Hudson River Climate Change Protection Act

Bill: 116-hr-7220
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2020-06-15
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Air quality

Atlantic Ocean

Atmospheric science and weather

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Congressional oversight

Ecology

Environmental assessment, monitoring, research

Government studies and investigations

Lakes and rivers

Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Natural disasters

Water resources funding
Latest action: action_date: 2020-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-06-15
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Hudson River Climate Change Protection Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study the threat of sea-level rise and low-frequency precipitation events.<br /></p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7220 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 15, 2020 Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York (for himself, Ms. Velázquez , and Mr. Espaillat ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure A BILL To require the Corps of Engineers to include study of the impacts of sea-level rise and low-frequency precipitation events in addition to the impacts of coastal hurricanes in certain studies, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hudson River Climate Change Protection Act . 2. Inclusion of the study of sea-level rise and low-frequency precipitation events in certain Corps of Engineers studies In carrying out the examination and survey required under the Act of June 15, 1955 ( Public Law 84–71 ; 69 Stat. 132), and the study and report required under the heading Corps of Engineers—Civil—Investigations under title II of Division A of the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 ( Public Law 113–2 ), the Corps of Engineers shall— (1) immediately begin to include as an additional subject of such examination and study the threat of sea-level rise and low-frequency precipitation events and the impacts of sea-level rise and low-frequency precipitation events on the environment, communities, and ecosystem services; and (2) carry out such examination and study in accordance with section 1001 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act ( 33 U.S.C. 2282c ).