[Senate Report 116-25]
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116th Congress     }                                  {         Report
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                       HISTORY, JURISDICTION, AND

                     A SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES OF THE

                              COMMITTEE ON

                      ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

                       DURING THE 115TH CONGRESS

                              COMMITTEE ON

                      ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

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               COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
                            (116th Congress)

                    LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska, Chairman
JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming               JOE MANCHIN III, West Virginia
JAMES E. RISCH, Idaho                RON WYDEN, Oregon
MIKE LEE, Utah                       MARIA CANTWELL, Washington
STEVE DAINES, Montana                BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont
BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana              DEBBIE STABENOW, Michigan
CORY GARDNER, Colorado               MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico
CINDY HYDE-SMITH, Mississippi        MAZIE K. HIRONO, Hawaii
MARTHA McSALLY, Arizona              ANGUS S. KING, Jr., Maine
LAMAR ALEXANDER, Tennessee           CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO, Nevada
JOHN HOEVEN, North Dakota

               COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
                            (115th Congress)

                    LISA MURKOWSKI, Alaska, Chairman
JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming               MARIA CANTWELL, Washington
JAMES E. RISCH, Idaho                RON WYDEN, Oregon
MIKE LEE, Utah                       BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont
JEFF FLAKE, Arizona                  DEBBIE STABENOW, Michigan
STEVE DAINES, Montana                JOE MANCHIN III, West Virginia
CORY GARDNER, Colorado               MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico
LAMAR ALEXANDER, Tennessee           MAZIE K. HIRONO, Hawaii
JOHN HOEVEN, North Dakota            ANGUS S. KING, Jr., Maine
BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana              TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois
ROB PORTMAN, Ohio                    CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO, Nevada
SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West           TINA SMITH, Minnesota\2\
    Virginia\1\
                    Brian Hughes, Staff Director\3\
                   Kellie Donnelly, Chief Counsel\4\
                 Lucy Murfitt, Deputy Chief Counsel\5\
            Mary Louise Wagner, Democratic Staff Director\6\
                Sam E. Fowler, Democratic Chief Counsel

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\1\Senator Capito filled a vacancy left by Senator Strange on January 
9, 2018 (S. Res. 369). Senator Strange filled a vacancy left by Senator 
Sessions on February 9, 2017 (S. Res. 57).
\2\Senator Smith filled a vacancy left by Senator Franken on January 9, 
2018 (S. Res. 370).
\3\Brian Hughes became the Majority Staff Director on September 15, 
2017. Colin Hayes was the Majority Staff Director and Brian Hughes was 
the Deputy Staff Director until September 15, 2017.
\4\Kellie Donnelly became the Chief Counsel on August 2, 2018. Patrick 
J. McCormick III was the Chief Counsel until July 23, 2018.
\5\Lucy Murfitt became Deputy Chief Counsel on August 2, 2018. Kellie 
Donnelly was the Deputy Chief Counsel until August 2, 2018.
\6\Mary Louise Wagner became the Minority Staff Director on November 
16, 2017. Angela Becker-Dippmann was the Minority Staff Director until 
November 16, 2017.
                       MEMORANDUM OF THE CHAIRMAN

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To Members of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:
    The enclosed report reviews the accomplishments of the 
Committee in the 115th Congress. It will be submitted to the 
Senate pursuant to section 8 of Senate Rule XXVI.

                                          Lisa Murkowski, Chairman.
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
                                          
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Memorandum of the Chairman.......................................   III

Summary..........................................................     1

Membership.......................................................     2

Jurisdiction.....................................................     2

Full Committee

    Jurisdiction.................................................     3

    Nominations..................................................     3

    Hearings.....................................................     8

    Business meetings............................................    15

Subcommittee on Energy

    Jurisdiction.................................................    29

    Hearings.....................................................    29

Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining

    Jurisdiction.................................................    33

    Hearings.....................................................    33

Subcommittee on National Parks

    Jurisdiction.................................................    37

    Hearings.....................................................    37

Subcommittee on Water and Power

    Jurisdiction.................................................    43

    Hearings.....................................................    43

Measures enacted into law........................................    45


































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HISTORY, JURISDICTION, AND A SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE ON 
         ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES DURING THE 115TH CONGRESS

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  Ms. Murkowski, from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 
                        submitted the following

                 SPECIAL REPORT ON COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES

                                Summary

    The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources conducted an 
extensive oversight and legislative program during the 115th 
Congress. A total of 511 bills and resolutions, 40 nominations, 
184 executive communications, and 55 petitions and memorials 
were referred to the Committee for consideration.
    The Committee and its four subcommittees held a total of 86 
public hearings, including four field hearings, during the 
115th Congress. These hearings included 48 oversight hearings, 
17 legislative hearings, two joint legislative and oversight 
hearings, and 15 nomination hearings. The Committee also held 
15 business meetings.
    Action was completed on a broad range of oversight, 
legislative, and executive matters. A total of 158 bills and 
one funding resolution were reported by the Committee.
    Of the 159 bills and resolutions reported by the Committee, 
50 were signed into law. In addition, approximately 19 other 
measures considered by the Committee were enacted into law as 
part of measures not otherwise under the Committee's 
jurisdiction.
    A total of 40 nominations of 36 individuals submitted by 
President Trump were referred to the Committee during the 115th 
Congress. Of the 40 nominations, 40 were reported by the 
Committee, of which 27 were confirmed by the Senate.
    The Committee filed 158 reports on measures it ordered 
reported, and published 75 hearing records.

                               Membership

    The Senate appointed majority and minority members of the 
Committee for the 115th Congress with the adoption of S. Res. 
369 (majority) and S. Res. 370 (minority) on January 9, 2018. 
S. Res. 369 appointed Senator Murkowski as Chairman and S. Res 
370 appointed Senator Cantwell as Ranking Member. The Senate 
reconstituted the membership of the Committee with the adoption 
of S. Res. 57 on February 9, 2017 to appoint Senator Strange to 
the vacancy left by Senator Sessions. The Senate also adopted 
S. Res. 370 on January 9, 2018 to appoint Senator Smith to the 
Committee to fill the vacancy left by Senator Franken.

                              Jurisdiction

    Rule XXV(1)(g)(1) of the Standing Rules of the Senate 
provides the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources with 
jurisdiction over all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the 
following subjects: matters relating to the following subjects:
          1. Coal production, distribution, and utilization.
          2. Energy policy.
          3. Energy regulation and conservation.
          4. Energy related aspects of deepwater ports.
          5. Energy research and development.
          6. Extraction of minerals from oceans and Outer 
        Continental Shelf lands.
          7. Hydroelectric power, irrigation, and reclamation.
          8. Mining education and research.
          9. Mining, mineral lands, mining claims, and mineral 
        conservation.
          10. National parks, recreation areas, wilderness 
        areas, wild and scenic rivers, historical sites, 
        military parks and battlefields, and on the public 
        domain, preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects 
        of interest.
          11. Naval petroleum reserves in Alaska.
          12. Nonmilitary development of nuclear energy.
          13. Oil and gas production and distribution.
          14. Public lands and forests, including farming and 
        grazing thereon, and mineral extraction therefrom.
          15. Solar energy systems.
          16. Territorial possessions of the United States, 
        including trusteeships.

                             FULL COMMITTEE

                        Lisa Murkowski, Chairman

                              JURISDICTION

    During the 115th Congress, the Full Committee retained 
jurisdiction, without reference to a subcommittee, over the 
following matters: National Energy Policy, including 
international energy affairs and emergency preparedness; 
nuclear waste policy; privatization of federal assets; 
territorial policy (including changes in status and issues 
affecting Antarctica); Native Hawaiian matters; and ad hoc 
issues. In addition, other issues are retained in the Full 
Committee on an ad hoc basis. Generally, these are issues which 
(1) require expeditious handling, or (2) substantially overlap 
two or more subcommittee jurisdictions, or (3) are of 
exceptional national significance in which all Members wished 
to participate fully.

                              NOMINATIONS

    Forty presidential nominations of 36 individuals (including 
first and second nominations of the same individual) were 
referred to the Committee during the 115th Congress.
    Of the 23 nominations submitted during the first session, 
18 were confirmed, one remained in status quo at the end of the 
first session by unanimous consent, notwithstanding the 
provisions of rule XXXI, paragraph six, of the Standing Rules 
of the Senate, and four were returned to the President at the 
end of the first session pursuant to rule XXXI, paragraph six 
of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
    Of the 17 nominations submitted during the second session 
(including the nomination that remained in status quo between 
the first and second session and the four nominations 
resubmitted after the original nominations were returned at the 
end of the first session) eight were confirmed (including one 
of the resubmitted nominations) two were withdrawn by the 
President (both of which had been resubmitted after the 
original nominations were returned at the end of the first 
session), and seven of the nominations were returned to the 
President at the end of the second session (including one that 
had been resubmitted after having been returned at the end of 
the first session) under the provisions of rule XXXI, paragraph 
6, of the Standing Rules of the Senate.

Nominations confirmed

    The Committee held hearings on and favorably reported 27 
nominations that were subsequently confirmed by the Senate. 
These nominations were for:

    Ryan Zinke, to be Secretary of the Interior. Received 
January 20, 2017. Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources on January 17, 2017, prior to referral. S. 
Hrg. 115-10. Reported January 31, 2017. Confirmed March 1, 
2017, by a vote of 68-31.
    James Richard Perry, to be Secretary of Energy. Received 
January 20, 2017. Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources on January 19, 2017 prior to referral. S. 
Hrg. 115-2. Reported January 31, 2017. Confirmed March 2, 2017, 
by a vote of 62-37.
    David Bernhardt, to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior. 
Received April 28, 2017. Hearing held by the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources on May 18, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-269. 
Reported June 6, 2017. Confirmed July 24, 2017, by a vote of 
53-43.
    Neil Chatterjee, to be a Member of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission. Received on May 10, 2017. Hearing held 
by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on May 25, 
2017. S. Hrg. 115-256. Reported June 6, 2017. Confirmed August 
3, 2017, by voice vote.
    Robert F. Powelson, to be a Member of the Federal Energy 
and Regulatory Commission. Received on May 10, 2017. Hearing 
held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on May 
25, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-256. Reported June 6, 2017. Confirmed 
August 3, 2017, by voice vote.
    Dan. R. Brouillette, to be Deputy Secretary of Energy. 
Received on May 16, 2017. Hearing held by the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources on May 25, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-256. 
Reported on June 6, 2017. Confirmed August 3, 2017, by a vote 
of 79-17.
    Douglas W. Domenech, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior (Insular Affairs). Received June 29, 2017. Hearing 
held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on July 
20, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-481. Reported on August 3, 2017. 
Confirmed September 13, 2017, by voice vote.
    Bruce J. Walker, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy 
(Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability). Received 
September 5, 2017. Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources on September 26, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-337. 
Reported on October 4, 2017. Confirmed October 5, 2017, by 
voice vote.
    Paul Dabbar, to be an Under Secretary for Science, 
Department of Energy. Received on July 11, 2017. Hearing held 
by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on July 20, 
2017. S. Hrg. 115-481. Reported on August 3, 2017. Confirmed 
November 2, 2017, by voice vote.
    Mark Wesley Menezes, to be Under Secretary of Energy. 
Received July 11, 2017. Hearing held by the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources on July 20, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-481. 
Reported August 3, 2017. Confirmed November 2, 2017, by voice 
vote.
    Richard Glick, to be a Member of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission. Received August 2, 2017. Hearing held by 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 7, 
2017. S. Hrg. 115-285. Reported on September 19, 2017. 
Confirmed November 2, 2017, by voice vote.
    Kevin J. McIntyre, to be a Member of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, for the terms expiring June 30, 2018 and 
June 30, 2023. Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources on September 19, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-285. 
Reported on September 19, 2017. Confirmed November 2, 2017, by 
voice vote.
    Steven E. Winberg, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy 
(Fossil Energy). Received September 5, 2017. Hearing held by 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 26, 
2017. S. Hrg. 115-337. Reported on October 4, 2017. Confirmed 
November 2, 2017, by voice vote.
    Brenda Burman, to be Commissioner of Reclamation. Received 
June 29, 2017. Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources on July 20, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-481. Reported 
on August 3, 2017. Confirmed November 16, 2017, by voice vote.
    Joseph Balash, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior 
(Land and Minerals Management). Received July 25, 2017. Hearing 
held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on 
September 7, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-285. Reported on September 19, 
2017. Confirmed December 7, 2017, by a vote of 61-38.
    Timothy R. Petty, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior (Water and Science). Received on November 14, 2017. 
Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
on December 5, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-338. Reported on December 12, 
2017. Confirmed December 21, 2017, by voice vote.
    Linda Capuano, to be Administrator of the Energy 
Information Administration. Received on November 16, 2017. 
Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
on December 5, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-338. Reported on December 12, 
2017. Confirmed December 21, 2017, by voice vote.
    Melissa F. Burnison, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy 
(Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs). Received on 
November 16, 2017. Remained in status quo at the end of the 
first session by unanimous consent, notwithstanding the 
provisions of rule XXXI, paragraph 6, of the Standing Rules of 
the Senate. Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources on January 18, 2018. S. Hrg. 115-497. Reported on 
January 30, 2018. Confirmed February 15, 2018, by voice vote.
    Anne Marie White, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy 
(Environmental Management). Received on January 8, 2018. 
Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
on January 18, 2018. S. Hrg. 115-497. Reported on January 30, 
2018. Confirmed March 22, 2018, by voice vote.
    James Reilly, to be Director of the United States 
Geological Survey. Received on February 15. 2018. Hearing held 
by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on March 6, 
2018. S. Hrg. 115-507. The Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources was discharged from further consideration of the 
nomination on April 9, 2018, pursuant to the standing order of 
June 28, 1990. Confirmed April 9, 2018, by voice vote.
    Theodore J. Garrish, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy 
(International Affairs). Received on February 27, 2018. Hearing 
held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on March 
15, 2018. S. Hrg. 115-509. The Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources was discharged from further consideration of the 
nomination on April 9, 2018, pursuant to the standing order of 
June 28, 1990. Confirmed April 9, 2018, by voice vote.
    James Edward Campos, to be Director of the Office of 
Minority Economic Impact, Department of Energy. Received on 
March 6, 2018. Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources on March 15, 2018. S. Hrg. 115-509. The 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources was discharged from 
further consideration of the nomination on April 9, 2018, 
pursuant to the standing order of June 28, 1990. Confirmed 
April 9, 2018, by voice vote.
    Karen S. Evans, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy 
(Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response). 
Received on June 18, 2018. Hearing held by the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources on June 26, 2018. S. Hrg. 115-520. 
Reported on July 24, 2018. Confirmed August 28, 2018, by voice 
vote.
    Bernard L. McNamee, to be a Member of the Federal Energy 
and Regulatory Commission. Received on October 5, 2018. Hearing 
held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on 
November 15, 2018. S. Hrg. 115-533. Reported on November 27, 
2018. Confirmed December 6, 2018, by a vote of 50-49.
    Teri L. Donaldson, to be Inspector General of the 
Department of Energy. Received June 11, 2018. Hearing held by 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on June 26, 2018. 
S. Hrg. 115-520. Reported on July 24, 2018. Confirmed on 
January 2, 2019, by voice vote.
    Daniel Simmons, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy 
(Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy). Received June 11, 
2018. Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources on June 18, 2018. S. Hrg. 115-520. Reported on July 
24, 2018. Confirmed January 2, 2019, by voice vote.

Nominations withdrawn

    Ryan Douglas Nelson, to be Solicitor of the Department of 
the Interior. First nomination received August 2, 2017. Hearing 
held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on 
September 7, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-285. Reported September 19, 
2017. Returned to the President January 3, 2018. Second 
nomination received January 8, 2018. Withdrawn by the President 
May 10, 2018.
    Steven Gardner, to be Director of the Office of Surface 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. First nomination received 
October 30, 2017. Returned to the President January 3, 2018. 
Second nomination received January 8, 2018. Withdrawn by the 
President September 12, 2018.

Nominations returned under rule XXXI

    Four nominations pending at the end of the first session of 
the 115th Congress were returned to the President on January 3, 
2017, pursuant to rule XXXI, paragraph 6, of the Standing Rules 
of the Senate. Those four nominations were:
    David S. Jonas, to be General Counsel of the Department of 
Energy. Received May 25, 2017. Hearing held by the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources on July 20, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-481. 
Reported on September 19, 2017. Returned to the President under 
the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6, of the 
Standing Rules of the Senate.
    Susan Combs, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior 
(Policy, Management and Budget). Received on July 11, 2017. 
Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
on July 20, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-481. Reported on August 3, 2017. 
Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule 
XXXI, paragraph 6, of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
    Ryan Douglas Nelson, to be Solicitor of the Department of 
the Interior. Received August 2, 2017. Hearing held by the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on September 7, 2017. 
S. Hrg. 115-285. Reported September 19, 2017. Returned to the 
President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 
6, of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
    Steven Gardner, to be Director of the Office of Surface 
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. Received on October 30, 
2017. Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate 
Rule XXXI, paragraph 6, of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
    Seven nominations were returned to the President on January 
3, 2019, at the end of the second session of the 115th 
Congress, pursuant to rule XXXI, paragraph 6, of the Standing 
Rules of the Senate. The seven nominations were:
    Susan Combs, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior 
(Policy, Management and Budget). Received on January 8, 2018. 
Reported on January 30, 2018. Returned to the President under 
the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6, of the 
Standing Rules of the Senate.
    Aimee Kathryn Jorjani, to be Chairman of the Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation. Received on March 19, 2018. 
Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
on May 15, 2018. S. Hrg. 115-517. Reported on May 17, 2018. 
Returned to the President under provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, 
paragraph 6, of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
    Christopher Fall, to be Director of the Office of Science, 
Department of Energy. Received on May 24, 2018. Hearing held by 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on June 26, 2018. 
S. Hrg. 115-520. Reported on July 24, 2018. Returned to the 
President under provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6, of 
the Standing Rules of the Senate.
    Lane Genatowksi, to be Director of the Advanced Research 
Projects Agency-Energy, Department of Energy. Received on July 
18, 2018. Hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources on August 16, 2018. S. Hrg. 115-369. Reported on 
August 23, 2018. Returned to the President under provisions of 
Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6, of the Standing Rules of the 
Senate.
    William Cooper, to be General Counsel of the Department of 
Energy. Received on July 31, 2018. Hearing held by the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on August 16, 2018. 
S. Hrg. 115-369. Reported on August 23, 2018. Returned to the 
President under provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6, of 
the Standing Rules of the Senate.
    Raymond David Vela, to be Director of the National Park 
Service. Received on September 6, 2018. Hearing held by the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on November 15, 2018. 
S. Hrg. 115-533. Reported on November 27, 2018. Returned to the 
President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 
6, of the Standing Rules of the Senate.
    Rita Baranwal, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy 
(Nuclear Energy). Received on October 5, 2018. Hearing held by 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on November 15, 
2018. S. Hrg. 115-533. Reported on November 27, 2018. Returned 
to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, 
paragraph 6, of the Standing Rules of the Senate.

                                HEARINGS

    The Full Committee held 63 hearings, including three 
legislative hearings, 41 oversight hearings, one joint 
legislative and oversight hearing, three field hearings, and 15 
nomination hearings during the 115th Congress, as follows:

January 17, 2017

    Hearing to consider the nomination of the Honorable Ryan 
Zinke to be the Secretary of the Interior. S. Hrg. 115-10.

January 19, 2017

    Hearing to consider the nomination of the Honorable Rick 
Perry to be the Secretary of Energy. S. Hrg. 115-2.

March 14, 2017

    Oversight hearing to consider opportunities to improve 
American energy infrastructure. S. Hrg. 115-135.

March 21, 2017

    Oversight hearing to consider opportunities to improve and 
expand infrastructure important to federal lands, recreation, 
water, and resources. S. Hrg. 115-350.

March 28, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine the United States' increasing 
dependence on foreign sources of minerals and opportunities to 
rebuild and improve the supply chain in the United States. S. 
Hrg. 115-183.

March 30, 2017

    Oversight hearing to consider the potential for 
infrastructure improvements to create jobs and reduce the cost 
of living through all-of-the-above energy and mineral 
production in Alaska. S. Hrg. 115-78.

April 4, 2017

    Oversight hearing to consider efforts to protect U.S. 
energy delivery systems from cybersecurity threats. S. Hrg. 
115-273.

April 27, 2017

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on H.R. 339, the 
Northern Mariana Islands Economic Expansion Act. S. Hrg. 115-
252.

May 2, 2017

    Oversight hearing to consider federal payments to local 
governments provided through the Secure Rural Schools and 
Community Self Determination Act and the Payment in Lieu of 
Taxes program. S. Hrg. 115-130.

May 4, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine the threat posed by 
electromagnetic pulse and policy options to protect energy 
infrastructure and to improve capabilities for adequate system 
restoration. S. Hrg. 115-284.

May 18, 2017

    Hearing to consider the nomination of Mr. David Bernhardt 
of Virginia to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior. S. Hrg. 
115-269.

May 25, 2017

    Hearing to consider the nominations of:
           Mr. Dan R. Brouillette to be Deputy 
        Secretary of Energy;
           Mr. Neil Chatterjee to be a Member of the 
        Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and
           Mr. Robert F. Powelson to be a Member of the 
        Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. S. Hrg. 115-256.

June 8, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine cost reductions in emerging 
energy technologies with a specific focus on how recent trends 
may affect today's energy landscape. S. Hrg. 115-36.

June 10, 2017

    Oversight field hearing in Cordova, Alaska, to receive 
testimony on microgrids and hybrid energy systems. S. Hrg. 115-
37.

June 15, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine the President's budget request 
for the U.S. Forest Service for Fiscal Year 2018. S. Hrg. 115-
39.

June 20, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine the President's budget request 
for the Department of the Interior for Fiscal Year 2018. S. 
Hrg. 115-315.

June 21, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine collaborative initiatives: 
restoring watersheds and large landscapes across boundaries 
through state and federal partnerships. S. Hrg. 115-263.

June 22, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine the President's budget request 
for the Department of Energy for Fiscal Year 2018. S. Hrg. 115-
259.

July 18, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine the status and outlook for 
U.S. and North American energy and resource security. S. Hrg. 
115-353.

July 20, 2017

    Hearing to consider the nominations of:
           Ms. Brenda Burman to be Commissioner of 
        Reclamation of the Department of the Interior;
           Ms. Susan Combs to be an Assistant Secretary 
        of the Interior (Policy, Management and Budget);
           Mr. Paul Dabbar to be Under Secretary for 
        Science of the Department of Energy;
           Mr. Douglas W. Domenech to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of the Interior (Insular Affairs);
           Mr. David Jonas of Pennsylvania to be 
        General Counsel of the Department of Energy; and
           Mr. Mark Wesley Menezes to be Under 
        Secretary of Energy. S. Hrg. 115-481.

August 3, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine federal and nonfederal 
collaboration, including through the use of technology, to 
reduce wildland fire risk to communities and enhance 
firefighting safety and effectiveness. S. Hrg. 115-368.

September 7, 2017

    Hearing to consider the nominations of:
           Mr. Joseph Balash to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of the Interior (Lands and Minerals 
        Management);
           Mr. Richard Glick to be a Member of the 
        Federal Energy Regulatory Commission;
           Mr. Kevin McIntyre to be a Member of the 
        Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and
           Mr. Ryan Nelson to be Solicitor of the 
        Department of the Interior. S. Hrg. 115-285.

September 19, 2017

    Oversight and legislative hearing to examine the vegetation 
management requirements for electricity assets located on 
federal lands and to receive testimony on:
           Section 2310 of S. 1460, the Energy and 
        Natural Resources Act of 2017; and
           H.R. 1873, the Electricity Reliability and 
        Forest Protection Act. S. Hrg. 115-485.

September 26, 2017

    Hearing to consider the nominations of:
           Mr. Bruce J. Walker to be Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Electricity Delivery and Energy 
        Reliability); and
           Mr. Steven E. Winberg to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Fossil Energy). S. Hrg. 115-337.

October 3, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine the status of energy storage 
technologies, reviewing today's technologies and understanding 
innovation in tomorrow's technologies. S. Hrg. 115-487.

October 6, 2017

    Oversight field hearing in Searsmont, Maine, to examine 
efficient approaches to reducing industrial energy costs. S. 
Hrg. 115-488.

October 26, 2017

    Oversight hearing to receive testimony on advanced cyber 
technologies that could be used to help protect electric grids 
and other energy infrastructure from cyberattacks. S. Hrg. 115-
489.

October 31, 2017

    Oversight hearing to consider new efficiency opportunities 
provided by advanced building management and control systems. 
S. Hrg. 115-490.

November 2, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine and receive testimony on the 
potential for oil and gas exploration and development in the 
non-wilderness portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 
known as the ``1002 Area'' or Coastal Plain, to raise 
sufficient revenue pursuant to the Senate reconciliation 
instructions included in H. Con. Res. 71. S. Hrg. 115-491.

November 14, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine hurricane recovery efforts in 
Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. S. Hrg. 115-492.

December 5, 2017

    Hearing to consider the nominations of:
           Dr. Timothy R. Petty to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of the Interior (Water and Science); and
           Dr. Linda Capuano to be Administrator of the 
        Energy Information Administration. S. Hrg. 115-338.

December 12, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine the permitting processes at 
the Department of the Interior and the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission for energy and resource infrastructure 
projects, and opportunities to improve the efficiency, 
transparency, and accountability of federal decisions for such 
projects. S. Hrg. 115-494.

January 16, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the domestic and global energy 
outlook from the perspective of the International Energy 
Agency. S. Hrg. 115-495.

January 18, 2018

    Hearing to consider the nominations of:
           Ms. Melissa F. Burnison to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Congressional and 
        Intergovernmental Affairs); and
           Ms. Anne Marie White to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Environmental Management). S. Hrg. 
        115-497.

January 23, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the performance of the 
electric power system in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic during 
recent winter weather events, including the bomb cyclone. S. 
Hrg. 115-498.

January 25, 2018

    Oversight field hearing to examine the opportunities and 
challenges facing vehicle technologies, especially energy-
relevant technologies. S. Hrg. 115-499.

January 30, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the role of the U.S. 
Geological Survey and the U.S. Forest Service in preparing for 
and responding to natural hazard events, as well as the current 
status of mapping and monitoring systems. S. Hrg. 115-500.

February 6, 2018

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 2182, the Bikini Resettlement and 
        Relocation Act; and
           S. 2325, the Northern Mariana Islands U.S. 
        Workforce Act. S. Hrg. 115-501.

February 8, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the evolution of energy and 
infrastructure in the United States and how lessons learned 
from the past can inform future opportunities. S. Hrg. 115-503.

March 1, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine private sector and government 
challenges and opportunities to promote the cybersecurity and 
resiliency of our nation's critical energy infrastructure. S. 
Hrg. 115-506.

March 6, 2018

    Hearing to consider the nomination of Mr. James Reilly to 
be Director of the U.S. Geological Survey. S. Hrg. 115-507.

March 13, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the President's budget request 
for the Department of the Interior for Fiscal Year 2019. S. 
Hrg. 115-508.

March 15, 2018

    Hearing to consider the nominations of:
           Mr. Theodore Garrish to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (International Affairs); and
           Mr. James Edward Campos to be Director of 
        the Office of Minority Economic Impact at the 
        Department of Energy. S. Hrg. 115-509.

March 20, 2018

    Oversight hearing is to examine the President's budget 
request for the Department of Energy for Fiscal Year 2019. S. 
Hrg. 115-510.

March 22, 2018

    Legislative hearing to examine the 2018 western water 
supply outlook and receive testimony on the following water 
infrastructure and drought resiliency bills:
           S. 2539, a bill to amend the Energy and 
        Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations 
        Act, 2015, to reauthorize certain projects to increase 
        Colorado River System water;
           S. 2560, the Reclamation Title Transfer Act 
        of 2018; and
           S. 2563, the Water Supply Infrastructure and 
        Drought Resilience Act of 2018. S. Hrg. 115-511.

April 17, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine deferred maintenance and 
operational needs of the National Park Service. S. Hrg. 115-
512.

April 19, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine energy-related challenges and 
opportunities in remote and rural areas of the United States. 
S. Hrg. 115-513.

April 24, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the President's budget request 
for the U.S. Forest Service for Fiscal Year 2019. S. Hrg. 115-
514.

May 8, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the current status of Puerto 
Rico's electric grid and proposals for the future operation of 
the grid. S. Hrg. 115-515.

May 15, 2018

    Hearing to consider the nomination of Aimee Kathryn Jorjani 
to be Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. 
S. Hrg. 115-517.

June 5, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the 2018 Wildland Fire Outlook 
and the Wildland Fire Management Programs at the Department of 
the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service. S. Hrg. 115-346.

June 12, 2018

    Oversight hearing to conduct oversight on the Federal 
Energy and Regulatory Commission. S. Hrg. 115-518.

June 26, 2018

    Hearing to consider the nominations of:
           Ms. Teri L. Donaldson to be Inspector 
        General at the Department of Energy;
           Dr. Christopher Fall to be Director of the 
        Office of Science, Department of Energy;
           Ms. Karen S. Evans to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Cybersecurity, Energy Security and 
        Emergency Response); and
           Mr. Daniel Simmons to be Assistant Secretary 
        of Energy (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy). S. 
        Hrg. 115-520.

July 12, 2018

    Oversight hearing to consider the policy issues facing 
interstate delivery networks for natural gas and electricity--
What are the primary challenges and opportunities for energy 
delivery networks and their customers today? Will investment in 
building or upgrading pipelines, electric transmission lines, 
and other infrastructure keeps pace with energy needs? How are 
federal regulators responding? S. Hrg. 115-522.

July 17, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the Department of the 
Interior's final list of critical minerals for 2018 and 
opportunities to strengthen the United States' mineral 
security. S. Hrg. 115-523.

July 19, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine Administration reorganization 
and modernization proposals related to the Department of Energy 
and the Department of the Interior. S. Hrg. 115-524.

July 24, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine factors that are impacting 
global oil prices. S. Hrg. 115-525.

August 16, 2018

    Hearing to consider the nominations of:
           Mr. William Cooper to be General Counsel at 
        the Department of Energy; and
           Mr. Lane Genatowski to be Director of the 
        Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy at the 
        Department of Energy. S. Hrg. 115-369.

August 21, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the energy efficiency of 
blockchain and similar technologies and the cybersecurity 
possibilities of such technologies for energy industry 
application. In particular, should we expect electricity prices 
to increase from rising electricity demand in blockchain 
application? In addition, how can we evaluate whether 
blockchain and similar approaches will soon improve the 
cybersecurity of computing systems used to supply our energy? 
S. Hrg. 115-527.

September 13, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the role of U.S. liquefied 
natural gas in meeting European energy demand. S. Hrg. 115-529.

September 25, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the Department of Energy's 
efforts in the field of quantum information science. S. Hrg. 
115-530.

October 11, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine blackstart, which is the 
process for returning energy to the power grid after a system-
wide blackout, and other system restoration plans in the 
electric utility industry. S. Hrg. 115-531.

November 15, 2018

    Hearing to consider the nominations of:
           Dr. Rita Baranwal to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Nuclear Energy);
           Mr. Bernard L. McNamee to be a Member of the 
        Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and
           Mr. Raymond David Vela to be Director of the 
        National Park Service. S. Hrg. 115-533.

                           BUSINESS MEETINGS

    The Committee held 15 business meetings, at which it 
ordered reported 34 nominations and 159 bills and resolutions, 
as follows:

January 31, 2017

    The Committee approved subcommittee assignments and 
jurisdictional listings for the 115th Congress and ordered 
reported:
           The nomination of Mr. Ryan Zinke to be 
        Secretary of the Interior;
           The nomination of Mr. James Richard Perry to 
        be Secretary of Energy; and
           An original resolution authorizing 
        expenditures by the Committee for the 115th Congress.

March 30, 2017

    The Committee approved subcommittee assignments for Senator 
Luther Strange and ordered reported:
           S. 35, a bill to transfer administrative 
        jurisdiction over certain Bureau of Land Management 
        land from the Secretary of the Interior to the 
        Secretary of Veterans Affairs for inclusion in the 
        Black Hills National Cemetery, and for other purposes. 
        S. Rept. 115-35;
           S. 55, a bill to authorize the Secretary of 
        the Interior to conduct a special resource study of 
        Fort Ontario in the State of New York. S. Rept. 115-
        104;
           S. 97, a bill to enable civilian research 
        and development of advanced nuclear energy technologies 
        by private and public institutions, to expand 
        theoretical and practical knowledge of nuclear physics, 
        chemistry, and materials science, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-115;
           S. 99, a bill to require the Secretary of 
        the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility 
        of designating the President James K. Polk Home in 
        Columbia, Tennessee, as a unit of the National Park 
        System, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-36;
           S. 117, a bill to designate a mountain peak 
        in the State of Montana as `Alex Diekmann Peak.' S. 
        Rept. 115-94;
           S. 131, a bill to provide for the exchange 
        of certain National Forest System land and non-Federal 
        land in the State of Alaska, and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-117;
           S. 167, a bill to designate a National 
        Memorial to Fallen Educators at the National Teachers 
        Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas. S. Rept. 115-95;
           S. 189, a bill to modify the boundary of the 
        Fort Scott National Historic Site in the State of 
        Kansas, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-37;
           S. 190, a bill to provide for consideration 
        of the extension under the Energy Policy and 
        Conservation Act of nonapplication of No-Load Mode 
        energy efficiency standards to certain security or life 
        safety alarms or surveillance systems, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-76;
           S. 199, a bill to authorize the use of the 
        active capacity of the Fontenelle Reservoir. S. Rept. 
        115-96;
           S. 213, a bill to designate the wilderness 
        within the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in the 
        State of Alaska as the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Area. 
        S. Rept. 115-108;
           S. 214, a bill to authorize the expansion of 
        an existing hydroelectric project at Terror Lake in the 
        State of Alaska. S. Rept. 115-105;
           S. 215, a bill to authorize the Federal 
        Energy Regulatory Commission to issue an order 
        continuing a stay of a hydroelectric license for the 
        Mahoney Lake hydroelectric project in the State of 
        Alaska, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-77;
           S. 216, a bill to require the Secretary of 
        the Interior to submit to Congress a report on the 
        efforts of the Bureau of Reclamation to manage its 
        infrastructure assets. S. Rept. 115-97;
           S. 217, a bill to amend the Denali National 
        Park Improvement Act to clarify certain provisions 
        relating to the natural gas pipeline authorized in the 
        Denali National Park and Preserve. S. Rept. 115-109;
           S. 225, a bill to amend the Omnibus Public 
        Land Management Act of 2009 to modify provisions 
        relating to certain land exchanges in the Mt. Hood 
        Wilderness in the State of Oregon. S. Rept. 115-52;
           S. 226, a bill to exclude power supply 
        circuits, drivers, and devices designed to be connected 
        to, and power, light-emitting diodes or organic light-
        emitting diodes providing illumination or ceiling fans 
        using direct current motors from energy conservation 
        standards for external power supplies. S. Rept. 115-78;
           S. 239, a bill to amend the National Energy 
        Conservation Policy Act to encourage the increased use 
        of performance contracting in Federal facilities, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-79;
           S. 267, a bill to provide for the correction 
        of a survey of certain land in the State of Alaska. S. 
        Rept. 115-98;
           S. 280, a bill to authorize, direct, 
        expedite, and facilitate a land exchange in El Paso and 
        Teller Counties, Colorado, and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-45;
           S. 285, a bill to ensure adequate use and 
        access to the existing Bolts Ditch headgate and ditch 
        segment within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Eagle 
        County, Colorado, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-
        53;
           S. 286, a bill to require a land conveyance 
        involving the Elkhorn Ranch and the White River 
        National Forest in the State of Colorado, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-92;
           S. 287, a bill to update the map of, and 
        modify the maximum acreage available for inclusion in, 
        the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. S. Rept. 
        115-38;
           S. 289, a bill to adjust the boundary of the 
        Arapaho National Forest, Colorado, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-54;
           S. 331, a bill to remove the use 
        restrictions on certain land transferred to Rockingham 
        County, Virginia, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-
        39;
           S. 346, a bill to provide for the 
        establishment of the National Volcano Early Warning and 
        Monitoring System. S. Rept. 115-113;
           S. 363, a bill to revise the authorized 
        route of the North Country National Scenic Trail in 
        northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into 
        Vermont to connect with the Appalachian National Scenic 
        Trail, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-99;
           S. 385, a bill to promote energy savings in 
        residential buildings and industry, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-60;
           S. 392, a bill to establish the 400 Years of 
        African-American History Commission, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-63;
           S. 432, a bill to designate the Cerro del 
        Yuta and Rio San Antonio Wilderness Areas in the State 
        of New Mexico, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-40;
           S. 466, a bill to clarify the description of 
        certain Federal land under the Northern Arizona Land 
        Exchange and Verde River Basin Partnership Act of 2005. 
        S. Rept. 115-41;
           S. 490, a bill to reinstate and extend the 
        deadline for commencement of construction of a 
        hydroelectric project involving the Gibson Dam. S. 
        Rept. 115-100;
           S. 491, a bill to reinstate and extend the 
        deadline for commencement of construction of a 
        hydroelectric project involving Clark Canyon Dam. S. 
        Rept. 115-101;
           S. 501, a bill to amend the Wild and Scenic 
        Rivers Act to designate certain segments of East 
        Rosebud Creek in Carbon County, Montana, as components 
        of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System. S. Rept. 115-42;
           S. 502, a bill to modify the boundary of 
        Voyageurs National Park in the State of Minnesota, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-64;
           S. 508, a bill to provide for the conveyance 
        of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-65;
           S. 513, a bill to designate the Frank and 
        Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Special Management Area in 
        the State of Oregon. S. Rept. 115-66;
           S. 566, a bill to withdraw certain land in 
        Okanogan County, Washington, to protect the land, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-106;
           S. 590, a bill to authorize the Secretary of 
        Agriculture to maintain or replace certain facilities 
        and structures for commercial recreation services at 
        Smith Gulch in Idaho, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 
        115-67;
           S. 617, a bill to amend the Wild and Scenic 
        Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the 
        Farmington River and Salmon Brook in the State of 
        Connecticut as components of the National Wild and 
        Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 
        115-55;
           S. 644, a bill to authorize the Secretary of 
        the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the 
        Medgar Evers House, located in Jackson, Mississippi, 
        and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-46;
           S. 703, a bill to extend the authority of 
        the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the Equus 
        Beds Division of the Wichita Project. S. Rept. 115-102;
           S. 710, a bill to reinstate and extend the 
        deadline for commencement of construction of a 
        hydroelectric project involving Jennings Randolph Dam. 
        S. Rept. 115-103;
           S. 713, a bill to establish the Mountains to 
        Sound Greenway National Heritage Area in the State of 
        Washington and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-118;
           S. 714, a bill to amend Public Law 103-434 
        to authorize Phase III of the Yakima River Basin Water 
        Basin Water Enhancement Project for the purposes of 
        improving water management in the Yakima River basin, 
        and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-107;
           S. 723, a bill to reinstate and extend the 
        deadline for commencement of construction of a 
        hydroelectric project involving the W. Kerr Scott Dam. 
        S. Rept. 115-80;
           S. 724, a bill to modernize authorizations 
        for necessary hydropower approvals. S. Rept. 115-81;
           S. 729, a bill to authorize the Secretary of 
        the Interior to acquire approximately 44 acres of land 
        in Martinez, California, for inclusion in the John Muir 
        National Historic Site, and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-47;
           S. 730, a bill to reinstate and extend the 
        deadlines for commencement of construction of 
        hydroelectric projects involving the Gathright and 
        Flannagan Dams. S. Rept. 115-82;
           S. 733, a bill to protect and enhance 
        opportunities for recreational hunting, fishing, and 
        shooting, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-116;
           S. 734, a bill to reinstate and extend the 
        deadline for commencement of construction of a 
        hydroelectric project involving the Cannonsville Dam. 
        S. Rept. 115-83;
           H.R. 46, an act to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of 
        Fort Ontario in the State of New York. S. Rept. 115-
        110;
           H.R. 88, an act to modify the boundary of 
        the Shiloh National Military Park located in Tennessee 
        and Mississippi, to establish Parker's Crossroads 
        Battlefield as an affiliated area of the National Park 
        System, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-48;
           H.R. 267, an act to redesignate the Martin 
        Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site in the 
        State of Georgia, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-
        49;
           H.R. 381, an act to designate a mountain in 
        the John Muir Wilderness of the Sierra National Forest 
        as ``Sky Point.'' S. Rept. 115-111;
           H.R. 494, an act to expand the boundary of 
        Fort Frederica National Monument in the State of 
        Georgia, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-114;
           H.R. 538, an act to redesignate Ocmulgee 
        National Monument in the State of Georgia and revise 
        its boundary, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-50;
           H.R. 558, an act to adjust the boundary of 
        the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park to 
        include the Wallis House and Harriston Hill, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-68;
           H.R. 560, an act to amend the Delaware Water 
        Gap National Recreation Area Improvement Act to provide 
        access to certain vehicles serving residents of 
        municipalities. S. Rept. 115-51;
           H.R. 618, an act to authorize, direct, 
        expedite, and facilitate a land exchange in El Paso and 
        Teller Counties, Colorado, and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-56;
           H.R. 688, an act to adjust the boundary of 
        the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-57;
           H.R. 689, an act to ensure adequate use and 
        access to the existing Bolts Ditch headgate and ditch 
        segment within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Eagle 
        County, Colorado, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-
        58;
           H.R. 698, an act to require a land 
        conveyance involving the Elkhorn Ranch and the White 
        River National Forest in the State of Colorado, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-69;
           H.R. 699, an act to amend the Omnibus Public 
        Land Management Act of 2009 to modify provisions 
        relating to certain land exchanges in the Mt. Hood 
        Wilderness in the State of Oregon. S. Rept. 115-59; and
           H.R. 863, an act to facilitate the addition 
        of park administration at the Coltsville National 
        Historical Park, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-
        70.

June 6, 2017

    The Committee ordered reported the nominations of:
           Mr. David Bernhardt to be Deputy Secretary 
        of the Interior;
           Mr. Dan Brouillette to be Deputy Secretary 
        of Energy;
           Mr. Neil Chatterjee to be a Member of the 
        Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and
           Mr. Robert Powelson to be a Member of the 
        Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

August 3, 2017

    The Committee ordered reported the nominations of:
           Ms. Brenda Burman to be Commissioner of 
        Reclamation, Department of the Interior;
           Ms. Susan Combs to be an Assistant Secretary 
        of the Interior (Policy, Management and Budget);
           Mr. Paul Dabbar to be Under Secretary for 
        Science, Department of Energy;
           Mr. Douglas W. Domenech to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of the Interior (Insular Affairs); and
           Mr. Mark Wesley Menezes to be Under 
        Secretary of Energy.

September 19, 2017

    The Committee ordered reported the nominations of:
           Mr. Joseph Balash to be Assistant Secretary 
        of the Interior (Land and Minerals Management);
           Mr. Richard Glick to be a member of the 
        Federal Energy Regulatory Commission;
           Mr. David Jonas to be General Counsel of the 
        Department of Energy;
           Mr. Kevin McIntyre to be a Member of the 
        Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and
           Mr. Ryan Nelson to be Solicitor of the 
        Department of the Interior.

October 4, 2017

    The Committee ordered reported the nominations of:
           Mr. Bruce J. Walker to be Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Electricity Delivery and Energy 
        Reliability); and
           Mr. Steven E. Winberg to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Fossil Energy).

November 15, 2017

    The Committee ordered reported, pursuant to H. Con. Res. 
71, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 
2018, reconciliation legislation to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to establish and administer a competitive oil and 
gas program in the non-wilderness portion of the Arctic 
National Wildlife Refuge, known as the ``1002 Area'' or Coastal 
Plain.

December 15, 2017

    The Committee ordered reported the nominations of:
           Dr. Linda Capuano to be Administrator of the 
        Energy Information Administration; and
           Dr. Timothy R. Petty to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of the Interior (Water and Science).

January 30, 2018

    The Committee approved subcommittee assignments and ordered 
reported the following nominations:
           Ms. Melissa Burnison to be Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Congressional and 
        Intergovernmental Affairs);
           Ms. Susan Combs to be Assistant Secretary of 
        the Interior (Policy, Management, and Budget);
           Mr. Ryan Nelson to be Solicitor for the 
        Department of the Interior; and
           Ms. Anne White to be Assistant Secretary of 
        Energy (Environmental Management).

March 8, 2018

    The Committee ordered reported:
           S. 79, a bill to provide for the 
        establishment of a pilot program to identify security 
        vulnerabilities of certain entities in the energy 
        sector. S. Rept. 115-246;
           S. 186, a bill to amend the Federal Power 
        Act to provide that any inaction by the Federal Energy 
        Regulatory Commission that allows a rate change to go 
        into effect shall be treated as an order by the 
        Commission for purposes of rehearing and court review. 
        S. Rept. 115-278;
           S. 1059, a bill to extend the authorization 
        of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 
        1978 relating to the disposal site in Mesa County, 
        Colorado. S. Rept. 115-247;
           S. 1160, a bill to include Livingston 
        County, the city of Jonesboro in Union County, and the 
        city of Freeport in Stephenson County, Illinois, to the 
        Lincoln National Heritage Area, and for other purposes. 
        S. Rept. 115-224;
           S. 1181, a bill to direct the Secretary of 
        the Interior and Secretary of Agriculture to expedite 
        access to certain Federal land under the administrative 
        jurisdiction of each Secretary for good Samaritan 
        search-and-recovery missions, and for other purposes. 
        S. Rept. 115-225;
           S. 1260, a bill to authorize the exchange of 
        certain Federal land located in Gulf Islands National 
        Seashore for certain non-Federal land in Jackson 
        County, Mississippi, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 
        115-226;
           S. 1335, a bill to establish the Ste. 
        Genevieve National Historic Site in the State of 
        Missouri, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-233;
           S. 1336, a bill to amend the Energy Policy 
        Act of 2005 to reauthorize hydroelectric production 
        incentives and hydroelectric efficiency improvement 
        incentives, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-250;
           S. 1337, a bill to amend the Energy Policy 
        Act of 2005 to make certain strategic energy 
        infrastructure projects eligible for certain loan 
        guarantees, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-254;
           S. 1446, a bill to reauthorize the 
        Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic 
        Preservation program. S. Rept. 115-234;
           S. 1457, a bill to amend the Energy Policy 
        Act of 2005 to direct the Secretary of Energy to carry 
        out demonstration projects relating to advanced nuclear 
        reactor technologies to support domestic energy needs. 
        S. Rept. 115-251;
           S. 1563, a bill to authorize the Office of 
        Fossil Energy to develop advanced separation 
        technologies for the extraction and recovery of rare 
        earth elements and minerals from coal and coal 
        byproducts, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-255;
           S. 1602, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the 
        suitability and feasibility of designating certain land 
        as the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-227;
           S. 1692, a bill to authorize the National 
        Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to 
        establish a commemorative work in the District of 
        Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-249;
           S. 1799, a bill to amend the Energy Policy 
        Act of 2005 to facilitate the commercialization of 
        energy and related technologies developed at Department 
        of Energy facilities with promising commercial 
        potential. S. Rept. 115-252;
           S. 1981, a bill to amend the Natural Gas Act 
        to expedite approval of exports of small volumes of 
        natural gas, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-248;
           S. 2213, a bill to authorize Pacific 
        Historic Parks to establish a commemorative display to 
        honor members of the United States Armed Forces who 
        served in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-215;
           S. 2325, a bill to incentivize the hiring of 
        United States workers in the Commonwealth of the 
        Northern Mariana Islands, and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-214;
           S. 2503, a bill to establish Department of 
        Energy policy for science and energy research and 
        development programs, and reform National Laboratory 
        management and technology transfer programs, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-241;
           H.R. 589, an Act to establish Department of 
        Energy policy for science and energy research and 
        development programs, and reform National Laboratory 
        management and technology transfer programs, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-242;
           H.R. 648, an Act to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to amend the Definite Plan Report for 
        the Seedskadee Project to enable the use of the active 
        capacity of the Fontenelle Reservoir. S. Rept. 115-235;
           H.R. 1109, an Act to amend section 203 of 
        the Federal Power Act. S. Rept. 115-253;
           H.R. 1135, an Act to reauthorize the 
        Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historic 
        Preservation program. S. Rept. 115-236;
           H.R. 1397, an Act to authorize, direct, 
        facilitate, and expedite the transfer of administrative 
        jurisdiction of certain Federal land, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-257;
           H.R. 1404, an Act 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. S. Rept. 115-222;
           H.R. 1500, an Act to redesignate the small 
        triangular property located in Washington, DC, and 
        designated by the National Park Service as reservation 
        302 as `Robert Emmet Park', and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-223;
           H.R. 2615, an Act to authorize the exchange 
        of certain land located in Gulf Islands National 
        Seashore, Jackson County, Mississippi, between the 
        National Park Service and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 
        and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-228;
           H.R. 2888, an Act to establish the Ste. 
        Genevieve National Historic Site in the State of 
        Missouri, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-237; and
           H.R. 4300, an Act to authorize Pacific 
        Historic Parks to establish a commemorative display to 
        honor members of the United States Armed Forces who 
        served in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-216.

May 17, 2018

    The Committee ordered reported:
           S. 436, a bill to authorize the Secretary of 
        the Interior to retire coal preference right lease 
        applications for which the Secretary has made an 
        affirmative commercial quantities determination, to 
        substitute certain land selections of the Navajo 
        Nation, to designate certain wilderness areas, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-318;
           S. 440, a bill to establish a procedure for 
        the conveyance of certain Federal property around the 
        Dickinson Reservoir in the State of North Dakota. S. 
        Rept. 115-313;
           S. 612, a bill to provide for the 
        unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned by the 
        city of Tucson, Arizona, for purposes of economic 
        development by conveyance of the Federal reversionary 
        interest to the City. S. Rept. 115-306;
           S. 930, a bill to require the Administrator 
        of the Western Area Power Administration to establish a 
        pilot project to provide increased transparency for 
        customers, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-309;
           S. 1030, a bill to require the Federal 
        Energy Regulatory Commission to submit to Congress a 
        report on certain hydropower projects. S. Rept. 115-
        310;
           S. 1142, a bill to extend the deadline for 
        commencement of construction of the J. Bennett Johnston 
        Watershed hydroelectric project. S. Rept. 115-311;
           S. 1459, a bill to establish Fort Sumter and 
        Fort Moultrie National Park in the State of South 
        Carolina, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-295;
           S. 1573, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to 
        place signage on Federal land along the trail known as 
        the ``American Discovery Trail,'' and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-301;
           S. 1645, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of 
        P.S. 103 in West Baltimore, Maryland, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-302;
           S. 1646, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of 
        President Station in Baltimore, Maryland, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-296;
           S. 2074, a bill to establish a procedure for 
        the conveyance of certain Federal property around the 
        Jamestown Reservoir in the State of North Dakota, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-314;
           S. 2102, a bill to clarify the boundary of 
        Acadia National Park, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 
        115-319;
           S. 2857, a bill to designate the Nordic 
        Museum in Seattle, Washington, as the ``National Nordic 
        Museum,'' and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-303;
           H.R. 497, an Act to direct the Secretary of 
        the Interior to convey certain Federal lands in San 
        Bernardino County, California, to the San Bernardino 
        Valley Water Conservation District, and to accept in 
        return certain exchanged non-Federal lands, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-320;
           H.R. 965, an Act to redesignate the Saint-
        Gaudens National Historic Site as the `Saint-Gaudens 
        National Historical Park,' and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-299;
           H.R. 995, a bill to direct the Secretary of 
        Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to 
        modernize terms in certain regulations. S. Rept. 115-
        300;
           H.R. 1547, a bill to provide for the 
        unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned by the 
        city of Tucson, Arizona, for purposes of economic 
        development by conveyance of the Federal reversionary 
        interest to the City. S. Rept. 115-307;
           H.R. 1900, an Act to designate the Veterans 
        Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio, as the National 
        Veterans Memorial and Museum, and for other purposes. 
        S. Rept. 115-304;
           H.R. 2582, an Act to authorize the State of 
        Utah to select certain lands that are available for 
        disposal under the Pony Express Resource Management 
        Plan to be used for the support and benefit of State 
        institutions, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-312;
           H.R. 2768, a bill to designate certain 
        mountain peaks in the State of Colorado as ``Fowler 
        Peak'' and ``Boskoff Peak.'' S. Rept. 115-321;
           H.R. 2786, an Act to amend the Federal Power 
        Act with respect to the criteria and process to qualify 
        as a qualifying conduit hydropower facility. S. Rept. 
        115-297;
           H.R. 2897, an Act to authorize the Mayor of 
        the District of Columbia and the Director of the 
        National Park Service to enter into cooperative 
        management agreements for the operation, maintenance, 
        and management of units of the National Park System in 
        the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-315; and
           H.R. 4609, an Act to provide for the 
        conveyance of a Forest Service site in Dolores County, 
        Colorado, to be used for a fire station. S. Rept. 115-
        316.

July 24, 2018

    The Committee ordered reported the nominations of:
           Ms. Teri L. Donaldson to be Inspector 
        General of the Department of Energy;
           Ms. Karen S. Evans to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Cybersecurity, Energy Security and 
        Emergency Response);
           Dr. Christopher Fall to be Director of the 
        Office of Science, Department of Energy; and
           Mr. Daniel Simmons to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Energy Efficiency and Renewable 
        Energy).

August 23, 2018

    The Committee ordered reported the nominations of:
           Mr. William Cooper to be General Counsel at 
        the Department of the Energy; and
           Mr. Lane Genatowski to be Director of the 
        Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy at the 
        Department of Energy.

October 2, 2018

    The Committee ordered reported:
           S. 32, a bill to provide for conservation, 
        enhanced recreation opportunities, and development of 
        renewable energy in the California Desert Conservation 
        Area, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-421;
           S. 90, a bill to survey the gradient 
        boundary along the Red River in the States of Oklahoma 
        and Texas, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-426;
           S. 414, a bill to promote conservation, 
        improve public land management, and provide for 
        sensible development in Pershing County, Nevada, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-409;
           S. 441, a bill to designate the Organ 
        Mountains and other public land as components of the 
        National Wilderness Preservation System in the State of 
        New Mexico, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-427;
           S. 569, a bill to amend title 54, United 
        States Code, to provide consistent and reliable 
        authority for, and for the funding of, the Land and 
        Water Conservation Fund to maximize the effectiveness 
        of the Fund for future generations, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-428;
           S. 685, a bill to authorize the Dry-Redwater 
        Regional Water Authority System and the Musselshell-
        Judith Rural Water System in the States of Montana and 
        North Dakota, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-373;
           S. 785, a bill to amend the Alaska Native 
        Claims Settlement Act to provide for equitable 
        allotment of land to Alaska Native veterans. S. Rept. 
        115-451;
           S. 884, a bill to amend the Omnibus Budget 
        Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of 
        Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner 
        waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 
        days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is 
        provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 
        1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-364;
           S. 941, a bill to withdraw certain National 
        Forest System land in the Emigrant Crevice area located 
        in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, Park County, 
        Montana, from the mining and mineral leasing laws of 
        the United States, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 
        115-402;
           S. 1012, a bill to provide for drought 
        preparedness measures in the State of New Mexico, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-358;
           S. 1149, a bill to amend the Alaska Native 
        Claims Settlement Act to repeal a provision limiting 
        the export of timber harvested from land conveyed to 
        the Kake Tribal Corporation under that Act. S. Rept. 
        115-393;
           S. 1219, a bill to provide for stability of 
        title to certain land in the State of Louisiana, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-403;
           S. 1403, a bill to amend the Public Lands 
        Corps Act of 1993 to establish the 21st Century 
        Conservation Service Corps to place youth and veterans 
        in national service positions to conserve, restore, and 
        enhance the great outdoors of the United States, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-420;
           S. 1548, a bill to designate certain land 
        administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the 
        Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness and 
        national recreation areas and to make additional wild 
        and scenic river designations in the State of Oregon, 
        and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-439;
           S. 1787, a bill to reauthorize the National 
        Geologic Mapping Act of 1992. S. Rept. 115-404;
           S. 2062, a bill to require the Secretary of 
        Agriculture to covey at market value certain National 
        Forest System land in the State of Arizona. S. Rept. 
        115-366;
           S. 2160, a bill to establish a pilot program 
        under which the Chief of the Forest Service may use 
        alternative dispute resolution in lieu of judicial 
        review for certain projects. S. Rept. 115-429;
           S. 2166, a bill to maintain annual base 
        funding for the Upper Colorado and San Juan fish 
        recovery programs through fiscal year 2023, to require 
        a report on the implementation of those programs, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-374;
           S. 2249, a bill to reauthorize the Rio 
        Puerco Management Committee and the Rio Puerco 
        Watershed Management Program. S. Rept. 115-405;
           S. 2290, a bill to improve wildfire 
        management operations and the safety of firefighters 
        and communities with the best available technology. S. 
        Rept. 115-441;
           S. 2297, a bill to direct the Secretary of 
        Agriculture to transfer certain National Forest System 
        land to Custer County, South Dakota. S. Rept. 115-367;
           S. 2560, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to establish a program to facilitate 
        the transfer to non-Federal ownership of appropriate 
        reclamation projects or facilities, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-395;
           S. 2809, a bill to establish the Sun Rafael 
        Swell Western Heritage and Historic Mining National 
        Conservation Area in the State of Utah, to designate 
        wilderness areas in the State, to provide for certain 
        land conveyances, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-
        440;
           S. 2831, a bill to redesignate Golden Spike 
        National Historic Site and to establish the 
        Transcontinental Railroad Network. S. Rept. 115-368;
           S. 2870, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of 
        the site known as ``Amache'' in the State of Colorado. 
        S. Rept. 115-375;
           S. 2876, a bill to amend the National Trails 
        System Act to provide for the study of the Pike 
        National Historic Trail. S. Rept. 115-371;
           S. 3001, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to convey certain land and facilities 
        of the Central Valley Project. S. Rept. 115-359;
           S. 3172, a bill to amend title 54, United 
        States Code, to establish, fund, and provide for the 
        use of amounts in a National Park Service Legacy System 
        Restoration Fund to address the maintenance backlog of 
        the National Park Service, and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-423;
           S. 3245, a bill to require the Secretary of 
        Agriculture to transfer certain National Forest System 
        land in the State of Texas. S. Rept. 115-376;
           H.R. 132, an Act to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to convey certain land and 
        appurtenances of the Arbuckle Project, Oklahoma, to the 
        Arbuckle Master Conservancy District, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-369;
           H.R. 857, an Act to provide for conservation 
        and enhanced recreation activities in the California 
        Desert Conservation Area, and for other purposes. S. 
        Rept. 115-416;
           H.R. 1967, an Act to amend the Reclamation 
        Project Act of 1939 to authorize pump storage 
        hydropower development utilizing multiple Bureau of 
        Reclamation reservoirs. S. Rept. 115-377;
           H.R. 2075, an Act to adjust the eastern 
        boundary of the Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls and 
        Deschutes Canyon Wilderness Study Areas in the State of 
        Oregon to facilitate fire prevention and response 
        activities to protect private property, and for other 
        purposes. S. Rept. 115-417;
           H.R. 2630, an Act to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to convey certain land to the La Paz 
        County, Arizona, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-
        365;
           H.R. 3186, an Act to establish an Every Kid 
        Outdoors Program, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-
        394;
           H.R. 3279, an Act to amend the Mineral 
        Leasing Act to provide that extraction of helium from 
        gas produced under a Federal mineral lease shall 
        maintain the lease as if the helium, were oil and gas. 
        S. Rept. 115-391;
           H.R. 4446, an Act to amend the Virgin 
        Islands of the United States Centennial Commission Act 
        to extend the expiration date of the Commission, and 
        for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-361;
           H.R. 4895, an Act to establish the Medgar 
        Evers Home National Monument in the State of 
        Mississippi, and for other purposes. S. Rept. 115-370;
           H.R. 5979, an Act to establish the Mill 
        Springs Battlefield National Monument in the State of 
        Kentucky as unit of the National Park System, and for 
        other purposes. S. Rept. 115-378; and
           H.R. 6040, an Act to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to convey certain land and facilities 
        of the Central Valley Project. S. Rept. 115-378.

November 27, 2018

    The Committee ordered reports the nominations of:
           Dr. Rita Baranwal to be an Assistant 
        Secretary of Energy (Nuclear Energy):
           Mr. Bernard McNamee to be a Member of the 
        Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and
           Mr. Raymond David Vella to be Director of 
        the National Park Service.

                         Subcommittee on Energy

                    CORY GARDNER, Colorado, Chairman

JAMES E. RISCH, Idaho                JOE MANCHIN III, West Virginia
JEFF FLAKE, Arizona                  RON WYDEN, Oregon
STEVE DAINES, Montana                BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont
LAMAR ALEXANDER, Tennessee           MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico
JOHN HOEVEN, North Dakota            ANGUS S. KING Jr., Maine
BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana              TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois
ROB PORTMAN, Ohio                    TINA SMITH, Minnesota*
SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West 
Virginia**
                               __________
*Appointed January 30, 2018. Senator Franken served on the Subcommittee 
until January 2, 2018.
**Appointed January 30, 2018. Senator Strange served on the 
Subcommittee until January 3, 2018.
Note that Senator Strange filled a vacancy left by Senator Sessions on 
February 9, 2017 (S. Res. 57) and that Senator Cortez Masto served on 
the subcommittee until January 30, 2019.

                              JURISDICTION

    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee includes oversight and 
legislative responsibilities for: nuclear, coal and synthetic 
fuels research and development; nuclear and non-nuclear energy 
commercialization projects; nuclear fuel cycle policy; 
Department of Energy National Laboratories; global climate 
change; new technologies research and development; nuclear 
facilities siting and insurance program; commercialization of 
new technologies, including solar energy systems; Federal 
energy conservation programs; energy information; liquefied 
natural gas projects; oil and natural gas regulation; refinery 
policy; coal conversion; utility policy; strategic petroleum 
reserves; regulation of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and 
other oil and gas pipeline transportation systems within Alaska 
Arctic research and energy development; and oil, gas and coal 
production and distribution.

                                HEARINGS

    The Subcommittee on Energy held three legislative hearings, 
one oversight hearing, and one joint legislative and oversight 
hearing during the 115th Congress.

March 28, 2017

    Oversight and legislative hearing to examine the 
cybersecurity threats to the U.S. electric grid and technology 
advancements to minimize such threats and to receive testimony 
on S. 79, the Securing Energy Infrastructure Act. S. Hrg. 115-
262.

September 12, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine the contributions of the 
Department of Energy's National Laboratories in fostering 
innovation. S. Hrg. 115-484.

October 3, 2017

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 186, a bill to amend the Federal Power 
        Act to provide that any inaction by the Federal Energy 
        Regulatory Commission that allows a rate change to go 
        into effect shall be treated as an order by the 
        Commission for purposes of rehearing and court review;
           S. 1059, a bill to extend the authorization 
        of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 
        1978 relating to the disposal site in Mesa County, 
        Colorado;
           S. 1337, a bill to amend the Energy Policy 
        Act of 2005 to make certain strategic energy 
        infrastructure projects eligible for certain loan 
        guarantees, and for other purposes;
           S. 1457, a bill to amend the Energy Policy 
        Act of 2005 to direct the Secretary of Energy to carry 
        out demonstration projects relating to advanced nuclear 
        reactor technologies to support domestic energy needs;
           S. 1799, a bill to amend the Energy Policy 
        Act of 2005 to facilitate the commercialization of 
        energy and related technologies developed at Department 
        of Energy facilities with promising commercial 
        potential;
           S. 1860, a bill to amend section 203 of the 
        Federal Power Act; and
           H.R. 1109, a bill to amend section 203 of 
        the Federal Power Act. S. Hrg. 115-318.

December 5, 2017

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 1336, a bill to amend the Energy Policy 
        Act of 2005 to reauthorize hydroelectric production 
        incentives and hydroelectric efficiency improvement 
        incentives, and for other purposes;
           S. 1455, a bill to amend the United States 
        Energy Storage Competitiveness Act of 2007 to direct 
        the Secretary of Energy to establish new goals for the 
        Department of Energy relating to energy storage and to 
        carry out certain demonstration projects relating to 
        energy storage;
           S. 1563, a bill to authorize the Office of 
        Fossil Energy to develop advanced separation 
        technologies for the extraction and recovery of rare 
        earth elements and minerals from coal and coal 
        byproducts, and for other purposes;
           S. 1851, a bill to require the Secretary of 
        Energy to establish an energy storage research program, 
        demonstration and deployment program, and technical 
        assistance and grant program, and for other purposes;
           S. 1876, a bill to direct the Secretary of 
        Energy to establish a program to advance energy storage 
        deployment by reducing the cost of energy storage 
        through research, development, and demonstration, and 
        for other purposes;
           S. 1981, a bill to amend the Natural Gas Act 
        to expedite approval of exports of small volumes of 
        natural gas, and for other purposes; and
           S. 2030, a bill to deem the compliance date 
        for amended energy conservation standards for ceiling 
        light kits to be January 21, 2020, and for other 
        purposes. S. Hrg. 115-493.

November 29, 2018

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 1089, a bill to require the Secretary of 
        Energy to review and update a report on the energy and 
        environmental benefits of the re-refining of used 
        lubricating oil;
           S. 1713, a bill to require certain financial 
        assistance under the State energy program and the 
        Weatherization Assistance Program to be distributed 
        without undue delay to support State and local high-
        impact energy efficiency and renewable energy 
        initiatives;
           S. 1875, a bill to move the United States 
        toward greater energy independence and security, to 
        increase the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability 
        of the electric grid, to increase the competitiveness 
        of the United States economy, to protect consumers, and 
        to improve the energy performance of the Federal 
        Government, and for other purposes;
           S. 2257, a bill to establish the IMPACT for 
        Energy Foundation;
           S. 2803, a bill to amend the Energy Policy 
        Act of 2015 to improve the conversion, use, and storage 
        of carbon dioxide produced from fossil fuels, and for 
        other purposes;
           S. 2968, a bill to amend the Energy 
        Reorganization Act of 1974 to clarify whistleblower 
        rights and protections, and for other purposes;
           S. 3088, a bill to amend the Energy and 
        Policy Act of 2005 to require the Secretary of Energy 
        to establish a program to prepare veterans for careers 
        in the energy industry, including the solar, wind, 
        cybersecurity, and other low-carbon emissions sector or 
        zero-emissions sectors of the energy industry, and for 
        other purposes;
           S. 3295, a bill to improve energy 
        performance in Federal buildings, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 3376, a bill to require the Secretary to 
        establish an energy storage research program, a 
        demonstration and deployment program, and a technical 
        assistance and grant program, and for other purposes;
           S. 3422, a bill to direct the Secretary of 
        Energy to establish advanced nuclear goals, provide for 
        a versatile, reactor-based fast neutron source, make 
        available high-assay, low-enriched uranium for 
        research, development and demonstration of advanced 
        nuclear reactor concepts, and for other purposes;
           S. 3495, a bill to provide certainty with 
        respect to the timing of Department of Energy decisions 
        to approve or deny applications to export natural gas, 
        and for other purposes;
           S. 3618/H.R. 6511, a bill to authorize the 
        Secretary of Energy to carry out a program to lease 
        underused facilities of the Strategic Petroleum 
        Reserve, and for other purposes;
           S. 3656/H.R. 6398, a bill to authorize the 
        Department of Energy to conduct collaborative research 
        with the Department of Veterans Affairs in order to 
        improve healthcare services for veterans in the United 
        States, and for other purposes;
           S. 3676, a bill to amend the Energy Policy 
        and Conservation Act to provide Federal financial 
        assistance to States to implement State energy security 
        plans, and for other purposes. S. Hrg. 115-534.

           Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining

                        MIKE LEE, Utah, Chairman

JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming               RON WYDEN, Oregon
JAMES E. RISCH, Idaho                DEBBIE STABENOW, Michigan
JEFF FLAKE, Arizona                  JOE MANCHIN III, West Virginia
STEVE DAINES, Montana                MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico
CORY GARDNER, Colorado               MAZIE K. HIRONO, Hawaii
LAMAR ALEXANDER, Tennessee           CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO, Nevada
JOHN HOEVEN, North Dakota            TINA SMITH, Minnesota**
BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana
SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West 
Virginia*
                               __________
*Appointed January 30, 2018. Senator Strange served on the Subcommittee 
until January 3, 2018.
**Appointed January 30, 2018. Senator Franken served the Subcommittee 
until January 3, 2018.

                              JURISDICTION

    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee includes oversight and 
legislative responsibilities for: public lands administered by 
the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service including 
farming and grazing thereon, and wilderness areas; 
establishment of wildlife refuges on public lands and 
wilderness designation therein; military land withdrawals; 
reserved water rights; Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; 
territorial affairs; national mining and minerals policy and 
general mining laws; surface mining, reclamation and 
enforcement; mining education and research; Federal mineral 
leasing; Outer Continental Shelf leasing; Naval oil shale 
reserves; National Petroleum Reserve--Alaska; and deep seabed 
mining.

                                HEARINGS

    The Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining held 
three legislative hearings and two oversight hearings.

June 21, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine collaborative initiatives, 
which restore watersheds and large landscapes across boundaries 
through State and Federal partnerships. S. Hrg. 115-263.

July 26, 2017

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 32, a bill to provide for conservation, 
        enhanced recreation opportunities, and development of 
        renewable energy in the California Desert Conservation 
        Area, and for other purposes;
           S. 90, a bill to survey the gradient 
        boundary along the Red River in the States of Oklahoma 
        and Texas, and for other purposes;
           S. 357, a bill to direct the Secretary of 
        the Interior to convey certain public lands in San 
        Bernardino County, California, to the San Bernardino 
        Valley Water Conservation District, and to accept in 
        return certain exchanged non-public lands, and for 
        other purposes;
           S. 436, a bill to authorize the Secretary of 
        the Interior to retire coal preference right lease 
        applications for which the Secretary has made an 
        affirmative commercial quantities determination, to 
        substitute certain land selections of the Navajo 
        Nation, to designate certain wilderness areas, and for 
        other purposes;
           S. 467, a bill to provide for the disposal 
        of certain Bureau of Land Management Land in Mohave 
        County, Arizona, and for other purposes;
           S. 468, a bill to establish a procedure for 
        resolving claims to certain rights-of-way;
           S. 614, a bill to require the Secretary of 
        the Interior to establish a pilot program for 
        commercial recreation concessions on certain land 
        managed by the Bureau of Land Management;
           S. 785, a bill to amend the Alaska Native 
        Claims Settlement Act to provide for equitable 
        allotment of land to Alaska Native veterans;
           S. 837, a bill to provide for the conveyance 
        of certain land to Washington County, Utah, to 
        authorize the exchange of Federal land and non-Federal 
        land in the State of Utah, and for other purposes;
           S. 884, a bill to amend the Omnibus Budget 
        Reconciliation Act of 1993 to require the Bureau of 
        Land Management to provide a claimant of a small miner 
        waiver from claim maintenance fees with a period of 60 
        days after written receipt of 1 or more defects is 
        provided to the claimant by registered mail to cure the 
        1 or more defects or pay the claim maintenance fee, and 
        for other purposes;
           S. 941, a bill to withdraw certain National 
        Forest System land in the Emigrant Crevice area located 
        in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, Park County, 
        Montana, from the mining and mineral leasing laws of 
        the United States, and for other purposes;
           S. 1149, a bill to amend the Alaska Native 
        Claims Settlement Act to repeal a provision limiting 
        the export of timber harvested from land conveyed to 
        the Kake Tribal Corporation under that Act.
           S. 1230, a bill to prohibit the conditioning 
        of any permit, lease, or other use agreement on the 
        transfer of any water right to the United States by the 
        Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, and for 
        other purposes;
           S. 1271, a bill to designate certain 
        mountain peaks in the State of Colorado as ``Fowler 
        Peak'' and ``Boskoff Peak''; and
           S. 1548, a bill to designate certain land 
        administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the 
        Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness and 
        national recreation areas and to make additional wild 
        and scenic river designations in the State of Oregon, 
        and for other purposes. S. Hrg. 115-482.

February 7, 2018

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 414/ H.R. 1107, a bill to promote 
        conservation, improve public land management, and 
        provide for sensible development in Pershing, County, 
        Nevada, and for other purposes;
           S. 441, a bill to designate the Organ 
        Mountains and other public land as components of the 
        National Wilderness Preservation System in the State of 
        New Mexico, and for other purposes;
           S. 507, a bill to sustain economic 
        development and recreational use of National Forest 
        System land in the State of Montana, to add certain 
        land to the National Wilderness Preservation System, to 
        designate new areas for recreation, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 612 /H.R. 1547, a bill to provide for the 
        unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned by the 
        city of Tucson, Arizona, for purposes of economic 
        development by conveyance of the Federal reversionary 
        interest to the City;
           S. 1046, a bill to facilitate certain 
        pinyon-juniper related projects in Lincoln County, 
        Nevada, to modify the boundaries of certain wilderness 
        areas in the State of Nevada, and to fully implement 
        the White Pine County Conservation, Recreation, and 
        Development Act;
           S. 1219/ H.R. 3392, a bill to provide for 
        stability of title to certain land in the State of 
        Louisiana, and for other purposes;
           S. 1222, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to convey certain land to La Paz 
        County, Arizona, and for other purposes;
           S. 1481, a bill to make technical 
        corrections to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, 
        and for other purposes;
           S. 1665/ H.R. 2582, a bill to authorize the 
        State of Utah to select certain lands that are 
        available for disposal under the Pony Express Resource 
        Management Plan to be used for the support and benefit 
        of State institutions, and for other purposes;
           S. 2062, a bill to require the Secretary of 
        Agriculture to convey at market value certain National 
        Forest System land in the State of Arizona;
           S. 2206, a bill to release certain 
        wilderness study areas in the State of Montana;
           S. 2218, a bill to provide for the 
        conveyance of a Forest Service site in Dolores County, 
        Colorado, to be used for a fire station;
           S. 2249, a bill to permanently reauthorize 
        the Rio Puerco Management Committee and the Rio Puerco 
        Watershed Management Program;
           H.R. 995, an Act to direct the Secretary of 
        Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to 
        modernize terms in certain regulations; and
           H.R. 1404, an Act 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 S. Hrg. 115-502.

May 9, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the law enforcement programs 
at the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service, 
coordination with other federal, state and local law 
enforcement, and the effects on rural communities. S. Hrg. 115-
516.

August 22, 2018

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 483, a bill to designate and expand 
        wilderness areas in Olympic National Forest in the 
        State of Washington, and to designate certain rivers in 
        Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park as 
        wild and scenic rivers, and for other purposes;
           S. 1572 and H.R. 3279, a bill to amend the 
        Mineral Leasing Act to provide that extraction of 
        helium from gas produced under a Federal mineral lease 
        shall maintain the lease as if the helium were oil and 
        gas;
           S. 1787, a bill to reauthorize the National 
        Geologic Mapping Act of 1992;
           S. 1959, a bill to designate certain Federal 
        land in the State of California as wilderness, and for 
        other purposes;
           S. 2078, a bill to maximize land management 
        efficiencies, promote land conservation, generate 
        education funding, and for other purposes;
           S. 2160, a bill to establish a pilot program 
        under the Chief of the Forest Service may use 
        alternative dispute resolution in lieu of judicial 
        review of certain projects;
           S. 2297, a bill to direct the Secretary of 
        Agriculture to transfer certain National Forest System 
        land to Custer County, South Dakota;
           S. 2721, a bill to designate certain land in 
        San Miguel, Ouray, and San Juan Counties, Colorado, as 
        wilderness, to designate certain special management 
        areas in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes;
           S. 2809, a bill to establish the San Rafael 
        Swell Western Heritage and Historic Mining National 
        Conservation Area in the State of Utah, to designate 
        wilderness areas in the State, to provide for certain 
        land conveyances, and for other purposes;
           S. 2907, a bill to provide for the 
        withdrawal and protection of certain Federal land in 
        the State of New Mexico;
           S. 3245, a bill to require the Secretary of 
        Agriculture to transfer certain National Forest System 
        land in the State of Texas;
           S. 3297, a bill to provide for the expansion 
        of the Desert Tortoise Habitat Conservation Plan, 
        Washington County, Utah;
           S. 3325, a bill to amend the Federal Land 
        Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide for the 
        eligibility of national grasslands for grazing leases 
        and permits; and
           H.R. 2075, an Act to adjust the eastern 
        boundary of the Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls and 
        Deschutes Canyon Wilderness Study Areas in the State of 
        Oregon to facilitate fire prevention and response 
        activities to protect private property, and for other 
        purposes. S. Hrg. 115-528.

                     Subcommittee on National Parks

                    STEVE DAINES, Montana, Chairman

JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming               ANGUS S. KING Jr., Maine*
MIKE LEE, Utah                       BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont
CORY GARDNER, Colorado               DEBBIE STABENOW, Michigan
LAMAR ALEXANDER, Tennessee           MARTIN HEINRICH, New Mexico
JOHN HOEVEN, North Dakota            MAZIE K. HIRONO, Hawaii
ROB PORTMAN, Ohio                    TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois
                               __________
*Appointed to Ranking Member January 30, 2018. Senator Hirono served as 
such on the Subcommittee during the first session until January 30, 
2018.

                              JURISDICTION

    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee includes oversight and 
legislative responsibilities for: National Park System; Wild 
and Scenic Rivers System; National Trails System; national 
recreation areas; historic sites; military parks and 
battlefields; Land and Water Conservation Fund; historic 
preservation; outdoor recreation resources; and preservation of 
prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain.

                                HEARINGS

    The Subcommittee on the National Parks held five 
legislative hearings, two oversight hearings, and one field 
hearing.

June 7, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine the National Park Service 
moving into a second century of service and the opportunities 
to improve workplace environment. S. Hrg. 115-35.

July 19, 2017

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 257, a bill to clarify the boundary of 
        Acadia National Park, and for other purposes;
           S. 312, a bill to redesignate the Saint-
        Gaudens National Historic Site as the ``Saint-Gaudens 
        National Park for the Arts,'' and for other purposes;
           S. 355, a bill to amend the Federal Lands 
        Recreation Enhancement Act to provide for a lifetime 
        National Recreational Pass for any veteran with a 
        service-connected disability;
           S. 391, a bill to establish the African 
        Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and 
        Educational Center in New York, New York, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 841, a bill to designate the Veterans 
        Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio, as the National 
        Veterans Memorial and Museum, and for other purposes;
           S. 926, a bill to authorize the Global War 
        on Terror Memorial Foundation to establish the National 
        Global War on Terrorism Memorial as a commemorative 
        work in the District of Columbia and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 1073, a bill to convey certain property 
        that was formerly part of Santa Rosa Island National 
        Monument and that was conveyed to Escambia County 
        subject to restrictions on use and reconveyance;
           S. 1202, a bill to modify the boundary of 
        the Little Rock Central High School National Historic 
        Site, and for other purposes;
           S. 1403, a bill to amend the Public Lands 
        Corps Act of 1993 to establish the 21st Century 
        Conservation Service Corps to place youth and veterans 
        in national service positions to conserve, restore, and 
        enhance the great outdoors of the United States, and 
        for other purposes;
           S. 1438, a bill to redesignate the Jefferson 
        National Expansion Memorial in the State of Missouri as 
        the ``Gateway Arch National Park'';
           S. 1459 a bill to establish Fort Sumter and 
        Fort Multrie National Park in the State of South 
        Carolina, and for other purposes; and
           S. 1522, a bill to establish an Every Kid 
        Outdoors program, and for other purposes. S. Hrg. 115-
        417.

September 27, 2017

    Oversight hearing to consider means to encourage the next 
generation to visit national parks. S. Hrg. 115-486.

February 14, 2018

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 400, a bill to establish the Susquehanna 
        National Heritage Area in the State of Pennsylvania, 
        and for other purposes;
           S. 966, a bill to establish a program to 
        accurately document vehicles that were significant in 
        the history of the United States, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 1160, a bill to include Livingston 
        County, the city of Jonesboro in Union County, and the 
        city of Freeport in Stephenson County, Illinois, to the 
        Lincoln National Heritage Area, and for other purposes;
           S. 1260/H.R. 2615, a bill to authorize the 
        exchange of certain Federal land located in Gulf 
        Islands National Seashore for certain non-Federal land 
        in Jackson County, Mississippi, and for other purposes;
           S. 1335, a bill to establish the Ste. 
        Genevieve National Historic Site in the State of 
        Missouri, and for other purposes;
           S. 1446 and H.R. 1135, a bill to reauthorize 
        the Historically Black Colleges and Universities 
        Historic Preservation program;
           S. 1472, a bill to reauthorize the Tennessee 
        Civil War Heritage Area;
           S. 1573, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to 
        place signage on Federal land along the trail known as 
        the ``American Discovery Trail,'' and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 1602, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the 
        suitability and feasibility of designating certain land 
        as the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area, and for 
        other purposes;
           S. 1645, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of 
        P.S. 103 in West Baltimore, Maryland, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 1646, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of 
        President Station in Baltimore, Maryland, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 1692, a bill to authorize the National 
        Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to 
        establish a commemorative work in the District of 
        Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes;
           S. 1956/H.R. 2897, a bill to authorize the 
        Mayor of the District of Columbia and the Director of 
        the National Park Service to enter into cooperative 
        management agreements for the operation, maintenance, 
        and management of units of the National Park System in 
        the District of Columbia;
           S. 2102, a bill to clarify the boundary of 
        Acadia National Park, and for other purposes;
           S. 2213/H.R. 4300, a bill to authorize 
        Pacific Historic Parks to establish a commemorative 
        display to honor members of the United States Armed 
        Forces who served in the Pacific Theater of World War 
        II, and for other purposes;
           S. 2225, a bill to reauthorize the Blue 
        Ridge National Heritage Area;
           S. 2238, a bill to amend the Ohio & Erie 
        Canal National Heritage Canalway Act of 1996 to repeal 
        the funding limitation;
           H.R. 1397, an Act to authorize, direct, 
        facilitate, and expedite the transfer of administrative 
        jurisdiction of certain Federal land, and for other 
        purposes; and
           H.R. 1500, an Act to redesignate the small 
        triangular property located in Washington, DC, and 
        designated by the National Park Service as reservation 
        302 as ``Robert Emmet Park,'' and for other purposes. 
        S. Hrg. 115-504.

July 11, 2018

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on S. 3172, a bill 
to amend title 54, United States Code, to establish, fund, and 
provide for the use of amounts in a National Park Service 
Legacy Restoration Fund to address the maintenance backlog of 
the National Park Service, and for other purposes. S. Hrg. 115-
521.

August 15, 2018

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 599/H.R. 1488, a bill to redesignate the 
        Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as the ``Indiana Dunes 
        National Park,'' and for other purposes;
           S. 1644, a bill to clarify the status of the 
        Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail 
        as a unit of the National Park System;
           S. 1926/H.R. 2156, a bill to provide for the 
        establishment of a national memorial and national 
        monument to commemorate those killed by the collapse of 
        the Saint Francis Dam on March 12, 1928, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 1987/H.R. 2600, a bill to provide for the 
        conveyance to the State of Iowa of the reversionary 
        interest held by the United States in and to certain 
        land in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and to express the 
        sense of Congress relating to the continued provision 
        of information relating to certain national historic 
        trails;
           S. 1993, a bill to adjust the boundary of 
        the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to 
        include the Rim of the Valley Corridor, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 2015, a bill to clarify the status of the 
        North Country, Ice Age, and New England National Scenic 
        Trails as units of the National Park System, and for 
        other purposes;
           S. 2441, a bill to amend the Steel Industry 
        American Heritage Area Act of 1996 to repeal the 
        funding limitation;
           S. 2570, a bill to repeal the funding 
        authorization sunset and the total funding cap for the 
        Essex National Heritage Area;
           S. 2604, a bill to amend the Oil Region 
        National Heritage Area Act to reauthorize the Oil 
        Region National Heritage Area, and for other purposes;
           S. 2672, a bill to authorize the Society of 
        the First Infantry Division to make modifications to 
        the First Division Monument located on Federal land in 
        President's Park in Washington, DC, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 2870, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of 
        the site known as ``Amache'' in the State of Colorado;
           S. 2876, a bill to amend the National Trails 
        System Act to provide for the study of the Pike 
        National Historic Trail;
           S. 2889/H.R. 4895, a bill to establish the 
        Medgar Evers National Monument in the State of 
        Mississippi, and for other purposes;
           S. 2831/H.R. 5751, a bill to redesignate 
        Golden Spike National Historic Site and to establish 
        the Transcontinental Railroad Network;
           S. 3176/H.R. 5979, a bill to establish the 
        Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument in the State 
        of Kentucky as a unit of the National Park System, and 
        for other purposes;
           S. 3287/H.R. 5655, a bill to establish the 
        Camp Nelson Heritage National Monument in the State of 
        Kentucky as a unit of the National Park System, and for 
        other purposes;
           S. 3298, a bill to extend the authority of 
        the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. to establish a 
        visitor center for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; and
           H. Con. Res. 33, designating the George C. 
        Marshall Museum and George C. Marshall Research Library 
        in Lexington, Virginia, as the National George C. 
        Marshall Museum and Library. S. Hrg. 115-526.

October 19, 2018

    Oversight field hearing to examine challenges in gateway 
communities of National Parks. S. Hrg. 115-532.

December 12, 2018

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 2395, a bill to amend title 54, United 
        States Code, to authorize the provision of technical 
        assistance under the Preserve America Program and to 
        direct the Secretary of the Interior to enter into 
        partnerships with communities adjacent to units of the 
        National Park System to leverage local cultural 
        heritage tourism assets;
           S. 2895/H.R. 5613, a bill to designate the 
        Quindaro Townsite in Kansas City, Kansas, as a National 
        Commemorative Site;
           S. 3291, a bill to reauthorize the New 
        Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 3439/H.R. 5532, a bill to redesignate the 
        Reconstruction Era National Monument as the 
        Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, and for 
        other purposes;
           S. 3468, a bill to amend the Wild and Scenic 
        Rivers Act to designate segments of the Nashua, 
        Squannacook, and Nissitissit Rivers as components of 
        the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 3505, a bill to provide for partnerships 
        among State and local governments, regional entities, 
        and the private sector to preserve, conserve, and 
        enhance the visitor experience at nationally 
        significant battlefields of the American Revolution, 
        War of 1812, and Civil War, and for other purposes;
           S. 3527/H.R. 5585, a bill to extend the 
        authorization for the Cape Cod National Seashore 
        Advisory Commission;
           S. 3533, a bill to amend the Wild and Scenic 
        Rivers Act to designate certain river segments within 
        the Wood-Pawcatuck watershed as components of the 
        National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 3534, a bill to redesignate the New River 
        Gorge National River in the State of West Virginia as 
        the ``New River Gorge National Park'';
           S. 3571/H.R. 5420, a bill to authorize the 
        acquisition of land for addition to the Home of 
        Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in the 
        State of New York, and for other purposes;
           S. 3646, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to accept certain properties in the 
        State of Missouri;
           S. 3609/H.R. 801, a bill to amend the 
        National Trails System Act to designate the Route 66 
        National Historic Trail, and for other purposes;
           S. 3659, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to annually designate at least one city 
        in the United States as an ``American World War II 
        Heritage City,'' and for other purposes;
           H.R. 1220, an Act to establish the Adams 
        Memorial Commission to carry out the provisions of 
        Public Law 107-62, and for other purposes;
           H.R. 3607, an Act to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to establish fees for medical services 
        provided in units of the National Park System, and for 
        other purposes;
           H.R. 3961, an Act to amend the Wild and 
        Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the 
        Kissimmee River and its tributaries in the State of 
        Florida for the study of potential addition to the 
        National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other 
        purposes;
           H.R. 5005, an Act to direct the Secretary of 
        the Interior to conduct a special resource study to 
        determine the suitability and feasibility of 
        establishing the birthplace of James Weldon Johnson in 
        Jacksonville, Florida, as a unit of the National Park 
        System;
           H.R. 5706, an Act to establish the Pearl 
        Harbor National Memorial in the State of Hawai'i and 
        the Honouliuli National Historic Site in the State of 
        Hawai'i, and for other purposes;
           H.R. 6077, an Act recognizing the National 
        Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York;
           H.R. 6599, an Act to modify the application 
        of temporary limited appointment regulations to the 
        National Park Service, and for other purposes; and
           H.R. 6687, an Act to direct the Secretary of 
        the Interior to manage the Point Reyes National 
        Seashore in the State of California consistently with 
        Congress' long-standing intent to continue to authorize 
        working dairies and ranches on agricultural property as 
        part of the seashore's unique historic, cultural, 
        scenic and natural values, and for other purposes. S. 
        Hrg. 115-535.

                    Subcommittee on Water and Power

                     JEFF FLAKE, Arizona, Chairman

JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming               CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO, Nevada*
JAMES E. RISCH, Idaho                RON WYDEN, Oregon
MIKE LEE, Utah                       BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont
BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana              JOE MANCHIN III, West Virginia
ROB PORTMAN, Ohio                    TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois
SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West           TINA SMITH, Minnesota***
Virginia**
                               __________
*Appointed to Ranking Member on January 30, 2018. Senator King served 
as such on the Subcommittee until January 30, 2018.
**Appointed on January 30, 2018. Senator Strange served on the 
Subcommittee until January 3, 2018.
***Appointed January 30, 2018. Senator Franken served on the 
Subcommittee until January 3, 2018.

                              JURISDICTION

    The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee includes oversight and 
legislative responsibilities for: irrigation; reclamation 
projects, including related flood control purposes; power 
marketing administrations (e.g., Bonneville Power, Southwestern 
Power, Western Area Power, Southeastern Power); energy 
development impacts on water resources; groundwater resources 
and management; hydroelectric power; low head hydro; and energy 
related aspects of deepwater ports.

                                HEARINGS

    The Subcommittee on Water and Power held three legislative 
hearings and two oversight hearings.

June 14, 2017

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
legislation:
           S. 440, a bill to establish a procedure for 
        the conveyance of certain federal property around the 
        Dickinson Reservoir in the State of North Dakota;
           S. 677, a bill to authorize the Secretary of 
        the Interior to coordinate Federal and State permitting 
        processes related to the construction of new surface 
        water storage projects on lands under the jurisdiction 
        of the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of 
        Agriculture and to designate the Bureau of Reclamation 
        as the lead agency for permit processing, and for other 
        purposes;
           S. 685, a bill to authorize the Dry-Redwater 
        Regional Water Authority System and the Musselshell-
        Judith Rural Water System in the States of Montana and 
        North Dakota, and for other purposes;
           S. 930, a bill to require the Administrator 
        of the Western Area Power Administration to establish a 
        pilot project to provide increased transparency for 
        customers, and for other purposes;
           S. 1012, a bill to provide for drought 
        preparedness measures in the State of New Mexico, and 
        for other purposes;
           S. 1029, a bill to amend the Public Utility 
        Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to exempt certain small 
        hydroelectric power projects that are applying for 
        relicensing under the Federal Power Act from the 
        licensing requirements of that Act; and
           S. 1030, a bill to require the Federal 
        Energy Regulatory Commission to submit to Congress a 
        report on certain hydropower projects. S. Hrg. 115-38.

August 2, 2017

    Oversight hearing to examine increasing water security and 
drought preparedness through infrastructure, management and 
innovation. S. Hrg. 115-483.

January 17, 2018

    Oversight hearing to examine the Bureau of Reclamation's 
title transfer process and potential benefits to federal and 
non-federal stakeholders. S. Hrg. 115-496.

February 28, 2018

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
           S. 1142, a bill to extend the deadline for 
        commencement of construction of certain hydroelectric 
        projects;
           S. 1556, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to use designated funding to pay for 
        construction of authorized rural water projects, and 
        for other purposes;
           S. 2074, a bill to establish a procedure for 
        the conveyance of certain Federal property around the 
        Jamestown Reservoir in the State of North Dakota, and 
        for other purposes;
           S. 2166, a bill to maintain annual base 
        funding for the Upper Colorado and San Juan fish 
        recovery programs through fiscal year 2023, to require 
        a report on the implementation of those programs, and 
        for other purposes; and
           H.R. 2786, an Act to amend the Federal Power 
        Act with respect to the criteria and process to qualify 
        as a qualifying conduit hydropower facility. S. Hrg. 
        115-505.

June 13, 2018

    Legislative hearing to receive testimony on the followings 
bills:
           S. 3001, a bill to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to convey certain land and facilities 
        of the Central Valley Project;
           H.R. 132, an Act to authorize the Secretary 
        of the Interior to convey certain land and 
        appurtenances of the Arbuckle Project, Oklahoma, to the 
        Arbuckle Master Conservancy District, and for other 
        purposes; and
           H.R. 1967, an Act to amend the Reclamation 
        Project Act of 1939 to authorize pumped storage 
        hydropower development utilizing multiple Bureau of 
        Reclamation reservoirs. S. Hrg. 115-519.

                       MEASURES ENACTED INTO LAW

    Public Law 115-5 (H.J. Res. 38), a joint resolution 
disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the 
Interior known as the Stream Protection Rule. H.J. Res. 38 
passed the House by a roll call vote of 228-194 on February 1, 
2017. The Senate passed H.J. Res. 38 by a roll call vote of 54-
45 on February 2, 2017. The President approved the measure on 
February 16, 2017.
    Public Law 115-12 (H.J. Res. 44), a joint resolution 
disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the 
Interior relating to Bureau of Land Management regulations that 
establish the procedures used to prepare, revise, or amend land 
use plans pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act of 1976. H.J. Res. 44 passed the House by a roll call vote 
of 234-186 on February 7, 2017. The Senate passed H.J. Res. 44 
by a roll call vote of 51-48 on March 7, 2017. The President 
approved the measure on March 27, 2017.
    Public Law 115-18 (S.J. Res. 1), a joint resolution 
approving the location of a memorial to commemorate and honor 
the members of the Armed Forces who served on active duty in 
support of Operation Desert Storm or Operation Desert Shield. 
The Committee discharged the resolution by unanimous consent on 
March 8, 2017, without written report. The measure passed the 
Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous 
Consent on March 8, 2017 and the President approved the measure 
on March 31, 2017.
    Public Law 115-20 (H.J. Res. 69), a joint resolution 
disapproving of the rule submitted by the Department of the 
Interior under Chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, 
relating ``Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, and Public 
Participation and Closure Procedures, on National Wildlife 
Refuges in Alaska.'' H.J. Res. 69 passed the House by a roll 
call vote of 225-193 on February 16, 2017. The Senate passed 
H.J. Res. 69 by a roll call vote of 52-47 on March 21, 2017. 
The President approved the measure on April 3, 2017.
    Public Law 115-51 (H.R. 873), the Global War on Terrorism 
War Memorial Act, an act to authorize the Global War on Terror 
Memorial Foundation to establish the National Global War on 
Terrorism Memorial as a commemorative work in the District of 
Columbia. An identical measure, S. 926 was considered before 
the Subcommittee on National Parks at a legislative hearing on 
July 19, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-417. H.R. 873 passed the House on 
July 28, 2017 by voice vote and the Senate passed the act 
without an amendment by unanimous consent on August 4, 2017. 
The President approved the measure on August 18, 2017.
    Public Law 115-53 (H.R. 339), to amend Public Law 94-241 
with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands. The Committee 
discharged the measure by unanimous consent on August 1, 2017. 
The Senate passed H.R. 339 with an amendment by unanimous 
consent on August 1, 2017. On August 11, 2017, the House agreed 
to the Senate amendment, and the President approved the measure 
on August 22, 2017.
    Public Law 115-78 (S. 190), to provide for consideration of 
the extension under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 
nonapplication of No-Load Mode energy efficiency standards to 
certain security or life safety alarms or surveillance systems, 
and for other purposes. The Committee ordered the measure to be 
reported without amendment favorably on March 30, 2017. S. 
Rept. 115-76. The Senate passed S. 190 without amendment on 
August 1, 2017, by unanimous consent. S. 190 passed the House 
on October 11, 2017, by voice vote, and the President approved 
the measure on November 2, 2017.
    Public Law 115-97 (H.R. 1), to provide for reconciliation 
pursuant to Titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the 
budget for Fiscal Year 2018. The House passed H. Con. Res. 71 
on October 5, 2017, by a roll call vote of 219-206. The Senate 
passed H. Con. Res. 71 with an amendment by a roll call vote of 
51-49 on October 19, 2017. The House agreed to the Senate 
amendment by a roll call vote of 216-212 on October 26, 2017. 
Section 2001 of H. Con. Res. 71 instructed the Senate Energy 
and Natural Resources Committee to raise $1 billion in new 
revenue during Fiscal Years 2018-2027. Pursuant to its 
reconciliation instructions, the Committee ordered Title II of 
the measure to be reported with an amendment favorably on 
November 15, 2017. Title II provides for the establishment of 
an oil and gas leasing program in the 1002 Area of the Arctic 
National Wildlife Refuge; increases the annual limitation on 
offshore revenue sharing under section 105(f)(1) of the Gulf of 
Mexico Energy Security Act; and authorizes the Secretary of 
Energy to drawdown and sell five million barrels of crude oil 
from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during Fiscal Years 2026 
and 2027. (The Committee on the Budget printed the Committee's 
reconciliation recommendations pursuant to H. Con. Res. 71 in 
December 2017, S. Prt. 115-20.) The House passed H.R. 1 on a 
roll call vote of 227-205 on November 16, 2017. The Senate 
passed H.R. 1 with an amendment on a roll call vote of 51-49 on 
December 2, 2017. The Senate and House agreed to reconcile 
their differences in a conference committee and the conference 
report was filed on December 15, 2017. H. Rept. 115-466. The 
House passed the conference report on a roll call vote of 227-
203 on December 19, 2017. The Senate receded from its amendment 
and concurred with an amendment on a roll call vote of 51-48 on 
December 20, 2017. The House passed the Senate amendment by a 
roll call vote of 224-201 on December 20, 2017, and the 
President approved the measure on December 22, 2017.
    Public Law 115-101 (H.R. 560), to amend the Delaware Water 
Gap National Recreation Area Improvement Act to provide access 
to certain vehicles serving residents of municipalities 
adjacent to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. 
H.R. 560 passed the House by voice vote on January 30, 2017. 
The Committee ordered the measure to be reported without 
amendment on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-51. The Senate passed 
the H.R. 560 without amendment by voice vote on December 21, 
2017, and the President approved the measure on January 8, 
2018.
    Public Law 115-102 (H.R. 1242), to establish the 400 Years 
of African-American History Commission, and for other purposes. 
Similar legislation, S. 392 was considered before the Committee 
and ordered to be reported without amendment on March 30, 2017. 
H.R. 1242 passed the House as amended on May 1, 2017. The 
Senate passed the act without amendment by voice vote on 
December 21, 2017 and the President approved the measure on 
January 8, 2018.
    Public Law 115-103 (H.R. 1306), to provide for the 
conveyance of certain Federal land in the State of Oregon, and 
for other purposes. An identical measure, S. 508 was considered 
before the Committee and ordered to be reported without 
amendment on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-65. H.R. 1306 passed 
the House on July 11, 2017 by voice vote. It was received in 
the Senate and held at the desk on July 12, 2017, and 
subsequently passed the Senate without amendment by voice vote 
on December 27, 2017. The President approved the measure on 
January 8, 2018.
    Public Law 115-104 (H.R. 1927), to amend title 54, United 
States Code, to establish within the National Park Service the 
African American Civil Rights Network. The Committee discharged 
the measure by unanimous consent on December 21, 2017, without 
written report. The Senate passed H.R. 1927 without amendment 
by voice vote on September 21, 2017, and the President approved 
the measure on January 8, 2018.
    Public Law 115-108 (H.R. 267), to redesignate the Martin 
Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site in the State of 
Georgia. The Committee ordered the measure to be reported 
without amendment on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-49. H.R. 267 
passed the House on March 15, 2017, and the Senate passed the 
act without amendment on December 21, 2017, by voice vote. The 
President approved the measure on January 8, 2018.
    Public Law 115-109 (H.R. 381), to designate a mountain in 
the John Muir Wilderness of the Sierra National Forest as ``Sky 
Point.'' H.R. 381 passed the House by voice vote on January 30, 
2017. The Committee ordered the measure to be reported without 
amendment on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-111. The Senate 
passed H.R. 381 without amendment by voice vote on December 21, 
2017, and the President approved the measure on January 10, 
2018.
    Public Law 115-110 (H.R. 699), to amend the Omnibus Public 
Land Management Act of 2009 to modify provisions relating to 
certain land exchanges in the Mt. Hood Wilderness in the State 
of Oregon. H.R. 699 passed the House on February 27, 2017, by a 
roll call vote of 415-1. The Committee ordered the measure to 
be reported without amendment on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-
59. The Senate passed H.R. 699 without amendment by voice vote 
on December 21, 2017, and the President approved the measure on 
January 10, 2018.
    Public Law 115-111 (H.R. 863), to facilitate the addition 
of park administration at the Coltsville National Historical 
Park. H.R. 863 passed the House on February 27, 2017, by a roll 
call vote. The Committee ordered the measure to be reported 
without amendment on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-70. The 
Senate passed H.R. 863 without amendment by voice vote on 
December 21, 2017, and the President approved the measure on 
January 10, 2018.
    Public Law 115-115 (H.R. 518), to amend the Energy Policy 
and Conservation Act to exclude power supply circuits, drivers, 
and devices designed to be connected to, and power, light-
emitting diodes or organic light-emitting diodes providing 
illumination from energy conservation standards for external 
power supplies, and for other purposes. H.R. 518 passed the 
House on January 23, 2017, by voice vote. The Committee 
discharged the measure by unanimous consent on December 21, 
2017, without written report. The Senate passed H.R. 518 by 
voice vote on December 21, 2017, and the President approved the 
measure on January 12, 2018.
    Public Law 115-116 (H.R. 954), to remove the use 
restrictions on certain land transferred to Rockingham County, 
Virginia, and for other purposes. Furthermore, to eliminate the 
requirement that the county include information concerning the 
use of the transferred land for a child care center in biennial 
reports to the Department of the Interior. The Committee 
considered an identical measure, S. 331 which was ordered to be 
reported without amendment on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-39. 
H.R. 954 passed the House by voice vote on July 11, 2017 and 
subsequently by the Senate on December 21, 2017 by voice vote. 
The President approved the measure on January 12, 2018.
    Public Law 115-117 (H.R. 2611), to modify the boundary of 
the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, and 
for other purposes. The Committee considered S. 1202, similar 
legislation to H.R. 2611, at a hearing before the Subcommittee 
on National Parks on July 19, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-417. H.R. 2611 
passed the House by roll call vote of 390-0 on September 12, 
2017, and the Senate without amendment by voice vote on 
December 21, 2017. The President approved the measure on 
January 12, 2018.
    Public Law 115-122 (S. 117), to designate a mountain peak 
in the State of Montana as ``Alex Diekmann Peak.'' The 
Committee ordered the measure reported with an amendment on 
March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-94. The Senate passed S. 117 with 
an amendment on December 20, 2017, by unanimous consent. S. 117 
passed the House on January 16, 2018, by roll call vote of 400-
3, and the President approved the measure on January 31, 2018.
    Public Law 115-128 (S. 1438), to redesignate the Jefferson 
National Expansion Memorial in the State of Missouri as the 
``Gateway Arch National Park.'' The Subcommittee on National 
Parks held a hearing on S. 1438 on July 19, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-
417. The Committee discharged the measure by unanimous consent 
on December 21, 2017, without written report. The Senate passed 
S. 1438 without amendment by voice vote on December 21, 2017, 
and the House passed the bill by voice vote on February 7, 
2018. The President approved the measure on February 22, 2018.
    Public Law 115-161 (S. 2030), to deem the compliance date 
for amended energy conservation standards for ceiling fan light 
kits to be January 21, 2020, and for other purposes. The 
Subcommittee on Energy held a hearing on the measure on 
December 5, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-493. The Committee discharged S. 
2030 by unanimous consent on December 21, 2017, without written 
report. The Senate passed S. 2030 without amendment by 
unanimous consent on December 21, 2017, and the House passed 
the bill by voice vote on March 19, 2018. The President 
approved the measure on April 3, 2018.
    Public Law 115-163 (H.R. 4851), to establish the Kennedy-
King National Commemorative Site in the State of Indiana, and 
for other purposes. The Committee considered measure, S.2332, 
similar legislation to H.R. 4851. The House passed H.R. 4851 by 
a roll call vote of 391-0 on March 19, 2018. The Senate passed 
H.R. 4851 with an amendment on March 22, 2018, and the House 
agreed to the Senate amendment the same day. The President 
approved the measure on April 4, 2018.
    Public Law 115-169 (S. 167), to designate a National 
Memorial to Fallen Educators at the National Teachers Hall of 
Fame in Emporia, Kansas. The Committee ordered the measure to 
be reported with an amendment on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-
95. The Senate passed S. 167 with an amendment by voice vote on 
December 21, 2017, and the House passed the bill by roll call 
vote on April 16, 2018. The President approved the measure on 
April 30, 2018.
    Public Law 115-170 (H.R. 4300), to authorize Pacific 
Historic Parks to establish a commemorative display to honor 
members of the United States Armed Forces who served in the 
Pacific Theater of World War II. H.R. 4300 passed the House on 
December 7, 2017. The Committee ordered the measure to be 
reported without an amendment on March 8, 2018. S. Rept. 115-
216. The Senate passed H.R. 4300 by unanimous consent on April 
23, 2018, and the President approved the measure on May 7, 
2018.
    Public Law 115-175 (S. 35), to transfer administrative 
jurisdiction over certain Bureau of Land Management land from 
the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs for inclusion in the Black Hills National Cemetery. The 
Committee ordered the measure to be reported with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-
35. The Senate passed S. 35 by voice vote on December 21, 2017, 
and the House passed the bill by a roll call vote of 407-0 on 
May 16, 2018. The President approved the measure on May 25, 
2018.
    Public Law 115-186 (H.R. 1900), to designate the Veterans 
Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio, as the National Veterans 
Memorial and Museum. H.R. 1900 passed the House by voice vote 
on November 11, 2017. The Committee ordered the measure to be 
reported without an amendment on May 23, 2018. S. Rept. 115-
304. The Senate passed H.R. 1900 by voice vote on June 6, 2018, 
and the President approved the measure on June 21, 2018.
    Public Law 115-190 (H.R. 1397), to authorize, direct, 
facilitate, and expedite the transfer of administrative 
jurisdiction of certain Federal land. H.R. 1397 passed the 
House by a roll call vote of 406-0 on July 11, 2017. The 
Committee ordered the measure to be reported without an 
amendment on March 8, 2018. S. Rept. 115-257. The Senate passed 
H.R. 1397 by voice vote on May 6, 2018, and the President 
approved the measure on June 22, 2018.
    Public Law 115-191 (H.R. 1719), to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to acquire approximately 44 acres of land in 
Martinez, California, for inclusion in the John Muir National 
Historic Site, and for other purposes. The Committee considered 
S. 729, companion legislation to H.R. 1719. S. 729 was ordered 
to be reported without amendment by the Committee on March 30, 
2017. S. Rept. 115-47. H.R. 1719 passed the House as amended by 
roll call vote of 401-15 on July 11, 2017 and the Senate passed 
the measure by unanimous consent June 6, 2018. The President 
approved the measure on June 22, 2018.
    Public Law 115-200 (H.R. 219), to correct the Swan Lake 
hydroelectric project survey boundary and to provide for the 
conveyance of the remaining tract of land within the corrected 
survey boundary to the State of Alaska. The Committee 
considered S. 267, companion legislation to H.R. 219. S. 267 
was ordered to be reported without amendment by the Committee 
on June 8, 2017. S. Rept. 115-98. H.R. 219 passed the House by 
voice vote on February 6, 2018. The Senate passed H.R. 219 
without amendment by unanimous consent on June 28, 2018, and 
the President approved the measure on July 20, 2018. The 
measure was also included within H.R. 5895, the Energy and 
Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019, as passed by the 
Senate on June 25, 2018.
    Public Law 115-201 (H.R. 220), to authorize the expansion 
of an existing hydroelectric project, and for other purposes 
(the Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project in Alaska). The 
Committee considered S. 214, companion legislation to H.R. 220. 
S. 215 was ordered to be reported without amendment by the 
Committee on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-105. On June 27, 
2017, the House passed H.R. 220 as amended by voice vote. The 
Senate passed H.R. 220 without amendment by unanimous consent 
on June 28, 2018, and the President approved the measure on 
July 20, 2018. The measure was also included within H.R. 5895, 
the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military 
Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019, as 
passed by the Senate on June 25, 2018.
    Public Law 115-202 (H.R. 446), to extend the deadline for 
commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project (the 
Gathright Hydroelectric Project in Virginia). The Committee 
considered S. 730, companion legislation to H.R. 446. S. 730 
was ordered to be reported without amendment by the Committee 
on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-82. On June 12, 2017, the House 
passed H.R. 446 without amendment by voice vote. The Senate 
passed H.R. 446 without amendment by unanimous consent on June 
28, 2018, and the President approved the measure on July 23, 
2018. The measure was also included within H.R. 5895, the 
Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction 
and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019, as passed by the 
Senate on June 25, 2018.
    Public Law 115-203 (H.R. 447), to extend the deadline for 
commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project (the 
Flannagan Dam and Reservoir Hydroelectric Project in Virginia). 
The Committee considered S. 730, companion legislation to H.R. 
447. S. 730 was ordered to be reported without amendment by the 
Committee on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-82. H.R. 447 passed 
the House without amendment by voice vote on June 12, 2017. The 
Senate passed H.R. 447 without amendment by unanimous consent 
on June 28, 2018, and the President approved the measure on 
July 23, 2018. The measure was also included within H.R. 5895, 
the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military 
Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019, as 
passed by the Senate on June 25, 2018.
    Public Law 115-204 (H.R. 951), to extend the deadline for 
commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project (the W. 
Kerr Scott Hydropower Project in North Carolina). The Committee 
considered S. 723, companion legislation to H.R. 951. S. 723 
was ordered to be reported with an amendment by the Committee 
on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-80. On June 12, 2017, the House 
passed H.R. 951 by voice vote. The Senate passed H.R. 951 
without amendment by unanimous consent on June 28, 2018, and 
the President approved the measure on July 23, 2018. The 
measure was also included within H.R. 5895, the Energy and 
Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019, as passed by the 
Senate on June 25, 2018.
    Public Law 115-205 (H.R. 2122), to reinstate and extend the 
deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric 
project involving Jennings Randolph Dam. The Committee 
considered S. 710, companion legislation to H.R. 2122. S. 710 
was ordered to be reported with an amendment by the Committee 
on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-103. H.R. 2122 passed the House 
by voice vote on June 12, 2017. The Senate passed H.R. 2122 
without amendment by unanimous consent on June 28, 2018, and 
the President approved the measure on July 23, 2018. The 
measure was also included within H.R. 5895, the Energy and 
Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and 
Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019, as passed by the 
Senate on June 25, 2018.
    Public Law 115-206 (H.R. 2292), to extend a project of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission involving the Cannonsville 
Dam. The Committee considered S. 734, companion legislation to 
H.R. 2292. S. 734 was ordered to be reported with an amendment 
on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-83. H.R. 2292 passed the House 
by a roll call vote of 400-1 on June 12, 2017. The Senate 
passed H.R. 2292 without amendment by unanimous consent on June 
28, 2018, and the President approved the measure on July 23, 
2018. The measure was also included within H.R. 5895, the 
Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction 
and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019, as passed by the 
Senate on June 25, 2018.
    Public Law 115-219 (S. 490), to reinstate and extend the 
deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric 
project involving the Gibson Dam. The Committee ordered the 
measure to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute on June 8, 2017. S. Rept. 115-100. The Senate passed 
S. 490 with an amendment by unanimous consent on June 28, 2018, 
and the House passed the bill by voice vote on July 16, 2018. 
The President approved the measure on July 27, 2018.
    Public Law 115-229 (H.R. 4645), to amend the Wild and 
Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the East 
Rosebud Creek in Carbon County, Montana, as components of the 
Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Similar legislation, S. 501 was 
considered by the Committee and was ordered to be reported 
without amendment favorably on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-42. 
The Senate passed S. 502 without amendment by unanimous consent 
on December 20, 2017. H.R. 4645 passed the House by voice vote 
on July 17, 2018 and was subsequently passed by the Senate on 
July 25, 2018. The President approved the measure on August 2, 
2018.
    Public Law 115-246 (H.R. 589), to establish Department of 
Energy policy for science and energy research and development 
programs, and reform National Laboratory management and 
technology transfer programs, and for other purposes. H.R. 589 
passed the House by voice vote on January 24, 2017. The 
Committee ordered the measure to be reported without amendment 
favorably on March 8, 2018. S. Rept. 115-242. The Senate passed 
H.R. 589 with an amendment by voice vote on July 23, 2018, and 
the President approved the measure on September 28, 2018.
    Public Law 115-247 (H.R. 1109), to amend section 203 of the 
Federal Power Act to set a $10 million threshold on mergers and 
consolidations by public utilities that require Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission approval. H.R. 1109 passed the House by 
voice vote on June 12, 2017. The Subcommittee on Energy held a 
hearing on H.R. 1109 on October 3, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-318. The 
Committee ordered the measure to be reported with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute on March 8, 2018. S. Rept. 115-
253. H.R. 1109 passed the Senate with an amendment by voice 
vote on May 21, 2018, the House passed the Act with an 
amendment by unanimous consent on September 13, 2018. The 
President approved the measure on September 28, 2018.
    Public Law 115-248 (S. 97), to enable civilian research and 
development of advanced nuclear energy technologies by private 
and public institutions, to expand theoretical and practical 
knowledge of nuclear physics, chemistry, and materials science, 
and for other purposes. The Committee ordered the measure to be 
reported without amendment on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-115. 
The Senate passed S. 97 with amendments by voice vote on March 
7, 2018, and the House approved the bill by voice vote on 
September 13, 2018. The President approved the measure on 
September 28, 2018.
    Public Law 115-252 (H.R. 698), to require a land conveyance 
involving the Elkhorn Ranch and the White River National Forest 
in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes. H.R. 698 
passed the House by voice vote on February 6, 2017. The 
Committee ordered the measure to be reported without an 
amendment on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-69. The Senate passed 
H.R. 698 without amendment by unanimous consent on September 
18, 2018, and the President approved the measure on October 3, 
2018.
    Public Law 115-255 (H.R. 46), to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to conduct a special resource study of Fort 
Ontario in the State of New York. The Committee ordered the 
measure to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-110. The Senate 
passed H.R. 46 with an amendment by voice vote on September 18, 
2018 and the House passed the act by unanimous consent on 
September 25, 2018. The President approved the measure on 
October 9, 2018.
    Public Law 115-275 (H.R. 1037), to authorize the National 
Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish a 
commemorative work in the District of Columbia and its 
environs, and for other purposes. The Committee reported the 
bill (S. 1692) without amendment on March 8, 2018. The bill 
passed the House by a roll call vote of 414-0 on July 18, 2018, 
and passed the Senate without amendment by unanimous consent on 
October 11, 2018. The President approved the measure on 
November 3, 2018.
    Public Law 115-279 (H.R. 2615), to authorize the exchange 
of certain land located in Gulf Islands National Seashore, 
Jackson County, Mississippi, between the National Park Service 
and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and for other purposes. The 
Subcommittee on National Parks held a hearing on H.R. 2615 on 
February 14, 2018. The Committee ordered the measure to be 
reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute on 
March 8, 2018. S. Rept. 115-228. The Senate passed H.R. 2615 
with an amendment by voice vote on October 11, 2018, and the 
House passed the act by roll call vote of 375-1 on November 13, 
2018. The President approved the measure on November 20, 2018.
    Public Law 115-306 (S. 440), a bill to establish a 
procedure for the conveyance of certain Federal property around 
the Dickinson reservoir in the State of North Dakota. The 
Subcommittee on Water and Power held a hearing on S. 440 on 
June 14, 2017. S. Hrg. 115-38. The Committee ordered the 
measure to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute on May 17, 2018. S. Rept. 115-313. The Senate passed 
S. 440 by unanimous consent on October 4, 2018. The House 
passed S. 440 with an amendment by voice vote on November 13, 
2018, and the Senate agreed to the House amendment by unanimous 
consent on November 27, 2018. The President approved the 
measure on December 11, 2018.
    Public Law 115-308 (S. 2074), a bill to establish a 
procedure for the conveyance of certain Federal property around 
the Jamestown Reservoir in the State of North Dakota, and for 
other purposes. The Subcommittee on Water and Power held a 
hearing on S. 2074 on February 28, 2018. S. Hrg. 115-505. The 
Committee ordered the measure to be reported with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute on May 17, 2018. S. Rept. 115-
315. The Senate passed S. 2074 by unanimous consent on October 
4, 2018. The House passed S. 2074 with an amendment by voice 
vote on November 13, 2018, and the Senate agreed to the House 
amendment by unanimous consent on November 27, 2018. The 
President approved the measure on December 11, 2018.
    Public Law 115-345 (H.R. 1733), to direct the Secretary of 
Energy to review and update a report on the energy and 
environmental benefits of the re-refining of used lubricating 
oil. H.R. 1733 passed the House by voice vote on December 12, 
2017. The Committee discharged H.R. 1733 by unanimous consent 
on December 20, 2018, without written report, and the Senate 
passed the measure without an amendment by unanimous consent on 
December 20, 2018. The President approved the measure on 
December 21, 2018.
    Public Law 115-429 (H.R. 4689), to authorize early 
repayment of obligations to the Bureau of Reclamation within 
the Northport Irrigation District in the State of Nebraska. The 
House passed H.R. 4689 by a roll call vote on September 12, 
2018. The Committee discharged the measure by unanimous consent 
on December 22, 2018, without written report. The Senate passed 
H.R. 4689 without amendment by unanimous consent on December 
22, 2018, and the President approved the measure on January 10, 
2019.
    Public Law 115-431 (H.R. 6602), to reauthorize the New 
Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route. The Senate considered S. 
3291, companion legislation to H.R. 6602, at a hearing before 
the Subcommittee on National Parks on December 12, 2018. H.R. 
6602 passed the House on December 20, 2018 by a roll call vote 
of 382-9. It passed the Senate without amendment by voice vote 
on December 22, 2018. The President approved the measure on 
January 10, 2019.
    In addition, six public laws not specifically under the 
jurisdiction of the Committee incorporated provisions that were 
jurisdictional to the Committee.
    Public Law 115-31 (H.R. 244), the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2017. Section 431 of Division G of Public 
Law 115-131, the Department of the Interior, Environment and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, incorporated by reference 
S. 131, the Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Exchange. The 
Committee ordered S. 131 to be reported with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute on March 30, 2017. S. Rept. 115-117. 
H.R. 244 passed the House on May 3, 2017 by roll call vote of 
309-118. The Senate passed H.R. 244 on May 4, 2017 on a roll 
call vote of 79-18, and the President approved the measure on 
May 5, 2017.
    Public Law 115-141 (H.R. 1625), the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act of 2018. The bill passed the House by a roll 
call vote of 256-167 on March 22, 2018, and passed the Senate 
on a roll call vote of 65-32 on March 23, 2018. The President 
approved the measure on March 23, 2018.
    Division G of Public Law 115-141, the Department of the 
Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
contained five separate measures considered by Committee. These 
measures include:
           Section 116 includes S. 213, to designate 
        the wilderness within the Lake Clark National Park and 
        Preserve in the State of Alaska as the Jay S. Hammond 
        Wilderness Area. The Committee ordered S. 213 reported 
        without amendment on March 30, 2017; S. Rept. 115-108.
           Section 121(a) incorporates by reference 
        section 7130 of S. 1460, the Energy and Natural 
        Resources Act, to authorize the modification of the 
        Second Division Memorial; the language was identical to 
        S. 907.
           Section 121(a) incorporates by reference 
        section 7134 of S. 1460, the Energy and Natural 
        Resources Act, to establish the Ste. Genevieve National 
        Historic Site in the State of Missouri; the language 
        was identical to S. 1335. The Committee ordered S. 1335 
        reported without amendment on March 8, 2018; S. Rept. 
        115-233.
           Section 121(b) incorporates by reference 
        H.R. 1281, a bill to extend the authorization of the 
        Highlands Conservation Act, as introduced in the 115th 
        Congress.
           Section 121(b) incorporates by reference 
        H.R. 4134, the Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness 
        Redesignation Act, as introduced in the 115th Congress.
    Division O of Public Law 115-141, the Wildfire Suppression 
Funding and Forest Management Activities Act, contained two 
separate measures considered by Committee. These measures 
include:
           Section 204 addresses cancellation ceilings 
        for stewardship end result contracting projects. A 
        similar provision was included in S. 485, the 
        Stewardship End Result Contracting Improvement Act, and 
        incorporated into the discussion draft titled 
        ``Wildfire Budgeting, Response and Forest Management 
        Act.'' The Committee held a hearing on the discussion 
        draft on June 23, 2016.
           Section 211 addresses vegetation management, 
        facility inspection, and operation and maintenance 
        relating to electric transmission and distribution 
        facility rights of way. A similar provision was 
        contained in section 2310 of S. 1460, the Energy and 
        Natural Resources Act. S. 1460 was introduced on June 
        28, 2017 and placed on the Senate calendar. The 
        Committee held a hearing on section 2310 of S. 1460, 
        and a similar measure, H.R. 1873, the Electricity 
        Reliability and Forest Protection Act, on September 19, 
        2017.
    Public Law 115-244 (H.R. 5895), the Energy and Water, 
Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans 
Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019. Section 205 of the bill is 
similar to S. 2539, a bill to amend the Energy and Water 
Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015, to 
reauthorize certain projects to increase Colorado River System 
water, which received a subcommittee hearing on March 22, 2018. 
Section 206, to extend the authorization for the Fort Peck 
Rural Water System, is also within the Committee's 
jurisdiction. H.R. 5895 passed the House of Representatives on 
June 8, 2018. The Senate passed the bill, with an amendment, on 
June 25, 2018. A Conference Report was filed on September 10, 
2018. H. Rept. 115-929. The Senate agreed to the Conference 
Report on September 12, 2018, and the House agreed to the 
Conference Report on September 13, 2018. The President approved 
the measure on September 21, 2018.
    Public Law 115-270 (S. 3021), the America's Water 
Infrastructure Act of 2018, to provide for improvements to the 
rivers and harbors of the United States, to provide for the 
conservation and development of water and related resources, to 
provide for water pollution control activities, and for other 
purposes. This bill contains several provisions considered 
before the Committee in legislation relating to energy and 
natural resources management. These measures include: H.R. 648/
S. 199, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to amend the 
Definite Plan Report for the Seedskadee Project to enable the 
use of the active capacity of the Fontenelle Reservoir; H.R. 
2457/S. 1142, to extend the deadline for commencement of 
construction of certain hydroelectric projects in Louisiana; 
H.R. 2872, to amend the Federal Power Act to promote hydropower 
development at existing nonpowered dams, and for other 
purposes; H.R. 2880, to amend the Federal Power Act to promote 
close-loop pumped storage hydropower, and for other purposes; 
S. 186, to amend the Federal Power Act to provide that any 
inaction by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that 
allows a rate change to go into effect shall be treated as an 
order by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for purposes 
of rehearing and court review; S. 215, to authorize the Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission to issue an order continuing a 
stay of a hydroelectric license for the Mahoney Lake 
hydroelectric project in the State of Alaska, and for other 
purposes; and S. 724, to amend the Federal Power Act to 
modernize authorizations for necessary hydropower approvals. 
Also, section 9301 of S. 1460, the Energy and Natural Resources 
Act, dealing with the Klamath Water Project, is similar to 
section 4308 of Public Law 115-270. S. 3021 passed the House on 
September 13, 2018. This Act passed the Senate with House 
amendments on October 10, 2018 by a roll call vote of 99-1. The 
President approved the measure on October 23, 2018.
    Public Law 115-307 (S. 1768), to reauthorize and amend the 
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, and for other 
purposes. The Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation ordered the bill to be favorably reported with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute on December 13, 
2017. S. Rept. 115-336. This bill passed the Senate on 
September 27, 2018, and passed the House by voice vote on 
November 27, 2018. The President approved the measure on 
December 11, 2018.
    Public Law 115-334 (H.R. 2), the Agriculture Improvement 
Act of 2018, to provide for the reform and continuation of 
agricultural and other programs of the Department of 
Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes. 
This measure contains provisions reauthorizing programs of the 
United States Department of Agriculture such as the Forest 
Service that fall under the jurisdiction of the Committee. A 
conference report was filed December 10, 2018. Subsequently the 
Senate passed the measure by a roll call vote of 87-13 on 
December 11, 2018, and the House passed the Act on December 12, 
2018 by a roll call vote of 360-47. The President approved the 
measure on December 20, 2018.

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