3.0.0 4458 2022-02-03T06:01:42Z 2022-02-03T06:01:42Z House H HR 2012-04-19 112 From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. KIND:H.R. 4458.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, section 8, clause 3 of the Constitution of theUnited States grants Congress the authority to enact thisbill.[Page H2032]]]> hsii00 Natural Resources Committee House Standing hsii13 Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee Referred to 2012-04-26T16:24:10Z Referred to 2012-04-19T13:04:25Z 2012-04-26 hsii13 Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power. Committee 2012-04-19 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsii00 Natural Resources Committee 2012-04-19 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2012-04-19 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress K000188 Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3] RON KIND D WI 3 N 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 2012-04-19 Introduced in House 2012-07-25T18:26:09Z Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act - Requires federal investments in the Upper Mississippi River Basin to be guided by accepted and documented scientific methods and to take into account the results of studies using such methods to identify and quantify the sources, transport, and fate of nutrients and sediment and to quantify the effect of treatment methods or conservation measures on nutrient and sediment management.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior, as part of an Upper Mississippi River Stewardship Initiative and acting through the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to establish a nutrient and sediment monitoring network for the Basin.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish guidelines for related data collection and storage activities; (2) inventory the sediment and monitoring efforts of governmental, tribal, and nongovernmental entities for the purpose of creating a baseline understanding of overlap, data gaps, and redundancies; (3) integrate such monitoring efforts into the sediment and nutrient monitoring network; and (4) collaborate with other public, tribal, and private monitoring and assessment programs in establishing the monitoring network.

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: (1) as part of the Initiative, to develop and implement a plan to improve existing water-quality models to identify and quantify significant sources of sediment and nutrients in the Basin at the subwatershed scale; (2) to establish a communication plan that includes use of the Internet to provide information on accomplishments of public and private programs designed to manage sediment and nutrients in the Basin and on seasonal and annual concentrations and loads of sediment and nutrients in the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries; and (3) provide an annual report that includes information on concentrations and loads of nutrients and sediment derived from monitoring activities conducted in the Basin.]]>

Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act Short Titles as Introduced Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act Display Title Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act Official Title as Introduced To promote Department of the Interior efforts to provide a scientific basis for the management of sediment and nutrients in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, and for other purposes. Introduced in House 2012-04-19T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112hr4458ih/xml/BILLS-112hr4458ih.xml 2012-04-26 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power. 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.