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Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Bill TextA bill to ensure adequate funding for high-threat areas, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. High Risk Protection Act - Requires amounts appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the Urban Area Security Initiative Grant Program to be allocated based solely on risk (which shall include an evaluation of threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences and consideration of any previous terrorist attacks). Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security: (1) in determining which areas qualify as high-threat areas, to consider whether the area contains critical infrastructure and is located on an international border or coastline and the area's population, population density, law enforcement investigative and enforcement activity, and tourism; and (2) in allocating amounts among high-threat areas, to evaluate all threats (including threats to national monuments and icons) and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. Provides that the Program shall [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 01/10/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Small Business. Bill TextTo amend the Small Business Act to revise the definition of a HUBZone with respect to counties that are highly rural but adjacent to urban areas. 1/10/2007--Introduced. HUBZone Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Small Business Act redefine a Hubzone Qualified Area to count as a qualified nonmetropolitan county any county located within a metropolitan statistical area if: (1) its total population is 80,000 or less; (2) the population residing within the county's urbanized areas is 10% or less of the county's total population; and (3) the county meets either a specified median household income or a specified unemployment rate requirement.
Latest Action: 02/23/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response. Bill TextTo authorize the grant program under which the Secretary of Homeland Security makes discretionary grants for use in high-threat, high-density urban areas, and for other purposes. 2/8/2007--Introduced. Targeting Homeland Security Resources Effectively Against Terrorism Act of 2007 or the THREAT Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out a program of discretionary grants for use in high-threat, high-density urban areas. Directs the Secretary to make grants to not more than 15 areas in a fiscal year after considering the population, presence of critical infrastructure, and credibility of the terrorism-related threat for an area. Requires amounts awarded to be disbursed directly to local governments.
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Latest Action: 06/07/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7366-7367) Bill TextA bill to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act. 6/7/2007--Introduced. Coastal Zone Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to declare that it is the national policy to: (1) create and use a National Estuarine Research Reserve System; and (2) encourage innovative coastal management practices and coastal and estuarine environmental technologies to improve long-term conservation. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to coastal states for development of coastal zone management programs. Allows the use of state coastal zone management program grants to develop and implement coastal nonpoint pollution control program components. Revises the eligible uses of resource management improvement grants and resource management improvement grant requirements. Revises requirements for the Coastal Zone Management Fund. Requires state loan repayments to the Fund to be made available to make grants to states [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Bill TextTo provide certain requirements for the licensing of commercial nuclear facilities. 5/3/2007--Introduced. Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require, for a commercial license for an atomic power production or utilization facility, that: (1) the facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks); and (2) there exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events which have been approved by the relevant federal agencies and states within 50 miles of the facility.Conditions renewal of any such license on the same criteria and requirements applicable for an original application for initial construction.Instructs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the surrounding population have not resulted in the facility's being located at a site at which a [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agriculture, Budgets, California, Congressional reporting requirements, Emergency management, Environmental protection, Federal aid to water resources development, Flood control, Governmental investigations, Groundwater, Infrastructure, Irrigation, Regional planning, Saline waters, State and local government, Water pollution, Water quality, Water resources, Water supply, Water use, Watersheds
Latest Action: 10/16/2007 - Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. Bill TextTo provide for a study regarding development of a comprehensive integrated regional water management plan that would address four general areas of regional water planning in both the San Joaquin River Hydrologic Region and the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, inclusive of Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Counties, California, and to provide that such plan be the guide by which those counties use as a mechanism to address and solve long-term water needs in a sustainable and equitable manner. 5/24/2007--Introduced. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to award a grant to the California Water Institute, located at California State University at Fresno, to conduct a study coordinating and integrating sub-regional integrated regional water management plans into a unified Integrated Regional Water Management Plan for Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin counties [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 06/07/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7366-7367) Bill TextA bill to amend the Coastal Zone Management Act. 6/7/2007--Introduced. Coastal Zone Enhancement Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to declare that it is the national policy to: (1) create and use a National Estuarine Research Reserve System; and (2) encourage innovative coastal management practices and coastal and estuarine environmental technologies to improve long-term conservation. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to coastal states for development of coastal zone management programs. Allows the use of state coastal zone management program grants to develop and implement coastal nonpoint pollution control program components. Revises the eligible uses of resource management improvement grants and resource management improvement grant requirements. Revises requirements for the Coastal Zone Management Fund. Requires state loan repayments to the Fund to be made available to make grants to states [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agriculture, Budgets, California, Congressional reporting requirements, Emergency management, Environmental protection, Federal aid to water resources development, Flood control, Governmental investigations, Groundwater, Infrastructure, Irrigation, Regional planning, Saline waters, State and local government, Water pollution, Water quality, Water resources, Water supply, Water use, Watersheds
Latest Action: 10/16/2007 - Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. Bill TextTo provide for a study regarding development of a comprehensive integrated regional water management plan that would address four general areas of regional water planning in both the San Joaquin River Hydrologic Region and the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, inclusive of Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Counties, California, and to provide that such plan be the guide by which those counties use as a mechanism to address and solve long-term water needs in a sustainable and equitable manner. 5/24/2007--Introduced. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to award a grant to the California Water Institute, located at California State University at Fresno, to conduct a study coordinating and integrating sub-regional integrated regional water management plans into a unified Integrated Regional Water Management Plan for Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin counties [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Bill TextTo provide certain requirements for the licensing of commercial nuclear facilities. 5/3/2007--Introduced. Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require, for a commercial license for an atomic power production or utilization facility, that: (1) the facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks); and (2) there exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events which have been approved by the relevant federal agencies and states within 50 miles of the facility.Conditions renewal of any such license on the same criteria and requirements applicable for an original application for initial construction.Instructs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the surrounding population have not resulted in the facility's being located at a site at which a [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/23/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response. Bill TextTo authorize the grant program under which the Secretary of Homeland Security makes discretionary grants for use in high-threat, high-density urban areas, and for other purposes. 2/8/2007--Introduced. Targeting Homeland Security Resources Effectively Against Terrorism Act of 2007 or the THREAT Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to carry out a program of discretionary grants for use in high-threat, high-density urban areas. Directs the Secretary to make grants to not more than 15 areas in a fiscal year after considering the population, presence of critical infrastructure, and credibility of the terrorism-related threat for an area. Requires amounts awarded to be disbursed directly to local governments.
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Latest Action: 01/10/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Small Business. Bill TextTo amend the Small Business Act to revise the definition of a HUBZone with respect to counties that are highly rural but adjacent to urban areas. 1/10/2007--Introduced. HUBZone Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Small Business Act redefine a Hubzone Qualified Area to count as a qualified nonmetropolitan county any county located within a metropolitan statistical area if: (1) its total population is 80,000 or less; (2) the population residing within the county's urbanized areas is 10% or less of the county's total population; and (3) the county meets either a specified median household income or a specified unemployment rate requirement.
Also tagged in: Appropriations, Boundaries, Budgets, Business, Commemorations, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Counterterrorism, Criminal investigation, Criminal justice, Emergency management, Federal aid to law enforcement, Foreign policy, Grants-in-aid, Hours of labor, Infrastructure, Infrastructure (Economics), International affairs, Labor, Members of Congress, National monuments, Public lands, Salaries, Terrorism, Tourism, Transportation, Urban affairs, Urban areas
Latest Action: 01/04/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Bill TextA bill to ensure adequate funding for high-threat areas, and for other purposes. 1/4/2007--Introduced. High Risk Protection Act - Requires amounts appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the Urban Area Security Initiative Grant Program to be allocated based solely on risk (which shall include an evaluation of threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences and consideration of any previous terrorist attacks). Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security: (1) in determining which areas qualify as high-threat areas, to consider whether the area contains critical infrastructure and is located on an international border or coastline and the area's population, population density, law enforcement investigative and enforcement activity, and tourism; and (2) in allocating amounts among high-threat areas, to evaluate all threats (including threats to national monuments and icons) and critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. Provides that the Program shall [...] show full description
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