Federal Legislation

VRWA tracks legislation that affects the water-wastewater industry. Below are pending or recently passed bills in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives that may be of interest to our members.

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For the full text of these bills and the most recent updates available, visit Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet from the Library of Congress.

Last updated: 1/7/10

H.R.1
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Status: Became Public Law No: 111-5
Main Sponsor: David R. Obey; cosponsors: 9
Description: Making supplemental appropriations for job preservation and creation, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency and science, assistance to the unemployed, and State and local fiscal stabilization, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, and for other purposes such as appropriates FY2009 funds for the Rural Utilities Service, and Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program.

H.R.135
Twenty-First Century Water Commission Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: John Linder; cosponsors: 8
Description: To establish the Twenty-First Century Water Commission to study and develop recommendations for a comprehensive water strategy to address future water needs.

H.R.185
Sewage Sludge in Food Production Consumer Notification Act

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Jose E, Serrano; cosponsors: none
Description: 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.

H.R.244
To provide for the security of critical energy infrastructure

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Gene Green; cosponsor: Timothy V. Johnson
Description: To provide for the security of critical energy infrastructure. Allows assistance to include assistance to restore access to water.

H.R.249
Logan's Law

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Gene Green; cosponsors: none
Description: To direct the head of a Federal department or agency that is carrying out a project involving the construction of a culvert or other enclosed flood or drainage system to ensure that certain child safety measures are included in the project.

H.R.274
Solid Waste Interstate Transportation Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Robert J. Wittman; cosponsors: Jim Gerlach, Frank R. Wolf
Description: Imposes certain limitations on the receipt of out-of-State municipal solid waste, and for other purposes.

H.R.276
Drug Free Water Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Camdice S. Miller; cosponsor: Thaddeaus G. McCotter
Description: Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to convene a task force to develop recommendations on the proper disposal of unused pharmaceuticals to prevent or reduce the detrimental effects caused by introducing such materials into water systems and for limiting the disposal of unused pharmaceuticals through treatment works in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

H.R.292
Department of Veterans Affairs Energy Sustainability Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Steve Buyer; cosponsors: 15
Description: To improve energy and water efficiencies and conservation throughout the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes.

H.R.469
Produced Water Utilization Act of 2009

Status in House: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
Status in Senate: Referred to Senate committee: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Main Sponsor: Ralph M. Hall; cosponsor: Eddie Bernice Johnson
Description: To encourage research, development, and demonstration of technologies to facilitate the utilization of water produced in connection with the development of domestic energy resources, and for other purposes.

H.R.537
Sustainable Water Infrastructure Investment Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Bill Pascrell Jr.; cosponsors: 27
Description: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from state volume caps private facility bonds for sewage and water supply facilities.

H.R.585
Environment and Public Health Restoration Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Barbara Lee; cosponsors: John Conyers Jr., Raul M. Grijalva, Dennis J. Kucinich, Bobby L. Rush, Fortney Pete Stark
Description: Directs the President to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate certain Federal rules and regulations for potentially harmful impacts on public health, air quality, water quality, plant and animal wildlife, global climate, or the environment; and to direct Federal departments and agencies to create plans to reverse those impacts that are determined to be harmful by the National Academy of Sciences.

H.R.631
Water Use Efficiency and Conservation Research Act

Status in House: Passed/agreed to in House.
Status in Senate: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Main Sponsor: Jim Matheson; cosponsor: Eddie Bernice Johnson
Description: Increases research, development, education, and technology transfer activities related to water use efficiency and conservation technologies and practices at the Environmental Protection Agency.

H.R.700
Healthy Communities Water Supply Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Jerry McNerney; cosponsor: Ellen O. Tauscher
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to extend the pilot program for alternative water source projects.

H.R.753/S.937
Sewage Overflow Community Right-to-Know Act

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Main Sponsor in House: Timothy H. Bishop; cosponsors: 24
Main Sponsor in Senate: Frank R. Lautenberg; cosponsors: Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, Robert Menendez, Sheldon Whitehouse
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure that publicly owned treatment works monitor for and report sewer overflows, and for other purposes.

H.R.852
Re-Build America Bond Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Loretta Sanchez; cosponsors: John Barrow, Jim Costa, Brad Ellsworth, Baron P. Hill, Heath Shuler
Description: Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Re-Build America Bonds to finance essential infrastructure projects.

H.R.895
Water Quality Investment Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Bill Pascrell Jr.; cosponsor: Dave Camp
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the sewer overflow control grants program.

H.R.996
To temporarily exempt certain public and private development projects from any requirement for a review, statement, or analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and for other purposes.

Status in House: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Devin Nunes; cosponsor: Kevin McCarthy
Description: Exempts a public or private development project that is to be carried out within three years from any requirement for a review, statement, or analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

H.R.1000
National Public Notification of Environmental Hazards Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Christopher H. Smith; cosponsors: none
Description: Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to improve public notification and community relations concerning actions for the removal of environmental hazards.

H.R.1131
Community Protection and Response Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Carolyn B. Maloney; cosponsors: none
Description: Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to improve Federal response efforts after a terrorist strike or other major disaster affecting homeland security, and for other purposes. Includes as a "public facility" for purposes of damages coverage in a major disaster private for-profit telecommunications, phone services, and utilities when losses occur during a homeland security event and are not covered by insurance.

H.R.1145
National Water Research and Development Initiative Act of 2009

Status in House: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 413 - 10 (Roll no. 205).
Status in Senate: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Main Sponsor: Bart Gordon; cosponsors: 15
Description: Directs the President to: (1) implement a National Water Research and Development Initiative to improve the federal government's role in designing and implementing federal water research, development, demonstration, data collection and dissemination, education, and technology transfer activities to address changes in U.S. water use, quality, supply, and demand; and (2) establish or designate an interagency committee to implement the Initiative.

H.R.1187
Smarter Funding for All of America's Homeland Security Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Rodney P. Frelinghuysen; cosponsors: none
Description: Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a State and Regional First Responder Grant Program under which the Secretary may make grants to states and eligible regional entities on the basis of the threat to a state or region's population and critical infrastructure, as determined by the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection.

H.R.1262
Water Quality Investment Act of 2009

Status in House: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 317 - 101 (Roll no. 123).
Status in Senate: Referred to Senate committee: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Main Sponsor: James L. Oberstar; cosponsors: 14
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds, and for other purposes.

H.R.1310
Clean Water Protection Act

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Frank Pallone Jr.; cosponsors: 160
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to define "fill material" to mean any pollutant that replaces portions of waters of the United States with dry land or that changes the bottom elevation of a water body for any purpose and to exclude any pollutant discharged into the water primarily to dispose of waste.

H.R.1417
Safety for Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing Act

Status in House: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Jim Matheson; cosponsors: none
Description: Protects public health and safety, should the testing of nuclear weapons by the United States be resumed, including possible long-term effects on the water table from underground radiation leakage.

H.R.1426
To amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the issuance of permits under title V of that Act for certain emissions from agricultural production.

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Frank D. Lucas; cosponsors: 13
Description: Amends the Clean Air Act to prohibit the issuance of permits under such Act for any carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting from biological processes associated with livestock production.

H.R.1778
Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) Program Act

Status in House: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Peter Welch; cosponsors: 63
Description: Provides for the establishment of national energy and environmental building retrofit policies for both residential and commercial buildings, and for other purposes. Requires the REEP program to: (1) facilitate the retrofitting of existing buildings to achieve maximum cost-effective energy efficiency improvements and significant improvements in water use.

H.R.1908/S.1321
Water Accountability Tax Efficiency Reinvestment Act of 2009 or the WATER Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Main Sponsor in House: Mike Coffman; cosponsors: 29
Main Sponsor in Senate: Mark Udall; cosponsors: Richard Burr, Saxby Chambliss, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Johnny Isakson, Carl Levin, Tom Udall
Description: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 30% of amounts paid for WaterSense program property certified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Limits the lifetime dollar amount of such credit to $1,500. Terminates such credit after 2010.

H.R.2030/S.624
Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Main Sponsor in House: Earl Blumenauer; cosponsors: 69
Main Sponsor in Senate: Richard Durbin; cosponsors: 28
Description: Provides 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005.

H.R.2206
Grassroots Rural Water Systems Act

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Bob Etheridge; cosponsors: 36
Description: Calls for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prioritize the type of technical assistance that small communities find is the most beneficial. Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to authorize: (1) increased appropriations to the Administrator of EPA for FY2010-FY2015 for technical assistance to enable small public water systems to comply with national primary drinking water regulations; and (2) the Administrator to provide technical assistance to organizations providing on-site technical assistance, circuit-rider technical assistance programs, on-site and regional training, assistance with implementing source water protection plans, and assistance with implementation monitoring plans, rules, regulations, and water security enhancements and to give preference to nonprofit organizations determined to be qualified, effective, and to have the majority of support from small community water systems in the states.

H.R.2227
American Conservation and Clean Energy Independence Act

Status in House: House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Tim Murphy; cosponsors: 39
Description: To greatly enhance America's path toward energy independence and economic and national security, to conserve energy use, to promote innovation, to achieve lower emissions, cleaner air, cleaner water, and cleaner land, and for other purposes.

H.R.2368
Water Advanced Technologies for Efficient Resource Use Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Rush D. Holt; cosponsors: 23
Description: Establishes within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a WaterSense program to identify and promote water efficient products, buildings and landscapes, and services to reduce water use, conserve energy, and preserve water resources. Sets forth the duties of the EPA Administrator for promoting, publicizing, and administering the WaterSense program.

H.R.2643/S.1117
Upper Connecticut River Partnership Act

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
Status in Senate: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-92.
Main Sponsor in House: Peter Welch; cosponsor: Paul W. Hodes
Main Sponsor in Senate: Patrick J. Leahy; cosponsors: Judd Gregg, Bernard Sanders, Jeanne Shaheen
Description: Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Connecticut River Grants and Technical Assistance Program to provide grants and technical assistance to the governments of New Hampshire and Vermont, local governments, nonprofits, and the private sector to carry out projects for the conservation, restoration, and interpretation of historic and other resources in the upper Connecticut River watershed.

H.R.2766/S.1215
Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Main Sponsor in House: Diana DeGette; cosponsors: 49
Main Sponsor in Senate: Robert P. Casey Jr.; cosponsors: Benjamin L. Cardin, Dianne Feinstein, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Bernard Sanders, Charels E. Schumer
Description: Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to: (1) repeal the exemption from restrictions on underground injection of fluids near drinking water sources granted to hydraulic fracturing operations under such Act; and (2) require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations.

H.R.2868
Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009

Status in House: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 230 - 193 (Roll no. 875).
Status in Senate: Referred to Senate committee: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Main Sponsor: Bennie G. Thompson; cosponsors: 8
Description: Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance security and protect against acts of terrorism against chemical facilities, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to enhance the security of public water systems, and to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to enhance the security of wastewater treatment works, and for other purposes.

H.R.2883
Wastewater Treatment Works Security Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Eddie Bernice Johnson; cosponsors: Bob Filner, Grace F. Napolitano, James L. Oberstar
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for security at wastewater treatment works, and for other purposes.

H.R.2969
Water System Adaptation Partnerships Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Lois Capps; cosponsors: 23
Description: Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants to water systems to assist in planning, designing, constructing, implementing, or maintaining any program, strategy, or infrastructure improvement to conserve water and increase efficiency, improve and preserve water quality and quantity, enhance water management, and for other purposes.

H.R.2998
American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Henry A. Waxman; cosponsor: Edward J. Markey
Description: Creates clean energy jobs, achieve energy independence, reduce global warming pollution and transition to a clean energy economy. Sets forth provisions concerning many items including creating water use efficiency programs.

H.R.3183/S.1436
Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010

Status in House: Became Public Law No: 111-85.
Status in Senate: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 104.
Main Sponsor in House: Ed Pastor; cosponsors: none
Main Sponsor in Senate: Byron L. Dorgan; cosponsors: none
Description: Makes appropriations for energy and water development and related agencies for FY2010.

H.R.3202
Water Protection and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Earl Blumenauer; cosponsors: 27
Description: Establishes a Water Protection and Reinvestment Fund to support investments in clean water and drinking water infrastructure, and for other purposes.

H.R.3206
Safe Drinking Water for Healthy Communities Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Jackie Speier; cosponsors: 31
Description: Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for perchlorate.

H.R.3258
Drinking Water System Security Act of 2009

Status in House: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 179.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Henry A. Waxman; cosponsors: 10
Description: Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to enhance the security of the public water systems of the United States.

H.R.3518
Waterfront Brownfields Revitalization Act

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Louise McIntosh; cosponsors: 30
Description: Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to provide grants for the revitalization of waterfront brownfields, and for other purposes.

H.R.3598
Energy and Water Research Integration Act

Status in House: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
Status in Senate: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Main Sponsor: Bart Gordon; cosponsors: 16
Description: Ensures consideration of water intensity in the Department of Energy's energy research, development, and demonstration programs to help guarantee efficient, reliable, and sustainable delivery of energy and water resources.

H.R.3727/S.1035
Drinking Water Adaptation, Technology, Education, and Research (WATER) Act

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Main Sponsor in House: Diana DeGette; cosponsors: 8
Main Sponsor in Senate: Harry Reid; cosponsors: Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Joseph I. Lieberman
Description: Enhances the ability of drinking water utilities in the United States to develop and implement climate change adaptation programs and policies, and for other purposes.

H.R.3746/S.1711
Water Efficiency and Conservation Investment Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Main Sponsor in House: Shelley Berkley; cosponsors: Linda T. Sanchez, Dina Titus
Main Sponsor in Senate: Harry Reid; cosponsors: John Ensign, Herb Kohl, Mark Udall
Description: Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for making homes more water-efficient, for building new water-efficient homes, for public water conservation, and for other purposes.

H.R.3747/S.1712
Water Efficiency, Conservation, and Adaptation Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Main Sponsor in House: Shelley Berkley; cosponsor: Dina Titus
Main Sponsor in Senate: Harry Reid; cosponsors: Barbara Boxer, Benjamin L. Cardin
Description: To promote water efficiency, conservation, and adaptation, and for other purposes.

H.R.4132/S.1371
Clean Renewable Water Supply Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Main Sponsor in House: Xavier Becerra; cosponsor: Ginny Brown-Waite, Grace F. Napolitano, Adam H. Putnam, Laura Richardson, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lucille Roybal-Allard
Main Sponsor in Senate: Bill Nelson; cosponsors: John Ensign, Mel Martinez
Description: Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for clean renewable water supply bonds.

H.R.4243
Clean Air and Water Investment Act of 2009

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Linda Sanchez; cosponsors: Kevin Brady, Michael K. Conaway, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Kendrick B. Meek, Ron Paul
Description: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include air and water pollution control facilities among the projects for which tax-exempt facility bonds may be issued.

H.R.4352
Small and Rural Communities Wastewater Infrastructure Act

Status in House: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Status in Senate: none
Main Sponsor: Kevin McCarthy; cosponsors: none
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize additional assistance for projects to construct publicly owned treatment works that serve small and disadvantaged communities, and for other purposes.

S.177
Strengthening Our Economy Through Small Business Innovation Act of 2009

Status in House: none
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
Main Sponsor: Russell D. Feingold; cosponsors: none
Description: Amends the Small Business Act to extend the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs, to increase the allocation of Federal agency grants for those programs, to add water, energy, transportation, and domestic security related research to the list of topics deserving special consideration, and for other purposes.

S.323
Rural Revitalization Act of 2009

Status in House: none
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Main Sponsor: Kent Conrad; cosponsors: Blanche L. Lincoln, Benjamin E. Nelson
Description: Provides infrastructure, nutrition, and housing assistance to rural areas of the United States.

S.531
Energy and Water Integration Act of 2009

Status in House: none
Status in Senate: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 111-19.
Main Sponsor: Jeff Bingaman; cosponsor: Lisa Murkowski
Description: Provides for the conduct of an in-depth analysis of the impact of energy development and production on the water resources of the United States, and for other purposes.

S.696
Appalachia Restoration Act

Status in House: none
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Main Sponsor: Benjamin L. Cardin; cosponsors: 9
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to include a definition of fill material.

S.787
Clean Water Restoration Act

Status in House: none
Status in Senate: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Main Sponsor: Russell D. Feinold; cosponsors: 24
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the United States over waters of the United States.

S.854
Clean Water Affordability Act

Status in House: none
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Main Sponsor: George V. Voinovich; cosponsor: Sherrod Brown
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to update a program to provide assistance for the planning, design, and construction of treatment works to intercept, transport, control, or treat municipal combined sewer overflows and sanitary sewer overflows, and to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to update certain guidance used to develop and determine the financial capability of communities to implement clean water infrastructure programs.

S.936
Water Quality Investment Act of 2009

Status in House: none
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Main Sponsor: Frank R. Lautenberg; cosponsors: Sherrod Brown, Susan M. Collins, Robert Menendez, Charles E. Schumer, George V. Voinovich, Sheldon Whitehouse
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for sewer overflow control grants.

S.1005
Water Infrastructure Financing Act

Status in House: none
Status in Senate: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 109.
Main Sponsor: Benjamin L. Cardin; cosponsors: Barbara Boxer, Mike Crapo, Dianne Feinstein, James M. Inhofe
Description: Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act to improve water and wastewater infrastructure in the United States.

S.2747
Land and Water Conservation Authorization and Funding Act of 2009

Status in House: none
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Main Sponsor: Jeff Bingaman; cosponsors: Max Baucus, Charles E. Schumer, Jon Tester, Mark Udall, Tom Udall
Description: Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to provide consistent and reliable authority for, and for the funding of, the land and water conservation fund to maximize the effectiveness of the fund for future generations, and for other purposes.

S.2828
Bottled Water Safety and Right to Know Act of 2009

Status in House: none
Status in Senate: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Main Sponsor: Frank R. Lautenberg; cosponsors: none
Description: Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require manufacturers of bottled water to submit annual reports, and for other purposes.

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