Get the Lead Out of Schools Act [HB-6951]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
Get the Lead Out of Schools Act This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for schools and day care facilities that: (1) establishes a lead action level (a level of lead in drinking water that triggers additional actions to control lead contamination) of at least 15 parts per billion; (2) directs each public water system to sample for lead in the drinking water at schools and day care facilities if the EPA determines there is a risk
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HB-6951: Get the Lead Out of Schools Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Raul Grijalva
Introduced In House on 09/27/2018
Clean Water Through Green Infrastructure Act [HB-6944]
[Environmental ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Water ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
[Science ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Health ]
Clean Water Through Green Infrastructure Act This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide grants to eligible higher education institutions and research institutions to establish and maintain between three and five centers of excellence for innovative stormwater control infrastructure, which is any green stormwater management technique that: (1) uses natural systems or engineered systems that mimic natural processes to infiltrate, evapotranspire, or capture stormwater; and (2) preserves, enhances, or mimics natural hydrology
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HB-6944: Clean Water Through Green Infrastructure Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Gerald Connolly
Introduced In House on 09/27/2018
Broadband Internet for Small Ports Act [S.3360]
[Telecommunications ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Small Business ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
[Grants ]
[Funding ]
Broadband Internet for Small Ports Act This bill amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to include grants in the Department of Agriculture (USDA) program that provides loans and loan guarantees for broadband telecommunications services in rural areas. In making grants, loans, or loan guarantees under the program, USDA must give: (1) the highest priority to project applicants that offer to provide broadband service to unserved rural households that do not have any residential broadband service, and (2) priority to applicants that offer to provide
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S.3360: Broadband Internet for Small Ports Act
Sponsored by: Sen. Ron Wyden
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry. on 08/21/2018
Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2017 [S.2229]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Science ]
[Climate Change ]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2017 This bill amends the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2009 to require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to conduct and update at least once every seven years an ocean acidification coastal community vulnerability assessment with a corresponding public report. The assessment must identify: (1) U.S. coastal communities that are most dependent on coastal and ocean resources that may be impacted by ocean acidification; (2) the nature of those communities'
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S.2229: Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Collins
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Commerce, Science, And Transportation. on 12/14/2017
LAMP Act of 2018 Localizing Authority of Management Plans Act of 2018 [HB-6364]
[Environmental ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Animals ]
[Science ]
[Native American Affairs ]
LAMP Act of 2018 Localizing Authority of Management Plans Act of 2018 This bill amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) to revise requirements governing cooperative management agreements to manage areas established for the conservation of endangered or threatened species. Under current law, the agreements are between states and the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce, as appropriate. This bill allows the appropriate department to enter into: (1) agreements with local governments, Indian tribes, or nonfederal persons;
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HB-6364: LAMP Act of 2018 Localizing Authority of Management Plans Act of 2018
Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney
Committee Hearings Held. on 09/26/2018
Natural Gas Pipeline Public Health Protection Act of 2017 [HB-4381]
[Air Quality ]
[Energy ]
[Public Health ]
Natural Gas Pipeline Public Health Protection Act of 2017 This bill suspends construction of natural gas facilities that have been issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission until violations relating to air quality are remediated. It applies to a holder of a certificate that has not commenced construction of a facility for which such certificate was issued within the previous two years.
HB-4381: Natural Gas Pipeline Public Health Protection Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Stephen Lynch
Referred To The Subcommittee On Energy. on 11/17/2017
SAFE Act Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act [HB-4490]
[Environmental ]
[Climate Change ]
[Science ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Animals ]
[Water ]
[Energy ]
[Public Health ]
SAFE Act Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act This bill requires the President to establish an interagency National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy Joint Implementation Working Group to adopt the 2013 National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, which addresses the effects of extreme weather and climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants. After the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences releases a periodic scientific assessment required under the U.S. Global Change Research Program,
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HB-4490: SAFE Act Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Introduced In House on 11/30/2017
National Opportunity for Lead Exposure Accountability and Deterrence Act of 2017 [S.2000]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
National Opportunity for Lead Exposure Accountability and Deterrence Act of 2017 This bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to revise the national primary drinking water regulations for lead and copper. The rule must direct: public water systems to meet certain reporting requirements; the EPA to develop a sampling protocol and develop instructions for compliance with the protocol; the EPA, or the state exercising primary enforcement responsibility, to require on-site investigations for determining
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S.2000: National Opportunity for Lead Exposure Accountability and Deterrence Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Environment And Public Works. on 10/24/2017
America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 [S.3021]
[Water ]
[Infrastructure ]
America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 This bill designates the U.S. courthouse at 300 South Fourth Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the "Diana E. Murphy United States Courthouse."
S.3021: America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018
Sponsored by: Sen. Amy Klobuchar
Became Public Law No: 115-270. on 10/23/2018