Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) today requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a review of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s (“OSM”) compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in the development and drafting of the Obama Administration’s Stream Buffer Zone Rule (SBZR). The Department of the… Read more »
Today, the Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 2898, the Western Water and American Food Security Act of 2015 with a bipartisan vote of 23-12. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) commented upon the Committee vote:
“Californians and Westerners are victims of baneful man-made environmental laws which are intensifying their suffering from the drought. They need our help. H.R. 2898, the… Read more »
Rep. Rob Bishop (UT-01), Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources made the following opening statement at today's markup on H.R. 487, H.R. 959, H.R. 1554, H.R. 1937, H.R. 1949, H.R. 2223, H.R. 2791, H.R. 2898, S. 501.
Remarks as prepared - Today, the Committee on Natural Resource will consider nine bills, seven of which are expected to be approved by unanimous… Read more »
Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued this statement following a decision by the U.S. District Court of Wyoming to grant a stay of the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) hydraulic fracturing rule. As a result of the decision, compliance with BLM's rule, which was originally intended to go into effect on June 24th, has been delayed until early August.
“This is… Read more »
Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement in response to the announcement today from the U.S. Forest Service on the agency’s decision to officially withdrawal its Proposed Directive on Groundwater Management.
“From the outset the Forest Service failed to identify any practical or legal basis for this directive. The decision to… Read more »
Today, U.S. Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT), Chairman, House Committee on Natural Resources, and U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy on the Obama Administration’s proposed Clean Air Act rules to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from new and existing… Read more »
Today, the Committee on Natural Resources approved six bills during a Full Committee markup on H.R. 387, H.R. 521, H.R. 1289, H.R. 1992, H.R. 2295, H.R. 2358, and H.R. 2647.
On the passage of H.R. 2295, the “National Energy Security Corridors Act,” introduced by Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ) and Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA), Rep. MacArthur… Read more »
Rep. Rob Bishop (UT-01), Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources made the following opening statement at today's markup on H.R. 387, H.R. 521, H.R. 1289, H.R. 1992, H.R. 2295, H.R. 2358 & H.R. 2647.
Remarks as prepared - Today, the Committee will mark-up several important pieces of legislation. Though all are good bills, I want to mention three in particular that… Read more »
For more than six years the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has been without a permanent Inspector General which has “reduced the Department’s efficiency and deprived taxpayers from fully realizing the benefits of a strong inspector general,” according to key lawmakers in the House.
Today, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Committee on Natural Resources… Read more »
This evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1335, the “Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act,” legislation reauthorizing the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), the primary law governing fisheries resource management in offshore federal waters. The legislation passed by a bipartisan vote of… Read more »
