Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-3213
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2008-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Agriculture and Food
Alabama
Alaska
All terrain vehicles
American Revolution
Animals
Archaeology
Archives
Arizona
Arkansas
Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Authors and authorship
Botanical gardens
Boy Scouts
California
Canals
Caves
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil War
Clinton Administration
Coal
Colorado
Commemorations
Commerce
Concentration camps
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Connecticut
Construction costs
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cultural property
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Destruction of property
Easements
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Emergency Management
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental education
Everglades
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Flood control
Floods
Florida
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forfeiture
Fossils
Fraud
Freedom of information
Geology
Georgia
Government Operations and Politics
Government property
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grazing
Great Plains
Habitat conservation
Harbors
Hawaii
Historic sites
History
Horses
Housing and Community Development
Idaho
Informers
Infrastructure
Inventors
Iowa
Irrigation districts
Islands
Japanese Americans
Judicial review
Kansas
Labeling
Land transfers
Land use
Landscape protection
Larceny
Law
Licenses
Louisiana
Maine
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Maryland
Massachusetts
Military parks
Miners
Minorities
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Mormons
Museums
National forests
National monuments
National parks
National recreation areas
Native Americans
Natural areas
Natural gas
Nature conservation
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York State
North Dakota
Official secrets
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Outdoor recreation
Paleontology
Parks
Pennsylvania
Pipelines
Planning
Postal service
Public records
Range management
Recidivists
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Research
Research centers
Research natural areas
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Rhode Island
Rivers
Science, Technology, Communications
Sheep
Sports and Recreation
Tennessee
Texas
Tourism
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation planning
Truman Administration
Urban affairs
Urban areas
Utah
Virgin Islands
Virginia
Washington State
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water districts
Water rates
Water supply
Watersheds
Wells
West (U.S.)
West Virginia
Wild rivers
Wilderness areas
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife refuges
World War II
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: 
Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2008 - Authorizes specified programs and activities in the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture concerning, among other things, national wilderness preservation, boundary adjustments, national rivers, the national landscape conservation system, national conservation areas, land conveyances and exchanges, watershed management, watershed restoration and enhancement, wildland firefighter safety, forest landscape restoration, national trails, paleontological resources preservation, national parks, studies, national heritage areas, national heritage corridors, and water projects.

Makes amendments to various public laws, including the Oregon Wilderness Act of 1984, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996, the National Trails System Act, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978, the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996, the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994, the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Act of 1988, the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Act, the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act, the Colorado River Storage Project Act, the National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992, the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2000, and the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-27
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 855.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6292)
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate