CLEAN-UP of Methamphetamines Act

Bill: 110-hr-955
Sponsor: Rep. Rehberg, Dennis R. [R-MT-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-02-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Canada
Chemicals
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal statistics
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Drugs
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Export controls
Families
Farm lands
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Hazardous wastes
Higher education
Imports
International Affairs
International cooperation
Labor and Employment
Laboratories
Law
Legal education
Local employees
Medical research
Methamphetamine
National forests
National parks
Police training
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public prosecutors
Recreation
Recruiting of employees
Refuse and refuse disposal
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Searches and seizures
Smuggling
Soil pollution
Sports and Recreation
State employees
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: 
Clean, Learn, Educate, Abolish, Neutralize, and Undermine Production of Methamphetamines Act or the CLEAN-UP of Methamphetamines Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to carry out environmental cleanup and remediation programs involving specified lands that are contaminated with hazardous substances associated with illegal methamphetamine manufacture.
 
Directs: (1) the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to designate as hazardous certain byproducts of the methamphetamine production process and expand penalties against laboratory operators; (2) the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to list byproducts likely to cause long-term environmental harm; (3) the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, to provide grants to state and local law enforcement for specified training and equipment acquisition; (4) the EPA Administrator to study the impact of methamphetamine laboratory operation on the environment; and (5) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study contamination issues. 
Amends: (1) the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize grants to educate students on prevention and treatment of methamphetamine abuse; (2) the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to provide treatment; and (3) the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to include among permissible grant projects under the "cops on the beat" program hiring personnel and purchasing equipment for enforcement, prosecution, and environmental cleanup. 
Urges the President to seek commitments from the Canadian government to stem the availability of pseudoephedrine in Canada and its illegal importation into the United States.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-02-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Labor, and the Judiciary, 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: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Introduced in House