Title: Great Lakes Environmental Sensitivity Index Act of 2017
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to update at least once every seven years its environmental sensitivity index products for each coastal area of the Great Lakes. (An environmental sensitivity product is a map or similar tool that is utilized to identify sensitive shoreline, coastal or offshore, resources prior to an oil spill event.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1586 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

<DOC>






115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1586

  To require the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere to update 
   periodically the environmental sensitivity index products of the 
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for each coastal area 
              of the Great Lakes, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 19, 2017

 Mr. Peters (for himself and Mr. Young) introduced the following bill; 
    which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere to update 
   periodically the environmental sensitivity index products of the 
 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for each coastal area 
              of the Great Lakes, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. UPDATE TO ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY INDEX PRODUCTS OF 
              NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION FOR GREAT 
              LAKES.

    (a) Update Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act and not less frequently than once every 7 years 
thereafter, the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere shall update 
the environmental sensitivity index products of the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration for each coastal area of the Great 
Lakes.
    (b) Environmental Sensitivity Index Product Defined.--In this 
subsection, the term ``environmental sensitivity index product'' means 
a map or similar tool that is utilized to identify sensitive shoreline, 
coastal or offshore, resources prior to an oil spill event in order to 
set baseline priorities for protection and plan cleanup strategies, 
typically including information relating to shoreline type, biological 
resources, and human use resources.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            (1) In general.--There is authorized to be appropriated to 
        the Under Secretary $7,500,000 to carry out this section.
            (2) Availability.--Amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
        available pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be available to the 
        Under Secretary for the purposes set forth in such paragraph 
        until expended.
                                 <all>