FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2021 SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2021 SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS Neguse (D-CO) En Bloc #1 Barragán (D-CA) – Amendment No. 1 – Adds the Outdoors for All Act to the bill, which codifies the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership (ORLP) program. The ORLP program provides grants for outdoor recreational opportunities in urban and low-income cities across the nation Brown (D-MD), Graves, Garret (R-LA) – Amendment No. 2 – Encourages the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to ensure servicemembers and veterans have access to these public lands for outdoor recreation and wellness programs DeFazio (D-OR), Huffman (D-CA) – Amendment No. 4 – Adds the Southwestern Oregon Watershed and Salmon Protection Act of 2021 to the bill, which withdraws certain land located in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws DeSaulnier (D-CA) – Amendment No. 5 – Adds the Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site Expansion Act to the bill, which marks a local historic site at the Nystrom Elementary School, as part of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California Garamendi (D-CA) – Amendment No. 6 – Makes a minor boundary adjustment of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area to include approximately 62 acres of adjacent publicly owned land encompassing: the decommissioned United States Army Reserve Center (now owned by the City of Rio Vista, CA); U.S. Coast Guard Station Rio Vista; Beach Drive Wastewater Treatment Plant (City of Rio Vista); and Sandy Beach County Park (Solano County, CA) Keating (D-MA) – Amendment No. 10 – Extends the life of the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission, which Advises the Superintendent of the Seashore about the communities needs, until 2028 Lieu (D-CA), Brownley (D-CA), Waters (D-CA) – Amendment No. 12 – Adds the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Study Act to the bill, which directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the coastline and adjacent areas to the Santa Monica Bay from Will Rogers State Beach to Torrance Beach, including the areas in and around Ballona Creek and Baldwin Hills and the San Pedro section of Los Angeles, excluding the Port of Los Angeles north of Crescent Avenue McEachin (D-VA) – Amendment No. 13 – Adds the Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area Act to the bill, which requires a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating areas within Virginia and North Carolina as a National Heritage Area McKinley (R-WV), Tonko (D-NY) – Amendment No. 14 – Adds the National Heritage Area Act of 2021 to the bill, which establishes a system of national heritage areas (NHAs) and brings uniformity to the way NHAs are designated, managed, and assessed and provides Congress the ability to conduct oversight of the program O’Halleran (D-AZ) – Amendment No. 18 – Adds the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2021, which modifies the boundary of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument by transferring approximately 11.21 acres to the Park Service and approximately 3.5 acres to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain lands from willing sellers, donors, or through exchange and enter into cooperative agreements with the State of Arizona for the cooperative management of certain lands O’Halleran (D-AZ) – Amendment No. 19 – Adds the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Boundary Adjustment Act to the bill, which transfers approximately 97.7 acres from the Forest Service to the Sunset Crater National Monument. These lands include an NPS visitor, an NPS administrative facility, and a portion of the key access road to the Monument. Panetta (D-CA), Thompson, Mike (D-CA), Lofgren (D-CA) – Amendment No. 20 – Stipulates that nothing in this Act may be construed to limit the authority of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture under section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act to manage for fire, insects, and diseases in wilderness areas designated Pingree (D-ME) – Amendment No. 21 – Includes the York River in Maine in the National Park Service’s Wild and Scenic River System Plaskett (D-VI) – Amendment No. 22 – Adds the St. Croix National Heritage Area Act to the bill, which designates a National Heritage Area for the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, pursuant to a congressionally-directed feasibility study completed by the National Park Service in September, 2010, and consistent with the procedures traditionally laid out for such heritage area site designations as last enacted in the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act Pocan (D-WI), Grothman (R-WI) – Amendment No. 23 – Makes Wisconsin’s Ice Age National Scenic Trail a unit of the National Park System administered by the Secretary of the Interior Spanberger (D-VA), McEachin (D-VA) – Amendment No. 24 – Adds specified additional lands in the George Washington National Forest (a part of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests in Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky) to the Rough Mountain Wilderness and the Rich Hole Wilderness Tlaib (D-MI) – Amendment No. 28 – Incorporates the Environmental Justice in Recreational Permitting Act into the bill, which requires the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to complete an interagency report on the use of special recreation permits by recreation service providers serving environmental justice communities – ADOPTED 229 – 198, ROLL CALL 41 Republican YEA – 11; NAY – 198 Democrat YEA – 218; NAY –0 Curtis (R-UT) – Amendment No. 3 – Requires a study to determine if any land withdrawn by this legislation contains geothermal resources, or minerals needed for battery storage, renewable energy technology, or electric vehicles – ADOPTED 221 – 205, ROLL CALL 42 Republican YEA – 205; NAY – 3 Democrat YEA – 16; NAY – 202 Neguse (D-CO) En Bloc #2 Gosar (R-AZ), Newhouse (R-WA) – Amendment No. 7 – Excludes lands in the 4th Congressional District of Arizona from the permanent mineral withdrawal under this Act Gosar (R-AZ), Newhouse (R-WA) – Amendment No. 8 – Delays the permanent mineral withdrawal under the Act until the Secretary of the Interior completes a mineral survey of proposed withdrawal area (including uranium, rare earth elements, geothermal resources and oil and natural gas) and determines there are no mineral resources, geothermal resources, or critical minerals present other than uranium Herrell (R-NM), Newhouse (R-WA) – Amendment No. 9 – Strikes all “Potential Wilderness” designations in the bill Lamborn (R-CO) – Amendment No. 11 – Ensures that nothing in the bill would affect the establishment, access, operation, or maintenance of transmission right-of-ways Moore, Blake (R-UT), Newhouse (R-WA) – Amendment No. 15 – States that no wilderness or potential wilderness designation under this Act shall be effective in any county where the county has not formally approved such designation Newhouse (R-WA) – Amendment No. 16 – States that this Act shall not take effect until the Secretary of the Interior certifies that no renewable energy jobs have been loss as a result of this Act Newhouse (R-WA), Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 17 – States that nothing in this Act shall prohibit development of new renewable hydroelectric energy and associated transmission lines and rights of way within the wild and scenic designations, wilderness designations, or wilderness study area designations under this Act Stauber (R-MN), Newhouse (R-WA), Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 25 – Requires approval of local counties before mineral withdrawal can take place Stauber (R-MN), Newhouse (R-WA), Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 26 – States that this Act shall not apply to any lands or waters in Colorado’s Third and Fifth Congressional Districts or any lands, waters, or minerals in Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District Stauber (R-MN), Newhouse (R-WA), Boebert (R-CO) – Amendment No. 27 – States that this Act shall not apply to any lands or waters in Colorado’s Third Congressional District Westerman (R-AR), Newhouse (R-WA) – Amendment No. 29 – Allows the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior to exempt any wilderness or potential wilderness designated under this Act that does not meet the definition of wilderness under the Wilderness Act – REJECTED 197 – 226, ROLL CALL 43 Republican YEA – 196; NAY – 10 Democrat YEA – 1; NAY – 216 Republican Motion to Recommit on H.R. 803 – REJECTED 204 – 221, ROLL CALL 44 Republican YEA – 204; NAY – 1 Democrat YEA – 220; NAY – 0 Passage of H.R. 803 – Protecting America’s Wilderness and Public Lands Act – PASSED 227 – 200, ROLL CALL 45 Republican YEA – 8; NAY – 199 Democrat YEA – 219; NAY – 1 Ordering the Previous Question on H. Res. 166 – The rule providing for consideration of the bill H.R. 1319 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 – PASSED 217 – 205, ROLL CALL 46 Republican YEA – 0; NAY – 205 Democrat YEA – 217; NAY – 0 Adoption of H. Res. 166 – The rule providing for consideration of the bill H.R. 1319 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 – ADOPTED 219 – 210, ROLL CALL 47 Republican YEA – 0; NAY – 210 Democrat YEA – 219; NAY – 0 Republican Motion to Recommit on H.R. 1319 – REJECTED 205 – 218, ROLL CALL 48 Republican YEA – 205; NAY – 0 Democrat YEA – 0; NAY – 218 Passage of H.R. 1319 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 – PASSED 219 – 212, ROLL CALL 49 Republican YEA – 0; NAY – 210 Democrat YEA – 219; NAY – 2