The Committee on Natural Resources met in open session on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, and reconvened on Wednesday, October 4, 2017, to consider the following bills:

H.R. 210 (Rep. Don Young of AK), To facilitate the development of energy on Indian lands by reducing Federal regulations that impede tribal development of Indian lands, and for other purposes. “Native American Energy Act”

The Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs and Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources were discharged from further consideration of H.R. 210 by unanimous consent.

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• An Amendment offered by Mr. Young of Alaska (#1), was agreed to by voice vote.

H.R. 210, as amended, was adopted and favorably reported to the House of Representatives by a roll call vote of 25 yeas and 15 nays.

H.R. 424 (Rep. Collin Peterson), To direct the Secretary of the Interior to reissue final rules relating to listing of the gray wolf in the Western Great Lakes and Wyoming under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and for other purposes. “Gray Wolf State Management Act of 2017”

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H.R. 424 was adopted and favorably reported to the House of Representatives by a roll call vote of 24 yeas and 15 nays.

H.R. 717 (Rep. Pete Olson), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require review of the economic cost of adding a species to the list of endangered species or threatened species, and for other purposes. “Listing Reform Act”

•  ­­­An Amendment offered by Mr. Graves (063), was offered and withdrawn.

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H.R. 717 was adopted and favorably reported to the House of Representatives by a roll call vote of 22 yeas and 13 nays.

H.R. 1274 (Rep. Dan Newhouse), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to require making available to States affected by determinations that species are endangered species or threatened species all data that is the basis of such determinations, and for other purposes. “State, Tribal, and Local Species Transparency and Recovery Act”

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• ­­­ An Amendment offered by Mr. McClintock (046), was adopted by voice vote.

H.R. 1274, as amended, was adopted and favorably reported to the House of Representatives by a roll call vote of 22 yeas and 14 nays.

H.R. 1488 (Rep. Peter Visclosky), To retitle Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as Indiana Dunes National Park, and for other purposes.  "The Indiana Dunes National Park Act"

The Subcommittee on Federal Lands was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 1488 by unanimous consent.

• ­­­ An Amendment offered by Mr. Bishop of Utah (#1), was adopted by voice vote.

H.R. 1488, as amended, was adopted and favorably reported to the House of Representatives by voice vote.

H.R. 2600 (Rep. David Young of IA), To provide for the conveyance to the State of Iowa of the reversionary interest held by the United States in certain land in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and for other purposes.  

The Subcommittee on Federal Lands was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2600 by unanimous consent.

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• ­­­ An Amendment offered by Mr. Bishop of Utah (#1), was adopted by voice vote.

H.R. 2600, as amended, was adopted and favorably reported to the House of Representatives by voice vote.

H.R. 2603 (Rep. Louie Gohmert), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that nonnative species in the United States shall not be treated as endangered species or threatened species for purposes of that Act. “Saving America’s Endangered Species Act”­­­

• ­­­ An Amendment offered by Mr. Gohmert (#1), was adopted by voice vote.

H.R. 2603, as amended, was adopted and favorably reported to the House of Representatives by a roll call vote of 23 yeas and 16 nays.

H.R. 2897 (Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton), 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.

The Subcommittee on Federal Lands was discharged from further consideration of H.R. 2897 by unanimous consent.

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H.R. 2897 was adopted and favorably reported to the House of Representatives by voice vote.

H.R. 3131 (Rep. Bill Huizenga), To amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to conform citizen suits under that Act with other existing law, and for other purposes. “Endangered Species Litigation Reasonableness Act”

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H.R. 3131 was adopted and favorably reported to the House of Representatives by a roll call vote of 22 yeas and 16 nays.