WEATHER

Amendments

Dept. of Agriculture: encourage research and agricultural best practices to supplement the natural carbon cycle in soil (S. 1066), S10642 [17OC]

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, National Weather Service and related agencies, and U.S. Fire Administration: authorizing appropriations (S. 1639), S10724 [18OC]

Articles and editorials

Buffering Oil Prices, S547 [9FE]

DOE Sends Report to Congress Analyzing Costs, Benefits of Regional Oil Product Reserve, S546 [9FE]

Bills and resolutions

Africa: efforts to avert drought and famine (see H. Con. Res. 316), H2511 [3MY]

Beaches: assure that recreation benefits are accorded the same weight as hurricane, storm damage, and environmental restoration benefits (see S. 3036), S8413 [12SE] (see H.R. 4639), H4220 [12JN]

Climate: establish international scientific commission to assess changes in global climate patterns and to conduct studies and analyses on behalf of nations (see S. 3237), S10999 [25OC]

Dept. of Agriculture: establish a carbon sequestration program to permit owners and operators of land to enroll the land in the program (see S. 2540), S3832 [10MY]

Dept. of Energy: create an oil reserve for use when fuel oil prices rise sharply because of anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (see S. 2047), S538 [9FE] (see H.R. 3608), H278 [9FE]

———draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (see H.R. 5252), H7990 [21SE]

———require report on readiness of heating oil and propane industries to respond to rises in prices due to anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (see S. 2072), S613 [10FE] (see H.R. 3662), H454 [15FE]

Dept. of the Interior: weatherization assistance grants funding (see S. 2429), S2727 [13AP]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: establish presumption of service connection for cold weather injuries received during military operations (see H.R. 4760), H5169 [26JN]

Disasters: reduce impacts of hurricanes, tornadoes, and other windstorms through a program of research and development and technology transfer (see H.R. 5499), H10472 [19OC]

Ecology and environment: address the acid rain and greenhouse gas impacts of electric utility restructuring and encourage the development of renewable energy resources (see H.R. 4861), H6052 [13JY]

India: humanitarian aid to cyclone victims in the State of Orissa (see H. Con. Res. 332), H3523 [22MY]

NOAA: reauthorize Chesapeake Bay Office and enhance management and restoration programs (see S. 2777), S5663 [22JN] (see H.R. 4789), H5654 [29JN] (see H.R. 5133), H7365 [7SE]

Taxation: exclude from self-employment earnings certain payments under the Conservation Reserve Program (see H.R. 4064), H1284 [22MR] (see H.R. 4212), H1957 [6AP]

———provide credits to investors in international carbon sequestration projects (see S. 2982), S7840 [27JY]

Water pollution: establish consistent requirements for controlling urban wet weather flows and provide funds to meet such requirements (see H.R. 3570), H208 [2FE]

Letters

Climate Change Energy Policy Response Act: Senator Craig, S5295 [16JN]

Draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Senator Murkowski, S10586 [13OC]

Limit funding for activities included in the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions prior to implementation: Representatives Gilman and Sensenbrenner, H4825 [21JN]

NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office reauthorization and management and restoration programs enhancement: Bill Bolling, Brian E. Frosh, and Arthur D. Hershey, Chesapeake Bay Commission, S5682 [22JN]

———Michael F. Hirshfield, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, S5683 [22JN]

Regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act: Representative Dingell, H4826, H4840 [21JN], H5261 [27JN], H5688 [10JY], E1139 [28JN]

———Representatives McIntosh and Calvert, H4826-H4828 [21JN]

Memorandums

Authority To Regulate Pollutants Emitted by Electric Power Generation Sources: Jonathan Z. Cannon, EPA, H4836 [21JN]

Poems

``All Nature Seems at Work,'' Samuel T. Coleridge, S1442 [20MR]

``And What Is So Rare,'' James R. Lowell, S5187 [15JN]

``I Asked the Robin'', S1442 [20MR]

``Kiss of the Sun,'' Dorothy F. Gurney, S1443 [20MR]

``Year's at the Spring'', S1443 [20MR]

Remarks in House

Brooklyn, NY: prohibit funding for FAA weather radar tower within the Gateway National Recreation Area, H3448, H3449 [19MY]

Climate: global warming, H4344 [14JN]

Coshocton, OH: North Appalachian Experimental Watershed Research Station funding, H5534, H5535 [29JN]

Dept. of Energy: create an oil reserve for use when fuel oil prices rise sharply because of anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather, H1205 [22MR], H8656 [3OC], E547 [12AP]

———draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, H8777 [4OC]

Dept. of the Interior: weatherization assistance grants program funding through reductions in fossil energy research and development program, H4544-H4550 [15JN]

Droughts: rural water needs funding, H5537, H5538, H5541 [29JN]

EPA: impact of implementation of Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions on energy prices, H6475 [19JY]

———implementation of Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, H1835-H1840 [5AP], H4451 [14JN]

———limit funding for activities included in the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions prior to implementation, H4824-H4841 [21JN], H5136-H5138 [26JN], H5260 [27JN], H5687, H5688 [10JY], H5888, H5902 [12JY], E1037 [19JN], E1206 [11JY]

FEMA: disaster relief funding, H4844, H4845 [21JN]

LIHEAP: redistribution of funds to States with the most need, H418 [15FE]

National Weather Service: funding, E1135 [28JN]

NOAA: funding, H5106-H5108 [26JN], H12491 [15DE], E1133 [28JN], E1145 [29JN]

———reauthorize Chesapeake Bay Office and enhance management and restoration programs (H.R. 4789), E1170 [30JN]

Petroleum: influences on rise in prices, H415 [15FE]

Veterans: treatment of cold weather injuries received during military operations, H732 [8MR]

Western States: importance of dams and water storage, H2200-H2205 [12AP], H7860-H7864 [19SE]

Remarks in Senate

Agriculture: relief for agricultural producers adversely affected by low commodity prices and weather, S10522 [13OC]

Auburn University: Satsuma Orange research funding, S7369 [20JY]

Beaches: assure that recreation benefits are accorded the same weight as hurricane, storm damage, and environmental restoration benefits (S. 3036), S8419 [12SE]

Climate: establish international scientific commission to assess changes in global climate patterns and to conduct studies and analyses on behalf of nations (S. 3237), S11004 [25OC]

———global warming, S528 [9FE], S2879 [25AP], S5291-S5296 [16JN], S10485, S10486 [12OC]

———stabilize and reduce greenhouse gas concentrations and establish an Office of Global Climate Change within the Dept. of Energy (S. 882), S5291, S5293 [16JN]

Construction industries: support development of technologies and materials to enhance protections from natural disasters, S11881 [15DE]

Dept. of Agriculture: encourage research and agricultural best practices to supplement the natural carbon cycle in soil (S. 1066), S10642 [17OC]

———establish a carbon sequestration program to permit owners and operators of land to enroll the land in the program (S. 2540), S3838, S3839 [10MY]

———Natural Resources Conservation Service emissions trading research relative to implementation of Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, S7373, S7374 [20JY]

Dept. of Defense: Discoverer II space-based radar program funding, S7223 [19JY]

Dept. of Energy: create an oil reserve for use when fuel oil prices rise sharply because of anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (S. 2047), S545-S547 [9FE], S1622 [23MR]

———draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, S9876, S9877, S9885, S9892-S9895, S9917 [5OC], S10069-S10071 [6OC]

———require report on readiness of heating oil and propane industries to respond to rises in prices due to anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather, S8171 [7SE]

———require report on readiness of heating oil and propane industries to respond to rises in prices due to anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (S. 2072), S632-S634 [10FE]

Dept. of the Interior: weatherization assistance grants funding, S7014-S7016 [17JY], S7086 [18JY]

———weatherization assistance grants funding (S. 2429), S2737 [13AP]

Disasters: congressional support for disaster assistance, S7357 [20JY]

Drought: disaster assistance to Alabama, S10698 [18OC]

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, National Weather Service and related agencies, and U.S. Fire Administration: authorizing appropriations (S. 1639), S10737-S10740 [18OC]

Ecology and environment: revise energy policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advance global climate science, promote technology development, and increase citizen awareness (S. 1776), S5292-S5296 [16JN]

EPA: implementation of Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, S528 [9FE], S5291 [16JN], S10485 [12OC], S11766 [14DE]

———limit funding for activities included in the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions prior to implementation, S5536, S5537 [21JN], S7035 [17JY]

NOAA: reauthorize Chesapeake Bay Office and enhance management and restoration programs (S. 2777), S5680 [22JN]

Petroleum: influences on rise in prices, S204-S207 [1FE]

Senate: closing, S47 [25JA]

Spring: beginning, S1442 [20MR]

Taxation: provide credits to investors in international carbon sequestration projects (S. 2982), S7896 [27JY]

———provide incentives for voluntary reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and advance global climate science and technology development (S. 1777), S5293 [16JN]

Treaties and agreements: conditions for the U.S. becoming a signatory to any international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions, S5536 [21JN]

Reports

CO2—A Pollutant? National Mining Association Legal Affairs Committee, H4828-H4836 [21JN]

Reports filed

Carbon Cycle and Agricultural Best Practices Research Act: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (Senate) (S. 1066) (S. Rept. 106-407), S8501 [13SE]

Caribbean and Central American Relief and Economic Stabilization Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 984) (H. Rept. 106-519), H930 [13MR]

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, National Weather Service and Related Agencies, and U.S. Fire Administration Appropriations: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1639) (S. Rept. 106-384), S8019 [5SE]

NOAA and NSF Marine Research and Related Environmental Research and Development Program Activities Appropriations: Committee on Science (House) (H.R. 1552) (H. Rept. 106-987), H10256 [18OC]

Texts of

S. 1066, Carbon Cycle and Agricultural Best Practices Research Act, S10642-S10644 [17OC]

S. 1639, Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, National Weather Service and related agencies, and U.S. Fire Administration appropriations, S10737-S10740 [18OC], S10835 [19OC]

S. 2047, Home Heating Oil Price Stability Act, S546 [9FE]

S. 2072, Home Heating Readiness Act, S632 [10FE]

S. 2777, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office reauthorization and management and restoration programs enhancement, S5681 [22JN]