National Forest Bill Summary & Status for the 108th Congress - 2003-2004


161 items introduced after 01/01/2003

Senate Bills


House Bills: 2003
(2004)

1. H.RES.239 : Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1904) to improve the capacity of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to plan and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands aimed at protecting communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk lands from catastrophic wildfire, to enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health, including catastrophic wildfire, across the landscape, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Hastings, Doc [WA-4] (introduced 5/19/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Rules
Latest Major Action: 5/20/2003 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 234 - 179 (Roll no. 195).


2. H.RES.457 : Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 1904) to improve the capacity of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to plan and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on National Forest System Lands and Bureau of Land Management lands aimed at protecting communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk lands from catastrophic wildfire, to enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health, including catastrophic wildfire, across the landscape, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Hastings, Doc [WA-4] (introduced 11/20/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Rules
Latest Major Action: 11/21/2003 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to by voice vote.


3. H.J.RES.2 : Joint Resolution making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Young, C. W. Bill [FL-10] (introduced 1/7/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Appropriations
Latest Major Action: 2/20/2003 Became Public Law No: 108-7.
Note: Consolidated Appropriations Resolution FY2003 [Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-State, District of Columbia, Energy and Water Development, Foreign Operations, Interior, Labor-HHS-Education, Legislative Branch, Transportation, Treasury-Postal Service, VA-HUD]. Conference report printed in the Congressional Record, pages H707-1276 [text & joint explanatory statement]. Comparative statement of new budget (obligational) authority at pages H560-658. Use PDF links for inserted tables. Original 107th Congress bill numbers are listed in the THOMAS FY2003 appropriations bills list.


4. H.R.6 : To enhance energy conservation and research and development, to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Tauzin, W. J. (Billy) [LA-3] (introduced 4/7/2003)      Cosponsors: 4
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Science; House Ways and Means; House Resources; House Education and the Workforce; House Transportation and Infrastructure; House Financial Services; House Agriculture; House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 11/18/2003 Conference report agreed to in House. Status: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 246 - 180 (Roll No. 630).


5. H.R.67 : To provide temporary legal exemptions for certain land management activities of the Federal land management agencies undertaken in federally declared disaster areas.
Sponsor: Rep Flake, Jeff [AZ-6] (introduced 1/7/2003)      Cosponsors: 3
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 2/12/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans.


6. H.R.74 : To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land in the lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Nevada, to the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for the Washoe Indian Tribe of Nevada and California.
Sponsor: Rep Gibbons, Jim [NV-2] (introduced 1/7/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 8/1/2003 Became Public Law No: 108-67.


7. H.R.108 : To amend the Education Land Grant Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to pay the costs of environmental reviews with respect to conveyances under that Act.
Sponsor: Rep Hayworth, J. D. [AZ-5] (introduced 1/7/2003)      Cosponsors: 4
Committees: House Resources; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/9/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.


8. H.R.222 : To establish the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area in the Cibola National Forest, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Wilson, Heather [NM-1] (introduced 1/7/2003)      Cosponsors: 2
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/12/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.


9. H.R.265 : To provide for an adjustment of the boundaries of Mount Rainier National Park, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Dunn, Jennifer [WA-8] (introduced 1/8/2003)      Cosponsors: 6
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 10/29/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.


10. H.R.272 : To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land to Lander County, Nevada, and the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to Eureka County, Nevada, for continued use as cemeteries.
Sponsor: Rep Gibbons, Jim [NV-2] (introduced 1/8/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/10/2004 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held.


11. H.R.379 : To facilitate a Forest Service land exchange that will eliminate a private in-holding in the Sierra National Forest in the State of California and provide for the permanent enjoyment by the Boy Scouts of America of a parcel of National Forest System land currently used under a special use permit, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Radanovich, George P. [CA-19] (introduced 1/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 2
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/12/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


12. H.R.387 : To authorize the Regional Foresters to exempt tree-thinning projects, which are necessary to prevent the occurrence of wildfire likely to cause extreme harm to the forest ecosystem, from laws that give rise to legal causes of action that delay or prevent such projects.
Sponsor: Rep Shadegg, John B. [AZ-3] (introduced 1/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/12/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


13. H.R.420 : To establish a user fee system that provides for an equitable return to the Federal Government for the occupancy and use of National Forest System lands and facilities by organizational camps that serve the youth and disabled adults of America, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Kolbe, Jim [AZ-8] (introduced 1/28/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/12/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
Note: H.R. 420, the National Forest Organizational Camp Fee Improvement Act, was enacted as Division F, Title V of H.J.Res. 2, FY2003 Consolidated Appropriations (Public Law 108-7).


14. H.R.460 : To establish Institutes to conduct research on the prevention of, and restoration from, wildfires in forest and woodland ecosystems of the interior West.
Sponsor: Rep Hayworth, J. D. [AZ-5] (introduced 1/29/2003)      Cosponsors: 9
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 2/13/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


15. H.R.482 : To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain land in the State of Florida, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Miller, Jeff [FL-1] (introduced 1/29/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 6/6/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
Note: For further action, see S. 117, which became Public Law 108-152 on 12/3/2003.


16. H.R.622 : To provide for the exchange of certain lands in the Coconino and Tonto National Forests in Arizona, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1] (introduced 2/5/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Resources; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 12/19/2003 Became Public Law No: 108-190.


17. H.R.652 : To assure that the American people have large areas of land in healthy natural condition throughout the country to maximize wildland recreational opportunities for people, maximize habitat protection for native wildlife and natural plant communities, and to contribute to a preservation of water for use by downstream metropolitan communities and other users, through the establishment of a National Forest Ecosystem Protection Program composed of lands within existing wilderness areas and adjacent primitive areas, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Andrews, Robert E. [NJ-1] (introduced 2/7/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/13/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture.


18. H.R.708 : To require the conveyance of certain National Forest System lands in Mendocino National Forest, California, to provide for the use of the proceeds from such conveyance for National Forest purposes, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Mike [CA-1] (introduced 2/11/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/9/2004 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 452.


19. H.R.750 : To provide for a study of options for protecting the open space characteristics of certain lands in and adjacent to the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in Colorado, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Udall, Mark [CO-2] (introduced 2/12/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/19/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


20. H.R.751 : To authorize increased fines for improper use of vehicles that results in damage to public lands or national forests, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Udall, Mark [CO-2] (introduced 2/12/2003)      Cosponsors: 2
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture; House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 5/5/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.


21. H.R.752 : To prohibit oil and gas drilling in Finger Lakes National Forest in New York.
Sponsor: Rep Walsh, James T. [NY-25] (introduced 2/12/2003)      Cosponsors: 38
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/21/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.


22. H.R.762 : To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and the Mineral Leasing Act to clarify the method by which the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture determine the fair market value of certain rights-of-way granted, issued, or renewed under these Acts.
Sponsor: Rep Cubin, Barbara [WY] (introduced 2/13/2003)      Cosponsors: 6
Committees: House Resources; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 6/12/2003 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held.


23. H.R.822 : To enhance ecosystem protection and the range of outdoor opportunities protected by law in the Skykomish River valley of the State of Washington by designating certain lower-elevation Federal lands as wilderness, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Larsen, Rick [WA-2] (introduced 2/13/2003)      Cosponsors: 17
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/24/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


24. H.R.834 : To respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines in the United States, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Ose, Doug [CA-3] (introduced 2/13/2003)      Cosponsors: 123
Committees: House Energy and Commerce; House Agriculture; House Resources; House Transportation and Infrastructure; House Education and the Workforce; House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 3/10/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.


25. H.R.835 : To provide for enhanced collaborative forest stewardship management within the Clearwater and Nez Perce National Forests in Idaho, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Otter, C. L. (Butch) [ID-1] (introduced 2/13/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 3/3/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


26. H.R.849 : To authorize the Regional Foresters to exempt tree-thinning projects, which are necessary to prevent the occurrence of wildfire likely to cause extreme harm to the forest ecosystem, from laws that give rise to legal causes of action that delay or prevent such projects.
Sponsor: Rep Shadegg, John B. [AZ-3] (introduced 2/13/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/24/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


27. H.R.902 : To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain parcels of National Forest System land in the State of Idaho, to use the proceeds for the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of facilities in the Panhandle National Forest in the State of Idaho, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Otter, C. L. (Butch) [ID-1] (introduced 2/25/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/11/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


28. H.R.903 : To provide for the conveyance by the Secretary of Agriculture of the Sandpoint Federal Building and adjacent land in Sandpoint, Idaho, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Otter, C. L. (Butch) [ID-1] (introduced 2/25/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Transportation and Infrastructure; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/28/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


29. H.R.950 : To expand Alaska Native contracting of Federal land management functions and activities and to promote hiring of Alaska Natives by the Federal Government within the State of Alaska, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Young, Don [AK] (introduced 2/26/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/26/2003 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.


30. H.R.977 : To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide death and disability benefits for aerial firefighters who work on a contract basis for the Forest Service or an agency of the Department of the Interior and suffer death or disability in the line of duty, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Cubin, Barbara [WY] (introduced 2/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 39
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture; House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 5/5/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.


31. H.R.979 : To provide additional protections for National Forest System lands in Alaska through the designation of wilderness areas, wilderness study areas, Land Use Designation II management areas, restoration areas, special management areas, and additional components of the national wild and scenic rivers system.
Sponsor: Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3] (introduced 2/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 122
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/10/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


32. H.R.1014 : To require Federal land managers to support, and to communicate, coordinate, and cooperate with, designated gateway communities, to improve the ability of gateway communities to participate in Federal land management planning conducted by the Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior, and to respond to the impacts of the public use of the Federal lands administered by these agencies, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Radanovich, George P. [CA-19] (introduced 2/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 7
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 5/5/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Unanimous Consent.


33. H.R.1038 : To increase the penalties to be imposed for a violation of fire regulations applicable to the public lands, National Park System lands, or National Forest System lands when the violation results in damage to public or private property, to specify the purpose for which collected fines may be used, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. [CO-6] (introduced 2/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 11
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture; House Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 9/15/2003 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 156.


34. H.R.1042 : To authorize collaborative forest restoration and wildland fire hazard mitigation projects on National Forest System lands and other public and private lands, to improve the implementation of the National Fire Plan, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Udall, Mark [CO-2] (introduced 2/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 3
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/11/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


35. H.R.1060 : To provide for an exchange of lands with the United Water Conservation District of California to eliminate private inholdings in the Los Padres National Forest, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Gallegly, Elton [CA-24] (introduced 3/4/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/10/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.


36. H.R.1092 : To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to sell certain parcels of Federal land in Carson City and Douglas County, Nevada.
Sponsor: Rep Gibbons, Jim [NV-2] (introduced 3/5/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/10/2004 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held.


37. H.R.1105 : To designate as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, national park and preserve study areas, wild land recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors certain public lands in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] (introduced 3/5/2003)      Cosponsors: 182
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/12/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.


38. H.R.1230 : To provide an environmentally sound process for the expeditious consideration and approval of a high-voltage electricity transmission line right-of-way through the Trabuco Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest in the State of California and adjacent lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.
Sponsor: Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49] (introduced 3/12/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/18/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.


39. H.R.1294 : To amend title VI of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to establish a Federal renewable energy portfolio standard for certain retail electric utilities, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Udall, Tom [NM-3] (introduced 3/13/2003)      Cosponsors: 64
Committees: House Energy and Commerce
Latest Major Action: 3/24/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.


40. H.R.1472 : To require the adoption and enforcement of regulations to prohibit the intentional feeding of bears on Federal public lands in order to end the hunting practice known as "bear baiting" and reduce the number of dangerous interactions between people and bears.
Sponsor: Rep Gallegly, Elton [CA-24] (introduced 3/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 166
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 6/12/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.


41. H.R.1501 : To designate certain public lands in Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Lake, Napa, and Yolo Counties in the State of California as wilderness, to designate certain segments of the Black Butte River in Mendocino County, California as a wild or scenic river, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Mike [CA-1] (introduced 3/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 54
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/2/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.


42. H.R.1517 : To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund to limit the use of funds available from the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to use for maintenance.
Sponsor: Rep Graves, Sam [MO-6] (introduced 3/31/2003)      Cosponsors: 13
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 3/25/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.


43. H.R.1621 : To provide environmentally sound, expedited procedures for the planning and implementation of hazardous fuels reduction activities for wild-fire prone National Forest System lands and lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Miller, George [CA-7] (introduced 4/3/2003)      Cosponsors: 8
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/15/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.


44. H.R.1630 : To revise the boundary of the Petrified Forest National Park in the State of Arizona, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1] (introduced 4/3/2003)      Cosponsors: 3
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/10/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.


45. H.R.1639 : To provide a means of resolving claims regarding the continued existence of rights-of-way under former section 2477 of the Revised Statutes, which was repealed by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.
Sponsor: Rep Udall, Mark [CO-2] (introduced 4/3/2003)      Cosponsors: 44
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/15/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.


46. H.R.1651 : To provide for the exchange of land within the Sierra National Forest, California, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Radanovich, George P. [CA-19] (introduced 4/7/2003)      Cosponsors: 2
Committees: House Resources; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 11/19/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


47. H.R.1679 : To repeal the so-called Forest Service Appeals Reform Act and to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to develop an administrative appeals process for the Forest Service in the same manner as other Federal land management agencies.
Sponsor: Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. [CO-6] (introduced 4/8/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 4/24/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


48. H.R.1723 : To designate certain National Forest System lands in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Acevedo-Vila, Anibal [PR] (introduced 4/10/2003)      Cosponsors: 25
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 7/24/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.


49. H.R.1899 : To resolve certain conveyances and provide for alternative land selections under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act related to Cape Fox Corporation and Sealaska Corporation, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Young, Don [AK] (introduced 4/30/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 10/15/2003 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 189.


50. H.R.1904 : An act to improve the capacity of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on National Forest System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands aimed at protecting communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk lands from catastrophic wildfire, to enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health, including catastrophic wildfire, across the landscape, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McInnis, Scott [CO-3] (introduced 5/1/2003)      Cosponsors: 137
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources; House Judiciary; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Senate Energy and Natural Resources; House Transportation and Infrastructure
Latest Major Action: 12/3/2003 Became Public Law No: 108-148.


51. H.R.2141 : To modify the requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain lands, consistent with the principles of self-initiation of mining claims, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Rahall, Nick J., II [WV-3] (introduced 5/15/2003)      Cosponsors: 18
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 5/21/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.


52. H.R.2169 : To save taxpayers money, reduce the deficit, cut corporate welfare, protect communities from wildfires, encourage Federal land management agency reform and accountability, and protect and restore America's natural heritage by eliminating the fiscally wasteful and ecologically destructive commercial logging program on Federal public lands, restoring native biodiversity in our Federal public forests, and facilitating the economic recovery and diversification of communities affected by the Federal logging program.
Sponsor: Rep Leach, James A. [IA-2] (introduced 5/20/2003)      Cosponsors: 93
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture; House Education and the Workforce
Latest Major Action: 6/20/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.


53. H.R.2304 : To resolve boundary conflicts in the vicinity of the Mark Twain National Forest in Barry and Stone Counties, Missouri, that resulted from private landowner reliance on a subsequent Federal survey, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Blunt, Roy [MO-7] (introduced 6/3/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Transportation and Infrastructure; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 11/18/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


54. H.R.2305 : To designate certain lands in the State of Colorado as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep DeGette, Diana [CO-1] (introduced 6/3/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 6/12/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.


55. H.R.2369 : To protect inventoried roadless areas in the National Forest System, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Inslee, Jay [WA-1] (introduced 6/5/2003)      Cosponsors: 157
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 6/10/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


56. H.R.2395 : To provide suitable alternative grazing arrangements on National Forest System land to persons that hold a grazing permit adversely affected by the standards and guidelines contained in the Record of Decision of the Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment and pertaining to the Willow Flycatcher and the Yosemite Toad.
Sponsor: Rep Radanovich, George P. [CA-19] (introduced 6/9/2003)      Cosponsors: 4
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 6/12/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


57. H.R.2416 : To provide for the protection of paleontological resources on Federal lands, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-3] (introduced 6/11/2003)      Cosponsors: 15
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 6/24/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


58. H.R.2488 : To provide for the protection of the tropical forests of the Karst Region of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the aquifers and watersheds of this region that constitute a principal water source for much of Puerto Rico, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Acevedo-Vila, Anibal [PR] (introduced 6/17/2003)      Cosponsors: 8
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 6/20/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


59. H.R.2551 : To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide owners of non-Federal lands with a reliable method of receiving compensation for damages resulting from the spread of wildfire from nearby forested National Forest System lands or Bureau of Land Management lands, when those forested Federal lands are not maintained in the forest health status known as condition class 1.
Sponsor: Rep Simpson, Michael K. [ID-2] (introduced 6/19/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 6/24/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.


60. H.R.2586 : To provide for the conveyance of certain National Forest System lands to the towns of Laona and Wabeno, Wisconsin.
Sponsor: Rep Green, Mark [WI-8] (introduced 6/24/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 6/26/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


61. H.R.2639 : To expedite procedures for hazardous fuels reduction activities and restoration in wildland fire prone National Forests, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Hooley, Darlene [OR-5] (introduced 6/26/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 7/14/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


62. H.R.2691 : Making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Taylor, Charles H. [NC-11] (introduced 7/10/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Appropriations
Latest Major Action: 11/10/2003 Became Public Law No: 108-108.


63. H.R.2696 : To establish Institutes to demonstrate and promote the use of adaptive ecosystem management to reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore the health of fire-adapted forest and woodland ecosystems of the interior West.
Sponsor: Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1] (introduced 7/10/2003)      Cosponsors: 6
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/29/2004 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 469.


64. H.R.2707 : To provide for an assessment of the extent of the invasion of Salt Cedar and Russian Olive on lands in the Western United States and efforts to date to control such invasion on public and private lands, including tribal lands, to establish a demonstration program to address the invasion of Salt Cedar and Russian Olive, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Pearce, Stevan [NM-2] (introduced 7/10/2003)      Cosponsors: 19
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 2/25/2004 Received in the Senate.


65. H.R.2754 : Making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Hobson, David L. [OH-7] (introduced 7/16/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Appropriations
Latest Major Action: 12/1/2003 Became Public Law No: 108-137.


66. H.R.2766 : To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to exchange certain lands in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in the State of Colorado.
Sponsor: Rep Beauprez, Bob [CO-7] (introduced 7/17/2003)      Cosponsors: 2
Committees: House Resources; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 11/5/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


67. H.R.2772 : To amend the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 to promote the development and use of geothermal resources in the United States.
Sponsor: Rep Gibbons, Jim [NV-2] (introduced 7/17/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 7/22/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.


68. H.R.2776 : To help ensure general aviation aircraft access to Federal land and to the airspace over that land.
Sponsor: Rep Otter, C. L. (Butch) [ID-1] (introduced 7/17/2003)      Cosponsors: 8
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture; House Transportation and Infrastructure
Latest Major Action: 7/24/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Interior, USDA.


69. H.R.2907 : To provide for a land exchange in the State of Arizona between the Secretary of Agriculture and Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership.
Sponsor: Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1] (introduced 7/25/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Resources; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 12/9/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


70. H.R.2966 : To preserve the use and access of pack and saddle stock animals on public lands, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and other specifically designated areas, administered by the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Forest Service where there is a historical tradition of such use, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Radanovich, George P. [CA-19] (introduced 7/25/2003)      Cosponsors: 19
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 5/5/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.


71. H.R.2976 : To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer certain land within the Ottawa National Forest to the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Stupak, Bart [MI-1] (introduced 7/25/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 7/31/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


72. H.R.3102 : To utilize the expertise of New Mexico State University, the University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University in conducting studies under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in connection with the grazing allotments and range and continuing range analysis for National Forest System lands in New Mexico and Arizona, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Pearce, Stevan [NM-2] (introduced 9/16/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 9/23/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


73. H.R.3217 : To provide for the conveyance of several small parcels of National Forest System land in the Apalachicola National Forest, Florida, to resolve boundary discrepancies involving the Mt. Trial Primitive Baptist Church of Wakulla County, Florida, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Boyd, Allen [FL-2] (introduced 10/1/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 11/18/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.


74. H.R.3247 : To provide consistent enforcement authority to the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Forest Service to respond to violations of regulations regarding the management, use, and protection of public lands under the jurisdiction of these agencies, to clarify the purposes for which collected fines may be used, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. [CO-6] (introduced 10/2/2003)      Cosponsors: 17
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 5/5/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.


75. H.R.3249 : To extend the term of the Forest Counties Payments Committee.
Sponsor: Rep Walden, Greg [OR-2] (introduced 10/3/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/28/2004 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.


76. H.R.3283 : To improve recreational facilities and visitor opportunities on Federal recreational lands by reinvesting receipts from fair and consistent recreational fees and passes, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Regula, Ralph [OH-16] (introduced 10/8/2003)      Cosponsors: 7
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 10/15/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


77. H.R.3324 : To provide compensation to livestock operators who voluntarily relinquish a grazing permit or lease on Federal lands, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] (introduced 10/16/2003)      Cosponsors: 15
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture; House Armed Services
Latest Major Action: 11/3/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from DOD.


78. H.R.3325 : To designate certain public lands as wilderness and certain rivers as wild and scenic rivers in the State of California, and to establish the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Solis, Hilda L. [CA-32] (introduced 10/16/2003)      Cosponsors: 25
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 10/28/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.


79. H.R.3326 : To extend the King Range National Conservation Area boundary in the State of California to include the Mill Creek, Squaw Creek, and Indian Creek Forests.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Mike [CA-1] (introduced 10/16/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 10/21/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.


80. H.R.3327 : To designate certain public lands as wilderness and certain rivers as wild and scenic rivers in the northern portion of the State of California, to designate Salmon Restoration Areas, to establish the Sacramento River National Conservation Area, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Thompson, Mike [CA-1] (introduced 10/16/2003)      Cosponsors: 17
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 10/28/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior.


81. H.R.3427 : To authorize a land conveyance between the United States and the City of Craig, Alaska, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Young, Don [AK] (introduced 10/30/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 11/3/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.


82. H.R.3514 : To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands and improvements associated with the National Forest System in the State of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Peterson, John E. [PA-5] (introduced 11/18/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 12/3/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


83. H.R.3566 : To amend the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to establish a program using geospatial and information management technologies to inventory, monitor, characterize, assess, and identify forest stands and potential forest stands, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Walden, Greg [OR-2] (introduced 11/20/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 12/18/2003 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.


84. H.R.3667 : To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain real property in the Dixie National Forest in the State of Utah, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Cannon, Chris [UT-3] (introduced 12/8/2003)      Cosponsors: 2
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 12/15/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


85. H.R.3744 : To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange all or part of certain administrative sites and other land in the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National Forests and to use funds derived from the sale or exchange to acquire, construct, or improve administrative sites, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Ross, Mike [AR-4] (introduced 1/28/2004)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 4/28/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.


86. H.R.3805 : To withdraw the Los Padres National Forest in California from location, entry, and patent under mining laws, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Capps, Lois [CA-23] (introduced 2/11/2004)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/17/2004 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.


87. H.R.3846 : To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement or contract with Indian tribes meeting certain criteria to carry out projects to protect Indian forest land.
Sponsor: Rep Pombo, Richard W. [CA-11] (introduced 2/26/2004)      Cosponsors: 8
Committees: House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 5/5/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health Discharged.


88. H.R.3997 : To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the New Hope Cemetery Association a small parcel of National Forest System land in the State of Arkansas for use as a cemetery.
Sponsor: Rep Boozman, John [AR-3] (introduced 3/18/2004)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/26/2004 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.


89. H.R.4094 : To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a Federal income tax credit for production of energy from geothermal energy resources, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Millender-McDonald, Juanita [CA-37] (introduced 3/31/2004)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: House Resources; House Ways and Means; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 4/15/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.


90. H.R.4100 : To establish a permanent trust fund to get Americans outdoors by providing access to parks and recreation areas in urban and rural communities, preservation of historic places, and promotion of healthy and active lifestyles, and to provide for hunting, angling, and wildlife viewing for the people of the United States.
Sponsor: Rep Miller, George [CA-7] (introduced 3/31/2004)      Cosponsors: 9
Committees: House Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/16/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from Commerce, Interior, USDA.


91. H.R.4202 : To designate additional National Forest System lands in the State of Virginia as wilderness, to establish the Seng Mountain and Crawfish Valley Scenic Areas, to provide for the development of trail plans for the wilderness areas and scenic areas, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Boucher, Rick [VA-9] (introduced 4/22/2004)      Cosponsors: 2
Committees: House Agriculture; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/27/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


92. H.AMDT.254 to H.R.2691 Amendment increases funding for the National Endowment for the Arts by $10 million and increases funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities by $5 million with offsets from the National Park Service, Departmental Management, and National Forest System.
Sponsor: Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [NY-28] (introduced 7/16/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Latest Major Action: 7/17/2003 House amendment agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Slaughter amendment (A003) Agreed to by recorded vote: 225 - 200, 1 Present (Roll no. 376).


93. H.AMDT.265 to H.R.2691 Amendment sought to prohibit any funding to finalize or implement proposed changes to the National Forest Management Act of 1976.
Sponsor: Rep Udall, Tom [NM-3] (introduced 7/17/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Latest Major Action: 7/17/2003 House amendment not agreed to. Status: On agreeing to the Udall (NM) amendment (A014) Failed by recorded vote: 198 - 222 (Roll no. 384).




Senate Bills: 2003
(2004)

94. S.CON.RES.95 : An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2005 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2006 through 2009.
Sponsor: Sen Nickles, Don [OK] (introduced 3/5/2004)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Budget
Latest Major Action: 5/12/2004 Resolving differences / Conference -- House actions. Status: Mr. Pomeroy moved that the House instruct conferees.


95. S.14 : A bill to enhance the energy security of the United States, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Domenici, Pete V. [NM] (introduced 4/30/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Latest Major Action: 7/31/2003 Senate floor actions. Status: Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 79.
Note: For further action on an energy omnibus bill, see H.R. 6.


96. S.32 : A bill to establish Institutes to conduct research on the prevention of, and restoration from, wildfires in forest and woodland ecosystems of the interior West.
Sponsor: Sen Kyl, Jon [AZ] (introduced 1/7/2003)      Cosponsors: 6
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/27/2003 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-10.


97. S.33 : A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange all or part of certain administrative sites and other land in the Ozark-St. Francis and Ouachita National Forests and to use funds derived from the sale or exchange to acquire, construct, or improve administrative sites.
Sponsor: Sen Lincoln, Blanche [AR] (introduced 1/7/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 4/28/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.


98. S.116 : A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain land in the State of Florida, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Graham, Bob [FL] (introduced 1/9/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 1/9/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Note: For further action, see S. 117, which became Public Law 108-152 on 12/3/2003.


99. S.117 : A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain land in the State of Florida, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Graham, Bob [FL] (introduced 1/9/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 12/3/2003 Became Public Law No: 108-152.


100. S.391 : A bill to enhance ecosystem protection and the range of outdoor opportunities protected by statute in the Skykomish River valley of the State of Washington by designating certain lower-elevation Federal lands as wilderness, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Murray, Patty [WA] (introduced 2/13/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 12/2/2003 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.


101. S.432 : A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct and support research into alternative treatments for timber produced from public lands and lands withdrawn from the public domain for the National Forest System, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Craig, Larry E. [ID] (introduced 2/24/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 9/11/2003 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-196.


102. S.433 : A bill to provide for enhanced collaborative forest stewardship management within the Clearwater and Nez Perce National Forests in Idaho, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Craig, Larry E. [ID] (introduced 2/25/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/25/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


103. S.434 : A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange all or part of certain parcels of National Forest System land in the State of Idaho and use the proceeds derived from the sale or exchange for National Forest System purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Craig, Larry E. [ID] (introduced 2/25/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/28/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.


104. S.435 : A bill to provide for the conveyance by the Secretary of Agriculture of the Sandpoint Federal Building and adjacent land in Sandpoint, Idaho, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Craig, Larry E. [ID] (introduced 2/25/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources; House Transportation and Infrastructure; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/28/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.


105. S.438 : A bill to withdraw Federal land in Finger Lakes National Forest, New York, from entry, appropriation, disposal, or disposition under certain Federal laws.
Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 2/25/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 2/25/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.


106. S.475 : A bill to reform the nation's outdated laws relating to the electric industry, improve the operation of our transmission system, enhance reliability of our electric grid, increase consumer benefits from whole electric competition and restore investor confidence in the electric industry.
Sponsor: Sen Thomas, Craig [WY] (introduced 2/27/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/27/2003 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held.


107. S.490 : A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Nevada, to the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for the Washoe Indian Tribe of Nevada and California.
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry M. [NV] (introduced 2/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 7/18/2003 Held at the desk.
Note: For further action, see H.R. 74, which became Public Law 108-67 on 8/1/2003.


108. S.523 : A bill to make technical corrections to law relating to Native Americans, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [CO] (introduced 3/5/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Indian Affairs; House Resources; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 3/2/2004 Became Public Law No: 108-204.


109. S.691 : A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into cooperative agreements and contracts with the Nebraska State Forester to carry out watershed restoration and protection activities on National Forest System land in the State of Nebraska.
Sponsor: Sen Hagel, Chuck [NE] (introduced 3/21/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/21/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


110. S.738 : A bill to designate certain public lands in Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Lake, Napa, and Yolo Counties in the State of California as wilderness, to designate certain segments of the Black Butte River in Mendocino County, California as a wild or scenic river, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] (introduced 3/27/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/27/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


111. S.784 : A bill to revise the boundary of the Petrified Forest National Park in the State of Arizona, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen McCain, John [AZ] (introduced 4/3/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/3/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


112. S.830 : A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program to expand and strengthen cooperative efforts to restore and protect forests in the Chesapeake bay watershed, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Sarbanes, Paul S. [MD] (introduced 4/9/2003)      Cosponsors: 3
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/9/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.


113. S.833 : A bill to increase the penalties to be imposed for a violation of fire regulations applicable to the public lands, National Parks System lands, or National Forest System lands when the violation results in damage to public or private property, to specify the purpose for which collected fines may be used, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Allard, A. Wayne [CO] (introduced 4/9/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/9/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


114. S.849 : A bill to provide for a land exchange in the State of Arizona between the Secretary of Agriculture and Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership.
Sponsor: Sen McCain, John [AZ] (introduced 4/9/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 9/11/2003 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-196.


115. S.931 : A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to undertake a program to reduce the risks from and mitigate the effects of avalanches on visitors to units of the National Park System and on other recreational users of public land.
Sponsor: Sen Stevens, Ted [AK] (introduced 4/29/2003)      Cosponsors: 5
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/29/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


116. S.984 : A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to evaluate opportunities to enhance domestic oil and gas production through the exchange of nonproducing Federal oil and gas leases located in the Lewis and Clark National Forest, in the Flathead National Forest, and on Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Montana, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Baucus, Max [MT] (introduced 5/1/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 5/1/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


117. S.1005 : An original bill to enhance the energy security of the United States, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Domenici, Pete V. [NM] (introduced 5/6/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 5/6/2003 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 87.


118. S.1041 : A bill to prohibit oil and gas drilling in Finger Lakes National Forest in the State of New York.
Sponsor: Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] (introduced 5/12/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/12/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.


119. S.1111 : A bill to provide suitable grazing arrangements on National Forest System land to persons that hold a grazing permit adversely affected by the standards and guidelines contained in the Record of Decision of the Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment and pertaining to the Willow Flycatcher and the Yosemite Toad.
Sponsor: Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] (introduced 5/22/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 5/22/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


120. S.1167 : A bill to resolve the boundary conflicts in Barry and Stone Counties in the State of Missouri.
Sponsor: Sen Bond, Christopher S. [MO] (introduced 6/2/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/9/2004 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 444.


121. S.1200 : A bill to provide lasting protection for inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System.
Sponsor: Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] (introduced 6/5/2003)      Cosponsors: 13
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 6/5/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


122. S.1314 : A bill to expedite procedures for hazardous fuels reduction activities on National Forest System lands established from the public domain and other public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management, to improve the health of National Forest System lands established from the public domain and other public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] (introduced 6/23/2003)      Cosponsors: 4
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 7/22/2003 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-140.


123. S.1315 : A bill to amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide owners of non-Federal lands with a reliable method of receiving compensation for damages resulting from the spread of wildfire from nearby forested National Forest System lands or Bureau of Land Management lands, when those forested Federal lands are not maintained in the forest health status known as condition class 1.
Sponsor: Sen Craig, Larry E. [ID] (introduced 6/23/2003)      Cosponsors: 4
Committees: Senate Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 6/23/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.


124. S.1352 : A bill to expedite procedures for hazardous fuels reduction activities and restoration in wildland fire prone National Forests and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] (introduced 6/26/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 7/22/2003 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 108-140.


125. S.1354 : A bill to resolve certain conveyances and provide for alternative land selections under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act related to Cape Fox Corporation and Sealaska Corporation, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Murkowski, Lisa [AK] (introduced 6/26/2003)      Cosponsors: 3
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/10/2004 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held.


126. S.1383 : An original bill making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [CO] (introduced 7/9/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Appropriations
Latest Major Action: 7/10/2003 Senate floor actions. Status: Senate incorporated this measure in H.R. 2657 as an amendment.
Note: For further action, see H.R. 2657, which became Public Law 108-83 on 9/30/2003.


127. S.1391 : An original bill making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Burns, Conrad R. [MT] (introduced 7/10/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Appropriations
Latest Major Action: 7/10/2003 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Appropriations ordered to be reported an original measure.
Note: For further action, see H.R. 2691, which became Public Law 108-108 on 11/10/2003.


128. S.1420 : A bill to establish terms and conditions for use of certain Federal land by outfitters and to facilitate public opportunities for the recreational use and enjoyment of such land.
Sponsor: Sen Craig, Larry E. [ID] (introduced 7/16/2003)      Cosponsors: 2
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/3/2004 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held.


129. S.1449 : A bill to improve the capacity of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to prepare and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on National Forest System land and Bureau of Land Management land that are aimed at protecting communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk land from catastrophic wildfire, to enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health on public and private land, including catastrophic wildfire, to increase research on forest health and forest-damaging agents, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Crapo, Michael D. [ID] (introduced 7/23/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 7/23/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Note: For further action, see H.R. 1904, which became Public Law 108-148 on 12/3/2003.


130. S.1453 : A bill to expedite procedures for hazardous fuels reduction activities and restoration in wildlife fire prone national forests and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 7/24/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 7/24/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.


131. S.1499 : A bill to adjust the boundaries of Green Mountain National Forest.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 7/30/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 11/25/2003 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.


132. S.1537 : A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the New Hope Cemetery Association certain land in the State of Arkansas for use as a cemetery.
Sponsor: Sen Lincoln, Blanche [AR] (introduced 7/31/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; House Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/28/2004 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.


133. S.1555 : A bill to designate certain public lands as wilderness and certain rivers as wild and scenic rivers in the State of California, to designate Salmon Restoration Areas, to establish the Sacramento River National Conservation Area and Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] (introduced 8/1/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 8/1/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


134. S.1575 : A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to sell certain parcels of Federal land in Carson City and Douglas County, Nevada.
Sponsor: Sen Ensign, John E. [NV] (introduced 9/3/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/10/2004 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held.


135. S.1582 : A bill to amend the Valles Preservation Act to improve the preservation of the Valles Caldera, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Domenici, Pete V. [NM] (introduced 9/4/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/28/2004 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.


136. S.1778 : A bill to authorize a land conveyance between the United State and the City of Craig, Alaska, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Murkowski, Lisa [AK] (introduced 10/23/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/28/2004 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.


137. S.1819 : A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land to Lander County, Nevada, and the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to Eureka County, Nevada, for continued use as cemeteries.
Sponsor: Sen Reid, Harry M. [NV] (introduced 11/4/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/10/2004 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests . Hearings held.


138. S.1910 : A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out an inventory and management program for forests derived from public domain land.
Sponsor: Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] (introduced 11/20/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/26/2004 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 477.


139. S.1938 : A bill to amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and related laws to strengthen the protection of native biodiversity and ban clearcutting on Federal land, and to designate certain Federal land as Ancient forests, roadless areas, watershed protection areas, and special areas where logging and other intrusive activities are prohibited.
Sponsor: Sen Corzine, Jon [NJ] (introduced 11/24/2003)      Cosponsors: 3
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 11/24/2003 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


140. S.2067 : A bill to withdraw the Los Padres National Forest in California from location, entry, and patent under mining laws, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] (introduced 2/11/2004)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/11/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


141. S.2095 : A bill to enhance energy conservation and research and development and to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people.
Sponsor: Sen Domenici, Pete V. [NM] (introduced 2/12/2004)      Cosponsors: (none)
Latest Major Action: 2/23/2004 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 432.


142. S.2134 : A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement or contract with Indian tribes meeting certain criteria to carry out projects to protect Indian forest land.
Sponsor: Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] (introduced 2/26/2004)      Cosponsors: 4
Committees: Senate Indian Affairs
Latest Major Action: 2/26/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.


143. S.2140 : A bill to expand the boundary of the Mount Rainier National Park.
Sponsor: Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] (introduced 2/26/2004)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 2/26/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


144. S.2178 : An original bill to make technical corrections to laws relating to certain units of the National Park System and to National Park programs.
Sponsor: Sen Domenici, Pete V. [NM] (introduced 3/9/2004)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/9/2004 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 449.


145. S.2180 : A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to exchange certain lands in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in the State of Colorado.
Sponsor: Sen Campbell, Ben Nighthorse [CO] (introduced 3/9/2004)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/9/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


146. S.2191 : A bill to provide the venue for the judicial review of actions by certain Federal agencies.
Sponsor: Sen Thomas, Craig [WY] (introduced 3/10/2004)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Judiciary
Latest Major Action: 3/10/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.


147. S.2221 : A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain National Forest System land in the State of Oregon, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Smith, Gordon [OR] (introduced 3/22/2004)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/22/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


148. S.2253 : A bill to permit young adults to perform projects to prevent fire and suppress fires, and provide disaster relief, on public land through a Healthy Forest Youth Conservation Corps.
Sponsor: Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] (introduced 3/29/2004)      Cosponsors: 3
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 3/29/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


149. S.2319 : A bill to authorize and facilitate hydroelectric power licensing of the Tapoco Project.
Sponsor: Sen Alexander, Lamar [TN] (introduced 4/19/2004)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/27/2004 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held.


150. S.2334 : A bill to designate certain National Forest System land in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Sponsor: Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY] (introduced 4/22/2004)      Cosponsors: 1
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 4/22/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


151. S.2342 : A bill to designate additional National Forest System lands in the State of Virginia as wilderness, to establish the Seng Mountain and Crawfish Valley Scenic Areas, to provide for the development of trail plans for the wilderness areas and scenic areas, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Warner, John W. [VA] (introduced 4/22/2004)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/22/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.


152. S.2408 : A bill to adjust the boundaries of the Helena, Lolo, and Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forests in the State of Montana.
Sponsor: Sen Burns, Conrad R. [MT] (introduced 5/11/2004)      Cosponsors: (none)
Committees: Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Latest Major Action: 5/11/2004 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.


153. S.AMDT.65 to H.J.RES.2 To fund rehabilitation on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest.
Sponsor: Sen Kyl, Jon [AZ] (introduced 1/17/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Latest Major Action: 1/23/2003 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 65 as modified agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.


154. S.AMDT.158 to H.J.RES.2 To establish the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area within the Cibola National Forest in the State of New Mexico to resolve a land claim involving land within the Cibola National Forest and the Sandia Mountain Wilderness.
Sponsor: Sen Domenici, Pete V. [NM] (introduced 1/21/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Latest Major Action: 1/23/2003 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 158 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.


155. S.AMDT.328 to S.CON.RES.23 To increase investments in implementation of the National Fire Plan to benefit national forests, the environment, local communities and local economies.
Sponsor: Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] (introduced 3/20/2003)      Cosponsors: 7
Latest Major Action: 3/21/2003 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 328 agreed to in Senate by Voice Vote.


156. S.AMDT.1753 to H.R.2691 To strike section 333 relating to a special judicial appeals process for cases involving timber harvesting in the Tongass National Forest.
Sponsor: Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] (introduced 9/23/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Latest Major Action: 9/23/2003 Motion to table amendment SA 1753 agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 52 - 44. Record Vote Number: 359.


157. S.AMDT.1757 to H.R.2691 To provide funds for trail construction on the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
Sponsor: Sen Burns, Conrad R. [MT] (introduced 9/23/2003)      Cosponsors: 1
Latest Major Action: 9/23/2003 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 1757 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.


158. S.AMDT.1758 to H.R.2691 To provide funds to facilitate a land exchange between the State of Montana and the Lolo National Forest.
Sponsor: Sen Burns, Conrad R. [MT] (introduced 9/23/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Latest Major Action: 9/23/2003 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 1758 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.


159. S.AMDT.1771 to H.R.2691 To provide authority for the Forest Service to sell certain excess facilities on the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.
Sponsor: Sen Bennett, Robert F. [UT] (introduced 9/23/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Latest Major Action: 9/23/2003 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 1771 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.


160. S.AMDT.1772 to H.R.2691 To facilitate rehabilitation efforts on the Kootenia and Flathead National Forests.
Sponsor: Sen Burns, Conrad R. [MT] (introduced 9/23/2003)      Cosponsors: (none)
Latest Major Action: 9/23/2003 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 1772 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.


161. S.AMDT.2717 to S.CON.RES.95 To increase Investments in Implementation of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act to benefit national forests, the environment, local communities, and local economies.
Sponsor: Sen Wyden, Ron [OR] (introduced 3/9/2004)      Cosponsors: 6
Latest Major Action: 3/11/2004 Senate amendment agreed to. Status: Amendment SA 2717 agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent.