House Committee on Natural Resources

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)