New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2006
Latest action · Aug 7, 2006 Executive Comment Requested from Interior, Commerce.
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.
- IntroducedJul 24, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2006 - Designates the New York/New Jersey Bight as the New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone. Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the Army, and all states from issuing a permit for ocean dumping, or establishing any new disposal site in the Zone, including under specified provisions of existing law. Terminates all existing disposal site designations, subject to exception.
States that the discharge of a pollutant into the Zone from a point source constructed or put into use after enactment of this Act is prohibited under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Prohibits permit issuance for such discharge.
Prohibits a state or federal permit issued for the discharge of a pollutant into the Zone from being renewed, reissued, or modified to allow any increase of discharge capacity of any point source or to contain any effluent limitation less stringent than comparable effluent limitations in the permit.
Prohibits the permanent extraction of any nonrenewable natural resource from the Zone for commercial or industrial use, except for the primary purpose of maintaining or establishing navigation channels.
Prohibits the creation, licensing, leasing, easement granting, or right-of-way granting of certain facilities involving nonrenewable energy, including deepwater ports and pipelines.
Prohibits categorically excluding leases, easements, or rights-of-way for renewable energy facilities from specified provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
Prohibits underwater research or exploration in the Zone unless it meets certain requirements.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 24, 2006.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NJ | Christopher H. Smith | Original | Jul 24, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | Jul 24, 2006 |
| R-NJ | Frank A. LoBiondo | Original | Jul 24, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Frank Pallone, Jr. | Original | Jul 24, 2006 |
| D-NY | Major R. Owens | Original | Jul 24, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Robert E. Andrews | Original | Jul 24, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Rush Holt | Original | Jul 24, 2006 |
| D-NJ | Steven R. Rothman | Original | Jul 24, 2006 |
| D-NY | Timothy H. Bishop | Original | Jul 24, 2006 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 7, 2006Executive Comment Requested from Interior, Commerce.
- Aug 7, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- Aug 7, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans.
- Jul 25, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Jul 24, 2006Introduced in House
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Administrative remedies
- Animals
- Biological diversity
- Department of Commerce
- Department of the Interior
- Dredging
- Easements
- Energy
- Energy facilities
- Environmental assessment
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Government Operations and Politics
- Habitat conservation
- Health
- Land transfers
- Law
- Leases
- Licenses
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine ecology
- Marine pollution
- Marine resources conservation
- Marine terminals
- New Jersey
- New York State
- Ocean mining
- Oceanography
- Pipeline siting
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Restoration ecology
- Right-of-way
- Science, Technology, Communications
- State laws
- Submarine oil well drilling
- Transportation and Public Works
- Waste disposal in the ocean
- Waste disposal sites
- Water pollution control
- Water quality
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 24, 2006Introduced in House
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