3.0.0 2854 2023-01-12T17:52:56Z 2023-01-12T17:52:56Z House H HR 2007-06-25 110 hsii00 Natural Resources Committee House Standing hsii15 Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Referred to 2007-06-30T21:51:09Z Referred to 2007-06-25T16:32:15Z hspw00 Transportation and Infrastructure Committee House Standing hspw02 Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Referred to 2007-06-26T20:27:37Z hspw14 Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee Referred to 2007-06-26T20:27:11Z hspw07 Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee Referred to 2007-06-26T20:19:27Z Referred to 2007-06-25T16:32:10Z 2007-06-30 hsii15 Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans. Committee 2007-06-26 hspw02 Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. Committee 2007-06-26 hspw14 Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials. Committee 2007-06-26 hspw07 Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Committee 2007-06-25 Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsii00 Natural Resources Committee 2007-06-25 Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2007-06-25 Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hspw00 Transportation and Infrastructure Committee 2007-06-25 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2007-06-25 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress P000034 Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6] FRANK PALLONE D NJ 6 N S000522 Rep. Smith, Christopher H. [R-NJ-4] CHRISTOPHER SMITH R NJ H. 4 2007-07-10 False P000149 Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10] DONALD PAYNE D NJ M. 10 2007-07-10 False Public Lands and Natural Resources Administrative remedies Animals Biological diversity Department of Commerce Department of the Interior Dredging Easements Energy Energy facilities Environmental Protection Environmental assessment Environmental health Government Operations and Politics Habitat conservation Health Land transfers Law Leases Licenses Marine and coastal resources, fisheries Marine ecology Marine pollution Marine resources conservation Marine terminals New Jersey New York State Ocean mining Oceanography Petroleum in submerged lands Pipelines Restoration ecology Right-of-way Science, Technology, Communications State laws Transportation and Public Works Waste disposal in the ocean Waste disposal sites Water pollution control Water quality Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2007-06-25 Introduced in House 2007-08-27T19:35:24Z New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2007 - Designates the New York/New Jersey Bight as the New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone. Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the Army, and all states from issuing a permit for ocean dumping, or establishing any new disposal site in the Zone, including under specified provisions of existing law. Terminates all existing disposal site designations, subject to exception.

Prohibits: (1) the discharge of a pollutant into the Zone from a point source constructed or put into use after enactment of this Act under specified provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; and (2) permit issuance for such discharge.

Prohibits a state or federal permit issued for the discharge of a pollutant into the Zone from being renewed, reissued, or modified to allow any increase of discharge capacity of any point source or to contain any effluent limitation less stringent than comparable effluent limitations in the permit.

Prohibits the permanent extraction of any nonrenewable natural resource from the Zone for commercial or industrial use, except for the primary purpose of maintaining or establishing navigation channels.

Prohibits the creation, licensing, leasing, easement granting, or right-of-way granting of certain facilities involving nonrenewable energy, including deepwater ports and pipelines.

Prohibits categorically excluding leases, easements, or rights-of-way for renewable energy facilities from specified provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

Prohibits underwater research or exploration in the Zone unless it meets certain requirements.

]]> New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2007 Display Title New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced To restore, protect, and preserve the natural, chemical, physical, and biological integrity, and the economic potentialities, of the New York/New Jersey Bight through designation and establishment of the New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone and the regulation of various activities therein, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced New Jersey/New York Clean Ocean Zone Act of 2007 Introduced in House 2007-06-25T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110hr2854ih/xml/BILLS-110hr2854ih.xml 2007-06-30 Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.