The business meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

The purpose of the business meeting is to consider nominations and pending legislation.

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.  

Agenda Item 1: Nomination of David Crane to be Under Secretary of Energy.

• Passed by roll call vote (13-6)

Amendments agreed to en bloc, by voice vote:

• Joint staff 25 to agenda item #7 (ELT23677)
• Joint staff 23 to agenda item #19 (FLO23417)
• Hickenlooper 24 to agenda item #19 (FLO23381)
• Lee 12 as modified to agenda item #20 (FLO23423)
• Manchin 20 to agenda item #20 (FLO23414)
• Daines 18 to agenda item #22 (RYA23750)

Agenda Item 3: S. 92, a bill to designate the outdoor amphitheater at the Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax, Virginia, as the “Rick Boucher Amphitheater". (Mr. Warner).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 4: S. 162, a bill to amend the Smith River National Recreation Area Act to include certain additions to the Smith River National Recreation Area, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain wild rivers in the State of Oregon, and for other purposes. (Mr. Merkley).

• Passed by roll call vote (11-8)

Agenda Item 5: S. 199, a bill to codify the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain landscape-scale forest restoration projects, and for other purposes.  (Mr. Daines and Mrs. Feinstein).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 6: S. 440, a bill to designate certain land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas, to withdraw certain land located in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws, and for other purposes. (Mr. Wyden).

• Passed by roll call vote (12-7)

Agenda Item 7: S. 452, a bill to require the Secretary of Energy to establish a Nuclear Fuel Security Program, expand the American Assured Fuel Supply Program, and submit a report on a civil nuclear credit program, and for other purposes, with one amendment.  (Mr. Manchin, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Risch, and Mr. Warner).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 9: S. 534, a bill to withdraw certain Bureau of Land Management land from mineral development, with two amendments. (Mr. Heinrich).

• Passed by roll call vote (12-6)

Agenda Item 10: S. 535, a bill to streamline the oil and gas permitting process and to recognize fee ownership for certain oil and gas drilling or spacing units, and for other purposes.  (Mr. Hoeven).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 11: S. 593, a bill to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to establish the Cerro de la Olla Wilderness in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument and to modify the boundary of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, with two amendments. (Mr. Heinrich).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 12: S. 612, a bill to reauthorize the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act, and for other purposes, witht wo amendments. (Ms. Cortez Masto).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 13: S. 623, a bill to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to exclude certain payments to aged, blind, or disabled Alaska Natives or descendants of Alaska Natives from being used to determine eligibility for certain programs, and for other purposes.  (Ms. Murkowski). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 14: S. 683, a bill to modify the boundary of the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument to include certain Federal land in Lake County, California, and for other purposes.  (Mr. Padilla).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 15: S. 706, a bill to withdraw the National Forest System land in the Ruby Mountains subdistrict of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and the National Wildlife Refuge System land in Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Elko and White Pine Counties, Nevada, from operation under the mineral leasing laws. (Ms. Cortez Masto).

• Passed by roll call vote (12-7)

Agenda Item 16: S. 736, a bill to establish the Chiricahua National Park in the State of Arizona as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.  (Mr. Kelly).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 17: S. 776, a bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the Gila River system in the State of New Mexico as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, to provide for the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over certain Federal land in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes, with one amendment.  (Mr. Heinrich).

• Passed by roll call vote (11-8)

Agenda Item 18: S. 843, a bill to amend the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to authorize the use of funds for certain additional Carey Act projects, and for other purposes.  (Mr. Risch).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 19: S. 873, a bill to improve recreation opportunities on, and facilitate greater access to, Federal public land, and for other purposes, with two amendments. (Mr. Manchin and Mr. Barrasso).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 20: S. 1260, a bill to release the reversionary interest of the United States to certain non-Federal land in Salt Lake City, and for other purposes. (Mr. Lee).

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 21: S. 1466, a bill to adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to include the Rim of the Valley Corridor, and for other purposes. (Mr. Padilla for Mrs. Feinstein).

• Passed by roll call vote (11-8)

Agenda Item 22: S. 1540, a bill to amend the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to provide for circumstances under which reinitiation of consultation is not required under a land and resource management plan or land use plan under those Acts, and for other purposes. (Mr. Daines).

• Passed by voice vote