Gold King Mine Spill Accountability Act of 2018
Latest action · Jan 5, 2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
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 3, 2018
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Gold King Mine Spill Accountability Act of 2018
This bill provides assistance to persons injured by the Gold King Mine spill in Colorado that released mine wastewater laced with heavy metals into the Animas and San Juan Rivers. The bill states that a person may include an individual; a tribal organization; a nonfederal entity; states; or the Animas-La Plata Operation, Maintenance, and Replacement Association.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 5, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
- Jan 4, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Jan 3, 2018Introduced in House
- Jan 3, 2018Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture, 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.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Agricultural conservation and pollution
- Civil actions and liability
- Colorado
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmental regulatory procedures
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Farmland
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government liability
- Government studies and investigations
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Hunting and fishing
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Lakes and rivers
- Land use and conservation
- Metals
- Mining
- Pollution liability
- Water quality
- Water use and supply
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 3, 2018Introduced in House
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