American Legislation

Creates a shared-savings incentive for grid-enhancing technologies, requires congestion reporting, and directs DOE to publish a guide and clearinghouse.

Adjusts the Golden Gate Recreation Area boundary to include Scarper Ridge as shown on a July 2024 official map.

Creates a Treasury fund to hold Southwestern Power receipts and pay for operations, maintenance, and transmission projects.

Authorizes pilot watershed projects using advanced analytics and pay-for-performance contracts in Reclamation States; funds partnership selection, monitoring, and outcome payments.

Allows the World War II women’s home-front memorial to be placed on the National Mall or the Reserve in Washington, D.C.

Renames the Salem site a National Historical Park and requires a boundary study of Salem and nearby sites.

Adds about 6,100 acres to Big Bend Park by donation or exchange; no eminent domain.

Creates a fund for repairs so low-income homes can be weatherized; raises per-home funding limits and adds flexibility.

Rename the Hulls Cove Visitor Center to the George J. Mitchell Visitor Center and update official references.

Allows Pines Foundation to create an AIDS memorial inside Fire Island National Seashore with Interior Department approval; federal funds disallowed.

Extends and updates the Deschutes River Conservancy Working Group membership and administrative cost limit through 2032.

Creates Cesar E. Chavez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park, adds sites and a trail study, and directs park management and land acquisition.

Changes DOE tribal energy programs, grant rules, and cost-sharing for tribal energy and grid resilience projects.

Directs Interior to study Deerfield River for possible Wild and Scenic designation; study covers branches and tributaries and report due within 3 years after funding.

Designates named red-rock canyon and desert areas as wilderness, sets BLM administration, withdrawals from leasing and protection for tribal and grazing rights.

Designates large Northern Rockies federal lands as wilderness, rivers, corridors, and recovery areas and directs restoration and monitoring.

Nullifies DOE energy-conservation standards for commercial refrigeration equipment (90 Fed. Reg. 7464, Jan 21, 2025).

Renames Salem Maritime site and directs Interior to study adding nearby maritime and military sites, including Salem Armory areas.

Creates DOE grants and an advisory board to strengthen mining education; authorizes $10 million yearly from 2026–2033.

Expands agencies' authority and partnerships to develop, manage, and fund employee housing, supports hiring and seasonal rehiring, and requires housing needs reports and oversight.

Allows the State to swap state trust land for federal land, returning reservation parcels to tribes and setting appraisal, conveyance, and review rules.

Transfers about 10.14 acres from the National Park Service to the State for public use and updates park boundary.

Stops U.S.-produced or refined natural gas from being sent abroad for further export via foreign LNG terminals.