Upper Mississippi River Basin Conservation Act of 2001
Latest action · May 21, 2001 Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 10, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish guidelines for related data collection and storage activities; (2) inventory the sediment and monitoring efforts of governmental and nongovernmental entities for the purpose of creating a baseline understanding of overlap, data gaps, and redundancies; and (3) collaborate with other public and private monitoring efforts in establishing the monitoring program.
Directs the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct an assessment of water resource and water quality management within the Basin.
Requires the Director of the United States Geological Survey, in collaboration with the Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, to establish a computer modeling program of nutrient and sediment sources in the Basin.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) work with public and private entities to evaluate best management practices to reduce nutrient and sediment loss; (2) assess such practices' economic risks; and (3) administer a grant program to demonstrate such practices.
Requires the Director to establish an Internet-based system to distribute information about nutrient and sediment loss reduction projects and nutrient and sediment levels in the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries.
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide for privacy of personal data received with respect to natural resources conservation programs.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the Advisory Council on the Upper Mississippi River Stewardship Initiative.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to establish an Interagency Working Group to coordinate Federal nutrient and sediment reduction efforts in the Basin.
Cosponsors 21
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 10, 2001 to Jun 7, 2001, with 20 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-MN | Bill Luther | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-MN | Collin C. Peterson | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-MI | Dale E. Kildee | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| R-IL | Donald A. Manzullo | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-TN | Harold E. Ford Jr. | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| R-IA | James A. Leach | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| R-IA | Jim Nussle | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-MI | John D. Dingell | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-TN | John S. Tanner | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-IL | Lane Evans | Original | May 10, 2001 |
| D-CO | Mark Udall | Original | May 10, 2001 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 21, 2001Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
- May 21, 2001Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
- May 21, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
- May 21, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
- May 10, 2001Introduced in House
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Administrative procedure
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural runoff
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Commerce
- Computer simulation
- Computers and government
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Conservation easements
- Cost effectiveness
- Cropland conversion program
- Data banks
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of the Interior
- Economics and Public Finance
- Electronic government information
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental technology
- Eutrophication
- Executive reorganization
- Farm management
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Illinois
- Internet
- Iowa
- Land use
- Law
- Minnesota
- Minorities
- Mississippi River
- Missouri
- Nature conservation
- Nonpoint source pollution
- Performance measurement
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public-private partnerships
- Remote sensing
- Right of privacy
- Rivers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sediment control
- Sedimentation
- Soil conservation
- Soil erosion
- Space activities
- Water pollution control
- Water pollution measurement
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Watershed management
- Wetland conservation
- Wetland restoration
- Wisconsin
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