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“SENATE ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the in the House section section on pages H10537-H10538 on Dec. 30, 2022.
The Department oversees more than 500 million acres of land. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the department has contributed to a growing water crisis and holds many lands which could be better managed.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
SENATE ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED
The Speaker pro tempore, Ms. DeLauro, on Wednesday, December 28, 2022, announced her signature to enrolled bills of the Senate of the following titles:
S. 450--An Act to award posthumously the Congressional Gold Medal to Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.
S. 989--An Act to establish a Native American language resource center in furtherance of the policy set forth in the Native American Languages Act.
S. 1294--An Act to authorize the imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign persons that have engaged in significant theft of trade secrets of United States persons, and for other purposes.
S. 1402--An Act to amend the Native American Languages Act to ensure the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages, and for other purposes.
S. 1541--An Act to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission to ensure just and reasonable charges for telephone and advanced communications, services in correctional and detention facilities.
S. 1942--At Act to standardize the designation of National Heritage Areas, and for other purposes.
S. 2333--An Act to amend chapter 2205 of title 36, United States Code, to ensure equal treatment of athletes, and for other purposes.
S. 2834--An Act to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to preserve access to rehabilitation innovation centers under the Medicare program.
S. 3168--An Act to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes.
S. 3308--An Act to authorize the Colorado River Indian Tribes to enter into lease or exchange agreements and storage agreements relating to water of the Colorado River allocated to the Colorado River Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.
S. 3405--An Act to require the Federal Communications Commission to issue a rule providing that certain low power television stations may be accorded primary status as Class A television licensees, and for other purposes.
S. 3519--An Act to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.
S. 3773--An Act to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.
S. 3946--An Act to reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2017, and for other purposes.
S. 3949--An Act to reauthorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, and for other purposes.
S. 4104--An Act to approve the settlement of water rights claims of the Hualapai Tribe and certain allottees in the State of Arizona, to authorize construction of a water project relating to those water rights claims, and for other purposes.
S. 4120--An Act to maximize discovery, and accelerate development an availability, of promising childhood cancer treatments, and for other purposes.
S. 4240--An Act to amend section 2441 of title 18, United States Code, to broaden the scope of individuals subject to prosecution for war crimes.
S. 4411--An Act to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5302 Galveston Road in Houston, Texas, as the ``Vanessa Guillen Post Office Building''.
S. 4439--An Act to take certain Federal land located in Siskiyou County, California, and Humboldt County, California, into trust for the benefit of the Karuk Tribe, and for other purposes.
S. 4926--An Act to amend chapter 33 of title 28, United States Code, to require appropriate use of multidisciplinary teams for investigations of child sexual exploitation or abuse, the production of child sexual abuse material, or child trafficking conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
S. 4949--An Act to amend title 38, United States Code, to address green burial sections in national cemeteries, and for other purposes.
S. 4978--An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the State offices of rural health program.
S. 5016--An Act to designate the medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs located in Anchorage, Alaska, as the ``Colonel Mary Louise Rasmuson Campus of the Alaska VA Healthcare System'', and for other purposes.
S. 5066--An Act to designate Mount Young in the State of Alaska, and for other purposes.
S. 5087--An Act to amend the Not Invisible Act of 2019 to extend, and provide additional support for, the activities of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Justice Joint Commission on Reducing Violent Crime Against Indians, and for other purposes.
S. 5168--An Act to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to include aliens passing in transit through the United States to board a vessel on which the alien will perform ship-to-ship liquid cargo transfer operations within a class of nonimmigrant aliens, and for other purposes.
S. 5328--An Act to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to extend terminal lakes assistance.
S. 5329--An Act to amend the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to improve the program, and for other purposes.
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