The business meeting will be held on Thursday, December 14, 2023, at 9:00 a.m., in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

The purpose of the business meeting is to consider the legislation on the agenda.

The business meeting will be webcast live on the committee’s website, and an archived video will be available shortly after the business meeting concludes.  

Amendments agreed to en bloc by voice vote:

• Joint staff 9 to agenda item 3 (FLO23804)
• Manchin 12 to agenda item 4 (FLO23992)
• Cortez Masto-Manchin 17 to agenda item 5 (FLO23A10, modified)
• Cortez Masto-Manchin 18 to agenda item 5 (FLO23959)
• Manchin 6 to agenda item 6 (FLO23602)
• Barrasso 15 to agenda item 7 (FLO23A83, modified)
• Hickenlooper 13 to agenda item 9 (FLO23991)
• Joint staff 1 to agenda item 10 (FLO23974)
• Padilla 11 to agenda item 11 (FLO23A14, modified)
• Murkowski 5 to agenda 12 (FLO23977)
• Manchin 7 to agenda item 13 (FLO23A80, modified)
• Manchin 8 to agenda item 13 (FLO23976)
• Joint staff 2 to agenda item 14 (FLO23972)
• Lee 3 to agenda item 17 (FLO23987)
• Manchin 16 to agenda item 18 (PAT23973)
• Lee 4 to agenda item 21 (FLO23966)
• Padilla 10 to agenda item 23 (FLO23988)

Agenda items reported by roll call vote: 

• Agenda item #6 — Wild Olympics Wilderness Act, as amended.
• Reported by roll call vote (10-9)
• Agenda item #9 — CORE Act, as amended. 
• Reported by roll call vote (11-8)
• Agenda item #11 — PUBLIC Lands Act, as amended. 
• Reported by roll call vote (10-9)
• Agenda item #20 — Pecos Watershed Protection. 
• Reported by roll call vote (10-9)

Agenda Item 1: A Committee resolution appointing the members of the subcommittee for the 118th Congress.

Agenda Item 2: S. 461, a bill to make certain irrigation districts eligible for Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program pumping power, and for other purposes. (Mr. Cramer). 

• Withdrawn from Agenda

Agenda Item 3: S. 594, a bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to prioritize the completion of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail, and for other purposes. (Mr. Heinrich).  

• Reported by voice vote

Agenda Item 4: S. 636, a bill to establish the Dolores River National Conservation Area and the Dolores River Special Management Area in the State of Colorado, to protect private water rights in the State, and for other purposes. (Mr. Bennet).  

• Reported by voice vote 

Agenda Item 5: S. 1118, a bill to establish the Open Access Evapotranspiration (OpenET) Data Program. (Ms. Cortez Masto). 

• Reported by voice vote

Agenda Item 6: S. 1254, a bill to designate and expand the wilderness areas in Olympic National Forest in the State of Washington, and to designate certain rivers in Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park as wild and scenic rivers, and for other purposes. (Mrs. Murray). 

• Reported by roll call vote (10-9)

Agenda Item 7: S. 1348, a bill to redesignate land within certain wilderness study areas in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes. (Mr. Barrasso). 

• Reported by voice vote

Agenda Item 8:  S. 1521, a bill to amend the Federal Power Act to modernize and improve the licensing of non-Federal hydropower projects, and for other purposes. (Mr. Daines). 

• Withdrawn from Agenda

Agenda Item 9: S. 1634, a bill to provide for the designation of certain wilderness areas, recreation management areas, and conservation areas in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes. (Mr. Bennet). 

• Reported by roll call vote (11-8)

Agenda Item 10: S. 1662, a bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Midvale Irrigation District the Pilot Butte Power Plant in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes. (Mr. Barrasso). 

• Reported by voice vote

Agenda Item 11: S. 1776, a bill to provide for the protection of and investment in certain Federal land in the State of California, and for other purposes. (Mr. Padilla). 

• Reported by roll call vote (10-9)

Agenda Item 12: S. 1889, a bill to provide for the recognition of certain Alaska Native communities and the settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and for other purposes. (Ms. Murkowski). 

• Reported by voice vote 

Agenda Item 13: S. 1890, a bill to provide for the establishment of a grazing management program on Federal land in Malheur County, Oregon, and for other purposes. (Mr. Wyden). 

• Reported by voice vote

Agenda Item 14: S. 1955, a bill to amend the Central Utah Completion Act to authorize expenditures for the conduct of certain water conservation measures in the Great Salt Lake basin, and for other purposes. (Mr. Lee). 

• Reported by voice vote

Agenda Item 15: S. 2160, a bill to amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to authorize certain extraordinary operation and maintenance work for urban canals of concern. (Mr. Risch).  

• Withdrawn from agenda

Agenda Item 16: S. 2169, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to carry out watershed pilots, and for other purposes. (Mr. Wyden). 

• Withdrawn from agenda 

Agenda Item 17: S. 2247, a bill to reauthorize the Bureau of Reclamation to provide cost-shared funding to implement the endangered and threatened fish recovery programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins. (Mr. Hickenlooper). 

• Reported by voice vote

Agenda Item 18: S. 2581, a bill to extend the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000. (Mr. Crapo). 

• Reported by voice vote

Agenda Item 19: S. 2615, a bill to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to provide that Village Corporations shall not be required to convey land in trust to the State of Alaska for the establishment of Municipal Corporations, and for other purposes. (Ms. Murkowski). 

• Reported by voice vote 

Agenda Item 20: S. 3033, a bill to withdraw certain Federal land in the Pecos Watershed area of the State of New Mexico from mineral entry, and for other purposes. Mr. Heinrich). 

• Reported by roll call vote (10-9)

Agenda Item 21: S. 3036, a bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the State of Utah certain Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management within the boundaries of Camp Williams, Utah, and for other purposes. (Mr. Lee). 

• Reported by voice vote

Agenda Item 22: S. 3044, a bill to redesignate the Mount Evans Wilderness as the “Mount Blue Sky Wilderness”, and for other purposes. (Mr. Hickenlooper). 

• Reported by voice vote

Agenda Item 23: S. 3045, a bill to provide for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over certain Federal land in the State of California, and for other purposes. (Mr. Padilla). 

• Reported by voice vote 

Agenda Item 24: S. 3046, a bill to make permanent the authority to collect Shasta-Trinity marina fees. (Mr. Padilla). 

• Reported by voice vote