Star-Spangled Summit Act of 2026
The bill secures a long-standing local flagpole practice and reduces costs and permitting hurdles for local residents and nonprofits, but it does so by bypassing environmental review, limiting Forest Service discretion, shifting costs to taxpayers, and creating potential fairness concerns about public-land access.
To expand the sharing of information with respect to suspected violations of intellectual property rights in trade.
The bill improves customs' ability to share nonpublic importation data and broadens who can receive it—helping rights holders and importers detect counterfeits and speed dispute resolution—while increasing the risk that sensitive business information will be disclosed under broad discretion, raising costs and privacy concerns for small businesses and other importers.
Shivwits Band of Paiutes Jurisdictional Clarity Act
The bill clarifies the Shivwits Band's legal status and makes commercial and leasing rules more predictable—benefiting development and non‑tribal actors—while shifting dispute resolution toward state/federal fora and arbitration, which reduces tribal legal autonomy and can raise costs, uncertainty, and enforcement challenges.
MAPWaters Act of 2025
The bill creates standardized, publicly accessible geospatial data and clearer roles to improve safety, coordination, and conservation communication for waterways, but does so with new costs, reporting and implementation burdens, potential constraints on state flexibility and access, and risks to sensitive sites and data privacy.
Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025
The bill creates a Utah-focused forest health and wildfire prevention Institute and enables university partnerships, but it leaves funding and implementation details unspecified and may increase federal administrative burdens.
University of Utah Research Park Act
The bill enables the University of Utah to expand with economic, housing, and transit benefits while reducing regulatory uncertainty — but it raises environmental impacts and limits some future public oversight and open-space availability.
STARS Act
One free national park day expands access for families, students, and local businesses but comes at the cost of lost fee revenue and potential crowding and strain on park resources.
Personnel Oversight and Shift Tracking Act of 2025
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to "Review of Final Rule Reclassification of Major Sources as Area Sources Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act".
Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the National Park Service relating to "Glen Canyon National Recreation Area: Motor Vehicles".
