas with the most potential, to generate 
revenue for American infrastructure, and for other purposes; 
(Draft bill) H.R. ___, to direct the Secretary of the Interior 
to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing 
program for the exploration, development, and production of the 
oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain of Alaska, to ensure 
secure energy supplies for the continental Pacific Coast of the 
United States, lower prices, and reduce imports, and for other 
purposes; (Draft bill) H.R. ___, to set clear rules for the 
development of United States oil shale resources, to promote 
shale technology research and development, and for other 
purposes; and (Draft Bill) H.R. ___, to limit the authority of 
the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations before 
December 31, 2013, under the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977. November 18, 2011, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-86--Hearing on H.R. 594, to promote jobs creation, 
promote sustainable fisheries and fishing communities, 
revitalize waterfronts, and for other purposes; H.R. 1013, to 
amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management 
Act to provide the New England Fishery Management Council 
additional resources to address research and monitoring 
priorities established by the Council; H.R. 1646, to amend the 
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to 
preserve jobs and coastal communities through transparency and 
accountability in fishery management, and for other purposes; 
H.R. 2304, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation 
and Management Reauthorization Act of 2006 to provide the 
necessary scientific information to properly implement annual 
catch limits, and for other purposes; H.R. 2610, to amend the 
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to 
reform procedures for the payment of funds from the asset 
forfeiture fund, and for other purposes; H.R. 2753, to amend 
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to 
provide Internet access to Regional Fishery Management Council 
meetings and meeting records, and for other purposes; H.R. 
2772, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act to permit eligible fishermen to approve certain 
limited access privilege programs, and for other purposes; and 
H.R. 3061, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation 
and Management Act to extend the authorized time period for 
rebuilding of certain overfished fisheries, and for other 
purposes. December 1, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-87--Hearing on H.R. 1038, to authorize the conveyance 
of two small parcels of land within the boundaries of the 
Coconino National Forest containing private improvements that 
were developed based upon the reliance of the landowners in an 
erroneous survey conducted in May 1960; H.R. 1237, to provide 
for a land exchange with the Trinity Public Utilities District 
of Trinity County, California, involving the transfer of land 
to the Bureau of Land Management and the Six Rivers National 
Forest in exchange for National Forest System land in the 
Shasta-Trinity National Forest, and for other purposes; H.R. 
2157, to facilitate a land exchange involving certain National 
Forest System lands in the Inyo National Forest, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2490, to amend the National Trails System Act to 
provide for a study of the Cascadia Marine Trail; H.R. 2504, to 
establish Coltsville National Historical Park in the State of 
Connecticut, and for other purposes; H.R. 2745, to amend the 
Mesquite Lands Act of 1986 to facilitate implementation of a 
multispecies habitat conservation plan for the Virgin River in 
Clark County, Nevada; H.R. 2947, to provide for the release of 
the reversionary interest held by the United States in certain 
land conveyed by the United States in 1950 for the 
establishment of an airport in Cook County, Minnesota; H.R. 
3222, to designate certain National Park System land in Olympic 
National Park as wilderness or potential wilderness, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 3452, to provide for the sale of 
approximately 30 acres of Federal land in Uinta-Wasatch-Cache 
National Forest in Salt Lake County, Utah, to permit the 
establishment of a minimally invasive transportation 
alternative for skiers, called `SkiLink', to connect two ski 
resorts in the Wasatch Mountains, and for other purposes; and 
S. 684, a bill to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels 
of land to the town of Alta, Utah. December 2, 2011, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and 
Public Lands)
    112-88--Oversight hearing on ``The Endangered Species Act: 
How Litigation is Costing Jobs and Impeding True Recovery 
Efforts.'' December 6, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-89--Oversight hearing on the ``Harris Neck National 
Wildlife Refuge and How the Federal Government Obtained Title 
to This Land and Promises Made to the Original Landowners''; 
and Legislative hearing on H.R. 1171, to reauthorize and amend 
the Marine Debris Research, Prevention, and Reduction Act; and 
S. 363, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to convey 
property of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
to the City of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and for other purposes. 
December 15, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs)
    112-90--Joint oversight hearing on the ``Challenges Facing 
Domestic Oil and Gas Development: Review of Bureau of Land 
Management/U.S. Forest Service Ban on Horizontal Drilling on 
Federal Lands.'' July 8, 2011, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee 
on Energy and Mineral Resources with the Committee on 
Agriculture)
    112-91--Hearing on H.R. 919, to provide for the conveyance 
of certain public land in Mohave Valley, Mohave County, 
Arizona, administered by the Bureau of Land Management to the 
Arizona Game and Fish Commission, for use as a public shooting 
range; H.R. 938, to establish a commission to ensure a suitable 
observance of the centennial of World War I and to designate 
memorials to the service of men and women of the United States 
in World War I; H.R. 1278, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a special resources study regarding the 
suitability and feasibility of designating the John Hope 
Franklin Reconciliation Park and other sites in Tulsa, 
Oklahoma, relating to the 1921 Tulsa race riot as a unit of the 
National Park System, and for other purposes; H.R. 2240, to 
authorize the exchange of land or interest in land between 
Lowell National Historical Park and the city of Lowell in the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and for other purposes; H.R. 
2489, to authorize the acquisition and protection of nationally 
significant battlefields and associated sites of the 
Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 under the American 
Battlefield Protection Program; H.R. 3411, to modify a land 
grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior; and H.R. 
3440, to provide for certain oversight and approval on any 
decisions to close National Monument land under the 
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management to recreational 
shooting, and for other purposes. January 24, 2012, Washington, 
D.C. (Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-92--Oversight hearing on ``Water for Our Future and Job 
Creation: Examining Regulatory and Bureaucratic Barriers to New 
Surface Storage Infrastructure.'' February 7, 2012, Washington, 
D.C. (Subcommittee on Water and Power)
    112-93--Oversight hearing on ``Department of the Interior 
Spending and the President's Fiscal Year 2013 Budget 
Proposal.'' February 15, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Full 
Committee)
    112-94--Hearing on H.R. 3973, to facilitate the development 
of energy on Indian lands by reducing Federal regulations that 
impede tribal development of Indian lands, and for other 
purposes. February 15, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on 
Indian and Alaska Native Affairs)
    112-95--Oversight hearing on the ``Proposed Comprehensive 
Conservation Plan (CCP) for the Chincoteague National Wildlife 
Refuge.'' February 17, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on 
Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans)
    112-96--Oversight field hearing in Steubenville, Ohio, on 
``Natural Gas--America's New Energy Opportunity: Creating Jobs, 
Energy and Community Growth''. February 27, 2012, Steubenville, 
Ohio. (Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-97--Oversight hearing on ``FY 2013 Budget Requests from 
the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management.'' 
February 28, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-98--Hearing on H.R. 1272, to provide for the use and 
distribution of the funds awarded to the Minnesota Chippewa 
Tribe, et al, by the United States Court of Federal Claims in 
Docket Numbers 19 and 188, and for other purposes. March 1, 
2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska 
Native Affairs)
    112-99--Oversight hearing on the ``Effect of the 
President's FY 2013 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the 
Office of Surface Mining on Private Sector Job Creation, 
Domestic Energy Production, State Programs and Deficit 
Reduction.'' March 6, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on 
Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-100--Oversight hearing on ``The Council on 
Environmental Quality's FY 2013 Funding Request and the Effects 
on NEPA, National Ocean Policy and Other Federal Environmental 
Policy Initiatives.'' March 7, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Full 
Committee)
    112-101--Oversight hearing on the ``Effect of the 
President's FY 2013 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the 
Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service's Energy 
and Minerals Programs on Private Sector Job Creation, Domestic 
Energy and Minerals Production and Deficit Reduction.'' March 
20, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources)
    112-102--Oversight hearing on ``The Proposed Dwight D. 
Eisenhower Memorial.'' March 20, 2012, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-103--Oversight hearing on ``Empty Hooks: The National 
Ocean Policy is the Latest Threat to Access for Recreational 
and Commercial Fishermen.'' March 22, 2012, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs)
    112-104--Hearing on H.R. 1241, to establish the Rio Grande 
del Norte National Conservation Area in the State of New 
Mexico, and for other purposes; H.R. 1818, to designate Mt. 
Andrea Lawrence, and for other purposes; H.R. 2984, to 
designate certain Federal lands within the Cross Island 
National Wildlife Refuge and the Petit Manan National Wildlife 
Refuge, part of the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife 
Refuge Complex, in Lincoln County, Hancock County, and 
Washington County, Maine, as wilderness; and H.R. 4234, to 
amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to 
improve the management of grazing leases and permits, and for 
other purposes. March 29, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee 
on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-105--Oversight field hearing in Anchorage, Alaska, on 
``Alaska's Sovereignty In Peril: The National Ocean Policy's 
Goal to Federalize Alaska.'' April 3, 2012, Anchorage, Alaska. 
(Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs)
    112-106--Oversight hearing on the ``Impacts of the Bureau 
of Land Management's Hydraulic Fracturing Rule on Indian Tribal 
Energy Development.'' April 19, 2012, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs)
    112-107--Oversight hearing on ``Increased Electricity Costs 
for American Families and Small Businesses: The Potential 
Impacts of the Chu Memorandum.'' April 26, 2012, Washington, 
D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-108--Hearing on H.R. 4094, to authorize pedestrian and 
motorized vehicular access in Cape Hatteras National Seashore 
Recreational Area, and for other purposes; and Oversight 
hearing on ``Access Denied: Turning Away Visitors to National 
Parks.'' April 27, 2012, Washington, D.C. (National Parks, 
Forests and Public Lands)
    112-109--Hearing on H.R. 3210, to amend the Lacey Act 
Amendments of 1981 to limit the application of that Act with 
respect to plants and plant products that were imported before 
the effective date of amendments to that Act enacted in 2008, 
and for other purposes; and H.R. 4171, to amend the Lacey Act 
Amendments of 1981 to repeal certain provisions relating to 
criminal penalties and violations of foreign laws, and for 
other purposes. May 8, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on 
Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs)
    112-110--Oversight hearing on ``Evaluating President 
Obama's Offshore Drilling Plan and Impacts on Our Future.'' May 
9, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-111--Joint oversight field hearing in Montrose, 
Colorado, on ``Logs in the Road: Eliminating Federal Red Tape 
and Excessive Litigation to Create Healthy Forests, Jobs and 
Abundant Water and Power Supplies.'' May 14, 2012, Montrose, 
Colorado. (Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public 
Lands, and Subcommittee on Water and Power)
    112-112--Oversight field hearing in Longview, Washington, 
on ``Failed Federal Forest Policies: Endangering Jobs, Forests 
and Species.'' May 21, 2012, Longview, Washington. 
(Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-113--Oversight hearing on the ``Obama Administration's 
Actions Against the Spruce Coal Mine: Canceled Permits, 
Lawsuits and Lost Jobs.'' June 1, 2012, Washington, D.C. 
(Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources)
    112-114--Oversight hearing on the ``Future of the National 
Mall.'' June 1, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on 
National Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-115--Oversight field hearing in Phoenix, Arizona, on 
``Evaporating Prosperity: How Federal Actions Are Driving Up 
Water and Power Costs, Threatening Jobs and Leaving Arizonans 
High and Dry.'' June 4, 2012, Phoenix, Arizona. (Subcommittee 
on Water and Power)
    112-116--Oversight hearing on ``Taxpayer-Funded Litigation: 
Benefitting Lawyers and Harming Species, Jobs and Schools.'' 
June 19, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-117--Oversight hearing on ``Mandatory Conditioning 
Requirements on Hydropower: How Federal Resource Agencies are 
Driving Up Electricity Costs and Decreasing the Original Green 
Energy.'' June 27, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-118--Hearing on H.R. 624, to establish the First State 
National Historical Park in the State of Delaware, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 3640, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to acquire not more than 18 acres of land and 
interests in land in Mariposa, California, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 4109, to designate additional National Forest 
System land in the Los Padres National Forest in the State of 
California as wilderness, to make certain wild and scenic river 
designations in that National Forest, to designate the Condor 
Ridge Scenic Area, to address off highway vehicle use in that 
National Forest, to facilitate a land exchange with the United 
Water Conservation District of California, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 4334, to establish a monument in Dona Ana 
County, New Mexico, and for other purposes; H.R. 4484, to 
provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest 
System land in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah 
to Brigham Young University, and for other purposes; H.R. 5319, 
to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments 
of the mainstem of the Nashua River and its tributaries in the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts for study for potential addition 
to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 5958, to name the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge 
Visitor Contact Station of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge unit 
of Gateway National Recreation Area in honor of James L. 
Buckley; and H.R. 5987, to establish the Manhattan Project 
National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, 
New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington, and for other purposes. 
June 28, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Forests and Public Lands)
    112-119--Hearing on H.R. 6060, to amend Public Law 106-392 
to maintain annual base funding for the Upper Colorado and San 
Juan fish recovery programs through fiscal year 2019. July 10, 
2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Water and Power)
    112-120--Oversight hearing on ``Status of Obama 
Administration's Rewrite of the Stream Buffer Zone Rule and 
Compliance with Committee Subpoenas.'' July 19, 2012, 
Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-121--Hearing on H.R. 5744, to address the forest 
health, public safety, and wildlife habitat threat presented by 
the risk of wildfire, including catastrophic wildfire, on 
National Forest System lands and public lands managed by the 
Bureau of Land Management by requiring the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to expedite 
forest management projects relating to hazardous fuels 
reduction, forest health, and economic development, and for 
other purposes; H.R. 5960, to amend the Healthy Forests 
Restoration Act of 2003 to improve the response to insect 
infestations and related diseases and to change the funding 
source for the Healthy Forests Reserve Program, to codify the 
stewardship end result contracting and good neighbor 
authorities, and to amend the emergency watershed protection 
program to improve post fire rehabilitation, and for other 
purposes; and H.R. 6089, to address the bark beetle epidemic, 
drought, deteriorating forest health conditions, and high risk 
of wildfires on National Forest System land and land under the 
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in the United 
States by expanding authorities established in the Healthy 
Forest Restoration Act of 2003 to provide emergency measures 
for high-risk areas identified by such States, to make 
permanent Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management 
authority to conduct good-neighbor cooperation with States to 
reduce wildfire risks, and for other purposes. July 20, 2012, 
Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and 
Public Lands)
    112-122--Oversight hearing on ``The Impact of Catastrophic 
Forest Fires and Litigation on People and Endangered Species: 
Time for Rational Management of our Nation's Forests.'' July 
24, 2012, Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-123--Oversight hearing on ``Oversight of the Actions, 
Independence and Accountability of the Acting Inspector General 
of the Department of the Interior.'' August 2, 2012, 
Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-124--Oversight hearing on ``Concession Contract Issues 
for Outfitters, Guides and Smaller Concessions.'' August 2, 
2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests 
and Public Lands)
    112-125--Legislative field hearing in Pasco, Washington, on 
H.R. 6247, to protect the Federal Columbia River Power System, 
Power Marketing Administration customers, and Bureau of 
Reclamation dams and other facilities and to promote new 
Federal and other hydropower generation. August 15, 2012, 
Pasco, Washington. (Full Committee)
    112-126--Oversight field hearing in Panama City, Florida, 
on ``Fishing = Jobs: How Strengthening America's Fisheries 
Strengthens Our Economy.'' August 25, 2012, Panama City, 
Florida. (Full Committee)
    112-127--Hearing on H.R. 6040, to approve the Agreement 
providing terms for a continuation of the free association 
between the United States and Palau, and for other purposes; 
and H.R. 6147, to designate the exclusive economic zone of the 
United States as the ``Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic 
Zone of the United States''. September 10, 2012, Washington, 
D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs)
    112-128--Oversight hearing on ``The Chu Memorandum: 
Directives Could Increase Electricity Costs for over 40 Million 
Families and Small Businesses.'' September 11, 2012, 
Washington, D.C. (Full Committee)
    112-129--Oversight hearing on ``Committee Oversight of 
Department of the Interior: Questioning of Key Department of 
the Interior Officials.'' September 13, 2012, Washington, D.C. 
(Full Committee)
    112-130--Oversight hearing on ``Per Capita Act and Federal 
Treatment of Trust Per Capita Distributions.'' September 14, 
2012, Washington, D.C. (Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska 
Native Affairs)
    112-131--Hearing on H.R. 511, to amend title 18, United 
States Code, to prohibit the importation of various injurious 
species of constrictor snakes. November 29, 2012, Washington, 
D.C. (Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular 
Affairs)
                              APPENDIX II

                        Legislation Passed House

              BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS PASSED HOUSE (BY DATE)

    [Asterisk (*) denotes bills that the Committee on Natural 
Resources was not the lead Committee]
    01/19/2011--H.R. 2*, to repeal the job-killing health care 
law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and 
Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Passed House, as amended, 
by vote of 245-189.
    03/02/2011--H.R. 662*, to provide an extension of Federal-
aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and 
other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending 
enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs. 
Passed House, as amended, by vote of 421-4. (Public Law 111-5)
    05/05/2011--H.R. 1230, to require the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease sales, 
and for other purposes. Passed House by vote of 266-149.
    05/11/2011--H.R. 1229, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act to facilitate the safe and timely production of 
American energy resources from the Gulf of Mexico. Passed 
House, as amended, by vote of 263-163.
    05/12/2011--H.R. 1231, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act to require that each 5-year offshore oil and gas 
leasing program offer leasing in the areas with the most 
prospective oil and gas resources, to establish a domestic oil 
and natural gas production goal, and for other purposes. Passed 
House, as amended, by vote of 243-179.
    07/26/2011--H.R. 1938*, to direct the President to expedite 
the consideration and approval of the construction and 
operation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and for other 
purposes. Passed House, as amended, by vote of 279-147.
    10/03/2011--H.R. 470, to further allocate and expand the 
availability of hydroelectric power generated at Hoover Dam, 
and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by voice 
vote. (Public Law 112-72)
    10/03/2011--H.R. 473, to provide for the conveyance of 
approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita National Forest 
in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, Inc., of the Boy 
Scouts of America, and for other purposes. Passed House, as 
amended, by voice vote. (Public Law 112-103)
    10/03/2011--H.R. 489, to clarify the jurisdiction of the 
Secretary of the Interior with respect to the C.C. Cragin Dam 
and Reservoir, and for other purposes. Passed House by voice 
vote. (Public Law 112-45)
    10/03/2011--H.R. 670, to convey certain submerged lands to 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in order to 
give that territory the same benefits in its submerged lands as 
Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in their 
submerged lands. Passed House by vote of 397-0.
    10/03/2011--H.R. 686, to require the conveyance of certain 
public land within the boundaries of Camp Williams, Utah, to 
support the training and readiness of the Utah National Guard. 
Passed House, as amended, by vote of 400-0.
    10/03/2011--H.R. 765*, to amend the National Forest Ski 
Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the authority of the 
Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional recreational uses 
of National Forest System land that is subject to ski area 
permits, and for other purposes. Passed House by vote of 394-0. 
(Public Law 112-46)
    10/24/2011--H.R. 295, to amend the Hydrographic Services 
Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire 
hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to 
the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States 
extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description 
of coastal changes. Passed House, as amended, by voice vote.
    10/24/2011--H.R. 320, to designate a Distinguished Flying 
Cross National Memorial at the March Field Air Museum in 
Riverside, California. Passed House by vote of 392-1.
    10/24/2011--H.R. 441, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to issue permits for microhydro projects in 
nonwilderness areas within the boundaries of Denali National 
Park and Preserve, to acquire land for Denali National Park and 
Preserve from Doyon Tourism, Inc., and for other purposes. 
Passed House, as amended, by voice vote.
    10/24/2011--H.R. 461, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey certain Federal features of the electric 
distribution system to the South Utah Valley Electric Service 
District, and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by 
voice vote.
    10/24/2011--H.R. 818, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment contracts between 
the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District. 
Passed House by voice vote. (Public Law 112-52)
    10/24/2011--H.R. 1160, to require the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey the McKinney Lake National Fish Hatchery to 
the State of North Carolina, and for other purposes. Passed 
House, as amended, by vote of 395-0.
    10/26/2011--H.R. 1904, to facilitate the efficient 
extraction of mineral resources in southeast Arizona by 
authorizing and directing an exchange of Federal and non-
Federal land, and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, 
by vote of 235-186.
    11/14/2011--H.R. 588, to redesignate the Noxubee National 
Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National 
Wildlife Refuge. Passed House by voice vote. (Public Law 112-
94)
    12/07/2011--H.R. 944, to eliminate an unused lighthouse 
reservation, provide management consistency by incorporating 
the rocks and small islands along the coast of Orange County, 
California, into the California Coastal National Monument 
managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and meet the original 
Congressional intent of preserving Orange County's rocks and 
small islands, and for other purposes. Passed House by voice 
vote.
    12/07/2011--H.R. 1560, to amend the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo 
and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration 
Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribe to determine blood 
quantum requirement for membership in that tribe. Passed House 
by voice vote. (Public Law 112-157)
    12/07/2011--H.R. 2351, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the 
North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation 
Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area. Passed House by 
voice vote.
    12/07/2011--H.R. 2360, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf 
Lands Act to extend the Constitution, laws, and jurisdiction of 
the United States to installations and devices attached to the 
seabed of the Outer Continental Shelf for the production and 
support of production of energy from sources other than oil and 
gas, and for other purposes. Passed House by voice vote.
    12/07/2011--S. 535*, a bill to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to lease certain lands within Fort Pulaski 
National Monument, and for other purposes. Passed House by 
voice vote. (Public Law 112-69)
    12/07/2011--S. 683*, a bill to provide for the conveyance 
of certain parcels of land to the town of Mantua, Utah. Passed 
House by voice vote. (Public Law 112-70)
    12/07/2011--S. Con. Res. 32*, a concurrent resolution to 
authorize the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make 
technical corrections in the enrollment of H.R. 470, an Act to 
further allocate and expand the availability of hydroelectric 
power generated at Hoover Dam, and for other purposes. Passed 
House by voice vote.
    12/13/2011--H.R. 3630*, to provide incentives for the 
creation of jobs, and for other purposes. Passed House, as 
amended, by vote of 234-193. (Public Law 112-96)
    12/15/2011--H.R. 443, to provide for the conveyance of 
certain property from the United States to the Maniilaq 
Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska. Passed House, as 
amended, by vote of 407-4. (Public Law 112-xxx)
    12/15/2011--H.R. 2719, to ensure public access to the 
summit of Rattlesnake Mountain in the Hanford Reach National 
Monument for educational, recreational, historical, scientific, 
cultural, and other purposes. Passed House by vote of 416-0.
    12/16/2011--S. 278*, a bill to provide for the exchange of 
certain land located in the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests 
in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes. Passed House, 
as amended, by vote of 413-0. (Public Law 112-79)
    12/23/2011--H.R. 3765*, to extend the payroll tax holiday, 
unemployment compensation, Medicare physician payment, provide 
for the consideration of the Keystone XL pipeline, and for 
other purposes. Passed House without objection. (Public Law 
112-78)
    01/23/2011--H.R. 1141, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of 
designating prehistoric, historic, and limestone forest sites 
on Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as a 
unit of the National Park System. Passed House by vote of 278-
100.
    01/23/2011--H.R. 3117, to grant the Secretary of the 
Interior permanent authority to authorize States to issue 
electronic duck stamps, and for other purposes. Passed House, 
as amended, by vote of 373-1.
    01/24/2012--H.R. 290, to amend title 36, United States 
Code, to ensure that memorials commemorating the service of the 
United States Armed Forces may contain religious symbols, and 
for other purposes. Passed House by voice vote.
    01/24/2012--H.R. 2070, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to install in the area of the World War II Memorial in 
the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription 
with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with 
the nation on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day. Passed House, 
as amended, by vote of 386-26.
    01/25/2012--H.R. 1022, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to conduct a study of alternatives for commemorating 
and interpreting the role of the Buffalo Soldiers in the early 
years of the National Parks, and for other purposes. Passed 
House by vote of 338-70.
    02/06/2012--H.R. 306, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to enter into an agreement to provide for management 
of the free-roaming wild horses in and around the Currituck 
National Wildlife Refuge. Passed House, as amended, by voice 
vote.
    02/06/2012--H.R. 1162, to provide the Quileute Indian Tribe 
Tsunami and Flood Protection, and for other purposes. Passed 
House, as amended, by vote of 381-7. (Public Law 112-97)
    02/07/2012--H.R. 2606, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to allow the construction and operation of natural gas 
pipeline facilities in the Gateway National Recreation Area, 
and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by voice 
vote. (Public Law 112-197)
    02/16/2012--H.R. 3408, to set clear rules for the 
development of United States oil shale resources, to promote 
shale technology research and development, and for other 
purposes. Passed House, as amended, by vote of 237-187.
    02/29/2012--H.R. 1837, to address certain water-related 
concerns on the San Joaquin River, and for other purposes. 
Passed House, as amended, by vote of 246-175.
    03/01/2012--S. 1134*, a bill to authorize the St. Croix 
River Crossing Project with appropriate mitigation measures to 
promote river values. Passed House by vote of 339-80. (Public 
Law 112-100).
    03/07/2012--H.R. 2842, to authorize all Bureau of 
Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development under 
Federal Reclamation law, and for other purposes. Passed House, 
as amended, by vote of 265-154.
    03/20/2012--H.R. 2087, to remove restrictions from a parcel 
of land situated in the Atlantic District, Accomack County, 
Virginia. Passed House, as amended, by vote of 240-164.
    03/29/2012--H.R. 4281*, to provide an extension of Federal-
aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and 
other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending 
enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs. 
Passed House by vote of 266-158. (Public Law 112-102)
    04/17/2012--H.R. 4089, to protect and enhance opportunities 
for recreational hunting, fishing and shooting. Passed House, 
as amended, by vote of 274-146.
    04/18/2012--H.R. 4348*, to provide an extension of Federal-
aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and 
other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending 
enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs, and 
for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by vote of 293-
127. (Public Law 112-141)
    04/24/2012--H.R. 491, to modify the boundaries of Cibola 
National Forest in the State of New Mexico, to transfer certain 
Bureau of Land Management land for inclusion in the national 
forest, and for other purposes. Passed House by voice vote.
    04/24/2012--H.R. 2157, to facilitate a land exchange 
involving certain National Forest System lands in the Inyo 
National Forest, and for other purposes. Passed House by vote 
of 376-2.
    04/24/2012--H.R. 2947, to provide for the release of the 
reversionary interest held by the United States in certain land 
conveyed by the United States in 1950 for the establishment of 
an airport in Cook County, Minnesota. Passed House by voice 
vote. (Public Law 112-129)
    04/25/2012--H.R. 1038, to authorize the conveyance of two 
small parcels of land within the boundaries of the Coconino 
National Forest containing private improvements that were 
developed based upon the reliance of the landowners in an 
erroneous survey conducted in May 1960. Passed House, as 
amended, by vote of 421-1.
    04/26/2012--H.R. 2050, to authorize the continued use of 
certain water diversions located on National Forest System land 
in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the 
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the State of Idaho, and for 
other purposes. Passed House by voice vote.
    04/26/2012--H.R. 2240, to authorize the exchange of land or 
interest in land between Lowell National Historical Park and 
the city of Lowell in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and 
for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by voice vote. 
(Public Law 112-182)
    04/27/2012--H.R. 4849, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to issue commercial use authorizations to commercial 
stock operators for operations in designated wilderness within 
the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, and for other 
purposes. Passed House, as amended, by unanimous consent. 
(Public Law 112-128)
    05/15/2012--H.R. 205, to amend the Act titled ``An Act to 
authorize the leasing of restricted Indian lands for public, 
religious, educational, recreational, residential, business, 
and other purposes requiring the grant of long-term leases,'' 
approved August 9, 1955, to provide for Indian tribes to enter 
into certain leases without prior express approval from the 
Secretary of the Interior, and for other purposes. Passed 
House, as amended, by vote of 400-0. (Public Law 112-151)
    05/15/2012--H.R. 3874, to provide for the conveyance of 
eight cemeteries that are located on National Forest System 
land in Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota. Passed 
House, as amended, by vote of 400-1.
    05/16/2012--H.R. 2621, to establish the Chimney Rock 
National Monument in the State of Colorado, and for other 
purposes. Passed House, as amended, by voice vote.
    05/16/2012--H.R. 2745, to amend the Mesquite Lands Act of 
1986 to facilitate implementation of a multispecies habitat 
conservation plan for the Virgin River in Clark County, Nevada. 
Passed House, as amended, by voice vote.
    06/05/2012--H.R. 241, to authorize the conveyance of 
certain National Forest System lands in the Los Padres National 
Forest in California. Passed House, as amended, by voice vote.
    06/05/2012--H.R. 1740, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
Act to designate a segment of Illabot Creek in Skagit County, 
Washington, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic 
Rivers System. Passed House, as amended, by voice vote.
    06/05/2012--H.R. 2060, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
Act to adjust the Crooked River boundary, to provide water 
certainty for the City of Prineville, Oregon, and for other 
purposes. Passed House, as amended, by voice vote.
    06/05/2012--H.R. 2336, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
Act to designate segments of the York River and associated 
tributaries for study for potential inclusion in the National 
Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Passed House, as amended, by 
voice vote.
    06/05/2012--H.R. 2512, to provide for the conveyance of 
certain Federal land in Clark County, Nevada, for the 
environmental remediation and reclamation of the Three Kids 
Mine Project Site, and for other purposes. Passed House, as 
amended, by voice vote.
    06/05/2012--H.R. 3263, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to allow the storage and conveyance of nonproject 
water at the Norman project in Oklahoma, and for other 
purposes. Passed House by voice vote. (Public Law 112-xxx)
    06/05/2012--H.R. 4222, to provide for the conveyance of 
certain land inholdings owned by the United States to the 
Tucson Unified School District and to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of 
Arizona, and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by 
voice vote.
    06/06/2012--S. 292*, a bill to resolve the claims of the 
Bering Straits Native Corporation and the State of Alaska to 
land adjacent to Salmon Lake in the State of Alaska and to 
provide for the conveyance to the Bering Straits Native 
Corporation of certain other public land in partial 
satisfaction of the land entitlement of the Corporation under 
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Passed House by voice 
vote. (Public Law 112-133)
    06/06/2012--S. 363*, a bill to authorize the Secretary of 
Commerce to convey property of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration to the City of Pascagoula, 
Mississippi, and for other purposes. Passed House by voice 
vote. (Public Law 112-134)
    06/18/2012--H.R. 1272, to provide for the use and 
distribution of the funds awarded to the Minnesota Chippewa 
Tribe, et al., by the United States Court of Federal Claims in 
Docket Numbers 19 and 188, and for other purposes. Passed 
House, as amended, by voice vote. (Public Law 112-179)
    06/18/2012--H.R. 1556, to amend the Omnibus Indian 
Advancement Act to allow certain land to be used to generate 
income to provide funding for academic programs, and for other 
purposes. Passed House by voice vote.
    06/18/2012--H.R. 4027, to clarify authority granted under 
the Act on ``An Act to define the exterior boundary of the 
Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the State of Utah, and 
for other purposes.'' Passed House by voice vote.
    06/18/2012--S. 404*, a bill to modify a land grant patent 
issued by the Secretary of the Interior. Passed House by vote 
of 380-0. (Public Law 112-137)
    06/18/2012--S. 684*, a bill to provide for the conveyance 
of certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, Utah. Passed 
House by vote of 383-3. (Public Law 112-138)
    06/18/2012--S. 997*, a bill to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to extend a water contract between the United 
States and the East Bench Irrigation District. Passed House by 
voice vote. (Public Law 112-139)
    06/19/2012--H.R. 2578, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
Act related to a segment of the Lower Merced River in 
California, and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, 
by vote of 232-188.
    06/19/2012--H.R. 2938, to prohibit certain gaming 
activities on certain Indian lands in Arizona. Passed House, as 
amended, by vote of 343-78.
    06/21/2012--H.R. 4480*, to provide for the development of a 
plan to increase oil and gas exploration, development, and 
production under oil and gas leases of Federal lands under the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of 
Defense in response to a drawdown of petroleum reserves from 
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Passed House, as amended, by 
vote of 248-163.
    06/29/2012--H.R. 6064*, to provide an extension of Federal-
aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and 
other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending 
enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs. 
Passed House without objection. (Public Law 112-140)
    07/11/2012--H.R. 6079*, to repeal the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in 
the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. 
Passed House by vote of 244-185.
    07/12/2012--H.R. 4402, to require the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to more efficiently 
develop domestic sources of the minerals and mineral materials 
of strategic and critical importance to United States economic 
and national security and manufacturing competitiveness. Passed 
House, as amended, by vote of 256-160.
    07/23/2012--H.R. 1237, to provide for a land exchange with 
the Trinity Public Utilities District of Trinity County, 
California, involving the transfer of land to the Bureau of 
Land Management and the Six Rivers National Forest in exchange 
for National Forest System land in the Shasta-Trinity National 
Forest, and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by 
voice vote.
    07/23/2012--H.R. 2467, to take certain Federal lands in 
Mono County, California, into trust for the benefit of the 
Bridgeport Indian Colony. Passed House, as amended, by voice 
vote. (Public Law 112-212)
    07/23/2012--H.R. 3388, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
Act to designate a segment of the Beaver, Chipuxet, Queen, 
Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in the States of Connecticut and 
Rhode Island for study for potential addition to the National 
Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes. Passed 
House, as amended, by voice vote.
    07/23/2012--H.R. 4484, to provide for the conveyance of a 
small parcel of National Forest System land in the Uinta-
Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah to Brigham Young 
University, and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, 
by voice vote.
    07/23/2012--H.R. 5958, to name the Jamaica Bay Wildlife 
Refuge Visitor Contact Station of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife 
Refuge unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in honor of 
James L. Buckley. Passed House by voice vote.
    07/25/2012--H.R. 6082, to officially replace, within the 
60-day Congressional review period under the Outer Continental 
Shelf Lands Act, President Obama's Proposed Final Outer 
Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (2012-2017) with a 
congressional plan that will conduct additional oil and natural 
gas lease sales to promote offshore energy development, job 
creation, and increased domestic energy production to ensure a 
more secure energy future in the United States, and for other 
purposes. Passed House, as amended, by vote of 253-170.
    07/31/2012--H.R. 3641, to establish Pinnacles National Park 
in the State of California as a unit of the National Park 
System, and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by 
voice vote. (Public Law 112-xxx)
    08/01/2012--H.R. 1171*, to reauthorize and amend the Marine 
Debris Research, Prevention, and Reduction Act. Passed House, 
as amended, by voice vote.
    08/01/2012--H.R. 3706, to create the Office of Chief 
Financial Officer of the Government of the Virgin Islands, and 
for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by voice vote.
    08/01/2012--H.R. 4073, to authorize the Secretary of 
Agriculture to accept the quitclaim, disclaimer, and 
relinquishment of a railroad right of way within and adjacent 
to Pike National Forest in El Paso County, Colorado, originally 
granted to the Mt. Manitou Park and Incline Railway Company 
pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1875. Passed House, as amended, 
by voice vote. (Public Law 112-xxx)
    08/01/2012--S. 270*, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey certain Federal land to Deschutes County, 
Oregon. Passed House by voice vote. (Public Law 112-164)
    08/01/2012--S. 271*, to require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to enter into a property conveyance with the city 
of Wallowa, Oregon, and for other purposes. Passed House by 
voice vote. (Public Law 112-165)
    09/10/2012--H.R. 2489, to authorize the acquisition and 
protection of nationally significant battlefields and 
associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 
under the American Battlefield Protection Program. Passed 
House, as amended, by voice vote.
    09/10/2012--H.R. 2706, to prohibit the sale of billfish. 
Passed House, as amended, by voice vote. (Public Law 112-183)
    09/10/2012--H.R. 3397, to modify the Forest Service 
Recreation Residence Program by implementing a simple, 
equitable, and predictable procedure for determining cabin user 
fees, and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by 
voice vote.
    09/10/2012--H.R. 6007, to exempt from the Lacey Act 
Amendments of 1981 certain water transfers by the North Texas 
Municipal Water District and the Greater Texoma Utility 
Authority. Passed House, as amended, by voice vote.
    09/12/2012--H.R. 5544, to authorize and expedite a land 
exchange involving National Forest System land in the 
Laurentian District of the Superior National Forest and certain 
other National Forest System land in the State of Minnesota 
that has limited recreational and conservation resources and 
lands owned by the State of Minnesota in trust for the public 
school system that are largely scattered in checkerboard 
fashion within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and 
have important recreational, scenic, and conservation 
resources, and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by 
vote of 225-189.
    09/19/2012--H.R. 1461, to authorize the Mescalero Apache 
Tribe to lease adjudicated water rights. Passed House, as 
amended, by voice vote.
    09/19/2012--H.R. 3319, to allow the Pascua Yaqui Tribe to 
determine the requirements for membership in that tribe. Passed 
House, as amended, by voice vote. (Public Law 112-214)
    09/19/2012--H.R. 6060, to amend Public Law 106-392 to 
maintain annual base funding for the Upper Colorado and San 
Juan fish recovery programs through fiscal year 2019. Passed 
House by voice vote. (Public Law 112-xxx)
    09/21/2012--H.R. 3409, to limit the authority of the 
Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations before December 
31, 2013, under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act 
of 1977. Passed House, as amended, by vote of 233-175.
    12/12/2012--H.R. 6364*, to establish a commission to ensure 
a suitable observance of the centennial of World War I, to 
provide for the designation of memorials to the service of 
members of the United States Armed Forces in World War I, and 
for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by voice vote. 
(Public Law 112-xxx)
    12/17/2012--H.R. 4606, to authorize the issuance of right-
of-way permits for natural gas pipelines in Glacier National 
Park, and for other purposes. Passed House, as amended, by vote 
of 286-10. (Public Law 112-xxx)
    12/17/2012--S. 3193, a bill to make technical corrections 
to the legal description of certain land to be held in trust 
for the Barona Band of Mission Indians, and for other purposes. 
Passed House by vote of 306-0. (Public Law 112-232)
    12/20/2012--S. 925*, a bill to designate Mt. Andrea 
Lawrence. Passed House by vote of 408-7. (Public Law 112-xxx)
    12/28/2012--S. 3687*, a bill to amend the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Lake Pontchartrain 
Basin Restoration Program, to designate certain Federal 
buildings, and for other purposes. Passed House by unanimous 
consent. (Public Law 112-237)

       Bills and Resolutions Which Failed To Pass House (by Date)

    03/29/2012--H.R. 4239*, to provide an extension of Federal-
aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and 
other programs funded out of the Highway Trust Fund pending 
enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such programs. 
Failed to pass the House under suspension of the rules by voice 
vote.
    07/23/2012--H.R. 2362, to facilitate economic development 
by Indian tribes and encourage investment by Turkish 
enterprises. Failed to pass the House under suspension of the 
rules as amended, by vote of 222-160.
    07/25/2012--H.R. 6168, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to implement the Proposed Final Outer Continental 
Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (2012-2017) in accordance with 
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and other applicable law. 
Failed to pass the House under suspension of the rules by vote 
of 164-261.
    09/20/2012--H.R. 5987, to establish the Manhattan Project 
National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, 
New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington, and for other purposes. 
Failed to pass the House under suspension of the rules as 
amended, by vote of 237-180.

                              APPENDIX III


                          List of Public Laws

    [Asterisk (*) denotes bills that were not referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources but contain provisions under the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Natural Resources]
    Public Law 112-5: (H.R. 662), To provide an extension of 
Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, 
transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust 
Fund pending enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such 
programs. (Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2011)
    Public Law 112-45: (H.R. 489), To clarify the jurisdiction 
of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to the C.C. 
Cragin Dam and Reservoir, and for other purposes.
    Public Law 112-46: (H.R. 765), To amend the National Forest 
Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the authority of the 
Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional recreational uses 
of National Forest System land that is subject to ski area 
permits, and for other purposes. (Ski Area Recreational 
Opportunity Enhancement Act of 2011)
    Public Law 112-52: (H.R. 818) [S. 808*], To direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment 
contracts between the United States and the Uintah Water 
Conservancy District.
    Public Law 112-69: (S. 535) [H.R. 2687], To authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to lease certain lands within Fort 
Pulaski National Monument, and for other purposes. (Fort 
Pulaski National Monument Lease Authorization Act)
    Public Law 112-70: (S. 683*) [H.R. 1258], To provide for 
the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of 
Mantua, Utah. (Box Elder Utah Land Conveyance Act)
    Public Law 112-72: (H.R. 470) [S. Con. Res. 32], To further 
allocate and expand the availability of hydroelectric power 
generated at Hoover Dam, and for other purposes. (Hoover Power 
Allocation Act of 2011)
    Public Law 112-74: (H.R. 2055*) [H.R. 2687, S. 535], Making 
appropriations for military construction, the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2012, and for other purposes. 
(Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012)
    Public Law 112-78: (H.R. 3765), To extend the payroll tax 
holiday, unemployment compensation, Medicare physician payment, 
provide for the consideration of the Keystone XL pipeline, and 
for other purposes. (Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act 
of 2011)
    Public Law 112-79: (S. 278*) [H.R. 643], To provide for the 
exchange of certain land located in the Arapaho-Roosevelt 
National Forests in the State of Colorado, and for other 
purposes. (Sugar Loaf Fire Protection District Land Exchange 
Act of 2011)
    Public Law 112-81: (H.R. 1540*) [H.R. 1670], To authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2012 for military activities of 
the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes. (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2012)
    Public Law 112-94: (H.R. 588) [S. 266], To redesignate the 
Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee 
National Wildlife Refuge.
    Public Law 112-96: (H.R. 3630) [H.R. 3548], A bill to 
extend the payroll tax holiday, unemployment compensation, 
Medicare physician payment, provide for the consideration of 
the Keystone XL pipeline, and for other purposes. (Middle Class 
Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-97: (H.R. 1162), To provide the Quileute 
Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Protection, and for other 
purposes.
    Public Law 112-100: (S. 1134) [H.R. 850], To authorize the 
St. Croix River Crossing Project with appropriate mitigation 
measures to promote river values. (St. Croix River Crossing 
Project Authorization Act)
    Public Law 112-102: (H.R. 4281), To provide an extension of 
Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, 
transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust 
Fund pending enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such 
programs. (Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-103: (H.R. 473), To provide for the 
conveyance of approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita 
National Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, 
Inc., of the Boy Scouts of America, and for other purposes. 
(Help to Access Land for the Education of Scouts)
    Public Law 112-128: (H.R. 4849), To direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to issue commercial use authorizations to 
commercial stock operators for operations in designated 
wilderness within the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, 
and for other purposes. (Sequoia and King Canyon National Parks 
Backcountry Access Act)
    Public Law 112-129: (H.R. 2947), To provide for the release 
of the reversionary interest held by the United States in 
certain land conveyed by the United States in 1950 for the 
establishment of an airport in Cook County, Minnesota.
    Public Law 112-133: (S. 292) [H.R. 296], To resolve the 
claims of the Bering Straits Native Corporation and the State 
of Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon Lake in the State of 
Alaska and to provide for the conveyance to the Bering Straits 
Native Corporation of certain other public land in partial 
satisfaction of the land entitlement of the Corporation under 
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. (Salmon Lake Land 
Selection Resolution Act)
    Public Law 112-134: (S. 363), To authorize the Secretary of 
Commerce to convey property of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration to the City of Pascagoula, 
Mississippi, and for other purposes.
    Public Law 112-137: (S. 404) [H.R. 3411], To modify a land 
grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior.
    Public Law 112-138: (S. 684), To provide for the conveyance 
of certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, Utah.
    Public Law 112-139: (S. 997), To authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to extend a water contract between the United 
States and the East Bench Irrigation District.
    Public Law 112-140: (H.R. 6064), To provide an extension of 
Federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, 
transit, and other programs funded out of the Highway Trust 
Fund pending enactment of a multiyear law reauthorizing such 
programs. (Temporary Surface Transportation Extension Act of 
2012)
    Public Law 112-141: (H.R. 4348) [H.R. 3096, H.R. 4198], To 
authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety 
programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes. (Moving 
Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act)
    Public Law 112-151: (H.R. 205), To amend the Act titled 
``An Act to authorize the leasing of restricted Indian lands 
for public, religious, educational, recreational, residential, 
business, and other purposes requiring the grant of long-term 
leases'', approved August 9, 1955, to provide for Indian tribes 
to enter into certain leases without prior express approval 
from the Secretary of the Interior, and for other purposes. 
(Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Home Ownership 
Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-157: (H.R. 1560), To amend the Ysleta del 
Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas 
Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribe to 
determine blood quantum requirement for membership in that 
tribe.
    Public Law 112-164: (S. 270), To direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to convey certain Federal land to Deschutes 
County, Oregon.
    Public Law 112-165: (S. 271), To require the Secretary of 
Agriculture to enter into a property conveyance with the city 
of Wallowa, Oregon, and for other purposes.
    Public Law 112-179: (H.R. 1272), To provide for the use and 
distribution of the funds awarded to the Minnesota Chippewa 
Tribe, et al, by the United States Court of Federal Claims in 
Docket Numbers 19 and 188, and for other purposes. (Minnesota 
Chippewa Tribe Judgment Fund Distribution Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-182: (H.R. 2240), To authorize the exchange 
of land or interest in land between Lowell National Historical 
Park and the city of Lowell in the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, and for other purposes. (Lowell National 
Historical Park Land Exchange Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-183: (H.R. 2706), To prohibit the sale of 
billfish. (Billfish Conservation Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-197: (H.R. 2606), To authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to allow the construction and operation of 
natural gas pipeline facilities in the Gateway National 
Recreation Area, and for other purposes. (New York City Natural 
Gas Supply Enhancement Act)
    Public Law 112-212: (H.R. 2467), To take certain Federal 
lands in Mono County, California, into trust for the benefit of 
the Bridgeport Indian Colony. (Bridgeport Indian Colony Land 
Trust, Health, and Economic Development Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-213: (H.R. 2838*) [H.R. 1171], To authorize 
appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal years 2013 
through 2014, and for other purposes. (Coast Guard 
Authorization Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-214: (H.R. 3319), To allow the Pascua Yaqui 
Tribe to determine the requirements for membership in that 
tribe.
    Public Law 112-232: (S. 3193), To make technical 
corrections to the legal description of certain land to be held 
in trust for the Barona Band of Mission Indians, and for other 
purposes. (Barona Band of Mission Indians Land Transfer 
Clarification Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-237: (S. 3687) [H.R. 1160, H.R. 6007], To 
amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize 
the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program, to designate 
certain Federal buildings, and for other purposes.
    Public Law 112-xxx*: (H.R. 443), To provide for the 
conveyance of certain property from the United States to the 
Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska.
    Public Law 112-xxx*: (H.R. 3263), To authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to allow the storage and conveyance 
of nonproject water at the Norman project in Oklahoma, and for 
other purposes. (Lake Thunderbird Efficient Use Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-xxx*: (H.R. 3641), To establish Pinnacles 
National Park in the State of California as a unit of the 
National Park System, and for other purposes. (Pinnacles 
National Park Act)
    Public Law 112-xxx*: (H.R. 4073), To authorize the 
Secretary of Agriculture to accept the quitclaim, disclaimer, 
and relinquishment of a railroad right of way within and 
adjacent to Pike National Forest in El Paso County, Colorado, 
originally granted to the Mt. Manitou Park and Incline Railway 
Company pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1875.
    Public Law 112-xxx*: (H.R. 4310) [H. Con. Res. 87, H.R. 
200, H.R. 2181]), To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2013 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for 
military construction, and for defense activities of the 
Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. (National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013)
    Public Law 112-xxx*: (H.R. 4606), To authorize the issuance 
of right-of-way permits for natural gas pipelines in Glacier 
National Park, and for other purposes.
    Public Law 112-xxx*: (H.R. 6060), To amend Public Law 106-
392 to maintain annual base funding for the Upper Colorado and 
San Juan fish recovery programs through fiscal year 2019. 
(Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2012)
    Public Law 112-xxx*: (H.R. 6364) [H.R. 938], To establish a 
commission to ensure a suitable observance of the centennial of 
World War I, to provide for the designation of memorials to the 
service of members of the United States Armed Forces in World 
War I, and for other purposes. (World War I Centennial 
Commission Act)
    Public Law 112-xxx*: (S. 925) [H.R. 1818], To designate Mt. 
Andrea Lawrence. (Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act of 2011)
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                              APPENDIX IV

                            Committee Prints

House Committee Print
    Rules for the Committee on Natural Resources, 112th 
Congress [January 26, 2011]
                               APPENDIX V

                     Committee Legislative Reports

    House Report 112-67, Part 1, (H.R. 1229), to amend the 
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to facilitate the safe and 
timely production of American energy resources from the Gulf of 
Mexico.
    House Report 112-68 (H.R. 1230), to require the Secretary 
of the Interior to conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease 
sales, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-69 (H.R. 1231), to amend the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act to require that each 5-year 
offshore oil and gas leasing program offer leasing in the areas 
with the most prospective oil and gas resources, to establish a 
domestic oil and natural gas production goal, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-156 (H.R. 290), to amend title 36, United 
States Code, to ensure that memorials commemorating the service 
of the United States Armed Forces may contain religious 
symbols, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-157 (H.R. 295), to amend the Hydrographic 
Services Improvement Act of 1998 to authorize funds to acquire 
hydrographic data and provide hydrographic services specific to 
the Arctic for safe navigation, delineating the United States 
extended continental shelf, and the monitoring and description 
of coastal changes.
    House Report 112-158 (H.R. 441), to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to issue permits for a microhydro project in 
nonwilderness areas within the boundaries of Denali National 
Park and Preserve, to acquire land for Denali National Park and 
Preserve from Doyon Tourism, Inc., and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-159, Part 1, (H.R. 470), to further 
allocate and expand the availability of hydroelectric power 
generated at Hoover Dam, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-160 (H.R. 489), to clarify the 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to 
the C.C. Cragin Dam and Reservoir, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-161 (H.R. 643), to provide for the 
exchange of certain land located in the Arapaho-Roosevelt 
National Forests in the State of Colorado, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-162 (H.R. 670), to convey certain 
submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands in order to give that territory the same benefits in 
its submerged lands as Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American 
Samoa have in their submerged lands.
    House Report 112-163 (H.R. 686), to require the conveyance 
of certain public land within the boundaries of Camp Williams, 
Utah, to support the training and readiness of the Utah 
National Guard.
    House Report 112-164, Part 1, (H.R. 765), to amend the 
National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 to clarify the 
authority of the Secretary of Agriculture regarding additional 
recreational uses of National Forest System land that is 
subject to ski area permits, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-165 (H.R. 944), to eliminate an unused 
lighthouse reservation, provide management consistency by 
incorporating the rocks and small islands along the coast of 
Orange County, California, into the California Coastal National 
Monument managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and meet the 
original Congressional intent of preserving Orange County's 
rocks and small islands, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-166 (H.R. 1022), to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of alternatives 
for commemorating and interpreting the role of the Buffalo 
Soldiers in the early years of the National Parks, and for 
other purposes.
    House Report 112-167 (H.R. 1141), to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
feasibility of designating prehistoric, historic, and limestone 
forest sites on Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, as a unit of the National Park System.
    House Report 112-168 (H.R. 1160), to require the Secretary 
of the Interior to convey the McKinney Lake National Fish 
Hatchery to the State of North Carolina, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-170 (H.R. 320), to designate a 
Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial at the March Field 
Air Museum in Riverside, California.
    House Report 112-171 (S. 266), a bill to redesignate the 
Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee 
National Wildlife Refuge.
    House Report 112-175, Part 1, (H.R. 1670), to amend the 
Sikes Act to improve the application of that Act to State-owned 
facilities used for the national defense.
    House Report 112-216, (H.R. 241), to authorize the 
conveyance of certain National Forest System lands in the Los 
Padres National Forest in California.
    House Report 112-217, (H.R. 461), to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to convey certain Federal features of the 
electric distribution system to the South Utah Valley Electric 
Service District, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-218, (H.R. 473), to provide for the 
conveyance of approximately 140 acres of land in the Ouachita 
National Forest in Oklahoma to the Indian Nations Council, 
Inc., of the Boy Scouts of America, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-219, Part 1, (H.R. 795), to expand small-
scale hydropower.
    House Report 112-220, (H.R. 1258), to provide for the 
conveyance of parcels of land to Mantua, Box Elder County, 
Utah.
    House Report 112-221, Part 1, (H.R. 1421), to amend the 
Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to clarify the role of 
the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma with regard to the maintenance 
of the W.D. Mayo Lock and Dam in Oklahoma.
    House Report 112-222, (H.R. 1560), to amend the Ysleta del 
Sur Pueblo and Alabama and Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas 
Restoration Act to allow the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Tribe to 
determine blood quantum requirement for membership in that 
tribe.
    House Report 112-245, Part 1, (H.R. 258), to require the 
Office of Management and Budget to prepare a crosscut budget 
for restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to 
require the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and 
implement an adaptive management plan, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-246 (H.R. 1904), to facilitate the 
efficient extraction of mineral resources in southeast Arizona 
by authorizing and directing an exchange of Federal and non-
Federal land, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-247 (H.R. 818), to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to allow for prepayment of repayment contracts 
between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy 
District.
    House Report 112-248 (H.R. 2011), to require the Secretary 
of the Interior to conduct an assessment of the capability of 
the Nation to meet our current and future demands for the 
minerals critical to United States manufacturing 
competitiveness and economic and national security in a time of 
expanding resource nationalism, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-249 (H.R. 2150), to amend the Naval 
Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct an expeditious program of 
competitive leasing of oil and gas in the National Petroleum 
Reserve in Alaska, including at least one lease sale in the 
Reserve each year in the period 2011 through 2021, and for 
other purposes.
    House Report 112-250 (H.R. 2170), streamlining Federal 
review to facilitate renewable energy projects.
    House Report 112-251 (H.R. 2171), to promote timely 
exploration for geothermal resources under existing geothermal 
leases, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-252 (H.R. 2173), to facilitate the 
development of offshore wind energy resources.
    House Report 112-279 (H.R. 588), to redesignate the Noxubee 
National Wildlife Refuge as the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee 
National Wildlife Refuge.
    House Report 112-280 (H.R. 1408), to provide for the 
settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-298 (S. 535), a bill to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to lease certain lands within Fort 
Pulaski National Monument, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-299 (H.R. 1158), to authorize the 
conveyance of mineral rights by the Secretary of the Interior 
in the State of Montana, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-300, Part 1 (H.R. 2172), to facilitate the 
development of wind energy resources on Federal lands.
    House Report 112-301 (H.R. 2842), to authorize all Bureau 
of Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development 
under Federal Reclamation law, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-302 (H.R. 2803), to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Ocean Energy 
Management, Regulation and Enforcement, to conduct a 
technological capability assessment, survey, and economic 
feasibility study regarding recovery of minerals, other than 
oil and natural gas, from the shallow and deep seabed of the 
United States.
    House Report 112-303 (H.R. 2578), to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act related to a segment of the Lower Merced 
River in California, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-304 (H.R. 2360), to amend the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act to extend the Constitution, laws, 
and jurisdiction of the United States to installations and 
devices attached to the seabed of the Outer Continental Shelf 
for the production and support of production of energy from 
sources other than oil and gas, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-305 (H.R. 2351), to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to continue stocking fish in certain lakes in 
the North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation 
Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area.
    House Report 112-306 (H.R. 1556), to amend the Omnibus 
Indian Advancement Act to allow certain land to be used to 
generate income to provide funding for academic programs, and 
for other purposes.
    House Report 112-307 (H.R. 1461), to authorize the 
Mescalero Apache Tribe to lease adjudicated water rights.
    House Report 112-308 (H.R. 991), to amend the Marine Mammal 
Protection Act of 1972 to allow importation of polar bear 
trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date the 
polar bear was determined to be a threatened species under the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973.
    House Report 112-309 (H.R. 850), to facilitate a proposed 
project in the Lower St. Croix Wild and Scenic River, and for 
other purposes.
    House Report 112-310 (H.R. 306), to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to enter into an agreement to provide for 
management of the free-roaming wild horses in and around the 
Currituck National Wildlife Refuge.
    House Report 112-318, Part 1 (H.R. 443), to provide for the 
conveyance of certain property from the United States to the 
Maniilaq Association located in Kotzebue, Alaska.
    House Report 112-319, Part 1 (H.R. 1466), to resolve the 
status of certain persons legally residing in the Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands under the immigration laws of 
the United States.
    House Report 112-320 (H.R. 1740), to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of Illabot Creek in 
Skagit County, Washington, as a component of the National Wild 
and Scenic Rivers System.
    House Report 112-321 (H.R. 2719), to ensure public access 
to the summit of Rattlesnake Mountain in the Hanford Reach 
National Monument for educational, recreational, historical, 
scientific, cultural, and other purposes.
    House Report 112-322 (H.R. 3069), to amend the Marine 
Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to reduce predation on endangered 
Columbia River salmon and other nonlisted species, and for 
other purposes.
    House Report 112-367 (HR. 200), to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to conduct a study of water resources in the 
Rialto-Colton Basin in the State of California, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-368 (H.R. 2070), to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to install in the area of the World War II 
Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an 
inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt 
prayed with the nation on June 6, 1944, the morning of D-Day.
    House Report 112-369 (H.R. 2087), to remove restrictions 
from a parcel of land situated in the Atlantic District, 
Accomack County, Virginia.
    House Report 112-370 (H.R. 2336), to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the York River and 
associated tributaries for study for potential inclusion in the 
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
    House Report 112-371 (H.R. 2752), to amend the Mineral 
Leasing Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
conduct onshore oil and gas lease sales through Internet-based 
live lease sales, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-372, Part 1 (H.R. 2236), to provide for 
the issuance of a Wildlife Refuge System Conservation 
Semipostal Stamp.
    House Report 112-373 (H.R. 2606), to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to allow the construction and 
operation of natural gas pipeline facilities in the Gateway 
National Recreation Area, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-374 (H.R. 3117), to grant the Secretary of 
the Interior permanent authority to authorize States to issue 
electronic duck stamps, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-387 (H.R. 1162), to provide the Quileute 
Indian Tribe Tsunami and Flood Protection, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-392 (H.R. 3408), to set clear rules for 
the development of United States oil shale resources, to 
promote shale technology research and development, and for 
other purposes.
    House Report 112-393 (H.R. 3407), to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil 
and gas leasing program for the exploration, development, and 
production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain of 
Alaska, to ensure secure energy supplies for the continental 
Pacific Coast of the United States, lower prices, and reduce 
imports, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-395 (H.R. 3410), to require the Secretary 
of the Interior to conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease 
sales, to provide fair and equitable revenue sharing for all 
coastal States, to formulate future offshore energy development 
plans in areas with the most potential, to generate revenue for 
American infrastructure, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-403 (H.R. 1837), to address certain water-
related concerns on the San Joaquin River, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-426, Part 1, (H.R. 4089), to protect and 
enhance opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing and 
shooting.
    House Report 112-427 (H.R. 205), to amend the Act titled 
``An Act to authorize the leasing of restricted Indian lands 
for public, religious, educational, recreational, residential, 
business, and other purposes requiring the grant of long-term 
leases'', approved August 9, 1955, to provide for Indian tribes 
to enter into certain leases without prior express approval 
from the Secretary of the Interior.
    House Report 112-428 (S. 292), a bill to resolve the claims 
of the Bering Straits Native Corporation and the State of 
Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon Lake in the State of Alaska 
and to provide for the conveyance to the Bering Straits Native 
Corporation of certain other public land in partial 
satisfaction of the land entitlement of the Corporation under 
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
    House Report 112-429 (S. 897), a bill to amend the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that 
uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use 
certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects and 
acid mine remediation programs.
    House Report 112-430 (H.R. 1545), to establish the Waco 
Mammoth National Monument in the State of Texas, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-431 (H.R. 2915), to repeal the Western 
Area Power Administration borrowing authority, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-432 (S. 271), a bill to require the 
Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a property conveyance 
with the city of Wallowa, Oregon, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-433 (S. 404), a bill to modify a land 
grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior.
    House Report 112-434 (S. 684), a bill to provide for the 
conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, 
Utah.
    House Report 112-435 (H.R. 491), to modify the boundaries 
of Cibola National Forest in the State of New Mexico, to 
transfer certain Bureau of Land Management land for inclusion 
in the national forest, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-436 (H.R. 1038), to authorize the 
conveyance of two small parcels of land within the boundaries 
of the Coconino National Forest containing private improvements 
that were developed based upon the reliance of the landowners 
in an erroneous survey conducted in May 1960.
    House Report 112-437 (H.R. 2050), to authorize the 
continued use of certain water diversions located on National 
Forest System land in the Frank Church-River of No Return 
Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in the State of 
Idaho, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-438 (H.R. 2060), to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to adjust the Crooked River boundary, to 
provide water certainty for the City of Prineville, Oregon, and 
for other purposes.
    House Report 112-439 (H.R. 2157), to facilitate a land 
exchange involving certain National Forest System lands in the 
Inyo National Forest, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-440 (H.R. 2938), to prohibit certain 
gaming activities on certain Indian lands in Arizona.
    House Report 112-441 (H.R. 2947), to provide for the 
release of the reversionary interest held by the United States 
in certain land conveyed by the United States in 1950 for the 
establishment of an airport in Cook County, Minnesota.
    House Report 112-442 (H.R. 3263), to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to allow the storage and conveyance 
of nonproject water at the Norman project in Oklahoma, and for 
other purposes.
    House Report 112-448, Part 1, (H.R. 1505), to prohibit the 
Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from taking action 
on public lands which impede border security on such lands, and 
for other purposes.
    House Report 112-449 (H.R. 1335), to revise the boundaries 
of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the 
Gettysburg Train Station, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-450 (H.R. 2240), to authorize the exchange 
of land or interest in land between Lowell National Historical 
Park and the city of Lowell in the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-451 (H.R. 2362), to facilitate economic 
development by Indian tribes and encourage investment by 
Turkish enterprises.
    House Report 112-452 (H.R. 3452), to provide for the sale 
of approximately 30 acres of Federal land in Uinta-Wasatch-
Cache National Forest in Salt Lake County, Utah, to permit the 
establishment of a minimally invasive transportation 
alternative for skiers, called ``SkiLink'', to connect two ski 
resorts in the Wasatch Mountains, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-473 (H.R. 2621), to establish the Chimney 
Rock National Monument in the State of Colorado, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-474 (H.R. 2745), to amend the Mesquite 
Lands Act of 1986 to facilitate implementation of a 
multispecies habitat conservation plan for the Virgin River in 
Clark County, Nevada.
    House Report 112-475 (H.R. 3874), to provide for the 
conveyance of eight cemeteries that are located on National 
Forest System land in Black Hills National Forest, South 
Dakota.
    House Report 112-500 (H.R. 1237), to provide for a land 
exchange with the Trinity Public Utilities District of Trinity 
County, California, involving the transfer of land to the 
Bureau of Land Management and the Six Rivers National Forest in 
exchange for National Forest System land in the Shasta-Trinity 
National Forest, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-501 (H.R. 1272), to provide for the use 
and distribution of the funds awarded to the Minnesota Chippewa 
Tribe, et al, by the United States Court of Federal Claims in 
Docket Numbers 19 and 188, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-502 (S. 363), a bill to authorize the 
Secretary of Commerce to convey property of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the City of 
Pascagoula, Mississippi, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-503, Part 1, (H.R. 460), to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the development of 
hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the Central 
Utah Project.
    House Report 112-505 (H.R. 1818), to designate Mt. Andrea 
Lawrence, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-506 (S. 925), a bill to designate Mt. 
Andrea Lawrence.
    House Report 112-509 (H.R. 4027), to clarify authority 
granted under the Act on ``An Act to define the exterior 
boundary of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation in the 
State of Utah, and for other purposes''.
    House Report 112-510 (H.R. 4222), to provide for the 
conveyance of certain land inholdings owned by the United 
States to the Tucson Unified School District and to the Pascua 
Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-512 (H.R. 2512), to provide for the 
conveyance of certain Federal land in Clark County, Nevada, for 
the environmental remediation and reclamation of the Three Kids 
Mine Project Site, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-524, Part 1, (H.R. 3685), to amend the 
Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act to 
extend and expand the scope of the pilot forest management 
project required by that Act.
    House Report 112-525 (H.R. 4039), to convey certain Federal 
land to the city of Yerington, Nevada.
    House Report 112-526, Part 1, (H.R. 4094), to authorize 
pedestrian and motorized vehicular access in Cape Hatteras 
National Seashore Recreational Area, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-527 (S. 997), a bill to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to extend a water contract between 
the United States and the East Bench Irrigation District.
    House Report 112-528, Part 1, (H.R. 4383), to streamline 
the application for permits to drill process and increase funds 
for energy project permit processing, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-529, Part 1, (H.R. 3065), to amend the 
Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to facilitate the 
establishment of additional or expanded public target ranges in 
certain States.
    House Report 112-530 (H.R. 4381), to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to establish goals for an all-of-the-above 
energy production plan strategy on a 4-year basis on all 
onshore Federal lands managed by the Department of the Interior 
and the Forest Service.
    House Report 112-531 (H.R. 4382), to ensure Federal oil and 
natural gas lease sales occur, eliminate redundant leasing 
bureaucracy, and provide leasing certainty.
    House Report 112-532 (H.R. 2352), to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundary of the Stephen 
Mather Wilderness and the North Cascades National Park in order 
to allow the rebuilding of a road outside of the floodplain 
while ensuring that there is no net loss of acreage to the Park 
or the Wilderness, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-533, Part 1, (H.R. 4234), to amend the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to improve the 
management of grazing leases and permits, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-538 (H.R. 3100), to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to expand the boundary of the San 
Antonio Missions National Historical Park, to conduct a study 
of potential land acquisitions, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-578 (H.R. 1192), to extend the current 
royalty rate for soda ash.
    House Report 112-579 (H.R. 2027), to revise the boundaries 
of John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Sachuest 
Point Unit RI-04P, Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond Unit RI-
06, and Hazards Beach Unit RI-07 in Rhode Island.
    House Report 112-580 (H.R. 2154), to correct the boundaries 
of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System 
Gasparilla Island Unit FL-70P.
    House Report 112-581 (S. 270), a bill to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to 
Deschutes County, Oregon.
    House Report 112-583, Part 1, (H.R. 4402), to require the 
Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to 
more efficiently develop domestic sources of the minerals and 
mineral materials of strategic and critical importance to 
United States economic and national security and manufacturing 
competitiveness.
    House Report 112-584, Part 1, (H.R. 1171), to reauthorize 
and amend the Marine Debris Research, Prevention, and Reduction 
Act.
    House Report 112-597 (H.R. 1103), to direct the Secretary 
of the Interior to develop, maintain, and administer an annex 
in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as an 
extension of the American Memorial Park located in Saipan, and 
for other purposes.
    House Report 112-598 (H.R. 4400), to designate the Salt 
Pond Visitor Center at Cape Cod National Seashore as the 
``Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Salt Pond Visitor Center'', and for 
other purposes.
    House Report 112-599 (H.R. 4073), to authorize the 
Secretary of Agriculture to accept the quitclaim, disclaimer, 
and relinquishment of a railroad right of way within and 
adjacent to Pike National Forest in El Paso County, Colorado, 
originally granted to the Mt. Manitou Park and Incline Railway 
Company pursuant to the Act of March 3, 1875.
    House Report 112-600 (H.R. 3706), to create the Office of 
Chief Financial Officer of the Government of the Virgin 
Islands, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-601 (H.R. 3404), to establish in the 
Department of the Interior an Under Secretary for Energy, 
Lands, and Minerals and a Bureau of Ocean Energy, an Ocean 
Energy Safety Service, and an Office of Natural Resources 
Revenue, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-602 (H.R. 3397), to modify the Forest 
Service Recreation Residence Program by implementing a simple, 
equitable, and predictable procedure for determining cabin user 
fees, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-603 (H.R. 3388), to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate a segment of the Beaver, 
Chipuxet, Queen, Wood, and Pawcatuck Rivers in the States of 
Connecticut and Rhode Island for study for potential addition 
to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-604 (H.R. 3210), to amend the Lacey Act 
Amendments of 1981 to limit the application of that Act with 
respect to plants and plant products that were imported before 
the effective date of amendments to that Act enacted in 2008, 
and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-605 (H.R. 2489), to authorize the 
acquisition and protection of nationally significant 
battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and 
the War of 1812 under the American Battlefield Protection 
Program.
    House Report 112-606, Part 1, (H.R. 4043), to amend title 
10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to 
establish Southern Sea Otter Military Readiness Areas for 
national defense purposes, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-608 (H.R. 5958), to name the Jamaica Bay 
Wildlife Refuge Visitor Contact Station of the Jamaica Bay 
Wildlife Refuge unit of Gateway National Recreation Area in 
honor of James L. Buckley.
    House Report 112-609, Part 1, (H.R. 2834), to recognize the 
heritage of recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting on 
Federal public lands and ensure continued opportunities for 
these activities.
    House Report 112-611 (H.R. 2467), to take certain Federal 
lands in Mono County, California, into trust for the benefit of 
the Bridgeport Indian Colony.
    House Report 112-612 (H.R. 4484), to provide for the 
conveyance of a small parcel of National Forest System land in 
the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Utah to Brigham 
Young University, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-615 (H.R. 6082), to officially replace, 
within the 60-day Congressional review period under the Outer 
Continental Shelf Lands Act, President Obama's Proposed Final 
Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program (2012-2017) 
with a congressional plan that will conduct additional oil and 
natural gas lease sales to promote offshore energy development, 
job creation, and increased domestic energy production to 
ensure a more secure energy future in the United States, and 
for other purposes.
    House Report 112-626 (H.R. 3641), to establish Pinnacles 
National Park in the State of California as a unit of the 
National Park System, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-627 (H.R. 4606), to authorize the issuance 
of right-of-way permits for natural gas pipelines in Glacier 
National Park, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-655 (H.R. 5544), to authorize and expedite 
a land exchange involving National Forest System land in the 
Laurentian District of the Superior National Forest and certain 
other National Forest System land in the State of Minnesota 
that has limited recreational and conservation resources and 
lands owned by the State of Minnesota in trust for the public 
school system that are largely scattered in checkerboard 
fashion within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and 
have important recreational, scenic, and conservation 
resources, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-656 (H.R. 2706), to prohibit the sale of 
billfish.
    House Report 112-657 (H.R. 6007), to exempt from the Lacey 
Act Amendments of 1981 certain water transfers by the North 
Texas Municipal Water District and the Greater Texoma Utility 
Authority.
    House Report 112-658 (H.R. 5319), to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the mainstem of the 
Nashua River and its tributaries in the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts for study for potential addition to the National 
Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-670 (H.R. 3409), to limit the authority of 
the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations before 
December 31, 2013, under the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977.
    House Report 112-672 (H.R. 6060), to amend Public Law 106-
392 to maintain annual base funding for the Upper Colorado and 
San Juan fish recovery programs through fiscal year 2019.
    House Report 112-675 (H.R. 3319), to allow the Pascua Yaqui 
Tribe to determine the requirements for membership in that 
tribe.
    House Report 112-676 (H.R. 5987), to establish the 
Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Oak Ridge, 
Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Hanford, Washington, and 
for other purposes.
    House Report 112-692 (H.R. 3973), to facilitate the 
development of energy on Indian lands by reducing Federal 
regulations that impede tribal development of Indian lands, and 
for other purposes.
    House Report 112-701, Part 1, (H.R. 6364), to establish a 
commission to ensure a suitable observance of the centennial of 
World War I, to provide for the designation of memorials to the 
service of members of the United States Armed Forces in World 
War I, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-702 (S. 3193), a bill to make technical 
corrections to the legal description of certain land to be held 
in trust for the Barona Band of Mission Indians, and for other 
purposes.
    House Report 112-735 (H.R. 752), to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Molalla River in 
the State of Oregon, as components of the National Wild and 
Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-736 (H.R. 4194), to amend the Alaska 
Native Claims Settlement Act to provide that Alexander Creek, 
Alaska, is and shall be recognized as an eligible Native 
village under that Act, and for other purposes.
    House Report 112-737, Part 1, (H.R. 4019), to increase 
employment and educational opportunities in, and improve the 
economic stability of, counties containing Federal forest land, 
while also reducing the cost of managing such land, by 
providing such counties a dependable source of revenue from 
such land, and for other purposes.

                              APPENDIX VI

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                            Dissenting Views

    This final Report, chronicling the legislative activities 
of the House Natural Resources Committee for 2011 and 2012, is 
a record of failure. The Republican Committee Majority recoiled 
from the compromise or consensus-building needed to 
successfully craft legislation. As a result, the Committee has 
failed, for two full years, to respond to the natural resource 
challenges threatening the quality of life for millions of 
Americans.
    The Republican energy schemes which moved through the 
Committee during the 112th Congress were based on wild 
anecdotes about the alleged evils of environmental planning, 
unsubstantiated attacks on the President and his policies, and 
simplistic economic theories, disproved by the energy markets 
themselves. The Majority's cheerleading for unlimited, unsafe 
drilling on our public lands and off our beaches has been 
relentless and, thankfully, unproductive.
    During this Congress, the Natural Resources Committee held 
17 full committee markups, ordering more than 140 measures 
reported. Of those, 34 were controversial, anti-environmental 
bills forced through the House pursuant to a rule. Almost half 
of these controversial measures sought to expand drilling and 
mining or weaken environmental protections relating to those 
activities, while the remainder sought to weaken protections 
for our public lands or simply give them away.
    For example, on the few occasions when Big Oil boosterism 
did not top the Republican to-do list, the Majority sought to 
expand uranium mining near the Grand Canyon, allow a foreign 
company to mine billions in copper from a Native American 
sacred site, and waive all environmental protections within 100 
miles of the U.S. border.
    This entire agenda was pursued for political purposes, 
without regard to bipartisan or bicameral cooperation or even 
communication. Fortunately, not a single one of these measures 
became law.
    The opportunity costs of this failed, extreme agenda are 
significant. Congress has not enacted a single statutory 
safeguard in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. 
More than a century of subsidizing fossil energy has continued, 
placing the U.S. further behind other nations in development of 
clean, alternative energy sources. The Majority has failed to 
address the prolonged drought and devastating wildfires which 
have ravaged the West and ignored even the most common-sense 
proposals to begin planning for a more balanced use of our 
ocean resources. Finally, thanks to the Majority's consistently 
misplaced priorities, we have experienced two more years of the 
impacts of climate change, without a legislative response from 
Congress.
    Likewise, the refusal to proceed with an eye toward 
bicameral, bipartisan cooperation has costs as well. While the 
House approved more than 70 non-controversial measures reported 
from this Committee, Senate input regarding those measures was 
not solicited and Senate priorities were not accommodated. Not 
surprisingly, this lack of basic legislative strategy has 
resulted in only 29 of these non-controversial, House-passed 
measures actually becoming law, at the time of this writing.
    Republican devotion to fossil fuels has dominated the 
Committee's oversight agenda as well. The Majority has pursued 
two partisan investigations of the Obama Administration; one 
fixating on minor edits to a two-year-old report regarding the 
BP spill and another seeking to derail efforts to craft a new 
rule protecting local communities from the impacts of mountain-
top removal mining. The more dubious these investigations have 
become, the more zealously the Majority has pursued them.
    We concluded our Dissenting Views on the Activities Report 
filed in June by writing that, ``The final activities report to 
be filed in December will be the last opportunity for the 
Committee to demonstrate real accomplishment this Congress; we 
are hopeful that document will not require yet another round of 
Dissenting Views.'' Our optimism was not rewarded. Hopefully, 
the failures of this Congress will inspire improved cooperation 
and consensus next Congress, as the natural resource challenges 
we face are only intensifying.
                                   Edward J. Markey, Ranking Member, 
                                       Committee on Natural Resources.
                                   Raul M. Grijalva.
                                   Rush Holt.
                                   Niki Tsongas.
                                   Peter DeFazio.
                                   Ben R. Lujan.
                                   Madeleine Z. Bordallo.
                                   Colleen W. Hanabusa.
                                   Paul D. Tonko.
                                   Frank Pallone, Jr.
                                   Grace F. Napolitano.

                                  
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