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H.R. 729 - Coastal and Great Lakes Communities Enhancement Act
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Bill Text
Rules Committee Print 116-40 PDF XML
Showing the text of H.R. 729, H.R. 3115, H.R. 3596, H.R. 2185, H.R. 3541, H.R. 1747, H.R. 1023, H.R. 2189, H.R. 1314, and H.R. 2405 as ordered reported by the Committee on Natural Resources, with modifications.
Text of H.R. 729—Tribal Coastal Resiliency Act PDF XML
(as reported)
Reports on Incorporated Bills
H. Rept. 116-283 PDF
:: Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 729
H. Rept. 116-316 PDF
:: Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 3115
H. Rept. 116-295 PDF
:: Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 3596
H. Rept. 116-321 PDF
:: Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 2185
H. Rept. 116-294 PDF
:: Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 3541
H. Rept. 116-314 PDF
:: Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 1747
H. Rept. 116-274 PDF
:: Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 1023
H. Rept. 116-315 PDF
:: Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 2189
H. Rept. 116-231, Part 1 PDF
:: Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 1314
H. Rept. 116-323 PDF
:: Report from the Committee on Natural Resources to accompany H.R. 2405
Hearing Documents
Rule Information
COMMITTEE ACTION:
REPORTED BY A VOICE VOTE on Monday, December 9, 2019.
FLOOR ACTION ON H. RES. 748:
Agreed to by record vote of 226-189, after agreeing to the previous question by record vote of 226-188, on Tuesday, December 10, 2019.
MANAGERS: Morelle/Lesko
1. Structured rule.
2. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Natural Resources.
3. Waives all points of order against consideration of the bill.
4. Provides that an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 116-40 shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read.
5. Waives all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended.
6. Makes in order only those further amendments printed in the Rules Committee report and amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution. Each amendment printed in the report may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
7. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in the report or amendments en bloc described in section 3 of the resolution.
8. Section 3 provides that the chair of the Committee on Natural Resources or his designee may offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments printed in the Rules Committee report not earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee Natural Resources or their designees, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
9. Provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions.
Amendments (click headers to sort)
| # | Version # | Sponsor(s) | Party | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Version 1 | Mucarsel-Powell (FL) | Democrat | Ensures that corals are included as a natural element eligible for grants provided for by the Living Shoreline Grant Program. | Made in Order |
| 2 | Version 1 | Moulton (MA), Graves, Garret (LA) | Bi-Partisan | Ensures that coastal communities are more resilient and sustainable in the face of coastal degradation by directing the Secretary of Commerce, through NOAA, to develop and carry out a competitive grant program focused on interdisciplinary coastal resiliency and sustainability. The grant program would be required to prioritize scalable, best practices that could be replicated in coastal cities and towns throughout the country. | Submitted |
| 3 | Version 1 | Lipinski (IL) | Democrat | Requires that climate change adaptation plans for Great Lakes coastal states shall include adaptive management strategies for Great Lakes ecosystems and resources. | Made in Order |
| 4 | Version 1 | Crist (FL), Rooney (FL), Bonamici (OR), Kaptur (OH), Hastings (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Clarifies that Section 323, the Climate Change Adaptation Preparedness and Response Program, includes projects to address harmful algal blooms. | Made in Order |
| 5 | Version 1 | Huizenga (MI) | Republican | Requires no less than 10 percent of the funds awarded under the Living Shoreline grant program be available to projects located within the Great Lakes. | Made in Order |
| 6 | Version 1 | Jayapal (WA), Haaland (NM) | Democrat | Amends the legislation to increase the membership of the Fish Habitat Board by one seat to provide an additional seat for tribal representation. | Made in Order |
| 7 | Version 2 | Jayapal (WA) | Democrat | Revised Amends the legislation to ensure that grant funds awarded through the Living Shoreline Grant Program may be used to incentivize landowners to engage in living shoreline projects. | Made in Order |
| 8 | Version 1 | Jayapal (WA) | Democrat | Amends the legislation to ensure that in developing minimum standards to be used in selecting eligible entities to receive grants under the Living Shoreline Grant Program, the Administrator considers entities with systems to disburse funding from a single grant to support multiple small-scale projects. | Made in Order |
| 9 | Version 1 | Moore (WI) | Democrat | Amend the Climate Change Adaption program to add invasive species as a target of the adaptive management strategies to be included in the plans and to require such proposals to describe how they will involve and address concerns regarding the impact of climate change in coastal communities on nearby tribes and low-income and low-resource communities. | Made in Order |
| 10 | Version 1 | Moore (WI) | Democrat | Amends the Living Shoreline Grant Program to require plans to include an education and outreach component for the community stakeholders most affected by the proposal and to add tribes and tribal organizations to the list that the Administrator may consult with in developing program standards. | Made in Order |
| 11 | Version 1 | Sarbanes (MD) | Democrat | Reauthorizes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake Bay Office and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (BWET) program. | Submitted |
| 12 | Version 1 | Levin, Andy (MI) | Democrat | Specifies avian habitat protection and restoration projects as eligible activities to be considered for the Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Project Implementation grants in this bill. | Made in Order |
| 13 | Version 1 | Kildee (MI) | Democrat | Requires NOAA to update the Environmental Sensitivity Index for the Great Lakes every seven years. | Made in Order |
| 14 | Version 1 | Brown (MD) | Democrat | Authorizes the NOAA Administrator to award grants to eligible entities for collaborative research projects on the conservation, restoration, or management of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay. | Made in Order |
| 15 | Version 1 | Gohmert (TX) | Republican | Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide that nonnative species in the United States shall not be treated as endangered species or threatened species for purposes of that Act. | Submitted |
| 16 | Version 1 | Calvert (CA) | Republican | Transfers from NOAA to the Department of the Interior certain management functions related to anadromous species. | Submitted |
| 17 | Version 1 | Bonamici (OR), Crist (FL) | Democrat | Adds studying coastal acidification and hypoxia as allowable activities through the Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Project Implementation Grant program. | Made in Order |
| 18 | Version 1 | Bonamici (OR) | Democrat | Directs NOAA to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to assess the need for and feasibility of establishing an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Oceans (ARPA-O). | Made in Order |
| 19 | Version 1 | Bonamici (OR) | Democrat | Directs the NOAA Administrator to incorporate the development of next-generation ocean data and monitoring technology into NOAA Cooperative Institutes. | Submitted |
| 20 | Version 1 | Luria (VA) | Democrat | Directs NOAA to consider the potential of a living shoreline project to support the resiliency of military communities when developing criteria for grant applications. | Made in Order |
| 21 | Version 1 | Speier (CA), Huffman (CA) | Democrat | Specifies that “built and natural environments” in terms of infrastructure would include sea walls and living shorelines. | Made in Order |
| 22 | Version 1 | McEachin (VA) | Democrat | Includes communities that may not have the resources necessary to prepare for or respond to coastal hazards to the list of priority areas the NOAA Administrator shall consider when determining living shoreline projects to receive federal grants. These communities include low-income communities, communities of color, Tribal communities, and rural communities. | Made in Order |
| 23 | Version 1 | Cicilline (RI), Langevin (RI) | Democrat | Ensures tribes make efforts to work with states so that tribal objectives pertaining to special area management plans are more consistent with state coastal zone management programs. | Submitted |
| 24 | Version 1 | Levin, Andy (MI) | Democrat | Adds research into the effects of PFAS chemicals, mercury, and other contaminants on fisheries and fishery ecosystems to the list of research activities that may be conducted in the Great Lakes Basin by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. | Made in Order |
| 25 | Version 1 | Katko (NY), Brindisi (NY), Morelle (NY), Stefanik (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Adds research on harmful algal bloom development to U.S. Geological Survey research conducted under H.R. 729. | Made in Order |
| 26 | Version 1 | Katko (NY), Brindisi (NY), Morelle (NY) | Bi-Partisan | Provides grant eligibility under H.R. 729 to projects that assess the impact of water level regulating practices on the Great Lakes on coastal resiliency. | Made in Order |
| 27 | Version 2 | Plaskett (VI) | Democrat | Revised Permits a waiver of certain non-Federal contribution requirements for a fish habitat conservation project at the discretion of the Secretary. | Made in Order |
| 28 | Version 1 | Panetta (CA), Waltz (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Adds a finding that collaborations and partnerships between institutions of higher education and Federal agencies help ensure digital data focused on coastal management issues are communicated effectively between such entities. | Made in Order |
| 29 | Version 1 | Hastings (FL) | Democrat | Withdrawn Expands the list of eligible activities under the Climate Change Adaptation Preparedness and Response Program to include those that address hypoxia and toxic algae blooms. | Withdrawn |
| 30 | Version 1 | Hastings (FL) | Democrat | Expands the list of eligible activities for the award of Coastal Climate Change Adaptation Project Implementation Grants to include projects to address the immediate and long-term degradation or loss of coral and coral reefs. | Made in Order |
| 31 | Version 1 | Hastings (FL) | Democrat | Includes coral reefs as eligible under the National Fish Habitat Conservation Through Partnerships program. | Made in Order |
| 32 | Version 1 | Beyer (VA), Rooney (FL) | Bi-Partisan | Late Makes technical improvements to the national ocean and coastal security fund to enhance coastal resiliency efforts. | Submitted |
| 33 | Version 1 | Morelle (NY) | Democrat | Late Ensure that up to 5 percent of the funds appropriated under this section will be used by the Secretary to provide technical assistance, which will help accelerate early-stage resources and planning assistance for communities. | Made in Order |
| 34 | Version 1 | Higgins, Brian (NY) | Democrat | Late Directs USGS research to include the impacts of harmful algal blooms, nutrient pollution, and dead zones on Great Lakes fisheries. | Made in Order |
| 35 | Version 1 | Rouda (CA) | Democrat | Late Adds a new section to the bill for a prize competition to stimulate innovation to advance coastal risk and resilience measures. | Made in Order |
| 36 | Version 1 | Rouda (CA) | Democrat | Late Adds a new section to the bill that would require the development of a catalog of research on applicable coastal risk reduction and resilience measures. | Made in Order |
| 37 | Version 1 | Johnson, Mike (LA) | Republican | Late Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to limit the scope of the moratorium on taking and importing marine mammals and marine mammal products, and revises the requirements for obtaining an authorization for incidentally taking by harassment marine mammals. | Made in Order |