Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2009
Latest action · Jun 18, 2010 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
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.
- IntroducedNov 3, 2009
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2009 - Amends the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, to: (1) conduct forest management activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin in a manner that helps achieve and maintain the environmental threshold carrying capacities established by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (Agency) and attains multiple ecosystem benefits, unless the attainment of such benefits would excessively increase the project's cost in relation to the additional benefits gained; (2) establish post-project ground condition criteria for ground disturbance caused by forest management activities; and (3) provide for monitoring to ascertain the attainment of such conditions.
Requires the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit to: (1) manage vehicular parking and traffic in the Unit; and (2) support the attainment of the environmental threshold carrying capacities.
Withdraws federal land located in the Unit from: (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing.
Requires the Chair of the Lake Tahoe Federal Interagency Partnership to submit to Congress a prioritized list of all Environmental Improvement Program projects for the Basin. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary, the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement specified projects and projects included in the prioritized list that have been subject to environmental review and approval under federal and state law and the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact; and (2) funding for such projects.
Requires the Director to deploy strategies that meet or exceed specified criteria for preventing the introduction of aquatic invasive species into the Lake Tahoe Basin and that apply to all watercraft to be launched on water within the Basin.
Requires the Administrator to implement a Lake Tahoe Science Program that includes: (1) developing and updating an integrated multiagency programmatic assessment and monitoring plan and evaluating the effectiveness of the Agency's Environmental Improvement Program; and (2) providing support to governments in reducing pollutants that contribute to the loss of lake clarity.
Provides for the establishment of a grant to develop a Basin watershed strategy.
Cosponsors 6
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 3, 2009 to Mar 2, 2010, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NV | Dina Titus | Original | Nov 3, 2009 |
| D-NV | Shelley Berkley | Original | Nov 3, 2009 |
| R-CA | Tom McClintock | Original | Nov 3, 2009 |
| D-CA | Lynn C. Woolsey | Feb 23, 2010 | |
| D-CA | Doris O. Matsui | Mar 2, 2010 | |
| D-CA | John Garamendi | Mar 2, 2010 |
Actions 10
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 18, 2010Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
- Jun 18, 2010Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
- Nov 5, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife.
- Nov 5, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
- Nov 4, 2009Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2724 | Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2009 | Identical bill | Jun 21, 2010 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Water Resources Development.
- Air quality
- Aquatic ecology
- California
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Fishes
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Lakes and rivers
- Land transfers
- Land use and conservation
- Nevada
- Water quality
- Water Resources Development
- Water resources funding
- Watersheds
- Wetlands
- Wildlife conservation and habitat protection
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 3, 2009Introduced in House
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