National Forests, Parks, Public Land, and Reclamation Projects Authorization Act of 2007
Latest action · Jun 11, 2008 Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5530)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedOct 17, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
National Forests, Parks, Public Land, and Reclamation Projects Authorization Act of 2007 - Authorizes specified programs and activities in the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, and the Department of Energy concerning, among other things, land conveyances, boundary adjustments, studies, memorials, commissions, and museums, national park natural resource protection, national trails and rivers, national heritage areas, and advanced energy technology transfer centers.
Makes amendments to various public laws, including the National Trails System Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and the Steel and Aluminum Energy Conservation and Technology Competitiveness Act of 1988.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 11, 2008Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5530)
- Oct 18, 2007Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 424.
- Oct 17, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Oct 17, 2007Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S13029 | Harry Reid D-NV | Oct 18, 2007 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S13025 | Harry Reid D-NV, Jeff Bingaman D-NM | Oct 17, 2007 |
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2483 | National Forests, Parks, Public Land, and Reclamation Projects Authorization Act of 2007 | Related bill | Jun 11, 2008 |
| S 2616 | National Forests, Parks, Public Land, and Reclamation Projects Authorization Act of 2008 | Related bill | Jun 11, 2008 |
| S 2739 | Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 | Related bill | May 8, 2008 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to authorize certain programs and activities in the Forest Service, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Energy, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- National Forests, Parks, Public Land, and Reclamation Projects Authorization Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Agriculture and Food
- Alaska
- Aluminum
- American Revolution
- Animals
- Anniversaries
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Art
- Arts, Culture, Religion
- Authorization
- Authors and authorship
- California
- Civil War
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Commemorations
- Commerce
- Congressional tributes
- Connecticut
- Dams
- Disabled
- District of Columbia
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Energy
- Energy conservation
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental technology
- Ex-Members of Congress
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to water resources development
- Geology
- Government liability
- Government Operations and Politics
- Governmental investigations
- Groundwater
- Habitat conservation
- Hispanic Americans
- Historic sites
- History
- House of Representatives
- Hydrology
- Illinois
- Infrastructure
- Iron and steel industry
- Irrigation
- Irrigation districts
- Lakes
- Land transfers
- Lighthouses and lightships
- Maryland
- Military history
- Military parks
- Minorities
- Missouri
- Missouri River development
- Monuments and memorials
- Museums
- Music
- Names
- National forests
- National monuments
- National parks
- Natural areas
- Nebraska
- New Mexico
- New York State
- Non-native species
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Restoration ecology
- Saline waters
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sports and Recreation
- Steel
- Technological innovations
- Technology transfer
- Trails
- Transportation and Public Works
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington State
- Water Resources Development
- Water supply
- Watersheds
- West (U.S.)
- Wetlands
- Wild rivers
- Wilderness areas
- Wildlife
- Wyoming
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 18, 2007Placed on Calendar Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
