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This resolution expresses the sense of the Senate that the Department of the Interior broke a commitment to the Blackfeet Tribe and must pursue and defend the cancellation of all oil and gas leases in the Badger-Two Medicine area. The resolution also urges Interior to work closely with the tribe to protect the Badger-Two Medicine area from oil and gas leases and to remedy the mistakes that led to leases being issued without consultation with the tribe.

Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 This bill provides FY2020 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. The bill provides appropriations to Interior for * the Bureau of Land Management, * the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, * the National Park Service, * the U.S. Geological Survey, * the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, * the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, * the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, * the Bureau of Indian Affairs, * the Bureau of Indian Education, * Departmental Offices, and * Department-Wide Programs. The bill provides appropriations to the EPA and the Forest Service. Within the Department of Health and Human Services, the bill provides appropriations for * the Indian Health Service, * the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and * the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. The bill provides appropriations to several related agencies, including * the Executive Office of the President for the Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Environmental Quality; * the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; * the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; * the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; * the Smithsonian Institution; * the National Gallery of Art; * the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; * the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; * the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities; * the Commission of Fine Arts; * the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; * the National Capital Planning Commission; * the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; * the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission; and * the World War I Centennial Commission. Additionally, the bill sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations Acts.

Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020 This bill provides FY2020 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. The bill provides appropriations to Interior for * the Bureau of Land Management, * the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, * the National Park Service, * the U.S. Geological Survey, * the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, * the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, * the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, * the Bureau of Indian Affairs, * the Bureau of Indian Education, * Departmental Offices, and * Department-Wide Programs. The bill provides appropriations to the EPA and the Forest Service. Within the Department of Health and Human Services, the bill provides appropriations for * the Indian Health Service, * the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and * the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. The bill provides appropriations to several related agencies, including * the Executive Office of the President for the Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Environmental Quality; * the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; * the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation; * the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; * the Smithsonian Institution; * the National Gallery of Art; * the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; * the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; * the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities; * the Commission of Fine Arts; * the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; * the National Capital Planning Commission; * the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; * the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission; * the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission; * the World War I Centennial Commission; and * the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children. Additionally, the bill sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations Acts.

Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021 This bill provides FY2021 appropriations for the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and related agencies. The bill provides appropriations to Interior for * the Bureau of Land Management, * the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, * the National Park Service, * the U.S. Geological Survey, * the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, * the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, * the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, * the Bureau of Indian Affairs, * the Bureau of Indian Education, * the Office of the Special Trustee For American Indians, * Departmental Offices, and * Department-Wide Programs. The bill also provides appropriations to the EPA and the Forest Service. Within the Department of Health and Human Services, the bill provides appropriations for * the Indian Health Service, * the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and * the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. The bill provides appropriations to several related agencies, including * the Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality, * the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, * the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation, * the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, * the Smithsonian Institution, * the National Gallery of Art, * the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, * the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, * the National Endowment for the Arts, * the National Endowment for the Humanities, * the Commission of Fine Arts, * the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. * the National Capital Planning Commission, * the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, * the Presidio Trust, * the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, and * the World War I Centennial Commission. The bill also provides additional emergency funding to the Bureau of Indian Education, the EPA, and the Indian Health Service for school construction, infrastructure grants, and the construction of health care facilities. Additionally, the bill sets forth requirements and restrictions for using funds provided by this and other appropriations Acts.

This bill directs the Department of the Interior, through the National Park Service, to convey 1.09 acres of federal land within the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts to the owner of 1.02 acres of non-federal land within the seashore, if the owner conveys the non-federal acres to Interior, subject to acceptable title. The land acquired by Interior shall be administered as part of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey specified lands in Oregon to the Burns Paiute Tribe. Interior must take such land into trust for the benefit of the tribe.

This bill requires the Department of the Interior to convey up to 6,400 acres of surface estate to Kian Tr'ee Corporation, an Alaska Native village corporation, for the village of Canyon Village. Further, Interior must convey equal acreage of subsurface estate to Doyon Limited, the Alaska Native regional corporation for Canyon Village.

This bill provides that an order by the Department of the Interior imposing a moratorium on federal coal leasing shall have no force or effect unless Interior submits the order to Congress and a joint resolution of approval is enacted within 30 legislative days of its receipt. Secretarial Order 3338, relating to a moratorium on the federal coal leasing program, which was issued by Interior on January 15, 2016, shall have no force or effect.

This bill directs the National Park Service to remove the statue of Albert Pike near Judiciary Square in the District of Columbia. The Department of the Interior may donate the statue to a museum or other similar entity, as determined appropriate by Interior to ensure its preservation and interpretation in an indoor setting. The recipient of the statue may not store, display, or exhibit the statue outdoors.

The bill directs the Department of the Interior to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating areas of Guam as a National Heritage Area.

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey approximately 7,167 acres of specified land managed by the Bureau of Land Management to the San Felipe Pueblo in Sandoval County, New Mexico.

This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to establish and collect fees for medical services provided to persons in units of the National Park System or for medical services provided by National Park Service personnel outside system units. The bill establishes the National Park Medical Services Fund, to consist of donations and the fees collected for medical services. The fund shall be available to Interior for (1) providing medical services; (2) preparing needs assessments or analyses for medical facilities, equipment, and vehicles; (3) developing management plans; (4) providing training to furnish medical services; and (5) obtaining or improving medical facilities, equipment, and vehicles.

State, Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Rural Development, Interior, Environment, Military Construction, and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2021 This bill provides FY2021 appropriations for several federal departments and agencies. It includes 4 of the 12 regular FY2021 appropriations bills: * the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2021; * the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021; * the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021; and * the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021. The departments and agencies funded in the bill include * the Department of State, * the Department of Agriculture, * the Food and Drug Administration, * the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, * the Department of the Interior, * the Environmental Protection Agency, * the Forest Service, * the Indian Health Service, * Department of Defense military construction and family housing programs, * the Department of Veterans Affairs, and * several related and independent agencies.

Broadband Deployment Streamlining Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior to (1) streamline the process for applications to locate or modify communications facilities on public lands administered by Interior, and (2) require that such applications be considered and granted on a neutral and nondiscriminatory basis. The Department of the Treasury shall establish a special account for the deposit of fees collected by Interior for communications use authorizations granted, issued, or executed with respect to the public lands Interior administers. Amounts collected and deposited into the account shall be available to Interior to cover the costs incurred by it in considering and granting applications.

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a study on feasibility of designating as a national historic trail the Chief Standing Bear Trail extending 550 miles from Niobrara, Nebraska, to Ponca City, Oklahoma, which follows the route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people during federal Indian removal, and 550 miles from Ponca City through Omaha to Niobrara, Nebraska, which follows the return route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people.

This bill allows the Department of the Interior to designate annually at least one city in a state or U.S. territory as an American World War II Heritage City in order to recognize, and ensure the continued preservation and importance of, the history of the involvement of the United States in World War II.

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to issue long-term leases on Bureau of Land Management-administered lands deemed suitable for companies that relocate production facilities from China to the United States. Interior may enter into such a lease only after the Department of Commerce has certified that the production facility to be located on the leased land will replace a production facility of the same size and type located in China. Each lease shall be made for a 99-year term. The rental fee for leases issued under this bill shall be set for $1 per acre per year.

This bill allows the Department of the Interior to designate annually at least one city in a state or U.S. territory as an American World War II Heritage City in order to recognize, and ensure the continued preservation and importance of, the history of the involvement of the United States in World War II.

This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to convey the approximately 0.5 acres of specified federal land in the Henry's Lake Wilderness Study Area in Fremont County, Idaho, to the owner of a private residence at 3787 Valhalla Road in Island Park, Idaho. Interior may grant Fall River Electric in Ashton, Idaho, the right to operate, maintain, and rehabilitate a right-of-way encumbering the approximately 0.4 acres of specified federal land in the study area which includes an electric distribution line and an access road. The conveyed land shall be exempt from all requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

This bill instructs the Department of the Interior to allow for the introduction of a small number of free-roaming wild horses from the Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina as necessary to ensure the genetic diversity of the wild horse population in and around Currituck National Wildlife Refuge, consistent with the December 2014 Wild Horse Management Agreement. Interior may enter into an agreement with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund to provide for the cost-effective management of the horses in and around the refuge while ensuring that its natural resources are not adversely impacted. Such agreement shall require the fund to pay the costs associated with: * conducting a periodic census of, and inspecting the health of, the horses; * maintaining records of the horses living in the wild and those living in confinement; * conducting the removal and placement of horses and monitoring horses removed from the Currituck County Outer Banks; and * administering a viable population-control plan for the horses.

This bill applies the Indian Reorganization Act to all federally recognized Indian tribes, regardless of when a tribe became recognized. The amendments made by this bill are retroactively effective as if included in the Indian Reorganization Act. This effectively overrules the Supreme Court's decision inCarcieri v. Salazar,which held that the Department of the Interior could not take land into trust for a specified tribe because that tribe had not been under federal jurisdiction when the Indian Reorganization Act was enacted.

This joint resolution requests the Department of the Interior to authorize a one-time arrangement to commemorate the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution entitledLOOK UP TO HER at Mount Rushmorewith a display of historical artifacts, digital content, film footage, and associated historical audio and imagery in and around the vicinity of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota for 14 nights of public display during August 18-September 30, 2020.

This bill directs the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture (USDA) to assess an annual fee of up to $200 for any film crew of five persons or fewer to conduct commercial filming activities or similar projects on federal land administered by such departments and to require a one-year permit for such activities or projects that occur in areas designated for public use during public hours on federal land and waterways administered by such departments. The bill also requires that the fee for a commercial filming activity or similar project in a unit of the National Park System be sufficient to cover the cost of a film permit and other administrative and personnel costs. Interior and USDA must also assess an annual fee of up to $200 for still photography crews of five persons or fewer. The bill repeals the requirement for collection by Interior and USDA of costs incurred as a result of filming activities or similar projects, including administrative and personnel costs, in addition to the reasonable fee assessed for commercial filming activities or similar projects in a system unit.