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TITLE I--OVERTIME RIGHTS PROTECTION

SEC. 101. CLARIFICATION OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO OVERTIME
COMPENSATION.

Section 13 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 213)
is amended by adding at the end the following:
''(k)(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subchapter II of chapter
5 and chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as
the Administrative Procedures Act) or any other provision of law, any
portion of the final rule promulgated on April 23, 2004, revising part
541 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, that exempts from the
overtime pay provision of section 7 of this Act any employee who would
not otherwise be exempt if the regulations in effect on March 31, 2003,
remained in effect, shall have no force or effect and that portion of
such regulations (as in effect on March 31, 2003) that would prevent
such employee from being exempt shall be reinstated.
''(2) The Secretary shall adjust the minimum salary level for
exemption under section 13(a)(1) in the following manner:
''(A) Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of
this subsection, the Secretary shall increase the minimum
salary level for exemption under subsection (a)(1) for
executive, administrative, and managerial occupations from the
level of $155 per week in 1975 to $591 per week (an amount
equal to the increase in the Employment Cost Index (published
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) for executive,
administrative, and managerial occupations between 1975 and
2005).
''(B) Not later than December 31 of the calendar year
following the increase required in subparagraph (A), and each
December 31 thereafter, the Secretary shall increase the
minimum salary level for exemption under subsection (a)(1) by
an amount equal to the increase in the Employment Cost Index
for executive, administrative, and managerial occupations for
the year involved.''.

TITLE II--FAIR MINIMUM WAGE

SEC. 111. MINIMUM WAGE.

(a) In General.--Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of
1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
''(1) except as otherwise provided in this section, not
less than--
''(A) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day
after the date of enactment of this paragraph;
''(B) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that
60th day; and
''(C) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that
60th day;''.
(b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall
take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

TITLE III--SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING MULTIEMPLOYER PENSION PLANS

SEC. 121. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING MULTIEMPLOYER PENSION PLANS.

(a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
(1) Multiemployer pension plans have been a major force in
the delivery of employee benefits to active and retired
American workers and their dependents for over half a century.
(2) There are approximately 1,700 multiemployer defined
benefit pension plans in which approximately 9,700,000 workers
and retirees participate.
(3) Three-quarters of the approximately 60,000 to 65,000
employers that participate in multiemployer plans have fewer
that 100 employees.
(4) Multiemployer plans allow for greater access and
affordability for smaller employers and pension portability for
their employees as they move from one job to another, and
permit workers to earn a pension where they might otherwise not
be able to do so.
(5) The 2000-2002 drop in the stock market and decline in
equity values has affected all investors, including
multiemployer plans.
(6) The decline in value sustained by multiemployer defined
benefit pension plans have threatened the stability of this
private sector source of secure retirement income.
(7) Participating employers could face onerous excise taxes
and other penalties as a result of the serious, adverse
financial impact due to these market losses.
(8) In 2004, the United States Senate recognized the
severity of this situation and passed by an overwhelmingly,
large bipartisan margin of 86 to 9 temporary relief provisions
for single and multiemployer defined benefit pension plans.
(b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate that the
Senate--
(1) expresses its strong support for multiemployer defined
benefit pension plans;
(2) recognizes the importance of an environment in which
multiemployer plans can continue their vital role in providing
benefits to working men and women;
(3) recognizes that multiemployer pension plan relief must
be designed for the multiemployer labor-relations environment
that supports the plans; and
(4) supports legislation to strengthen and protect the
viability of multiemployer pension plans for the continued
benefit of current and retired members, and their families and
survivors, and to strengthen the ability of all plans to
address funding problems that occur.
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Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to deny any force or effect to any portion of a rule promulgated on April 23, 2004, that has the effect of exempting from FLSA overtime compensation requirements (which limit maximum hours at regular compensation) any employee who would not otherwise be exempted if regulations in effect on March 31, 2003, remained in effect. Reinstates that portion of such regulations that would prevent such an employee from being exempt. Directs the Secretary of Labor to increase, in a specified manner, the minimum salary level for the exemption for executive, administrative, and managerial occupations from FLSA overtime compensation requirements.

Amends the FLSA to increase the Federal minimum wage to: (1) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after enactment of this Act; (2) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day; and (3) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day.

Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding multiemployer pension plans.

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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Marine Renewable Energy Promotion
Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:
(1) Fund.--The term ''Fund'' means the Adaptive Management
and Environmental Fund established by section 3(c).
(2) Marine renewable energy.--The term ''marine renewable
energy'' means energy from--
(A) waves, tides, and currents in oceans,
estuaries, and tidal areas;
(B) free flowing water in rivers, lakes, man made
channels, and streams; and
(C) differentials in ocean temperature or ocean
thermal energy conversion.
(3) Secretary.--The term ''Secretary'' means the Secretary
of Energy.

SEC. 3. MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

(a) Research and Development Program.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall establish a marine
renewable energy research and development program that is
focused on--
(A) developing new marine renewable energy
technologies;
(B) reducing the manufacturing and operation costs
of marine renewable energy technologies;
(C) increasing the reliability and survivability of
marine renewable energy facilities;
(D) integrating marine renewable energy into the
national electric grid;
(E) identifying opportunities for cross-pollination
and development of economies of scale between offshore
wind and marine renewable energy sources;
(F) identifying the environmental impacts of marine
renewable energy and ways to address any negative
impacts; and
(G)(i) applying advanced systems engineering and
system integration methods to identify critical
interfaces and develop open standards for marine
renewable energy;
(ii) transferring the resulting intellectual
property to industry stakeholders as public information
through published interface definitions, standards, and
demonstration projects; and
(iii) developing incentives for industry to comply
with the standards.
(2) Administration.--The program established under
paragraph (1) shall be separate from any wind and hydropower
program carried out by the Secretary.
(b) Marine-Based Energy Device Verification Program.--
(1) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a marine-
based energy device verification program to provide a bridge
from the wave, tidal, current, or thermal energy capture device
design and development efforts underway across the industry to
commercial deployment of marine renewable energy devices.
(2) Purposes.--The purposes of the program are to fund,
facilitate the development and installation of, and evaluate
marine renewable energy projects, in partnership with the
Electric Power Research Institute, the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Marine Sciences Laboratory, and the Sandia National
Laboratories, and in conjunction with universities and other
institutions of higher education, private business entities,
and other appropriate organizations, in order--
(A) to increase marine renewable energy experience;
and
(B) to build and operate enough candidate devices
to obtain statistically significant operating and
maintenance data.
(3) Objectives.--The objectives of the program include--
(A) verifying the performance, reliability,
maintainability, and cost of new marine renewable
energy device designs and system components in an
operating environment;
(B) providing States, regulators, utilities, and
other stakeholders with a valid opportunity to test and
evaluate marine renewable energy technology in new
areas;
(C) documenting and communicating the experience
from those projects for the benefit of utilities,
independent power producers, other nonutility
generators, device suppliers, and others in the marine
renewable energy development community; and
(D) resolving environmental issues through robust
characterization, reliable impact prediction, effective
monitoring, development and use of adaptive management,
and informing engineering design to improve
environmental performance.
(c) Adaptive Management and Environmental Fund.--
(1) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(A) the use of marine renewable energy technologies
can reduce contributions to global warming;
(B) marine renewable energy technologies can be
produced domestically;
(C) marine renewable energy is a nascent industry;
and
(D) the United States must work to promote new
renewable energy technologies that reduce contributions
to global warming gases and improve domestic energy
production.
(2) Fund.--
(A) Establishment.--There is established in the
Treasury of the United States a revolving fund, to be
known as the ''Adaptive Management and Environmental
Fund'', consisting of such amounts as are appropriated
to the Fund under subsection (d).
(B) Expenditures from fund.--
(i) In general.--Subject to clause (ii), on
request by the Secretary, the Secretary of the
Treasury shall transfer from the Fund to the
Secretary such amounts as the Secretary
determines are necessary to provide grants to
eligible entities to assist the entities in
complying with Federal, State, or local
regulatory permit requirements through
assessment and demonstration of the
environmental effects of marine renewable
energy projects (including environmental
studies, design, fabrication, deployment,
operating, monitoring, environmental
mitigation, and decommissioning costs).
(ii) Administrative expenses.--An amount
not exceeding 10 percent of the amounts in the
Fund shall be available for each fiscal year to
pay the administrative expenses necessary to
carry out this subsection.
(C) Transfers of amounts.--
(i) In general.--The amounts required to be
transferred to the Fund under this paragraph
shall be transferred at least monthly from the
general fund of the Treasury to the Fund on the
basis of estimates made by the Secretary of the
Treasury.
(ii) Adjustments.--Proper adjustment shall
be made in amounts subsequently transferred to
the extent prior estimates were in excess of or
less than the amounts required to be
transferred.
(3) Eligibility.--
(A) In general.--To be eligible for a grant under
this subsection, an entity shall provide to the
Secretary a regulatory permit that includes conditions
for the removal of the marine renewable energy project
supported by the grant if the permitting authority
finds that the marine renewable energy project has an
unacceptable adverse impact on the environment.
(B) Administration.--A marine renewable energy
project shall not be required to be removed in the
absence of a finding by the permitting authority that
the project has an unacceptable adverse impact.
(4) Public availability.--The results of any assessment or
demonstration conducted under this subsection shall be made
available to the public, except to the extent that the
assessment or demonstration contains information that is
protected from disclosure under section 552(b) of title 5,
United States Code.
(5) Audit requirements.--
(A) In general.--Any entity that receives a grant
under this subsection shall--
(i) track the use of grant funds from the
Fund; and
(ii) certify annually to the Secretary that
the grant funds were used only for purposes
authorized under this subsection.
(B) Procedures.--The Secretary shall establish
procedures to ensure that the Secretary is able to
oversee and audit the use of funds by eligible
entities.
(C) Annual audits.--The Secretary shall conduct an
audit, at least annually, of the use of grant funds
received under this subsection by each eligible entity.
(D) Ineligibility.--The Secretary may declare an
entity ineligible for a grant under this subsection on
a finding of inappropriate use of funding.
(6) Sunset provision.--
(A) Report.--The Secretary shall submit a report to
the appropriate committees of Congress if the Secretary
determines that the technologies and activities
supported under this subsection have achieved a level
of maturity that is sufficient to enable the program
authorized under this subsection to cease.
(B) Termination.--The program authorized under this
subsection and the Fund shall cease to exist effective
on the date of submission of a report described in
subparagraph (A).
(7) Administration.--The Secretary may use amounts in the
Fund to provide assistance to State resource agencies that are
processing applications for permits required for marine
renewables projects that have received assistance from the Fund
to assist staff with understanding and evaluating applications
and participating in the applicable Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission or Minerals Management Service regulatory process.
(8) Environmental requirement.--Nothing in this section
eliminates or otherwise affects any requirement imposed under
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321
et seq.).
(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this section $250,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2010 through 2021.
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Marine Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2009 - Requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a marine renewable energy research and development program, separate from any DOE wind and hydropower program, focused on: (1) developing new marine renewable energy technologies; (2) reducing the manufacturing and operation costs of such technologies; (3) increasing the reliability and survivability of marine renewable energy facilities; (4) integrating marine renewable energy into the national electric grid; (5) identifying opportunities for cross pollination and development of economies of scale between offshore wind and marine renewable energy sources; (6) identifying the environmental impacts of marine renewable energy and ways to address negative impacts; (7) applying advanced systems engineering and system integration methods to identify critical interfaces and develop open standards for marine renewable energy; (8) transferring the resulting intellectual property to industry stakeholders as public information through published interface definitions, standards, and demonstration projects; and (9) developing incentives for industry to comply with such standards.

Requires DOE to establish a marine-based energy device verification program to provide a bridge from the wave, tidal, current, or thermal energy capture device design and development efforts underway across the industry to commercial deployment of marine renewable energy devices. Sets forth as purpose of the Program to fund, facilitate the development and installation of, and evaluate marine renewable energy projects, in partnership with the Electric Power Research Institute, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Marine Sciences Laboratory, and the Sandia National Laboratories in order to: (1) increase marine renewable energy experience; and (2) build and operate enough candidate devices to obtain statistically significant operating and maintenance data.

Establishes an Adaptive Management and Environmental Fund to provide grants for complying with requirements through assessment and demonstration of the environmental effects of marine renewable energy projects.

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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation
Mitigation Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. PRIORITY PROJECTS.

Section 3(c)(3) of the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation
Mitigation Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 777 note; Public Law 106-502) is
amended by striking ''$5,000,000'' and inserting ''$2,500,000''.

SEC. 3. COST SHARING.

Section 7(c) of Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act
of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 777 note; Public Law 106-502) is amended--
(1) by striking ''The value'' and inserting the following:
''(1) In general.--The value''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
''(2) Bonneville power administration.--
''(A) In general.--The Secretary may, without
further appropriation and without fiscal year
limitation, accept any amounts provided to the
Secretary by the Administrator of the Bonneville Power
Administration.
''(B) Non-federal share.--Any amounts provided by
the Bonneville Power Administration directly or through
a grant to another entity for a project carried under
the Program shall be credited toward the non-Federal
share of the costs of the project.''.

SEC. 4. REPORT.

Section 9 of the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation
Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 777 note; Public Law 106-502) is amended--
(1) by inserting ''any'' before ''amounts are made''; and
(2) by inserting after ''Secretary shall'' the following:
'', after partnering with local governmental entities and the
States in the Pacific Ocean drainage area,''.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

Section 10 of the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation
Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 777 note; Public Law 106-502) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ''2001 through 2005''
and inserting ''2008 through 2014''; and
(2) in subsection (b), by striking paragraph (2) and
inserting the following:
''(2) Administrative expenses.--
''(A) Definition of administrative expense.--In
this paragraph, the term 'administrative expense'
means, except as provided in subparagraph (B)(iii)(II),
any expenditure relating to--
''(i) staffing and overhead, such as the
rental of office space and the acquisition of
office equipment; and
''(ii) the review, processing, and
provision of applications for funding under the
Program.
''(B) Limitation.--
''(i) In general.--Not more than 6 percent
of amounts made available to carry out this Act
for each fiscal year may be used for Federal
and State administrative expenses of carrying
out this Act.
''(ii) Federal and state shares.--To the
maximum extent practicable, of the amounts made
available for administrative expenses under
clause (i)--
''(I) 50 percent shall be provided
to the State agencies provided
assistance under the Program; and
''(II) an amount equal to the cost
of 1 full-time equivalent Federal
employee, as determined by the
Secretary, shall be provided to the
Federal agency carrying out the
Program.
''(iii) State expenses.--Amounts made
available to States for administrative expenses
under clause (i)--
''(I) shall be divided evenly among
all States provided assistance under
the Program; and
''(II) may be used by a State to
provide technical assistance relating
to the program, including any staffing
expenditures (including staff travel
expenses) associated with--
''(aa) arranging meetings
to promote the Program to
potential applicants;
''(bb) assisting applicants
with the preparation of
applications for funding under
the Program; and
''(cc) visiting
construction sites to provide
technical assistance, if
requested by the applicant.''.
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Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2007 - Amends the Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Mitigation Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to give priority to any project that has a total cost of less than $2.5 million (currently, $5 million).

Authorizes the Secretary, without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, to accept any amounts provided to the Secretary by the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration.

Requires: (1) any amounts provided by the Bonneville Power Administration directly or through a grant to another entity for a project carried out under the Program to be credited toward the non-federal share of project costs; and (2) the Secretary's report on projects under such Act to be made after partnering with local governmental entities and the states in the Pacific Ocean drainage area (Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho).

Authorizes appropriations for the Act through FY2014. Sets forth limits and requirements on the amount that may be used each fiscal year for federal and state administrative expenses of carrying out this Act.