Great Lakes Environmental Protection and Restoration Programs Reauthorization Act

Bill: 109-hr-2129
Sponsor: Rep. Ehlers, Vernon J. [R-MI-3]
Introduced: 2005-05-05 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Department of the Interior
Depressed areas
Drainage
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Environmental technology
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Fishery management
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Great Lakes
Habitat conservation
Infrastructure
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Laboratories
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Nonprofit organizations
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public utility rates
Regional planning
Research and development
Restoration ecology
Revolving funds
Rivers
Science, Technology, Communications
Sediment control
Sewage treatment
Sewerage
Social Welfare
Soil erosion
Technological innovations
Waste water treatment
Water quality
Water treatment plants
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: 
Great Lakes Environmental Protection and Restoration Programs Reauthorization Act - Amends the Water Resources Development Acts of 2000, 1990, and 1996, respectively, to reauthorize appropriations for: (1) Great Lakes fishery and ecosystem restoration; (2) Great Lakes remedial action plans and sediment remediation projects; and (3) the development of a tributary sediment transport model for the Great Lakes.
 
Reauthorizes appropriations under: (1) the Food Security Act of 1985 for the Great Lakes basin program for soil erosion and sediment control; (2) the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain Act of 2002 for research and development; and (3) the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for the Great Lakes National Program Office. Directs such Office and the Great Lakes Research Office to submit the joint research plan to the Executive Committee of the Regional Collaboration.
 
 Authorizes appropriations for: (1) the Great Lakes Coordination Office; (2) research on fisheries and ecosystems in the Lower Great Lakes; and (3) the Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, for use by the Great Lakes Science Center.
 
Reauthorizes national programs for the prevention, reduction, and elimination of pollution and authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in carrying out such programs, to provide technical assistance to rural and small municipalities to help in planning, developing, and acquiring financing for wastewater infrastructure assistance. Extends the payment period for water pollution control revolving loan funds. Authorizes a State to provide additional subsidization to benefit a municipality that meets specified requirements.
 
 Codifies: (1) the Great Lakes Interagency Task Force within EPA (as originally established by Executive Order 13340); and (2) the Framework for the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2005-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards.
action_date: 2005-05-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
action_date: 2005-05-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, and Science, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, and Science, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, and Science, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, and Science, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Resources, Agriculture, and Science, 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: 2005-05-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E900-901)
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-05
text: Introduced in House