Climate Change Safeguards for Natural Resources Conservation Act

Bill: 111-hr-2192
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2009-04-30 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Air quality
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Department of the Interior
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine pollution
Water quality
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: 
Climate Change Safeguards for Natural Resources Conservation Act - Requires the President to establish: (1) a national Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and to identity opportunities to mitigate those impacts; and (2) a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel to serve as a forum for interagency consultation on and the coordination of the development and implementation of such Strategy. Requires each agency represented on the Panel to complete and revise every five years an adaptation plan implementing such Strategy.
 
Directs the Chair of the Council of Environmental Quality to: (1) chair the Panel; (2) advise the President on the Strategy and agency adaptation plans; and (3) coordinate agency natural resources actions in response to climate change and ocean acidification.
 
Requires the Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior to: (1) establish a coordinated process for developing and providing science and information needed to assess and address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources; (2) undertake a climate change and ocean acidification impact survey; and (3) establish a Science Advisory Board to advise the Secretaries on state-of-the-art science regarding the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and on scientific strategies and mechanisms for protecting, restoring, and conserving natural resources.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) establish the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); (2) establish a National Fish and Wildlife Habitat and Corridors Information Program; and (3) develop a Habitat and Corridors Information System.
 

 
Establishes in the Treasury the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Account. Requires each state, to be eligible for funding from such Account, to prepare and update every five years a natural resources adaptation plan to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on its natural resources and coastal areas. Provides for the allocation of such Account funds for specified state and federal natural resources adaptation activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2010-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2009-05-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Science and Technology
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Agriculture
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Science and Technology, 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: 2009-04-30
text: Referred to House Natural Resources
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1025-1026)
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-04-30
text: Introduced in House