Bills About Public Lands And Natural Resources Sponsored by Scott Tipton (R-Colo.)

Rep. Tipton sponsored 38 bills about public lands and natural resources in the 116th Congress (2019-20).

Introduced Number Title Cosponsors Cosponsor Party Latest Action
March 4, 2019 H.R.1492 To update the map of, and modify the maximum acreage available for inclusion in, the Yucca House National Monument. 0 Became Public Law No: 116-329.
Nov. 13, 2019 H.R.5077 To provide protections and certainty for private landowners related to resurveying certain Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, and the Forest Service, and for other purposes. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Sept. 19, 2019 H.R.4427 To require the Secretary of Energy to identify and convey to the State of Colorado land for use as a storage site for residual radioactive material, and for other purposes. 1
All Democrats
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
May 2, 2019 H.R.2509 To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to provide for the establishment of a Ski Area Fee Retention Account. 20
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Jan. 15, 2019 H.R.579 To prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use agreement on the transfer of any water right to the United States by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, and for other purposes. 10
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Jan. 15, 2019 H.R.580 To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to improve the transparency and oversight of land conveyances involving disposal or acquisition of National Forest System lands or Bureau of Land Management public lands, to provide protections and certainty for private landowners related to resurveying such public lands, and for other purposes. 6
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Jan. 8, 2019 H.R.348 To designate certain mountain peaks in the State of Colorado as "Fowler Peak" and "Boskoff Peak". 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
Dec. 11, 2018 H.R.7263 To require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide notice in the case of certain ski area closures, and for other purposes. 0 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Aug. 28, 2018 H.R.6682 To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to improve the transparency and oversight of land conveyances involving disposal or acquisition of National Forest System lands or Bureau of Land Management public lands, to provide protections and certainty for private landowners related to resurveying such public lands, and for other purposes. 0 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 826.
March 6, 2018 H.R.5171 To amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to provide for the establishment of a Ski Area Fee Retention Account. 24
Bipartisan
Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 115-990, Part I.
Jan. 24, 2017 H.R.698 To require a land conveyance involving the Elkhorn Ranch and the White River National Forest in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes. 2
Bipartisan
Became Public Law No: 115-252.
Sept. 13, 2018 H.R.6799 To authorize disaster recovery assistance for areas affected by wildfires on Federal Lands, and for other purposes. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
May 30, 2017 H.R.2768 To designate certain mountain peaks in the State of Colorado as "Fowler Peak" and "Boskoff Peak". 0 An errata sheet on written report No. 115-321 was printed.
Dec. 11, 2017 H.R.4609 To provide for the conveyance of a Forest Service site in Dolores County, Colorado, to be used for a fire station. 0 By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 115-316.
May 9, 2018 H.R.5744 To prohibit surface occupancy for purposes of mineral leasing or development on certain land located in Plata County, Colorado, and for other purposes. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
June 20, 2017 H.R.2939 To prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use agreement on the transfer of any water right to the United States by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, and for other purposes. 12
All Republicans
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 187.
May 2, 2017 H.R.2287 To require the Secretary of the Interior to develop a strategy to relocate the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management from Washington, DC, to a western State in a manner that will save the maximum amount of taxpayer money practicable, and for other purposes. 19
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
April 6, 2017 H.R.1965 To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to improve the transparency and oversight of land conveyances involving the sale, exchange, or other disposal of National Forest System lands or public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management or the acquisition of non-Federal lands for inclusion in the National Forest System or administration as public lands, and for other purposes. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
April 6, 2017 H.R.1966 To provide protections and certainty for private landowners related to resurveying certain Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and for other purposes. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Feb. 13, 2017 H.J.RES.71 Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule of the Office of Natural Resources Revenue of the Department of the Interior relating to consolidated Federal oil and gas and Federal and Indian coal valuation reform. 22
All Republicans
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Sept. 28, 2016 H.R.6288 To provide protections and certainty for private landowners related to resurveying certain Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and for other purposes. 3
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
June 22, 2016 H.R.5570 To release a Wilderness Study Area administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Jackson County, Colorado, that was not found suitable for wilderness designation, and to release residual Wilderness Study Area acreage in Mesa and Delta Counties, Colorado, that were excluded from their respective wilderness designations from continued management for wilderness characteristics. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
March 23, 2015 H.R.1554 To require a land conveyance involving the Elkhorn Ranch and the White River National Forest in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes. 1
All Democrats
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 340.
April 16, 2015 H.R.1830 To prohibit the conditioning of any permit, lease, or other use agreement on the transfer of any water right to the United States by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture, and to require the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to develop water planning instruments consistent with State law. 26
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Feb. 3, 2015 H.R.695 To address the bark beetle epidemic, drought, deteriorating forest health conditions, and high risk of wildfires on National Forest System land and land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management by expanding authorities established in the Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 to provide emergency measures for high-risk areas identified by such States, and for other purposes. 15
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Jan. 21, 2015 H.R.459 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish goals for an all-of-the-above energy production plan strategy on a 4-year basis on all onshore Federal lands managed by the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service. 9
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
May 6, 2013 H.R.1839 To designate certain Federal land in the San Juan National Forest in the State of Colorado as wilderness, and for other purposes. 1
All Republicans
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 524.
Sept. 8, 2014 H.R.5414 To require a patent correction involving the Elkhorn Ranch and the White River National Forest in the State of Colorado to protect bona fide private property rights in the Elkhorn Ranch adversely impacted by a 1949 resurvey of the southern boundary of Section 18 of Township 7 South, Range 93 West, Sixth Principle Meridian, and for other purposes. 1
All Democrats
Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
July 11, 2014 H.R.5074 To amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to improve the transparency and oversight of land conveyances involving the sale, exchange, or other disposal of National Forest System lands or public lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management or the acquisition of non-Federal lands for inclusion in the National Forest System or administration as public lands, and for other purposes. 4
All Republicans
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
July 11, 2014 H.R.5075 To provide protections and certainty for private landowners related to resurveying certain Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and for other purposes. 3
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
Nov. 12, 2013 H.R.3460 To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to require that a portion of revenues from new Federal mineral and geothermal leases be paid to States for use to supplement the education of students in kindergarten through grade 12 and public support of institutions of higher education, and for other purposes. 0 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
March 21, 2013 H.R.1394 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish goals for an all-of-the-above energy production plan strategy on a 4-year basis on all onshore Federal lands managed by the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service. 4
All Republicans
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 146.
June 26, 2013 H.RES.279 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that allocating the appropriate resources to wildland fire management is needed to protect the environment, the economy, and the people of the United States, and for other purposes. 5
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
Feb. 25, 2013 H.R.818 To address the bark beetle epidemic, drought, deteriorating forest health conditions, and high risk of wildfires on National Forest System land and land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in the United States by expanding authorities established in the Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 to provide emergency measures for high-risk areas identified by such States, to make permanent Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management authority to conduct good-neighbor cooperation with States to reduce wildfire risks, and for other purposes. 18
All Republicans
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
July 9, 2012 H.R.6089 To address the bark beetle epidemic, drought, deteriorating forest health conditions, and high risk of wildfires on National Forest System land and land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in the United States by expanding authorities established in the Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 to provide emergency measures for high-risk areas identified by such States, to make permanent Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management authority to conduct good-neighbor cooperation with States to reduce wildfire risks, and for other purposes. 14
All Republicans
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
April 18, 2012 H.R.4381 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish goals for an all-of-the-above energy production plan strategy on a 4-year basis on all onshore Federal lands managed by the Department of the Interior and the Forest Service. 13
All Republicans
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 378.
July 21, 2011 H.R.2621 To establish the Chimney Rock National Monument in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes. 4
Bipartisan
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Oct. 14, 2011 H.R.3235 To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to require that a portion of amounts deposited into the general fund of the Treasury from sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals from new mineral and geothermal lease authority be paid to States for use for the education of students in kindergarten through grade 12 and at institutions of higher education, and for other purposes. 3
Bipartisan
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
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