Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA)

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

• Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation
• Forest reserves and national parks created from the public domain
• Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien ownership of mineral lands
• Geological Survey
• International fishing agreements
• Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for irrigation purposes
• Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for reclamation projects and easements of public lands for irrigation projects; and acquisition of private lands when necessary to complete irrigation projects
• Native Americans generally, including the care and allotment of Native American lands and general and special measures relating to claims that are paid out of Native American funds
• Insular areas of the United States generally (except those affecting the revenue and appropriations)
• Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within the District of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to the memory of individuals
• Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder
• Mineral resources of public lands
• Mining interests generally
• Mining schools and experimental stations
• Marine affairs, including coastal zone management (except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters)
• Oceanography
• Petroleum conservation on public lands and conservation of the radium supply in the United States
• Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain
• Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and grazing thereon
• Relations of the United States with Native Americans and Native American tribes
• Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking)

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

• Biomedical research and development
• Consumer affairs and consumer protection
• Health and health facilities (except health care supported by payroll deductions)
• Interstate energy compacts. (5) Interstate and foreign commerce generally
• Exploration, production, storage, supply, marketing, pricing, and regulation of energy resources, including all fossil fuels, solar energy, and other unconventional or renewable energy resources
• Conservation of energy resources
• Energy information generally
• The generation and marketing of power (except by federally chartered or Federal regional power marketing authorities); reliability and interstate transmission of, and ratemaking for, all power; and siting of generation facilities (except the installation of interconnections between Government waterpower projects)
• General management of the Department of Energy and management and all functions of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• National energy policy generally
• Public health and quarantine
• Regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry, including regulation of research and development reactors and nuclear regulatory research
• Regulation of interstate and foreign communications
• Travel and tourism.
• The committee shall have the same jurisdiction with respect to regulation of nuclear facilities and of use of nuclear energy as it has with respect to regulation of nonnuclear facilities and of use of nonnuclear energy.

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

• Child labor
• Gallaudet University and Howard University and Hospital
• Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts into interstate commerce
• Food programs for children in schools
• Labor standards and statistics
• Education or labor generally
• Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes
• Regulation or prevention of importation of foreign laborers under contract
• Workers’ compensation
• Vocational rehabilitation
• Wages and hours of labor
• Welfare of miners
• Work incentive programs
• Organization, administration, and general management of the Department of Education
• Organization, administration, and general management of the Department of Labor

Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:

• Federal civil service, including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of officers and employees of the United States, including their compensation, classification, and retirement
• Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general (other than appropriations)
• Federal paperwork reduction
• Government management and accounting measures generally
• Holidays and celebrations
• Overall economy, efficiency, and management of government operations and activities, including Federal procurement
• National archives
• Population and demography generally, including the Census
• Postal service generally, including transportation of the mails
• Public information and records
• Relationship of the Federal Government to the States and municipalities generally
• Reorganizations in the executive branch of the Government