Chesapeake Bay Restoration Enhancement Act of 2007
Latest action · Jan 5, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Progress
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- IntroducedJan 4, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Chesapeake Bay Restoration Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to revise requirements for implementation and monitoring grants under the Chesapeake Bay Agreement and for reporting on federally-funded projects under such Agreement.
Requires federal agencies that carry out activities within the watershed to: (1) participate in planning and restoration programs; and (2) ensure that such activities comply with the Chesapeake Bay Agreement and the Federal Agencies Chesapeake Ecosystem Unified Plan.
Requires the President to submit as part of the annual federal budget information regarding each federal agency involved in Chesapeake Bay restoration.
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report on progress in achieving and maintaining nutrient and sediment reduction goals for each tributary basin. Sets forth the baseline for the report and reporting requirements.
Requires the states of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia and the District of Columbia to submit to the Administrator information relating to nutrient and sediment reduction for each Chesapeake Bay tributary basin. Prohibits the Administrator from making a grant to any state which fails to provide required information.
Requires the Administrator to request the Local Government Advisory Committee to report to EPA on measurable goals for local governments for nutrient and sediment reduction.
Requires the Administrator: (1) to establish an implementation assistance program to support tributary strategies and other projects toward achievement of Chesapeake Bay Agreement goals; (2) to assist local governments and nonprofit organizations to implement tributary strategies and other complementary cooperative, locally based protection and restoration programs or projects under the technical assistance and assistance grants program; (3) in cooperation with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to provide capacity building assistance to enhance local governments' capabilities to carry out protection and restoration programs or projects within a tributary basin; and (4) to provide grants to implement tributary strategies that accelerate the reduction of nonpoint source nutrient and sediment pollution.
Requires specified load allocations to be incorporated into discharge permits until applicable total maximum daily loads are established.
Updates reporting deadlines for the study of the Chesapeake Bay Program.
Authorizes appropriations through FY2012.
Cosponsors 24
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 4, 2007 to Jan 18, 2007, with 18 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MD | Albert Russell Wynn | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-MD | C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| R-VA | Frank R. Wolf | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-VA | James P. Moran | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| R-VA | Jo Ann Davis | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-MD | John P. Sarbanes | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-NY | Maurice D. Hinchey | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| R-DE | Michael N. Castle | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-VA | Robert C. "Bobby" Scott | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| R-MD | Roscoe G. Bartlett | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| D-MD | Steny H. Hoyer | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
| R-VA | Thelma D. Drake | Original | Jan 4, 2007 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 5, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Jan 4, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 4, 2007Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Accounting
- Agricultural conservation
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Animals
- Authorization
- Chesapeake Bay
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Droughts
- Ecological research
- Economics and Public Finance
- Ecosystem management
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Environmental technology
- Estuaries
- Eutrophication
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Federal-local relations
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Habitat conservation
- Law
- Licenses
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine ecology
- Marine resources conservation
- Maryland
- New York State
- Nitrogen
- Nonpoint source pollution
- Nonprofit organizations
- Pennsylvania
- Performance measurement
- Phosphorus
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Rain and rainfall
- Restoration ecology
- Revolving funds
- Rivers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sediment control
- Sedimentation
- Sewage treatment
- Social Welfare
- Virginia
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Watersheds
- West Virginia
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 4, 2007Introduced in House
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