April 29, 2008
CONTACT: Allyson Groff or Blake Androff, 202-226-9019
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives today marked its final stamp of approval on a bipartisan collection of 61 separate House-passed measures dealing with a wide range of National Park, public lands, water, and territorial issues affecting Members' districts all across America. The legislation, approved by a vote of 291-117, will now be sent to the White House to be signed into law.
Fifty-seven of the bills included in the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 (S. 2739), approved in the Senate on April 11, 2008, originated in the House Natural Resources Committee, chaired by Rep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV).
Rahall, who worked alongside House Natural Resources Subcommittee Chairmen Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), and Donna Christensen (D-VI) to shepherd the separate measures through the House, commended his colleagues for the bipartisan cooperation that enabled passage of the legislation and noted that the package was almost evenly split between bills sponsored by Democrats and Republicans.
"I am pleased to have had the privilege to oversee in Committee and on the House Floor the myriad measures in this wide-ranging bill that have finally cleared the hurdles of both bodies and are now on the path to the President's desk. From the long-awaited designation of Wild Sky wilderness in the State of Washington to the much-needed reform of immigration law on the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), I applaud my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for their good work to uphold our responsibility to the land, the natural resources, and the people that make America unique," Rahall said.
The provisions included in S. 2739 are:
TITLE I - FOREST SERVICE AUTHORIZATIONS
Sec. 101. Wild Sky Wilderness (H.R. 886, Larson, D-WA)
Sec. 102. Jim Weaver Trail-Willamette National Forest (H.R. 247, DeFazio, D-OR)
TITLE II - BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT AUTHORIZATIONS
Sec. 201. Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station (H.R. 276, Capps, D-CA)
Sec. 202. Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area (H.R. 1922, Mahoney, D-FL)
Sec. 203. Nevada National Guard land conveyance (H.R. 815, Porter, R-NV)
TITLE III - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AUTHORIZATIONS
Subtitle A - Cooperative Agreements
Sec. 301. National Park Resource Protection Cooperative Agreements (H.R. 658, Porter, R-NV)
Subtitle B - Boundary Adjustments
Sec. 311. Carl Sandburg Home NHS boundary adjustment (H.R. 1100, Shuler, D-NC)
Sec. 312. Lowell National Historical Park boundary adjustment (H.R. 299, (Meehan) Tsongas, D-MA)
Sec. 313. Minidoka National Historic Site (H.R. 161, Inslee, D-WA)
Sec. 314. Acadia National Park Amendments (H.R. 2251, Michaud, D-ME)
Subtitle C - Studies
Sec. 321. Newtonia Civil War Battlefields Study (H.R. 376, Blunt, R-MO)
Sec. 322. Soldiers' Memorial Military Museum Study (H.R. 1047, Clay, D-MO)
Sec. 323. Wolf House Study (H.R. 442, Berry, D-AR)
Sec. 324. Space Shuttle Columbia Study (H.R. 807, Gohmert, R-TX)
Sec. 325. Cesar E. Chavez Study (H.R. 357, Solis, D-CA)
Sec. 326. Taunton, Massachusetts Special Resource Study (H.R. 1021, Frank, D-MA)
Sec. 327. Rim of the Valley Corridor study (H.R. 1835, Schiff, D-CA)
Subtitle D - Memorials, Commissions, and Museums
Sec. 331. Brigadier General Francis Marion Memorial (H.R. 497, Wilson, R-SC)
Sec. 332. Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission (H.R. 2094, Moore, D-KS)
Sec. 333. National Museum of the American Latino Study (H.R. 512, Becerra, D-CA)
Sec. 334. Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commemoration Commission (H.R. 1520, Hinchey, D-NY) (Oversight and Government Reform Committee)
Sec. 335. National Quilt Museum of the United States (H. Con. Res. 209, Whitfield, R-KY)
Sec. 336. National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States (H. Con. Res. 116, Cubin, R-WY)
Sec. 337. Redesignation of Ellis Island Library ("Bob Hope") (H.R. 759, Engel, D-NY)
Subtitle E - Trails and Rivers
Sec. 341. Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail (H.R. 1388, Sarbanes, D-MD)
Sec. 342. Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Center (H.R. 761, Fortenberry, R-NE)
Sec. 343. Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Extension Study (H.R. 3616, Emerson, R-MO)
Sec. 344. Eightmile Wild and Scenic River (H.R. 986, Courtney, D-CT)
Subtitle F
Denali National Park and Alaska Railroad Exchange (H.R. 830, Young, R-AK)
Subtitle G
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Amendments (H.R. 1239, Hastings, D-FL)
Subtitle H
Grand Canyon National Park Subcontractors (H.R. 1191, Renzi, R-AZ)
TITLE IV - NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS
Subtitle A- Journey tH.R.ough Hallowed Ground NHA (H.R. 319, Wolf, R-VA)
Subtitle B- Niagra Falls NHA (H.R. 713, Slaughter, D-NY)
Subtitle C- Abraham Lincoln NHA (H.R. 1625, LaHood, R-IL)
Subtitle D-Authorization Extensions (H.R. 1483, Regula, R-OH)
Subtitle E- Technical Corrections and Additions
Sec. 471. National Coal Heritage Area technical corrections (H.R.1483 (Regula), Rahall, D-WV)
Sec. 472. Rivers of Steel NHA addition (H.R. 1083, English, R-PA)
Sec. 473. South Carolina National Heritage Corridor addition (H.R. 1483, Brown, R-SC)
Sec. 474. Ohio & Erie Canal Nat Heritage Corridor tech corrections (H.R. 1483, Regula, R-OH)
Sec. 475. New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route (H.R. 1815, LoBiondo, R-NJ)
Subtitle F- Studies
Sec. 481. Columbia-Pacific National Heritage Area Study (H.R. 407, Baird, D-WA)
Sec. 482. Abraham Lincoln Sites in Kentucky Study (S. 955)
TITLE V - BUREAU OF RECLAMATION AND UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AUTHORIZATIONS
Sec. 501. Alaska Water Resources Study (H.R. 1114, Young, R-AK)
Sec. 502. Redwood Valley County Water District (H.R. 235, Thompson, D-CA)
Sec. 503. American River Pump Station Project transfer (H.R. 482, Doolittle, R-CA)
Sec. 504. Arthur V. Watkins Dam enlargement (H.R. 839, Bishop, R-UT)
Sec. 505. New Mexico Water Planning Assistance (H.R. 1904, Wilson, R-NM)
Sec. 506. Yakima Project, Washington (H.R. 386, Hastings, R-WA)
Sec. 507. Juab County, UT Water (H.R. 1736, Cannon, R-UT)
Sec. 508. A&B Irrigation District Construction Costs (H.R. 467, Simpson, R-ID)
Sec. 509. Oregon Water Resources (H.R. 495, Walden, R-OR)
Sec. 510. Republican River Basin Feasibility Study (H.R. 1025, Moran, R-KS)
Sec. 511. Eastern Municipal Water District (H.R. 30, Issa, R-CA)
Sec. 512. Bay Area Regional Water Recycling Program (H.R. 1526, Miller, D-CA)
Sec. 513. Bureau of Reclamation Site Security (H.R. 1662, Napolitano, D-CA)
Sec. 514. More Water, More Energy, and Less Waste Act (H.R. 902, Udall, D-CO)
Sec. 515. Platte River Recovery Program (H.R. 1462, Udall, D-CO)
Sec. 516. Central Oklahoma Master Conservatory District study (H.R. 1337, Cole, R-OK)
TITLE VI - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AUTHORIZATIONS (Science & Tech Committee)
Sec. 601. Energy Technology Transfer (H.R. 85, Biggert, R-IL)
Sec. 602. Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology (H.R. 1126, Lipinski, D-IL)
TITLE VII - NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS (H.R. 3079, Christensen, D-VI)
TITLE VIII - COMPACTS OF FREE ASSOCIATION AMENDMENTS (H.R. 2705, Christensen, D-VI) (Foreign Affairs Committee)
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