Title: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Department of the Navy should take a leading role in the mitigation of cross-border spills, discharges, and debris in the Tijuana River that impact national security interests of the United States.
Policy area: Environmental Protection

Summary:
This resolution calls for the Department of the Navy to take a leading role in the mitigation of cross-border spills, discharges, and debris in the Tijuana River that impact national security interests.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 511 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 511

     Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the 
Department of the Navy should take a leading role in the mitigation of 
 cross-border spills, discharges, and debris in the Tijuana River that 
        impact national security interests of the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 2019

  Mrs. Davis of California (for herself, Mr. Levin of California, Mr. 
 Peters, and Mr. Vargas) submitted the following resolution; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the 
Department of the Navy should take a leading role in the mitigation of 
 cross-border spills, discharges, and debris in the Tijuana River that 
        impact national security interests of the United States.

Whereas runoff crossing the United States-Mexico border poses significant 
        environmental and public health risks;
Whereas discharges of raw sewage into the Tijuana River have required Navy in-
        water military training in the vicinity of Coronado, California, to be 
        shifted to other locations due to health and safety concerns;
Whereas the $1,000,000,000 Navy SEAL training center, Naval Base Coronado 
        Coastal Campus, is located less than three miles from the mouth of the 
        Tijuana River;
Whereas sewage spills and debris, such as discarded tires, often clog the river 
        channel, causing substantial erosion along the perimeter of the Naval 
        Outlying Landing Field Imperial Beach (NOLFIB), which has threatened the 
        installation's perimeter fencing and resulted in the Navy developing a 
        project to reinforce the riverbank and relocate portions of Navy 
        fencing;
Whereas such discharges also cause secondary impacts to local Navy operations, 
        such as beach closures at Naval Base Coronado in areas that are prime 
        nesting grounds for the Western Snowy Plover and the California Least 
        Tern;
Whereas increased regulatory actions by State and Federal environmental 
        protection agencies may be levied if the quality and safety of these 
        species' nesting areas are affected, which will negatively constrain 
        military activities in these areas; and
Whereas Congress is concerned that future spills, discharges, and debris from 
        the Tijuana River may have more significant impacts on the military 
        installations and operations in the San Diego region: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Department of the Navy should take a leading role in the mitigation 
of cross-border spills, discharges, and debris in the Tijuana River 
that impact national security interests of the United States.
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