Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Crystal Reservoir Conveyance Act
The bill hands local authorities title, control, and public recreational protections for the reservoir—benefiting local water management and recreation—while shifting ongoing costs, legal obligations, and development restrictions onto the City and its residents.
National Park System Long-Term Lease Investment Act
The bill makes it easier and quicker for park managers to extend existing leases—preserving incumbent businesses and reducing near-term administrative burden—but at the cost of reduced competition, less public input, and a risk of locking in terms that may not best serve taxpayers or future procurement opportunities.
Floodplain Enhancement and Recovery Act
The bill makes it easier and cheaper to carry out floodplain and habitat restoration by broadening eligible projects and waiving certain fees, but it trades off modest increases in localized flood risk, potential revenue and administrative impacts for FEMA and local governments, and some legal ambiguity until federal guidance is issued.
To require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, Arizona.
The bill transfers ~232.9 acres of National Forest land to Gila County at no purchase cost to enable local veteran services and planning control, while shifting financial risks and removing public forest land from federal management—trading expanded veteran-focused facilities for reduced public access and increased local fiscal and legal liability.
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.
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.
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.
Strengthening America’s Turning Point Act
Renaming the park aims to improve historical accuracy and boost local heritage tourism but imposes modest transition costs and short-term confusion as materials are updated.
America's National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark Act
The bill aims to improve preservation, public access, and decisionmaking for the Churchill‑related landmark through federal study and possible assistance while limiting benefits to named entities—creating clearer stewardship but risking taxpayer costs, local obligations, and potential future shifts—
Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans Act
The bill improves public and agency access to standardized, interoperable marine geospatial data—boosting safety, planning, and tribal protections—while creating risks from expanded regulatory discretion, data-privacy exposures, and added costs and administrative burdens for governments and private partners.
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.
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.
New Mexico Land Grant-Mercedes Historical or Traditional Use Cooperation and Coordination Act
The bill gives New Mexico land grant communities clearer recognition and formal pathways (MOUs) to preserve traditional noncommercial uses and infrastructure access on nearby federal lands while preserving existing tribal and state authorities — but much depends on agency discretion, permits, and administrative processes that could cause delays, costs, and limits on federal conservation flexibility.
Reversionary Interest Conveyance Act
The bill clarifies and privatizes title for adjacent property owners and secures railroad rights while channeling sale proceeds into a conservation account, but it transfers federal land interests to private hands, imposes purchase costs on buyers, and limits some neighbors' land-use rights and legal remedies.
Vicksburg National Military Park Boundary Modification Act
The bill transfers two small parcels to Mississippi so the State can improve visitor access and assume maintenance (reducing federal burden), but does so at the cost of reduced federal stewardship and with risks that state development could harm park resources or limit future park management.
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Advancement for Training, Education, Restoration, and Science (WATERS) Act
The bill strengthens NOAA-led Chesapeake Bay science, monitoring, restoration, and education efforts—potentially improving water quality and management—while raising federal costs, adding implementation and local compliance burdens, and creating some administrative and staffing uncertainties.
Archie Cavanaugh Migratory Bird Treaty Clarification Act
The bill trades clearer, expanded legal market access and outreach for Alaska Native artisans against increased risk to migratory bird conservation and new certification/administrative burdens that could fall on small sellers and taxpayers.
National Wildlife Refuge System Invasive Species Strike Team Act of 2025
The bill provides sustained funding and coordinated strike-team capacity to speed invasive-species detection and response on National Wildlife Refuges, improving habitat protection, at the cost of modest federal spending and potential administrative burdens and uneven coverage for neighboring private lands.
Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation Land Exchange Act
The bill returns ancestral land to the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation and expands protected national forest while preserving a cultural landmark and simplifying boundary implementation, but it imposes survey costs on the tribe, preserves federal access easements, and reduces statutory public-sale transparency for the exchange.
Local Communities & Bird Habitat Stewardship Act of 2026
The bill directs modest, targeted federal support to help urban areas and community groups conserve bird habitat and build local capacity, but the small funding level and administrative design may limit overall reach and advantage better-resourced applicants while reducing some federal oversight.
Northern Nevada Economic Development and Conservation Act of 2026
The bill shifts many federal lands into local, tribal, or municipal control to enable local conservation, hazard mitigation, recreation, and infrastructure projects — delivering local benefits and funding mechanisms while shifting upfront costs, liabilities, and decision‑making away from the federal government and reducing federal oversight, public review, and some public land protections.
To provide for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over certain Federal land in the State of California, and for other purposes.
The bill transfers small parcels to improve park and forest stewardship, access, and safety while enabling quicker technical fixes, but it leaves cleanup responsibility with the original agency, may impose modest federal administrative costs, and creates short-term procedural and access impacts for rights‑holders and visitors.
National Park System Long-Term Lease Investment Act
The bill trades continued operations and quicker regulatory clarity for existing park concessionaires and fewer visitor disruptions against reduced competition, potential higher costs for taxpayers, and weaker public oversight.
Northeast Lobsterman Protection Act of 2026
The bill trades clearer statutory wording that can aid regulators and speed implementation of right whale protections against a risk that the rewording could narrow legal interpretation, creating uncertainty, litigation risk, and possibly weaker or delayed protections for whales and economic strain on coastal fishing communities.
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.
Historic Greenwood District—Black Wall Street National Monument Establishment Act
The bill secures federal protection, interpretation, and a structured local/descendant advisory role for the Historic Greenwood District—preserving an important site and expanding education—while creating new federal costs, potential land‑use and infrastructure burdens for nearby communities, and transparency and equity concerns around the temporary, unpaid advisory structure.
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.
Geothermal Energy Advancement Act
The bill is designed to accelerate geothermal development and make permitting more predictable (benefiting developers, local jobs, and clean energy deployment) but does so by narrowing and speeding federal review, shifting costs and revenue, and reducing some public and legal safeguards — trading faster deployment for increased environmental, fiscal, and oversight risks.
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 broadens emergency restoration assistance—especially via larger advance payments and expanded eligibility for federally- or human-caused fires—while increasing program costs, oversight burdens, and the potential for inconsistent administration or misuse.
