On Monday, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) will visit Lake Powell, a reservoir on the Colorado River that straddles the borders of Utah and Arizona, in the aftermath of the EPA-triggered toxic spill into the Animas River. This lake and the Glen Canyon Dam that supports it are expected to be impacted by the dangerously high levels of lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium and mercury spreading from… Read more »
TO: The Honorable Gene L. Dodaro
FROM: Rob Bishop, Chairman
Dear Comptroller Dodaro:
The National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA") of 1969 and its implementing regulations strongly emphasize interagency cooperation in order to incorporate valuable expertise and streamline the environmental review process.
Read the Chairman's entire letter here. Read more »
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a hearing to review a report published yesterday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that found the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is chronically mismanaging its bonding program for renewable energy projects.
The report found that BLM systems for tracking bonds are unreliable and inconsistent; BLM does not… Read more »
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations made the following opening statement at today's oversight hearing entitled "State Perspectives on the Status of Cooperating Agencies for the Office of Surface Mining's Stream Protection Rule."
Remarks as prepared - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is meeting today to hear… Read more »
TO: Neil Kornze
FROM: The Honorable Rob Bishop, Chairman
Dear Director Kornze,
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations ("Subcommittee") recently learned that a number of reclamation bonds for renewable energy projects on federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management's ("BLM") Rawlins Field Office were removed from a safe and shredded. The wrongful destruction of these… Read more »
Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing titled “Zero Accountability: The Consequences of Politically Driven Science,” during which the subcommittee heard witness testimony on the use of selective science by federal agencies and its impacts on the health, safety and livelihoods of Americans.
Subcommittee Chairman Louie Gohmert (R-TX)… Read more »
Chairman Louie Gohmert (TX-01) of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations made the following opening statement at today's oversight hearing entitled "Zero Accountability: The Consequences of Politically Driven Science."
Remarks as prepared - This is the first meeting of the newly established subcommittee on oversight and investigations. First, I’d like to thank… Read more »
Congressional Research Service
BY: Carol Hardy Vincent, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy
DATE: April 21, 2015
Each of the four major federal land management agencies maintains tens of thousands of diverse assets, including roads, bridges, buildings, and water management structures. These agencies are the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service… Read more »
TO: The Honorable Rob Bishop, Chairman
FROM: Dan Ashe, Director
Dear Chairman Bishop,
Thank you for your letter of April 2, 2015, regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent proposals of two rules implementing the Clean Air Act. As discussed at the March 19,20 15, joint hearing before the Subcommittees on Water,Power, Oceans and Federal Lands, EPA has… Read more »
