Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Chiricahua National Park Act
The bill upgrades the site to National Park status and strengthens tribal access and cultural protections, improving conservation and legal clarity while creating greater restrictions on nearby land use, added local infrastructure pressures and occasional closures, and modest additional federal/administrative costs.
Wintergreen Emergency Egress Act
The bill seeks to secure a specific emergency egress for rural communities while adding environmental reviews and Congressional oversight, but those safeguards and the fixed-corridor requirement may delay lifesaving access, limit agency flexibility, and impose taxpayer costs.
Gateway Partnership Act
The bill lets a private Foundation hold recoverable, insured events on the Park—reducing taxpayer costs and formalizing safety/oversight—while concentrating access with one entity, shifting some legal risk away from the government, risking commercialization, and creating temporary planning uncertainty.
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
The bill speeds and widens emergency financial help for agricultural producers and private forest landowners after wildfires through larger advance payments and broader eligibility, at the trade-off of higher program costs, increased taxpayer risk, potential recipient cash-flow strain, and added administrative complexity.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park Wild Horses Protection Act
The bill preserves a large, genetically diverse horse herd and increases monitoring transparency and planning, but does so at the cost of higher management expense and reduced flexibility—raising risks to park budgets and native ecosystems if the mandated herd or plan prove problematic.
Wabeno Economic Development Act
The bill enables a specific small business to buy federal land quickly and increases permitting transparency for construction materials (potentially easing supply constraints), at the cost of reducing public land and environmental protections, creating legal/title risks, and raising concerns about fairness and tradeoffs between speed and safeguards.
American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2026
The bill directs modest, targeted federal funding and studies to identify and preserve historic battlefield sites—potentially boosting local heritage tourism and protecting cultural resources—while imposing modest costs on taxpayers, additional administrative burdens, and possible new restrictions or uncertainty for some communities and property owners.
Crystal Reservoir Conveyance Act
The bill transfers local ownership and preserves recreation and wetlands at Crystal Reservoir, but does so by shifting substantial financial, regulatory, and legal responsibilities and constraints onto the City of Ouray and the local community.
To take certain land in the State of California into trust for the benefit of the Pechanga Band of Indians, and for other purposes.
The bill transfers ~860 acres into trust for the Pechanga Band, protecting cultural and natural resources and preserving existing rights, while trading off local land-use control, future development flexibility, and potential tribal gaming revenue.
Florida Safe Seas Act of 2025
The bill shifts clearer authority to states to authorize some shark-feeding activities while retaining limited federal oversight, trading increased local control and potential tourism benefits for risks to public safety, shark conservation, and legal clarity.
Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act
The bill aims to accelerate and better-target cross‑boundary wildfire mitigation by broadening and clarifying federal authorities and producing GAO guidance, at the trade‑off of added complexity, potential legal uncertainty, and new or shifted costs for taxpayers, governments, and private landowners.
Benton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act of 2026
The bill seeks to establish and study a 287-mile scenic nonmotorized trail that could boost recreation and local economies, but it introduces potential costs, land-use constraints for nearby owners, and environmental/infrastructure pressures unless sufficient funding and management protections are provided.
Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act
The bill secures a National Mall site and stronger design protections for a Women's History Museum and limits near-term agency costs via reimbursements, but also adds administrative requirements and constraints (including a biologically defined scope and mandated viewpoint balance) that could raise costs, provoke legal challenges, and exclude transgender women from representation.
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act
The bill transfers roughly 1,082.63 acres into trust and explicitly preserves tribal treaty and river protections—strengthening tribal sovereignty, cultural use, and environmental safeguards—while reducing potential gaming opportunities, shrinking federal park acreage for those parcels and limiting some fiscal transparency around the transfer.
Star-Spangled Summit Act of 2026
The bill secures a 10‑year, fee‑free permit for local caretakers to maintain a civic symbol on Kyhv Peak—preserving a local tradition and reducing volunteer costs—while bypassing environmental review and limiting Forest Service discretion, which shifts some risk and potential costs to the public.
Designate the General George C. Marshall House in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
The bill promotes public access and preservation support for the Marshall site through affiliation and limited federal assistance while keeping ownership and primary responsibility with nonfederal partners, trading stronger federal stewardship for lower federal costs and potential variability in management and local financial burden.
To designate the General George C. Marshall House, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as an affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
The bill expands public access and Park Service‑aligned preservation of the Marshall site while keeping ownership local, trading stronger federal control and guaranteed long‑term funding for retained private stewardship and potential funding and coordination risks.
Sloan Canyon Conservation and Lateral Pipeline Act
The bill trades accelerated permits and new regional water and utility infrastructure (and a modest expansion of protected lands) for faster land-use approvals and permissive material/ROW terms that could reduce federal revenue and environmental oversight, increasing risks to public lands and community input.
Cape Fox Land Entitlement Finalization Act of 2025
The bill secures and clarifies tribal land ownership and public access while accelerating conveyances, but it transfers federal interests with easements and encumbrances that can limit development, reduce federal flexibility, and create administrative and legal burdens.
Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026
The bill directs substantial new support and multi‑year funding to farmers, rural infrastructure, conservation, nutrition, and research—improving access to credit, broadband, and technical assistance—while creating sizable new federal spending, added administrative complexity, and tradeoffs that could favor larger operators and reduce some environmental and state regulatory safeguards.
Transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain parcels of Federal land in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and for other purposes.
The bill adds acreage to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park while reserving about 25 acres for CBP training—boosting conservation and federal training capacity but reducing some public park access and shifting costs to the federal agency/taxpayers.
Scarper Ridge Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act
The bill expands and protects recreational open space under National Park Service management—benefiting residents and visitors and improving site upkeep—while imposing new land-use limits for some local owners and adding federal maintenance responsibilities and costs.
Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025
The bill aims to improve public safety, transit security, and the cleanliness/appearance of Washington, D.C., while increasing federal oversight and enforcement—but these gains come with higher costs, potential resource diversion from services, jurisdictional friction with local authorities, and significant civil‑liberties and immigrant‑community impacts.
Sea Turtle Rescue Assistance and Rehabilitation Act of 2025
The bill provides targeted federal funding and a dedicated emergency response fund to strengthen sea turtle rescue and set standards for rehabilitation, but it creates modest new federal costs and eligibility rules that may exclude smaller rehab providers and limit support for longer-term recovery work.
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act
The bill preserves hunters' access and state authority by blocking a nationwide federal ban on lead ammunition/tackle while allowing targeted, data-driven restrictions, at the cost of ongoing public-health and wildlife lead exposure and slower, potentially contested protections.
North Rim Restoration Act
The bill speeds recovery and reopening of facilities and enables faster restoration work through emergency and sole-source contracting, at the cost of reduced competition and increased risks of higher taxpayer costs, reduced opportunities for small businesses, and greater need for vigilant oversight.
Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration Act
The bill focuses federal resources and new grant/contract pathways to accelerate tribal and federal reforestation and improve project success, but it creates short-term program uncertainty, administrative costs, and risks unequal access for smaller tribes without additional capacity support.
Small Cemetery Conveyance Act
The bill helps tribes, New Mexico land grants, and local governments reclaim and legally protect historic cemetery lands at no cost to preserve burial sites, but it forgoes sale revenue, shifts upkeep costs to recipients, may exclude some descendant claimants, and grants waiver authority that could weaken procedural safeguards.
Save Our Sequoias Act
The bill directs extensive new coordination, funding, and expedited authorities to protect and restore giant sequoias—trading faster, better‑funded action and greater Tribal participation for higher federal costs, reduced routine public/environmental review, and increased role for donors and private
Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program Amendment Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and secures non‑Federal conservation funds and improves transparency for the Lower Colorado River program, but it limits flexible access to investment earnings and creates investment/timing risks that could shift costs to taxpayers or delay spending.
