The business meeting will be held on Thursday, September 21, 2023, at 9:30 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 below.

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:

• Cortez Masto 1 to agenda item #20 (FLO23798)
• Cortez Masto 2 to agenda item #23 (FLO23768)
• Barrasso-King 3 to agenda item #21 (FLO23745)
• Joint staff 4 to agenda item #26 (FLO23803)
• Joint staff 5 to agenda item #19 (FLO23802)
• Joint staff 6 to agenda item #1 (FLO23800)
• Joint staff 7 to agenda item #13 (FLO23797)
• Joint staff 8 to agenda item #10 (FLO23790)
• Manchin 9 to agenda item #24 (FLO23807)
• Manchin 11 to agenda item #12 (FLO23813)

Agenda Item 1: S. 384, a bill to establish the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument in the State of Illinois, and for other purposes. (Ms. Duckworth). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 2: S. 432, a bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate the Nulhegan River and Paul Stream in the State of Vermont for potential addition to the national wild and scenic rivers system, and for other purposes. (Mr. Welch). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 3: S. 507, a bill to establish the Ralph David Abernathy, Sr., National Historic Site, and for other purposes. (Mr. Ossoff). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 5: S. 608, a bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the Deerfield River for potential addition to the national wild and scenic rivers system, and for other purposes. (Mr. Markey). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 7: S. 912, a bill to require the Secretary of Energy to provide technology grants to strengthen domestic mining education, and for other purposes. (Mr. Barrasso). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 8: S. 924, a bill to amend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act to extend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Commission. (Mr. Cardin). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 9: S. 961, a bill to redesignate the Salem Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts, as the “Salem Maritime National Historical Park”, and for other purposes. (Mr. Markey). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 10: S. 1015, a bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Pleasant Valley Ranger District Administrative Site to Gila County, Arizona. (Mr. Kelly). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 11: S. 1059, a bill to adjust the boundary of Big Bend National Park in the State of Texas, and for other purposes. (Mr. Cornyn). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 12: S. 1088, a bill to authorize the relinquishment and in lieu selection of land and minerals in the State of North Dakota, to restore land and minerals to Indian Tribes within the State of North Dakota, and for other purposes. (Mr. Hoeven). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 13: S. 1097, a bill to establish the Cesar E. Chavez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park in the States of California and Arizona, and for other purposes. (Mr. Padilla). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 15: S. 1277, a bill to modify the boundary of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes. (Mr. McConnell). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 16: S. 1405, a bill to provide for the exchange of certain Federal land and State land in the State of Utah. (Mr. Lee).  

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 19: S. 1657, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to La Paz County, Arizona, and for other purposes. (Ms. Sinema). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 20: S. 1760, a bill to amend the Apex Project, Nevada Land Transfer and Authorization Act of 1989 to include the city of North Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Apex Industrial Park Owners Association, and for other purposes. (Ms. Cortez Masto). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 21: S. 2018, a bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an assessment to identify locations in National Parks in which there is the greatest need for broadband internet access service and areas in National Parks in which there is the greatest need for cellular service, and for other purposes. (Mr. Barrasso). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 22: S. 2020, a bill to amend the Oregon Resource Conservation Act of 1996 to reauthorize the Deschutes River Conservancy Working Group, and for other purposes. (Mr. Merkley). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 23: S. 2042, a bill to amend the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area Act to adjust the boundary of the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area, and for other purposes. (Ms. Cortez Masto). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 24: S. 2136, a bill to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain Federal land to the State of Utah for inclusion in certain State parks, and for other purposes. (Mr. Lee). 

• Passed by voice vote

Agenda Item 25: S. 2149, a bill to sustain economic development and recreational use of National Forest System land in the State of Montana, to add certain land to the National Wilderness Preservation System, to designate new areas for recreation, and for other purposes. (Mr. Tester).

• Passed by voice vote 

Agenda Item 26: S. 2216, a bill to release from wilderness study area designation certain land in the State of Montana, to improve the management of that land, and for other purposes. (Mr. Daines).  

• Passed by voice vote