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Key Legislation
Legislation Receiving Considerable
Attention and of Particular Interest to AMSA
Clean Water Act Reauthorization
Legislative initiatives offering comprehensive reauthorization
of The Clean Water Act.
No introductions to date.
No listings to date.
Potential Clean Water Act Amendments and Region-Specific Initiatives
- H.R.550 - Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Prevention Act of 1997
- H.R.640 - Agricultural Lands Protection Act of 1997
- H.R.1290 - Wetlands Restoration & Improvement Act of 1997
- *H.R.1884 - Voluntary Environmental Self-Evaluation Act
- *H.R.2094 - Beaches, Environmental Assessment, Closure and Health Act of 1997
- *H.R.2138 - Municipal Biological Monitoring Use Act
- *H.R.2207 - Federal Water Pollution Control Act, Amendment
- *H.R.2222 - Federal Facilities Clean Water Compliance Act
- *S.971 - Beaches, Environmental Assessment, Closure
and Health Act of 1997
Biosolids Management/Other Interstate Transportation Initiatives
- H.R.289 - Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Amendment
- H.R.942 - Solid Waste Disposal Act, Amendment
- H.R.943 - Municipal Solid Waste Flow Control Act of 1997
- H.R.1346 - State and Local Government Interstate Water Control Act of 1997
- H.R.1358 - Interstate Transportation of MSW Act of 1997
- S.443 - State and Local Government Interstate Waste Control Act of 1997
- S.448 - Solid Waste Disposal Act, Amendment
- S.463 - Solid Waste Disposal Act, Amendment
- S.899 - Municipal Solid Waste Disposal Act of
1997
Enforcement - Environmental Crimes
- H.R.277 - Environmental Crimes and Enforcement Act of 1997; Environmental Crimes Training Act of 1996
- H.R.1453 - Clean Water Enforcement and Compliance Improvement Act of 1997
- S.645 - Clean Water Enforcement and Compliance
Improvement Act of 1997
- H.R.1268 - National Economics Crossroads Transportation Efficiency Act of 1997
- S.468 - National Economics Crossroads Transportation Efficiency Act of 1997
- S.532 - Surface Transportation Authorization and Regulatory Streamlining Act
- S.586 - ISTEA Reauthorization Act of 1997
- H.R.1533 - National Initiative on Surface Transportation
& the Enviornment Act
Funding and Innovative Technology Initiatives
- H.R.712 - National Infrastructure Development Act of 1997
- H.R.806 - National Clean Water Trust Fund Act of 1997
- H.R.1276 - Environmental Research, Development and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1997
- *H.R.2158 - Departments of Veterans Affairs and Houseing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act of 1998
- *S.1034 - Departments of Veterans Affairs and
Houseing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Act of 1998
- S.8 - Superfund Cleanup Acceleration Act of 1997
- H.R.1878 - Moratorium on Enforcement of CERCLA Against De Minimis Parties
- *H.R.2087 - Polluter Pays Act of 1997
- H.R.1284 - Safe Drinking Water Act, Amendment
- H.R.1308 - Safe Drinking Water Act, Amendment
- *H.R.2032 - Safe Drinking Water Act, Amendment
Miscellaneous Environmental Initiatives
- H.R.1209 - Defense of the Environment Act of 1997
- H.R.1506 - Community Environmental Equity Act
- H.R.1404 - Defense of the Environment Act of 1997
- H.R.1636 - Children's Environmental Protection and Right to Know Act of 1997
- S.599 - Children's Environmental Protection Act
- S.769 - Right-to-know-more and Pollution Prevention Act of 1997
- S.866 - Environmental Protection Partnership
Act of 1997
- H.R.455 - Long Island Sound Restoration Act
- H.R.1409 - Brownfield Economic Revitalization Act of 1997
- H.R.1206 - Brownfield Cleanup and Redevelopment Act
- H.R.1392 - Brownfield Reuse and Real Estate Development Act
- H.R.1395 - Brownfields and Environmental Cleanup Act of 1997
- H.R.1462 - Brownfield Cleanup and Redevelopment
Revolving Loan Fund Pilot Project