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.

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

Confirms university use of about 593.54 acres for a research park and related purposes, including student housing and a transit hub.

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

Creates a Chesapeake Bay National Recreation Area to protect resources and improve public access in Maryland and Virginia.

Withdraws mapped lands around Chaco from new mining and leasing; allows tribal conveyance and ends certain inactive oil and gas leases.

Permanently bans new offshore oil and gas leasing off the Pacific outer continental shelf planning areas for California, Oregon, and Washington.

Prohibits issuing or extending federal leases or authorizations for oil, gas, or mineral activities on Arctic outer Continental Shelf areas.

Prohibits new offshore oil and gas leases in specified northeastern coastal waters.

Creates a federal approval process for cross-border oil, gas, and electricity facilities and removes presidential permit requirement.

Permanently bans oil and gas leasing in four Atlantic and Florida offshore planning areas.

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.