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During this hearing, members will discuss changes and trends in the different segments of the general aviation industry, including general aviation service, general aviation safety, ongoing sustainability efforts in general aviation, and general aviation manufacturing.

On Wednesday, July 13, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. ET in 1324 Longworth Hearing Room, via Webex, and livestreamed on the Committee’s YouTube page, the Committee on Natural Resources will meet to consider the following bills:

• H.R. 2794 (Rep. Betty McCollum), To provide for the protection of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and interconnected Federal lands and waters, including Voyageurs National Park, within the Rainy River Watershed in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes. Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act.
• H.R. 3686 (Rep. Ann M. Kuster), To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to provide for the establishment of a Ski Area Fee Retention Account, and for other purposes. SHRED Act or Ski Hill Resources for Economic Development Act.
• H.R. 5715 (Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva), To reauthorize the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Trust Fund, and for other purposes.
• H.R. 6364 (Rep. Matt Cartwright), To amend the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Improvement Act to extend the exception to the closure of certain roads within the Recreation Area for local businesses, and for other purposes.
• H.R. 6442 (Rep. Russ Fulcher), To amend section 101703 of title 54, United States Code, to include Tribal Governments and quasi-governmental entities, and for other purposes. PACTS Act or Partnership Agreements Creating Tangible Savings Act.
• H.R. 6654 (Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva), To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a National Climate Adaptation Science Center and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers to respond to the effects of extreme weather events and climate trends, and for other purposes. CASC Act or Climate Adaptation Science Centers Act.
• H.R. 6936 (Rep. Elise Stefanik), To provide for the issuance of a semipostal to benefit programs that combat invasive species. Stamp Out Invasive Species Act.
• H.R. 7283 (Rep. Matt Cartwright), To amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to make certain activities eligible for grants from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund, and for other purposes. STREAM Act or Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines Act.
• H.R. 7496 (Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett), To direct the Secretary of the Interior to install a plaque at the peak of Ram Head in the Virgin Islands National Park on St. John, United States Virgin Islands, to commemorate the slave rebellion that began on St. John in 1733.
• H.R. 7693 (Rep. Bruce Westerman), To amend title 54, United States Code, to reauthorize the National Park Foundation. National Park Foundation Reauthorization Act of 2022.

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Legislation:

• S. 1345 National Comprehensive Mercury Monitoring Act
• S. 2476 Environmental Justice Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2021
• S. ___ Public Health Air Quality Monitoring Act of 2022

Witnesses:

Panel I

• Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine
• Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del.

Panel II

• Kathy Fallon, Director of Land & Climate, Clean Air Task Force
• Jason Isaac, Director, Life:Powered, A Project of the Texas Public Policy Foundation
• Dana Johnson, Senior Director of Strategy & Federal Policy, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
• Bart Eklund, Senior Technical Expert, Haley & Aldrich

The hearing will be chaired by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.).

Witness:

• Deb Haaland, Secretary, Department of the Interior

• FY 2023 Department of Interior budget

The Committee on Rules will meet on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at 12:00 PM EDT in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures:

• H.R. 7900—National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
  • Amendment 29 (McKinley (WV), Hudson (NC), Burgess (TX), Tenney, Claudia (NY), Newhouse (WA), Malliotakis (NY), Van Duyne (TX)) Amends section 1083(a) (“Combatting Military Reliance on Russian Energy”) to add to the Sense of Congress stating that U.S. energy independence is critical to national security and should include the production, use, and export of all available energy sources, including coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear, and renewables, as well as strategic minerals critical to electric vehicles and other clean energy sources.
  • Amendment 30 (McKinley (WV), Tenney, Claudia (NY), Newhouse (WA)) Amends section 1083(d) (“Combating Military Reliance on Russian Energy”) to require the contents of a military installation energy plan for main operating bases to include an assessment of the capability of a base to replace Russian energy with energy produced in the United States.
  • Amendment 41 (John Garamendi, D-Calif.) Clarifies the Department of Defense definition of biomass and biogas so that it aligns with the Clean Air Act, and requires that it be considered a renewable energy source.
  • Amendment 64 (Garamendi (CA), Amodei (NV), Waltz (FL), Horsford (NV), Cheney (WY), Swalwell (CA), Costa (CA)) Adds critical minerals projects under the Defense Production Act to Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council’s permitting dashboard and expedited review process, supporting Presidential Determination No. 2022-11 invoking the Defense Production Act for strategic and critical materials production necessary for the clean energy transition and large-capacity batteries.
  • Amendment 65 (Garamendi (CA), Wittman (VA), Pappas (NH), Brownley (CA)) Recapitalizes America’s strategic domestic shipbuilding and maritime industries by requiring that increasing percentages of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and crude oil exports be transported on U.S.-built, flagged, and crewed vessels.
  • Amendment 84 (Bill Keating, D-Mass.) Requires the State Department to establish and staff Climate Change Officer positions to be posted at U.S. embassies, consulates, or diplomatic missions to provide climate change mitigation expertise, engage with international entities on climate change, and facilitate bilateral and multilateral cooperation on climate change, taking specific actions to develop a strategy to improve and increase the study of, mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change and certify that considerations related to the climate are incorporated at U.S. embassies or other diplomatic posts, while also establishing a curriculum at the Foreign Service Institute to provide employees with specialized climate change training.
  • Amendment 89 (Steven Horsford, D-Nev.) Requires the Secretary of Defense to implement a program to track and reduce Scope 3 emissions and energy costs.
  • Amendment 123 (Marilyn Strickland, D-Wash.) Adds a sense of Congress on supporting FEMA stockpiling of rapid response, cost-effective temporary shelter solutions with materials manufactured domestically for disaster preparedness.
  • Amendment 148 (Joe Neguse, D-Colo.) Establishes a Community Resilience and Restoration Fund and competitive grant program administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to conserve restoration and resilience lands and help communities respond to natural disasters and threats, and authorizes $100 million per year for Fiscal Years 23-28.
  • Amendment 149 (Sarbanes (MD), Fitzpatrick (PA), Dingell (MI), Posey (FL)) Requires PFAS manufacturers to submit analytical reference standards of each PFAS chemical they produce to EPA for the Agency’s use in identifying PFAS.
  • Amendment 177 (Michael Burgess, R-Texas) Strikes Section 313 which allows the Secretary of Defense to select two military installations to make “Energy Resilience Testbeds” to test and demonstrate technologies that support climate resilient infrastructure.
  • Amendment 210 (Slotkin (MI), Kim, Young (CA), Turner (OH), Fletcher (TX)) Requires DoE to evaluate the energy security of the United States and establish a program to reduce the reliance of allied European countries on natural gas, petroleum, and nuclear fuel produced in Russia. Under the program, DoE must provide resources, materials, equipment, financial assistance, and technical assistance to allies to reduce their reliance on Russian energy.
  • Amendment 216 (Garamendi (CA), Jacobs, Sara (CA), Lofgren (CA)) Waives current law’s requirement that FEMA or federal land management agencies reimburse DOD (with civilian funds) for cost of military support for disaster response to major wildfires or federally declared disasters/emergencies.
  • Amendment 228 (Andy Barr, R-Ky.) Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from authorizing certain energy-related transactions involving sanctioned Russian financial institutions.
  • Amendment 264 (Tim Walberg, R-Mich.) Adds a section to prohibit the President from revoking Presidential permits relating to cross-border energy facilities.
  • Amendment 265 (Torres, Ritchie (NY), Stevens (MI), Meijer (MI), Gonzalez, Anthony (OH)) Inserts the text of H.R. 7077, Empowering the U.S. Fire Administration Act.
  • Amendment 267 (Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.) Adds a resolution demanding the construction of a border wall, increasing energy independence and production, and “stands steadfastly, staunchly, proudly, and fervently behind the American people in their fight for the preservation of the Republic.”
  • Amendment 274 (Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.) Adds a new title to ensure greater equity in Federal disaster assistance policies and programs by authorizing an equity steering group and equity advisor within the Federal Emergency Management Agency, improving data collection to measure disparate outcomes and participation barriers, and requiring equity criteria to be applied to policies and programs.
  • Amendment 291 (Dina Titus, D-Nev.) Prohibits the Department of Energy (DOE) from using the Nuclear Waste Fund for expenditures involving repositories for disposing of spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste. Prohibits DOE from using the fund to pay for disposal in a repository or planning, construction, or operation of a repository unless DOE has entered into an agreement with the state in which the repository is located and with affected local governments and Indian tribes.
  • Amendment 306 (Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.) Establishes an Office of Climate Resilience.
  • Amendment 322 (Strickland (WA), Kilmer (WA), Graves, Garret (LA), Speier (CA)) Codifies the federal task force for Puget Sound and establishes a Puget Sound Recovery National Program Office within the Environmental Protection Agency, establishes a San Francisco Bay Program Office within the Environmental Protection Agency that awards grants to advance conservation, climate change adaptation, and water quality improvement projects for the San Francisco Bay estuary, and reauthorizes the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program.
  • Amendment 328 (Chip Roy, R-Texas) and Amendment 679 (Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Bill Posey, R-Fla.) Strikes section 315 , the pilot program on the use of sustainable aviation fuel.
  • Amendment 330 (Carbajal (CA), Bacon (NE), Takano (CA), Fitzpatrick (PA)) Adds the Federal Firefighters Fairness Act (H.R. 2499) to the bill, which would create the presumption that federal firefighters who become disabled by certain serious diseases contracted the illness on the job.
  • Amendment 331 (Trahan (MA), Obernolte, Jay (CA), Beyer (VA)) Directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a report on potential national security applications for fusion energy technology. The report shall include an evaluation of commercial fusion energy technologies under development by private sector companies in the United States to determine if any such technologies have potential national security applications.
  • Amendment 337 (Feenstra (IA), Bost (IL), Miller-Meeks (IA)) Adds a cost analysis to the nontactical electric vehicle replacement pilot program. Includes both the cost of replacing the nontactical vehicle fleet with electric vehicles and alternatively the cost of replacing the fleet with flex-fuel vehicles.
  • Amendment 349 (Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas) Requires report to be submitted by the Secretary of Defense within 220 days following enactment on Capacity to Provide Disaster Survivors with Emergency Short Term Housing.
  • Amendment 360 (Phillips (MN), Luria (VA), Aguilar (CA), O’Halleran (AZ)) Directs the Department of Defense to submit a report to Congress identifying military installations for which climate change is expected to negatively impact the installation’s mission or core activities over the next 20 years. The report will include an overview of mitigations necessary to continue operations and increase resiliency.
  • Amendment 378 (Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.) Provides mental health support for survivors and first responders after emergencies and disasters.
  • Amendment 380 (Mark Takano, D-Calif.) Requires the comptroller general of the US to study the feasibility of establishing a strategic stockpile of materials required to to manufacture batteries, battery cells, and other energy storage components to meet national security requirements in the event of a national emergency.
  • Amendment 477 (Glenn Thompson, R-Penn.) Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress detailing Department of Defense spending on fuel from non-domestic sources.
  • Amendment 522 (Katko (NY), Pappas (NH), González-Colón, Jenniffer (PR), Garbarino (NY)) Adds the text of the Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) Improvement Act, which directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to report to Congress on their efforts to assess damages in the aftermath of a disaster and convenes an advisory panel to assist FEMA in improving critical components of the damage assessment process.
  • Amendment 523 (Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, Beth Van Duyne, Texas) Adds a sense of Congress that reliance on Russian energy poses a national security risk.
  • Amendment 534 (Torres, Ritchie (NY), González-Colón, Jenniffer (PR)) Requires a report on Puerto Rico’s progress toward rebuilding the electric grid and detailing the efforts the Federal Government is undertaking to expedite such rebuilding, and for other purposes.
  • Amendment 548 (Al Green, D-Texas) Provides statutory authority for certain procedures related to the Community Development Block Grant – Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Program and adds new program requirements.
  • Amendment 554 (Katko (NY), Titus (NV), González-Colón, Jenniffer (PR)) Adds the text of the Small State and Rural Rescue Act, which would codify the responsibilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Small State and Rural Advocate when assisting communities during the disaster declaration process and require the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study FEMA’s process for authorizing individual assistance.
  • Amendment 559 (Scott Franklin, R-Fla.) Prohibits the U.S. buying Venezuelan oil.
  • Amendment 594 (Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.) Establishes a moratorium on new oil and gas leasing east of the military mission line in the Gulf of Mexico through 30 June 2032.
  • Amendment 631 (John Rose, R-Tenn.) Prohibits the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from implementing its rulemaking on “the Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-related Disclosures for Investors” if it would directly or indirectly require agriculture producers to submit climate-related information to public companies or the SEC.
  • Amendment 634 (Peters (CA), Crow (CO), Porter (CA)) Amends the Combatant Commander Initiative Fund to (1) include climate resilience of military facilities and essential civilian infrastructure and (2) military support to relevant authorities to combat illegal wildlife trafficking and illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing.
  • Amendment 638 (John Lawrence, D-Mich.) Adds wireless charging as an electric vehicle charging technology and defines wireless charging.
  • Amendment 683 (Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas) Requires the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, to submit to the congressional defense committees and other entities in 2023, 2024, and 2025 a report identifying the personnel, training, and equipment required by the non-federalized National Guard to prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and man-made disasters.
  • Amendment 781 (Dunn (FL), Soto (FL), Graves, Garret (LA)) Requires the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reimburse state and local governments and electric cooperatives for interest incurred on Stafford Act disaster-related loans.
  • Amendment 832 (Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore.) Helps protect communities around the country by improving the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s preparation for, and response to, climate disasters.
  • Amendment 862 (Linda Sánchez, D-Calif.) Directs the Permanent Representative to NATO to advocate for adequate resources towards understanding and communicating the threat posed by climate change to allied civil security, support the establishment of a NATO Centre of Excellence for Climate and Security, advocate for an in-depth critical assessment of NATO’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, and communicate the core security challenge posed by climate change as articulated in NATO’s strategic concept.
  • Amendment 920 (Perry (R-PA), Mary Miller (R-IL)) Strikes section 2879, Contributions for climate resilience for North Atlantic Treaty Organizations Security Investment.
  • Amendment 941 (Jerry Carl, R-Ala., Terri Sewell, D-Ala.) Provides that GSA Areawide Contracts further be used to meet energy resilience and climate-related needs.
  • Amendment 963 (Rouzer (NC), Crow (CO)) Requires DOD to provide a report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on its flood mapping efforts, how frequently they update their flood maps, what resources they utilize to undertake flood mapping projects, and how those maps are incorporated into broader FEMA flood maps.
  • Amendment 971 (Peters (CA), Crow (CO), Porter (CA)) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to preserve or improve the climate resilience of (1) ally or partner military facilities and (2) a civilian airfield or seaport of an ally or partner deemed suitable for military use by the Secretary of Defense.
  • Amendment 974 (Mace (SC), Troy Carter (LA)) Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make certain contributions to local authorities to mitigate the risk of flooding on local property adjacent to medical facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Directs the VA to submit a report to Congress on the threat flooding poses to its facilities, and what resources are needed to address these threats.
  • Amendment 1062 (Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Randy Weber, R-Texas) Adds the text of H.R. 7940, the Correctional Facility Disaster Preparedness Act, requiring the Bureau of Prisons to submit to Congress an annual summary report of disaster damage in order to improve oversight of disaster readiness.
  • Amendment 1092 (Byron Donalds, R-Fla.) Requires the President to establish a national strategy to utilize microreactors for natural disaster response efforts.
  • Amendment 1127 (Maxine Waters, D-Calif.) Mandates public reporting by Treasury for any project for which the U.S. votes in support of, or abstains from voting on, under Treasury’s “Fossil Fuel Energy Guidance for Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs),” issued on August 16, 2021; Authorizes a $200 million contribution to the IMF’s Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) to provide immediate debt service relief to vulnerable countries in the wake of catastrophic natural disasters or major, fast-spreading public health emergencies; and requires the U.S. executive director at each multilateral development bank to vote against the provision of any assistance from the respective institution to any corporation or limited liability company, other than a publicly listed company, unless such institution collects, verifies, and publishes beneficial ownership information for such entities.
• H.R. 8296—Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022
• H.R. 8297—Ensuring Access to Abortion Act of 2022
• H.R. 6538—Active Shooter Alert Act of 2022

The Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will meet in open session, hybrid format, to conduct a hearing on “Advancing Public Transportation under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Update from the Federal Transit Administration.”

Witness

• Nuria Fernandez, Administrator, Federal Transit Administration

“Congress provided about $70 billion in COVID relief funding for public transportation.”

“We have seen ridership return to about 60 percent of pre-pandemic levels.”

The Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, June 30, 2022, at 11:30 a.m via Cisco Webex.

Legislation

• H.R. 8059, the “Recycling and Composting Accountability Act”
• H.R. 8183, the “Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act of 2022”
• H.R. 1512, the “Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nations’s Future Act” or the “CLEAN Future Act”
• H.R. 2238, the “Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2021”

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The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2023 bill.

For 2023, the bill provides $242.1 billion, an increase of $28.5 billion – 13 percent – above 2022.

• Bill summary
• Earmarks

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2023 funding bill.

For 2023, the bill provides funding of $90.9 billion, an increase of $9.9 billion – more than 12 percent – above 2022. This includes an increase of $8.9 billion for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and $837 million for the Department of Transportation. In total, the bill provides $168.5 billion in total budgetary resources, an increase of $11.5 billion above 2022.

• Bill summary
• Earmarks

This hearing has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a date to be announced.

This is a virtual hearing.

Witnesses

• Richard Murray, Ph.D., Deputy Director and Vice President for Science and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Laure Katz, Blue Nature Vice President, Conservation International
• Fertram Sigurjonsson, Founder and CEO, Kerecis