3.0.0 2779 2023-01-11T13:17:06Z 2023-01-11T13:17:06Z Senate S S 2009-11-16 111 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg07 Water and Power Subcommittee Hearings by 2010-06-09T21:39:52Z Referred to 2009-11-17T00:25:29Z Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act 111 3671 HR 2010-06-09 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. Identical bill CRS 2010-06-09 sseg07 Water and Power Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-707. Committee 2009-11-16 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2009-11-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN N F000061 Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] RUSSELL FEINGOLD D WI D. 2009-11-30 False Water Resources Development Agricultural conservation and pollution Computers and information technology Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Government information and archives Hydrology and hydrography Illinois Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Iowa Lakes and rivers Land use and conservation Minnesota Mississippi River Missouri Missouri River Water quality Watersheds Wisconsin Water Resources Development 00 2009-11-16 Introduced in Senate 2010-03-31T19:47:23Z Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to establish a nutrient and sediment monitoring network for the Upper Mississippi River Basin.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish guidelines for related data collection and storage activities; (2) inventory the sediment and monitoring efforts of governmental and nongovernmental entities for the purpose of creating a baseline understanding of overlap, data gaps, and redundancies; and (3) collaborate with other public and private monitoring efforts in establishing the monitoring program.

Directs the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a water resources assessment of the Basin.

Requires the Director of the USGS to establish: (1) a computer modeling program of nutrient and sediment sources in the Basin; and (2) an Internet-based system to distribute information about nutrient and sediment loss reduction projects and nutrient and sediment levels in the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries.]]>

Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act Display Title Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to promote Department of the Interior efforts to provide a scientific basis for the management of sediment and nutrient loss in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act Introduced in Senate 2009-11-16T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s2779is/xml/BILLS-111s2779is.xml 2010-06-09 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-707. 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.