Resources Origin and Commodity Knowledge Act
Latest action · Sep 20, 2006 Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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.
- IntroducedSep 14, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Resources Origin and Commodity Knowledge Act - Establishes the Mineral Commodity Information Administration under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Vests management of the Administration in an Administrator and Assistant Administrators whose functions include: (1) commodity information development and analysis; (2) mineral industry analysis; and (3) data acquisition and analysis.
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Administrator: (1) at least 200 full-time equivalent positions from the U.S. Geological Survey; and (2) at least 100 full time equivalent positions of an administrative nature from the Department of the Interior.
Sets forth the duties of the Administrator, including: (1) implementation of a Mineral Commodity Data and Information Program; (2) continuance of the Mineral Commodity Data Time Series; (3) projections of usage patterns; (4) publication of mineral commodity reports; and (5) analyses of the foreign and domestic mineral commodities that will be required by the United States to sustain the energy supply, demand, and prices projected by the Annual Energy Outlook analysis.
Directs the Administrator to establish the Mineral Commodity Advisory Committee.
Cosponsors 17
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 14, 2006 to Sep 28, 2006; 9 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-WY | Barbara Cubin | Original | Sep 14, 2006 |
| R-PA | Don Sherwood | Original | Sep 14, 2006 |
| R-SC | Henry E. Brown, Jr. | Original | Sep 14, 2006 |
| R-NV | Jim Gibbons | Original | Sep 14, 2006 |
| R-TX | K. Michael Conaway | Original | Sep 14, 2006 |
| D-IA | Leonard L. Boswell | Original | Sep 14, 2006 |
| R-ID | Michael K. Simpson | Original | Sep 14, 2006 |
| R-PA | Phil English | Original | Sep 14, 2006 |
| R-WI | Thomas E. Petri | Original | Sep 14, 2006 |
| D-MN | James L. Oberstar | Sep 19, 2006 | |
| R-UT | Rob Bishop | Sep 21, 2006 | |
| R-AR | John Boozman | Sep 25, 2006 | |
| R-NM | Stevan Pearce | Sep 25, 2006 | |
| R-WA | Cathy McMorris Rodgers | Sep 26, 2006 | |
| R-MT | Denny Rehberg | Sep 26, 2006 | |
| D-NV | Shelley Berkley | Sep 26, 2006 | |
| R-UT | Chris Cannon | Sep 28, 2006 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Natural Resources Committee | Referred Sep 14, 2006 |
| Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee | Referred Sep 18, 2006Hearings Sep 20, 2006 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 20, 2006Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Sep 18, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
- Sep 14, 2006Introduced in House
- Sep 14, 2006Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1735)
- Sep 14, 2006Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 109-62 | H.R. 6080, TO ESTABLISH THE ``MINERAL COMMODITY INFORMATION AGENCY (MCIA)'' WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR54 pages | Natural Resources Committee | Sep 20, 2006 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To establish the Mineral Commodity Information Administration in the Department of the Interior, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Resources Origin and Commodity Knowledge Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Advice and consent of the Senate
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Data banks
- Department of the Interior
- Energy
- Energy demand
- Energy prices
- Energy supplies
- Environmental Protection
- Executive reorganization
- Exports
- Federal advisory bodies
- Feedstock
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publications
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Imports
- Mineral reserves
- Minerals
- Mines and mineral resources
- Presidential appointments
- Prospecting
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Recycling of waste products
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 14, 2006Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.