US Congress Senate Bill 2779 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on November 16 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-06-09 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-707.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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

Sen. Russell Feingold [D-WI]

Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-06-09		Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-707.
2009-11-16		Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

HB3671 (Same As) 2010-06-09 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/2779/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/s2779/BILLS-111s2779is.pdf