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Weekly Update

5 October 2009

 

*	House Passes FY 2010 Energy and Water Development
Appropriations Bill
*	Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act
*	House and Senate Pass Continuing Resolution

 

 

House Passes FY 2010 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill

 

Last week, the House approved the final Conference
<http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/EW_Conf_Rpt_FY2010.pdf>  Report
(18.4MB pdf file) of the Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water Development
Appropriations Bill by a 308-114
<http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll752.xml>  vote.  Senate approval
is expected this week.  Following Senate passage, the bill would be
sent to the President.  The Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and
Water Development has posted a summary
<http://appropriations.house.gov/pdf/EW_FY10_conference-09.30.2009.pdf
>  on its website.  The bill includes the following amounts:

 

.         Weatherization Assistance Program:  $210.0 million ($180
million in formula grants, and $30 million for a pilot project to
"increase the leverage of Federal funding")

.         State Energy Program:  $50.0 million

.         Industrial Technologies Program:  $96.0 million

.         Building Technologies Program:  $200.0 million

.         Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability:  $171.982
million

.         Energy Information Administration:  $110.595 million

.         Electric Dispersal Barrier:  $6.095 million

.         Great Lakes Remedial Action Plan Technical Assistance:  $3.4
million

.         Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration Program:
$2.47 million

.         Soo Lock replacement project:  $969,000

 

The Conferees also accepted an amendment offered by Senator George
Voinovich (R-OH) authorizing the Corps of Engineers to take actions to
prevent Asian carp from bypassing the electric dispersal barrier
through floodwaters.

 

Contact Mary
<mailto:mary.cronin at mail.house.gov?subject=FY%202010%20Energy%20and%20
Water%20Development%20Bill>  Cronin (202/226-6795) at the
Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition, Chris
<mailto:chris_hickling at reed.senate.gov?subject=FY%202010%20Energy%20an
d%20Water%20Development%20Bill>  Hickling (202/224-0606), at the
Northeast Midwest Senate Coalition, or Joy
<mailto:joy_mulinex at levin.senate.gov?subject=FY%202010%20Energy%20and%
20Water%20Development%20Bill>  Mulinex (202/224-1211) at the Great
Lakes Task Force.

 

 

Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act

 

On September 29, Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI-3) reintroduced H.R. 3671
<http://www.nemw.org/images/hr3671.pdf> , the Upper Mississippi River
Basin Protection Act, in the House of Representatives.  The
legislation calls for the development of a coordinated, public-private
approach to study and reduce nutrient and sediment runoff in the Upper
Mississippi River Basin.

 

The measure has eight co-sponsors to date (Timothy Walz (D-MN-1),
Marion Berry (D-AR-1), Leonard Boswell (D-IA-3), Bruce Braley
(D-IA-1), David Loebsack (D-IA-2), Phil Hare (D-IL-17), Keith Ellison
(D-MN-5), and Betty McCollum (D-MN-4).  Representatives Kind and Walz
are co-chairs of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Congressional Task
Force.  The measure has been referred to the House Committee on
Natural Resources.

 

Contact Mark
<mailto:mgordon at nemw.org?subject=UMRB%20Protection%20Act%20H.R.%203671
>  Gorman (202/464-4015) at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.

 

 

House and Senate Pass Continuing Resolution 

 

Last week, the House <http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll413.xml>
and Senate
<http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_
cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00217>  passed, and the President
signed into law P.L. 111-68
<http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2918> , a
Continuing Resolution to keep the government operational through
October 31, 2009.  This was necessary because some of the Fiscal 2010
appropriations bills have not been signed into law.  Under a "CR,"
government programs remain at the previous year's funding level
(Fiscal 2009) until the current year's appropriations bills are
passed.

 

Contact Mary
<mailto:mary.cronin at mail.house.gov?subject=House%20and%20Senate%20Pass
%20Continuing%20Resolution>  Cronin (202/226-6795) at the
Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition, or Chris
<mailto:chris_hickling at reed.senate.gov?subject=House%20and%20Senate%20
Pass%20Continuing%20Resolution>  Hickling (202/224-0606), at the
Northeast Midwest Senate Coalition.

 

 

 
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