July 31-Aug 5

Saturday
Full Committee
10 a.m. Santee, CA

San Francisco Chronicle
House Votes Major Changes to Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Act
Implementation of the 1973 ESA

ANWR Energy Exploration:
Putting it in Perspective

Dow Jones:
Lawmaker Eyes Energy Bill To Halt CNOOC-Unocal

Jurisdiction of the Committee on Resources

Members | Staff

Rule X Organization of the Committees

(Rules of the House of Representatives One Hundred Ninth Congress)

(l) Committee on Resources.

1. Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation.
2. Forest reserves and national parks created from the public domain.
3. Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien ownership of mineral lands.
4. Geological Survey.
5. International fishing agreements.
6. Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for irrigation purposes.
7. Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for reclamation projects and easements
   of public lands for irrigation projects; and acquisition of private lands when necessary to
   complete irrigation projects.
8. Native Americans generally, including the care and allotment of Native American lands
   and general and special measures relating to claims that are paid out of Native American
   funds.
9. Insular possessions of the United States generally (except those affecting the revenue and
   appropriations).
10. Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries administered by the Secretary of the
    Interior, parks within the District of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to the
    memory of individuals.
11. Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder.
12. Mineral resources of public lands.
13. Mining interests generally.
14. Mining schools and experimental stations.
15. Marine affairs, including coastal zone management (except for measures relating to oil
    and other pollution of navigable waters).
16. Oceanography.
17. Petroleum conservation on public lands and conservation of the radium supply in the
    United States.
18. Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain.
19. Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and grazing thereon.
20. Relations of the United States with Native Americans and Native American tribes.
21. Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking).