TO: The Honorable Neil Kornze
FROM: Rob Bishop, Chairman House Committee on Natural Resources
Dear Director Konze:
I write to strongly encourage the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to revise, and re-open comments on, the "Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Previously Issued Oil and Gas Leases in White River National Forest, Colorado" (WRNF DEIS). Since the WRNF DEIS comment… Read more »
Today, the U.S. Senate passed S. 2328, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), with a bipartisan vote of 68-30. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement:
“With a decade-long recession, worsening humanitarian conditions, a mass exodus of its residents and a looming financial collapse, Puerto Rico is in dire straits. Inaction by Congress… Read more »
Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on 19 bills including H.R. 4582 (Rep. Jeff Denham), the “Save Our Salmon Act,” which will exclude striped bass from the fish doubling requirement and other provisions of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA). H.R. 4582 passed as part of a broader unanimous consent package.
“This is bipartisan and… Read more »
Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on 19 bills including a trio of bills to comprehensively address the existing funding, technical and legal impediments to abandoned mine cleanup. These mining reclamation bills passed in a larger unanimous consent package.
Click here to view a summary of the package which includes: H.R. 3734, the Mining Schools Enhancement Act… Read more »
Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on 19 bills including two forest management bills—Rep. Raul Labrador’s (R-ID) Self-Sufficient Community Lands Act (H.R. 2316) and Rep. Don Young’s (R-AK) State National Forest Management Act of 2015 (H.R. 3650). H.R. 2316 passed by a vote of 25-13 and H.R. 3650 passed by a vote of 23-15.
H.R. 2316 allows states to… Read more »
Today, the House passed H.R. 5278, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), with a bipartisan vote of 297-127.
“Today the House acted to prevent Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis from escalating to a humanitarian catastrophe. This legislation provides Puerto Rico with tools to impose discipline over its finances, meet its borrowing obligations and build a new… Read more »
Federal Lands Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R-CA) issued the following statement on a report released from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s (FWS) management of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, located northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.
“Americans were assured that this refuge would maintain the historical significance of… Read more »
Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) spent the day touring the United States' highest grossing commercial fishing port in New Bedford, Massachusetts and meeting with Mayor Jonathan Mitchell, Rep. Bill Keating (D-MA) and local fishing leaders.
June 1, 2016 marks the one-year anniversary of the House passage of H.R. 1335, legislation reauthorizing… Read more »
Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held an oversight hearing on “Elevating Local Voices and Promoting Transparency for a Potential Monument Designation in Maine.”
The potential monument designation (“Maine North Woods") lacks support from local residents because it will limit recreational opportunities and potentially harm future and existing economic development.
Committee… Read more »
The House Committee on Natural Resources today passed H.R. 5278, the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, with a bipartisan vote of 29-10. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement:
“Congress has a moral and constitutional responsibility to address the growing crisis in Puerto Rico. The legislation we passed today through Committee provides… Read more »
