LAKES

Bills and resolutions

Clark County, NV: promote economic development and tourism in the Lake Mead area, support local airport and energy development, and establish the Virgin Valley Tourism and Economic Advisory Council (see H.R. 2276), H3250 [6JN]

Corps of Engineers: establish the Great Lakes Navigation System (see H.R. 2273), H3250 [6JN]

——— prevent the spread of Asian carp into the Great Lakes and their tributaries (see H.R. 985), H1318 [6MR]

Dept. of Agriculture: establish a Great Lakes basin initiative for agricultural nonpoint source pollution prevention (see H.R. 1647), H2158 [18AP]

Dept. of the Interior: continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area (see H.R. 1158), H1425 [14MR]

Dept. of Transportation: eliminate certain unnecessary reporting requirements and consolidate or modify others (see H.R. 3628), H7394 [2DE]

Ecology and environment: address harmful algal blooms and hypoxia through research, forecasting and monitoring, and mitigation and control while helping communities detect, control, and mitigate such events (see S. 1254), S5498 [27JN]

Great Lakes: establish deadline for restricting sewage dumping and fund programs and activities for improving wastewater discharges (see S. 571), S1853 [14MR] (see H.R. 1185), H1426 [14MR]

——— protect and restore (see S. 1232), S5264 [26JN] (see H.R. 2773), H4856 [22JY]

——— provide assistance for nutrient removal technologies to adjacent States (see H.R. 600), H431 [8FE]

Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act: reauthorize (see H.R. 2219), H3014 [3JN]

Lake Tahoe: provide for environmental restoration and forest management activities in surrounding basin (see S. 1451), S6207 [1AU] (see H.R. 3390), H6951 [30OC]

National Endowment for the Oceans: establish (see S. 646), S2146 [21MR]

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: designate certain lands and inland water as wilderness (see S. 23), S42 [22JA] (see H.R. 163), H51 [4JA]

War of 1812: anniversary of Battle of Lake Erie (see S. Res. 153), S3844 [23MY]

Water: clarify definition of navigable waters relative to application of environmental protection regulations (see S. 890), S3159 [7MY] (see H.R. 3377), H6901 [29OC]

Remarks in House

Corps of Engineers: establish Great Lakes Navigation System, H6687 [23OC]

——— Florida projects funding, H4348 [10JY]

——— Great Lakes Navigational System dredging and maintenance funding, H4245 [9JY]

——— prohibit funding to set water storage prices for municipal use on any non-hydropower lake built by the Corps, H4361 [10JY]

——— prohibit relocation or consolidation of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Buffalo and Chicago Districts, H4328 [10JY]

Dept. of Energy: prohibit funding for implementation, administration, or enforcement of the National Ocean Policy, H4360 [10JY]

——— prohibit giving veto power over EPA rules that regulate air or water quality, H5248 [31JY]

——— prohibit drilling for oil or gas beneath the Great Lakes and ensure that each new oil and gas drilling lease issued uses materials made in the U.S., H4158 [28JN]

Ecology and environment: address harmful algae blooms, H4365 [10JY]

EPA: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding, H1364 [13MR], H2849 [22MY]

GAO: assess costs of, and spending on, aquatic invasive species, H6717, H6744 [23OC]

Great Lakes: protect and restore (H.R. 2773), H5275 [1AU]

Great Lakes Exploration Group, LLC.: tribute to possible discovery of Le Griffon (vessel), E83 [4FE]

Nevada: impact of quagga mussels on water supplies, H6717 [23OC]

Refuse disposal: require coal ash wet disposal structures meet design, construction, operation, and maintenance criteria to prevent contamination of groundwater and sources of drinking water including the Great Lakes, H5070 [25JY]

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: designate certain lands and inland water as wilderness (H.R. 163), H3267 [11JN]

War of 1812: anniversary of Battle of Lake Erie, E1271 [10SE]

Remarks in Senate

Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Project: anniversary, S7057 [30SE]

Corps of Engineers: Great Lakes dredging funding, S317, S318 [28JA], S3423 [14MY], S3448, S3449 [15MY]

Great Lakes: establish deadline for restricting sewage dumping and fund programs and activities for improving wastewater discharges (S. 571), S1859–S1861 [14MR]

——— protect and restore (S. 1232), S5272 [26JN]

Lake Tahoe: provide for environmental restoration and forest management activities in surrounding basin (S. 1451), S6223–S6225 [1AU]

National Endowment for the Oceans: establish, S3143 [7MY], S3223, S3227, S3246 [8MY], S3564 [16MY]

National Lake Appreciation Month: observance, S5706 [16JY]

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: designate certain lands and inland water as wilderness (S. 23), S4717 [19JN]

War of 1812: anniversary of Battle of Lake Erie, S6508 [17SE]

——— anniversary of Battle of Lake Erie (S. Res. 153), S3863 [23MY], S6027 [29JY]

Reports filed

Address Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Through Research, Monitoring, and Mitigation To Help Communities Detect, Control, and Mitigate Such Events: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1254) (S. Rept. 113–121), S8100 [18NO]

North Cascades National Park Service Complex Fish Stocking Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 1158) (H. Rept. 113–68), H2773 [17MY]

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (S. 23) (S. Rept. 113–14), S2844 [22AP]

Transportation Reports Elimination Act: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (House) (H.R. 3628) (H. Rept. 113–299), H8124 [19DE]

Texts of

H.R. 1158, North Cascades National Park Service Complex Fish Stocking Act, H3267 [11JN]

S. 23, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act, S4717 [19JN]

S. 571, Great Lakes Water Protection Act, S1860 [14MR]

S. 1451, Lake Tahoe Restoration Act, S6225–S6229 [1AU]

S. Res. 153, War of 1812 Battle of Lake Erie anniversary, S3863 [23MY]