Missouri River Enhancement and Monitoring Act of 2004
Latest action · Oct 27, 2003 Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Progress
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- IntroducedOct 24, 2003
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Missouri River Enhancement and Monitoring Act of 2004 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey, to establish a program at the River Studies Center of the Biological Resources Division to: (1) determine and monitor the biological and chemical characteristics of the Missouri River; (2) determine and monitor the interrelationship of those characteristics with the hydrology and geomorphology of the River; and (3) monitor and assess the biota, including threatened or endangered species, habitats, and water quality of the River.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to: (1) establish a database on River biota; and (2) make such database readily available to specified entities, including the Governors of affected States, the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Army, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Missouri River Basin Indian tribes, and the public.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Geological Survey, to: (1) review the program; (2) establish and revise the program's objectives, as necessary; and (3) report to Congress on the environmental health of the River.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Oct 27, 2003Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
- Oct 27, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- Oct 27, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
- Oct 24, 2003Introduced in House
- Oct 24, 2003Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Water Resources Development.
- Animals
- Aquatic biology
- Biochemistry
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Ecological research
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Endangered species
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental research
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Federal aid to water resources development
- Fishery management
- Fishes
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Habitat conservation
- Hydrology
- Indian lands
- Infrastructure
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine geology
- Minorities
- Missouri
- Missouri River development
- Pollution measurement
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Research centers
- Reservoirs
- Restoration ecology
- Riparian ecology
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Wildlife conservation
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