[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2619 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2619

To prohibit the Coast Guard from establishing any new anchorage grounds 
in the Hudson River, New York, until it reports to the Congress on the 
   potential impact of such anchorage grounds to sites listed on the 
           National Priorities List and to critical habitat.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 2017

  Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the Coast Guard from establishing any new anchorage grounds 
in the Hudson River, New York, until it reports to the Congress on the 
   potential impact of such anchorage grounds to sites listed on the 
           National Priorities List and to critical habitat.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Anchorages Away Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF INCREASING ANCHORAGE GROUNDS 
              ALONG THE HUDSON RIVER, NEW YORK.

    The Coast Guard may not establish any new anchorage grounds in the 
Hudson River, New York, before the date on which the Secretary of the 
department in which the Coast Guard is operating submits a report to 
the Congress on the potential impact of such anchorage grounds to sites 
listed on the National Priorities List under the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 
U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) and areas designated as critical habitat under the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
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