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AMSA Bill Digest
March 2000
(Current as of April 11, 2000)

The AMSA Bill Digest provides up-to-date summary information for legislation introduced in the 106th Congress. The specific listings include bills which are receiving considerable attention or which are of particular importance to AMSA's membership.

This Digest provides a direct linkage to Congressional legislation through AMSA's web site, allowing members to directly and instantaneously track bills of interest. A complete summary and status of any of the listed legislation can be found in the web version of the Legislative Update. The most recent Update, with the attached Digest, is posted in the What's New section of AMSA's website (http://www.amsa-cleanwater.org). The complete text of the bill, as well as detailed status information, can be accessed by double clicking on the bill name. The Digest is linked to the Library of Congress' site located at http://thomas.loc.gov/. Copies of legislation, committee reports and status reports can be downloaded from the site free of charge. Past issues of the Legislative Update can also be found on the AMSA website in the Member Pipeline - Legislative Update section.

The up-to-the-minute status of any of the legislation listed in the Update can be obtained by calling: U.S. Congress, Legislative Status Office at 202/225-1772. For any questions regarding AMSA's position on or activities related to any specific bill, please contact Greg Schaner at 202/296-9836 or by e-mail gschaner@amsa-cleanwater.org.

Clean Water Act & Other Water Quality Issues

Consideration of H.R. 999, Federal Water Pollution Control Act (HRES145), REYNOLDS (R-NY)
Status: Reported out of committee
A resolution providing for consideration of the bill (HR999) to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve the quality of coastal recreation waters, and for other purposes.

Resolution Regarding Federal Decisions, Actions, and Regulations Affecting Water (H.C.R.86), BLUMENAUER (D-OR)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment
Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress regarding Federal decisions, actions, and regulations affecting water. This proposed resolution calls on the Federal government to recognize the importance of watershed management in achieving the Nation's clean water, drinking water and flood management objectives.

Municipal Biological Monitoring Use Act (H.R.155), HEFLEY (R-CO)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for the use of biological monitoring and whole effluent toxicity tests in connection with publicly owned treatment works, municipal separate storm sewer systems, and municipal combined sewer overflows, and for other purposes.2 Cosponsors.

Farm Sustainability and Animal Feedlot Enforcement (Farm SAFE) Act (H.R.684), MILLER, GEORGE (D-CA)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to control water pollution from concentrated animal feeding operations, and for other purposes. 21 Cosponsors.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendment (H.R.828),BARCIA (D-MI)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require that discharges from combined storm and sanitary sewers conform to the Combined Sewer Overflow Control Policy of the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. 50 Cosponsors.

National Urban Watershed Model Restoration Act (H.R.839),NORTON (D-DC)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure
A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out a pilot program for restoration of urban watersheds and community environments in the Anacostia River watershed, District of Columbia and Maryland, and for other purposes.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendment (H.R.950), PALLONE (D-NJ)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve the quality of beaches and coastal recreation waters, and for other purposes. 13 Cosponsors.

Beaches Environmental Assessment, Cleanup and Health Act of 1999, (H.R.999) BILBRAY (R-CA)
Status: Referred - Senate Committee on Environment & Public Workds
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve the quality of coastal recreation waters, and for other purposes. 10 Cosponsors.

Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, Amendment (H.R. 1110), SAXTON (R-NJ)
Status: Referred - House Resources, Subcommittee Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and Oceans; House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee Water Resources & Environment
A bill to reauthorize and amend the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendment (H.R. 1237), SAXTON (R-NJ)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, reported out of Subcommittee
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to permit grants for the national estuary program to be used for the development and implementation of a comprehensive conservation and management plan, to reauthorize appropriations to carry out the program, and for other purposes. 36 Cosponsors.

Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (H.R.1480), SHUSTER (R-PA)
Status: Passed House and Senate — in Conference
A bill to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, to authorize the United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, and for other purposes.

Clean Water Trust Fund Act (H.R.1549), VISCLOSKY (D-IN)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee Water Resources & Environment
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish a National Clean Water Trust Fund and to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to use amounts in that Fund to carry out projects to restore and recover waters of the United States from damages resulting from violations of that Act, and for other purposes. 52 Cosponsors.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendment (H.R.1712), STUPAK (D-MI)
Status: Referred - House Commerce; House Transportation & Infrastructure
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize an estrogenic substances screening program. 2 Cosponsors.

Duty on Certain Chemicals Used in Water Treatment, Suspension (H.R.2073), TALENT (R-MO)
Status: Referred - House Committee on Ways and Means
A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on a certain chemical used in water treatment.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendment (H.R.2328), SWEENEY (R-NY)
Status: Referred - Reported Out of Committee
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Clean Lakes Program. 4 Cosponsors.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendment (H.R.2449), NORWOOD (R-GA)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee Water Resources & Environment
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to Federal facilities pollution control. 16 Cosponsors.

Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, Reauthorization, (H.R.2669), SAXTON (R-NJ)
Status: Referred - Reported out of Committee
A bill to reauthorize the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, and for other purposes.

Water Regulation Improvement Act of 1999 (H.R.3294), BACHUS (R-AL)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee Water Resources & Environment
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to exclude from stormwater regulation certain areas and activities and to improve the regulation and limit the liability of local governments concerning co-permitting and the implementation of control measures. 15 Cosponsors.

Drinking Water Protection Act of 2000 (H.R.3536), FRANKS (R-NJ)
Status: Referred - Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health & Environment
To provide for a study regarding the potential health effects of ingesting and inhaling MTBE, to provide for research regarding methods for the removal of MTBE from water supplies, and to require public water systems to monitor for the presence of MTBE in public water systems. 1 Cosponsor.

Urban Wet Weather Priorities Act of 2000 (H.R.3570), LATOURETTE(R-OH)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee Water Resources & Environment
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to establish nationally consistent requirements for controlling urban wet weather flows, to provide additional funds to municipalities to meet those requirements, and for other purposes. 4 Cosponsors.

Timber and Agriculture Environmental Fairness Act (H.R.3625), DICKEY (R-AR)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee Water Resources & Environment
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to exempt agricultural stormwater discharges and silviculture operations from permits under the national pollutant discharge elimination system, and for other purposes. 9 Cosponsors.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendment (H.R.3670), OBERSTAR (D-MN)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee Water Resources & Environment
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Great Lakes program, and for other purposes.

Reauthorization of the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (H.R. 4132), DOOLITTLE (R-CA)
Status: Referred to the House Committee on Resources
To reauthorize grants for water resources research and technology institutes established under the Water Resources Research Act of 1984.

Water Conservation and Quality Incentives Act (S.188), WYDEN (D-OR)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the use of State revolving loan funds for construction of water conservation and quality improvements. 2 Cosponsors.

Water Resources Development Act of 1999 (S.507), WARNER (R-VA)
Status: Signed by the President, Public Law 106-53
A bill to provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, and for other purposes. 6 Cosponsors.

Beaches Environmental Assessment, Closure, and Health (BEACH) Act of 1999 (S.522)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve the quality of beaches and coastal recreation water, and for other purposes. 8 Cosponsors.

Federal Facilities Clean Water Compliance Act of 1999 (S.669), COVERDELL (R-GA)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure compliance by Federal facilities with pollution control requirements. 6 Cosponsors.

National Estuary Conservation Act of 1999 S.878, TORRICELLI (D-NJ)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to permit grants for the national estuary program to be used for the development and implementation of a comprehensive conservation and management plan, to reauthorize appropriations to carry out the program, and for other purposes. 12 Cosponsors.

Combined Sewer Overflow Control and Partnership Act of 1999 (S.914), SMITH, ROBERT C. (R-NH)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require that discharges from combined storm and sanitary sewers conform to the Combined Sewer Overflow Control Policy of the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. 15 Cosponsors.

Coastal Stewardship Act (S.1420), KERRY, JOHN (D-MA)
Status: Referred - Senate Commerce; Science & Transportation
A bill to establish a fund for the restoration and protection of ocean and coastal resources, to amend and reauthorize the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, and for other purposes. 5 Cosponsors.

Coastal Zone Management Act of 1999 (S.1534), SNOWE (R-ME)
Status: Referred - Senate Commerce; Science & Transportation
A bill to reauthorize the Coastal Zone Management Act, and for other purposes. 1 Cosponsor.

Water Regulation Improvement Act of 1999 (S1706), HUTCHISON (R-TX)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to exclude from stormwater regulation certain areas and activities, and to improve the regulation and limit the liability of local governments concerning co-permitting and the implementation of control measures. 2 Cosponsors.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendment (S1730), CHAFEE(R-RI)
Status: Passed Senate, Referred to House
An original bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide that certain environmental reports shall continue to be required to be submitted. 1 Cosponsor.

Good Samaritan Abandoned or Inactive Mine Waste Remediation Act (S. 1787) BAUCUS (D-MT)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve water quality on abandoned or inactive mined land. 2 Cosponsors.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendment (S. 2041) LINCOLN (D-AR)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of exempt discharges from certain silvicultural activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge elimination system.

Clean Air Act Amendments

Omnibus Mercury Emissions Reduction Act of 1999 (H.R.2667), ALLEN (D-ME)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee Health & Environment
A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to establish requirements concerning the operation of fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units, commercial and industrial boiler units, solid waste incineration units, medical waste incinerators, hazardous waste combustors, chlor-alkali plants, and Portland cement plants to reduce emissions of mercury to the environment, and for other purposes. 29 Cosponsors.

Solid Waste Bill(H.R.3524), ANDREWS (D-NJ)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee on Finance & Hazardous Materials; House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment, Subcommittee on Ground Transportation
To phase out the incineration of solid waste, and for other purposes.

Omnibus Mercury Emissions Reduction Act of 1999 (S.673), LEAHY (D-VT)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to establish requirements concerning the operation of fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units, commercial and industrial boiler units, solid waste incineration units, medical waste incinerators, hazardous waste combustors, chlor-alkali plants, and Portland cement plants to reduce emissions of mercury to the environment, and for other purposes. 1 Cosponsor.

Government Reform

Small Business Paperwork Reduction Act Amendments of 1999(H.R.391), MCINTOSH (R-IN)
Status: Passed House, Referred Senate Government Affairs
A bill to amend Chapter 35 of Title 44, United States Code, for the purpose of facilitating compliance by small businesses with certain Federal paperwork requirements, to establish a task force to examine the feasibility of streamlining paperwork requirements applicable to small businesses, and for other purposes.

Regulatory Right-to-Know Act of 1999(H.R.1074), BLILEY (R-VA)
Status: Referred - Passed House, Referred Senate Government Affairs
A bill to provide Government-wide accounting of regulatory costs and benefits, and for other purposes. 49 Cosponsors.

Second Generation of Environmental Improvement Act of 1999(H.R.3448), GREENWOOD (R-PA)
Status: Referred - House Budget; House Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy & Power, Subcommittee on Health & Environment; House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water, Resources & Environment
A bill to improve the management of environmental information and to encourage innovation in the pursuit of enhanced environmental quality, and for other purposes. 3 Cosponsors.

Regulatory Right-to-Know Act of 1999(S.59), THOMPSON (R-TN)
Status: Referred - Senate Government Affairs
A bill to provide Government wide accounting of regulatory costs and benefits, and for other purposes. 13 Cosponsors.

State and Local Government Participation Act of 1999 (S.352), THOMAS (R-WY)
Status: Reported out of Committee
A bill to amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require that Federal agencies consult with State agencies and county and local governments on environmental impact statements. 8 Cosponsors.

Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999 (S.746), LEVIN, CARL (D-MI)
Status: Reported out of Committee
A bill to provide for analysis of major rules, to promote the public's right to know the costs and benefits of major rules, and to increase the accountability of quality of Government. 20 Cosponsors.

Congressional Accountability for Regulatory Information Act of 1999 (S.1198), SHELBY (R-AL)
Status: Referred - Senate Government Affairs
A bill to amend Chapter 8 of Title 5, United States Code, to provide for a report by the General Accounting Office to Congress on agency regulatory actions, and for other purposes. 14 Cosponsors.

Biosolids Management/Interstate Transportation Initiatives/Solid Waste Disposal

Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, Amendment (H.R.261), SERRANO (D-NY)
Status: Referred - House Agriculture, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource & Conservation Credit, Subcommittee Livestock & Horticulture; House Commerce, Subcommittee Health & Environment
A bill to amend the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the egg, meat, and poultry inspection laws to ensure that consumers receive notification regarding food products produced from crops, livestock, or poultry raised on land on which sewage sludge was applied. 3 Cosponsors.

Solid Waste Disposal Act Amendment(H.R.3656), BILIRAKIS (R-FL)
Status: Referred - House Commerce
A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reauthorize the Office of Ombudsman of the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. 3 cosponsors.

Transportation and Infrastructure Reports Restoration Act of 2000(H.R.4052), SHUSTER (R-PA)
Status: Referred - passed out of committee, put on House legislative calendar
A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reauthorize the Office of Ombudsman of the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. 2 Cosponsors.

Ombudsman Reauthorization Act of 1999(S.1763), ALLARD (R-CO)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reauthorize the Office of Ombudsman of the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes. 2 Cosponsors.

Endangered Species

Endangered Species Act of 1973, Amendment (H.R.1763), CALVERT (R-CA)
Status: Referred - House Resources
A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that the cost of mitigation required under that Act for a public construction project may not exceed 10 percent of the total project costs. 1 Cosponsor.

Endangered Species Act of 1973, Amendment (H.R.2131),CALVERT (R-CA)
Status: Referred - House Resources
A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to prohibit the imposition under that Act of any requirement to mitigate for the impacts of activities that occurred in the past.

Common Sense Protections for Endangered Species Act(H.R.3160), YOUNG, DON (R-AK)
Status: Referred - House Resources
A bill to reauthorize and amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973. 39 Cosponsors.

Endangered Species Act of 1973, Amendment (S.1100), CHAFEE (R-RI)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that the designation of critical habitat for endangered and threatened species be required as part of the development of recovery plans for those species. 3 Cosponsors.

Energy & Electricity Reform

Plumbing Standards Improvement Act of 1999 (H.R.623), KNOLLENBERG (R-MI)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy & Power
A bill to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to eliminate certain regulation of plumbing supplies. 106 Cosponsors.

Funding & Appropriations

National Infrastructure Development Act of 1999 (H.R115), DELAURO (D-CT)
Status: Referred - House Banking & Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing & Community Opportunity, Subcommittee on Capitol Markerts, Security & Government Sponsored Enterprises; House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment, Subcommitttee on Aviation, Subcommittee on Ground Transportation; House Ways & Means
A bill to facilitate efficient investments and financing of infrastructure projects and new job creation through the establishment of a National Infrastructure Development Corporation, and for other purposes. 7 Cosponsors.

Environmental Priorities Act of 1999(H.R.341), ANDREWS (D-NJ)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy & Power; House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water, Resources & Environment
A bill to establish a Fund for Environmental Priorities to be funded by a portion of the consumer savings resulting from retail electricity choice, and for other purposes.

Clean Water Infrastructure Financing Act of 1999(H.R.2720), KELLY (R-NY)
Status: Referred - House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds, and for other purposes. 68 Cosponsors.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendment (H.R.3039), BATEMAN (R-VA)
Status: Referred - Reported out of Committees
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to assist in the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay, and for other purposes. 12 Cosponsors.

Internal Revenue Code of 1986, Amendment (H.R. 3309), CRANE (R-IL).
Status: Referred - House Ways & Means
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the private activity bond rules to deter unwarranted hostile takeovers of water utilities.

Clean Water Infrastructure Financing Act of 1999 (S1699), VOINOVICH (R-OH)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for state water pollution control revolving funds, and for other purposes.

Superfund/CERCLA/RCRA

Recycle America's Land Act of 1999(H.R.1300), BOEHLERT (R-NY)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee on Finance & Hazardous Materials; Reported out of House Transportation & Infrastructure; House Ways & Means
To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to promote brownfields redevelopment, to reauthorize and reform the Superfund program, and for other purposes. 146 Cosponsors.

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, Amendment (H.R.1750), TOWNS (D-NY)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee on Finance & Hazardous Materials; House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment
A bill to assist local governments in assessing and remediating brownfield sites, to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to encourage State voluntary response programs for remediating such sites, and for other purposes. 171 Cosponsors.

Common Sense Superfund Liability Relief Act of 1999(H.R.2940), STUPAK (D-MI)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee on Finance & Hazardous Materials; House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment
To amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to provide liability relief for small parties, innocent landowners, and prospective purchasers.

Children's Protection and Community Cleanup Act of 1999 (H.R.2956), PALLONE (D-NJ)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee on Finance & Hazardous Waste; House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment; House Ways & Means
A bill to reauthorize the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. 33 Cosponsors.

Brownfields and Environmental Cleanup Act of 1999 (S.20), LAUTENBERG (D-NJ)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to assist the States and local governments in assessing and remediating brownfield sites and encouraging environmental cleanup programs, and for other purposes. 24 Cosponsors.

Safe Drinking Water Act

Safe Drinking Water Act, Amendment (HR124),ENGEL (D-NY)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee Health & Environment
A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to allow public water systems to avoid filtration requirements, and for other purposes.

Safe Drinking Water Act, Amendment (H.R.2108), PALLONE (D-NJ)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee on Health & Environment
A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to increase consumer confidence in safe drinking water and source water assessments, and for other purposes. 7 Cosponsors.

Drinking Water Right-To-Know Act of 1999(S.1149), LAUTENBERG (D-NJ)
Status: Referred - Senate Environment & Public Works
A bill to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to increase consumer confidence in safe drinking water and source water assessments, and for other purposes. 24 Cosponsors.

Environmental Crimes & Citizen Suits

Environmental Crimes Act (S.481), SCHUMER (D-NY)
Status: Referred - Senate Judiciary
A bill to increase penalties and strengthen enforcement of environmental crimes, and for other purposes.

Miscellaneous Municipal Issues

Children's Environmental Protection Act (H.R.199), MORAN, JIM (D-VA)
Status: Referred - House Commerce
A bill to protect children and other vulnerable sub-populations from exposure to certain environmental pollutants, and for other purposes.

Private Property Protection Act of 1999 (H.R.294), SWEENEY (R-NY)
Status: Referred - House Agriculture, Subcommittee Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition & Forestry; House Judiciary, Subcommittee Constitution
A bill to ensure that Federal agencies establish the appropriate procedures for assessing whether or not Federal regulations might result in the taking of private property, and to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to report to the Congress with respect to such takings under programs of the Department of Agriculture.

Defense of the Environment Act (H.R.525), WAXMAN (D-CA)
Status: Referred - House Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs; House Rules
A bill to provide for the defense of the environment, and for other purposes. 102 Cosponsors.

Peer Review of Scientific Data, Requirement (H.R.574), POMBO (R-CA)
Status: Referred - House Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs; House Science
A bill to require peer review of scientific data used in support of Federal regulations, and for other purposes. 9 Cosponsors.

Testing of Certain Computer Systems for the Year 2000 Computer Problem, Provision (H.R.1447), FORD (D-TN)
Status: Referred - House Science, Subcommittee Technology
A bill to provide for the coordinated end-to-end testing and disclosure of the readiness of certain Federal and non-Federal computer systems for the year 2000 computer problem. 9 Cosponsors.

Year 2000 Act (H.R.1502), BARCIA (D-MI)
Status: Referred - House Science, Subcommittee Technology
A bill to minimize the disruption of Government and private sector operations caused by the Year 2000 computer problem. 12 Cosponsors.

Environmental Justice Act (H.R.1510), LEWIS, JOHN (D-GA)
Status: Referred - House Agriculture, Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry; House Commerce, Subcommittee on Health & Environment, Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials; House Resources, Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands; House Transportation & Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources & Environment
A bill to promote environmental justice, public health, and pollution reduction efforts. 22 Cosponsors.

Year 2000 Compliance Assistance Act (H.R.1599), DAVIS, THOMAS (R-VA)
Status: Referred - House Government Reform, Subcommitee Government Management, Information & Technology
A bill to amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to authorize the purchase of information technology related to the Year 2000 computer conversion by State and local governments through Federal supply schedules. 3 Cosponsors.

Toxic Chemical Disclosure, Provision (H.R.1657), WAXMAN (D-CA)
Status: Referred - House Commerce, Subcommittee Health & Environment
A bill to disclose environmental risks to children's health and expand the public's right to know about toxic chemical use and release, and for other purposes. 137 Cosponsors.

Chemical Safety Information and Site Security Act of 1999 (H.R.1790), BLILEY (R-VA)
Status: Referred - House Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology; House Commerce, Subcommittee on Health and Environment; House Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime
A bill to provide for public disclosure of accidental release scenario information in risk management plans, and for other purposes.

National Environment Policy Act of 1969, Amendment (H.R.2029), RADANOVICH (R-CA)
Status: Referred - House Resources, Subcommittee Fisheries, Conservation Wildlife & Oceans
A bill to amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require that Federal agencies consult with State agencies and county and local governments on environmental impact statements. 16 Cosponsors.

Y2K State and Local Government Assistance Programs Act of 1999 (S.174), MOYNIHAN (D-NY)
Status: Referred - Senate Finance
A bill to provide funding for States to correct Y2K problems in computers that are used to administer State and local government programs. 6 Cosponsors.

Private Property Fairness Act of 1999 (S.246), HAGEL (R-NE)
Status: Referred - Senate Government Affairs
A bill to protect private property rights guaranteed by the fifth amendment to the Constitution by requiring Federal agencies to prepare private property taking impact analyses and by allowing expanded access to Federal courts. 2 Cosponsors.

Earth Day Act (S.864), BINGAMAN (D-NM)
Status: Referred - Senate Judiciary
A bill to designate April 22 as Earth Day. 12 Cosponsors.

Dealing with Losses Arising from Y2K Problem-Related Failures, Provision (S.1138), MCCAIN (R-AZ)
Status: Passed Senate
A bill to regulate interstate commerce by making provision for dealing with losses arising from Year 2000 Problem-related failures that may disrupt communications, intermodal transportation, and other matters affecting interstate commerce. 13 Cosponsors.