Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery Act of 2008
Latest action · Aug 6, 2008 Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
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 31, 2008
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery Act of 2008 - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with the Chesapeake Executive Council, the chief executive of each Chesapeake Bay state, and the Chesapeake Bay Commission, to submit to Congress a financial report containing: (1) an interagency crosscut budget for restoration activities that protect, conserve, or restore living resources, habitat, water resources, or water quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed; (2) an accounting of funds received and obligated by all federal agencies for restoration activities; (3) an accounting from each state of all funds received and obligated from a federal agency for restoration activities; and (4) a description of each of the proposed federal and state restoration activities. Requires: (1) such report to describe only federal restoration activities that have funding amounts of at least $100,000 and state restoration activities that have funding amounts of at least $50,000; and (2) the Director to submit the report no later than 30 days after the submission of the President's annual budget to Congress.
Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and update every three years an adaptive management plan for the Chesapeake Bay Program and restoration activities that includes: (1) a definition of specific and measurable objectives to improve water quality, habitat, and fisheries; (2) a process for stakeholder participation; (3) monitoring, modeling, experimentation, and other research and evaluation practices; (4) a process for modification of restoration activities that have not attained or will not attain such objectives; and (5) a process for prioritizing restoration activities and programs to which adaptive management shall be applied. Sets forth reporting requirements.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 31, 2008 to Sep 26, 2008; 1 is an original cosponsor, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-VA | Thelma D. Drake | Original | Jul 31, 2008 |
| R-VA | J. Randy Forbes | Sep 16, 2008 | |
| R-VA | Bob Goodlatte | Sep 26, 2008 |
Committees 2
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 Jul 31, 2008 |
| Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee | Referred Aug 6, 2008 | |
| House | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee | Referred Jul 31, 2008 |
| Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee | Referred Aug 1, 2008 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 6, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
- Aug 1, 2008Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Jul 31, 2008Introduced in House
- Jul 31, 2008Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the Office of Management and Budget to prepare a crosscut budget for restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to require the Environmental Protection Agency to develop and implement an adaptive management plan, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Chesapeake Bay Accountability and Recovery Act of 2008
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
- Chesapeake Bay
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Ecological research
- Economics and Public Finance
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Estuaries
- Federal aid to water pollution control
- Federal aid to water resources development
- Fishery management
- Grants-in-aid
- Habitat conservation
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marine ecology
- Marine pollution
- Marine resources conservation
- Maryland
- New York State
- Pennsylvania
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Restoration ecology
- Virginia
- Water pollution control
- Water Resources Development
- West Virginia
- Wetlands
- Wildlife conservation
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 31, 2008Introduced in House
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