Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6771
Sponsor: Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1]
Introduced: 2008-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Chesapeake Bay
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Delaware
District of Columbia
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Estuaries
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Fishery management
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Marine pollution
Marine resources conservation
Maryland
New York State
Pennsylvania
Restoration ecology
Virginia
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
West Virginia
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: 
Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery Act of 2008 - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the Chesapeake Executive Council, the chief executive of each Chesapeake Bay state, and the Chesapeake Bay Commission, to submit to Congress a financial report containing: (1) an interagency crosscut budget for restoration activities that protect, conserve, or restore living resources, habitat, water resources, or water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed; (2) an accounting of funds received and obligated by all federal agencies for restoration activities; (3) an accounting from each state of all funds received and obligated from a federal agency for restoration activities; and (4) a description of each of the proposed federal and state restoration activities. Requires: (1) such report to describe only federal restoration activities that have funding amounts of at least $100,000 and state restoration activities that have funding amounts of at least $50,000; and (2) the Director to submit the report no later than 30 days after the submission of the President's annual budget to Congress.

Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and update every three years an adaptive management plan for the Chesapeake Bay Program and restoration activities that includes: (1) a definition of specific and measurable objectives to improve water quality, habitat, and fisheries; (2) a process for stakeholder participation; (3) monitoring, modeling, experimentation, and other research and evaluation practices; (4) a process for modification of restoration activities that have not attained or will not attain such objectives; and (5) a process for prioritizing restoration activities and programs to which adaptive management shall be applied. Sets forth reporting requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-08-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2008-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Introduced in House