Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreements Act of 2007
Latest action · Feb 15, 2007 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 33.
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.
- IntroducedJan 9, 2007
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreements Act of 2007 - Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to make permanent the authorization for the Secretary of Agriculture to use Forest Service appropriations for the purpose of entering into cooperative agreements with government, private, and nonprofit entities and landowners for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat and other resources on public or private land and/or the reduction of risk from natural disaster.
Makes provisions regarding executive agency use of procurement contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements inapplicable to: (1) watershed restoration and enhancement agreements entered into under such Act; and (2) cooperative agreements between the Secretary of Agriculture and public or private entities for Forest Service programs, including for cooperative pollution abatement equipment and facilities, cooperative manpower and job training and development, cooperative environmental education and forest history materials, and forestry protection.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Energy and Natural Resources Committee | Referred Jan 9, 2007Markup Jan 31, 2007Reported Feb 15, 2007 |
Actions 6
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 15, 2007Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-8.
- Feb 15, 2007Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 33.
- Jan 31, 2007Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
- Jan 9, 2007Introduced in Senate
- Jan 9, 2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S300)
- Jan 9, 2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S300)
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
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.
Committee report
Congressional Budget Office cost estimates 2
- Feb 7, 2007S. 232, Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Act of 2007<p>Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on January 31, 2007</p>
- Feb 7, 2007S. 232, Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Act of 2007Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on January 31, 2007
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to make permanent the authorization for watershed restoration and enhancement agreements.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreements Act of 2007
- Short Titles as Reported to Senate
- Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreements Act of 2007
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Water Resources Development.
- Animals
- Appropriations
- Department of Agriculture
- Disasters
- Economics and Public Finance
- Emergency Management
- Environmental education
- Environmental Protection
- Federal-Indian relations
- Federal-local relations
- Federal-state relations
- Forest conservation
- Forestry
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government procurement
- Habitat conservation
- Labor and Employment
- Land use
- Minorities
- Pollution control
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Restoration ecology
- Water Resources Development
- Watersheds
Text 2
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 15, 2007Reported to Senate
- Jan 9, 2007Introduced in Senate
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.
