Making appropriations for the Environmental Protection Agency for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, and for other purposes.

Bill: 108-hr-4421
Sponsor: Rep. Obey, David R. [D-WI-7]
Introduced: 2004-05-20 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative fees
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Alaska
Appropriations
Arizona
Boundaries
Brownfields
Building construction
California
Colonias
Conservation easements
Drainage
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to air pollution control
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government trust funds
Groundwater
Hazardous wastes
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Indigenous peoples
Infrastructure
Inspectors general
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Land use
Latin America
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Local laws
Maintenance and repair
Mexico
Minorities
Motor vehicle pollution control
Native Americans
New Mexico
Oil pollution
Pesticide regulation
Petroleum storage
Pollution measurement
Real estate development
Research and development
Revolving funds
School buses
Science, Technology, Communications
Sewerage
Smog
Storm drains
Tax rates
Taxation
Texas
Transportation and Public Works
Underground storage
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water treatment plants
Wetlands
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: 
Appropriates specified sums for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for FY 2005 for: (1) science and technology, including research and development activities; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the Office of the Inspector General; (4) buildings and facilities; (5) the hazardous substance superfund, including transfers of funds; (6) the leaking underground storage tank program; (7) oil spill response; and (8) State and tribal assistance grants.
 
Authorizes the Administrator of EPA to: (1) award cooperative agreements to federally-recognized Indian tribes to assist in implementing Federal environmental programs; (2) collect and obligate pesticide registration service fees; and (3) use FY 2005 appropriations to award brownfield remediation grants under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.
 
Reduces by four percent the amount of tax reduction for taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes in excess of $1 million for calendar year 2004 resulting from enactment of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act and the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Introduced in House