Subcommittees

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  Energy and Mineral Resources

  The Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources oversees these valuable public resources, ensuring they are developed in a safe and equitable manner and that U.S. taxpayers are properly compensated for their use.

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  National Parks, Forests, And Public Lands

  From the rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona to the crown of the Statue of Liberty in New York, to the peaks of Denali in Alaska, America’s public lands include some of the most iconic landscapes and treasured places in the world.

  The Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands oversees this collection of crown jewels, and the federal agencies tasked with their protection. 

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  Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States

  As the sole Subcommittee with exclusive jurisdiction over American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian issues in the House of Representatives, the Subcommittee oversees matters ranging from natural resources and land management, ownership, and leasing to Indian health care, tribal criminal justice, development of reservation economies, enhancement of social welfare and improvement of energy efficiency and renewable energy development initiatives on tribal lands.

  The goal of the Subcommittee is to protect tribal sovereignty and tribes’ authority over their lands and natural resources while empowering tribal communities with enhanced self-governance authorities.

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  Oversight and Investigations

  The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee was created in the 114th Congress. It has jurisdiction over each agency and program overseen by the House Committee on Natural Resources and its subcommittees.

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  Water, Oceans, and Wildlife

  The Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife has jurisdiction over the Bureau of Reclamation, the Water Division of the United States Geological Survey, and the four Federal Power Marketing Administrations. It also has jurisdiction over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's ocean, coastal and fisheries programs. 

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  Full Committee Insular Affairs

  The Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) coordinates federal legislation for the U.S. territories of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI).  Residents of the territories are U.S. citizens or nationals.

  OIA also oversees legislation to provide federal assistance under Compacts of Free Association to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, and helps maintain strategic relationships with all U.S.-affiliated insular areas.