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House Moves on Transportation Reauthorization
A House Rules Committee meeting is set for today (Monday) and
continues on Tuesday to set the framework for House consideration of
the Surface Transportation Reauthorization & Reform (STRR) Act (
H.R. 22
),
the legislative vehicle being used to carry the House's multi-year surface transportation bill to reauthorize and reform federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs.
Many amendments (list here) have been offered to the bill, necessitating the more lengthy than usual Rules Committee consideration. Assuming the measure is cleared by the Committee, the bill could be considered by the full House sometime later in the week. If the
bill passes the House, the STRR Act will be conferenced with the Senate's Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy (DRIVE) Act, which was passed in July 2015.
For more information, contact
Mark Gorman
, Policy Analyst at the Northeast-Midwest Institute or Colleen Cain, Sr. Policy Analyst at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
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Capitol Hill This Week: WOTUS, Stream Protection, and More
Two Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule-blocking measures, the Department of Interior stream protection rule, and several regulatory reform bills are among the issues being considered by the U.S. Congress this week.
Below are some of the U.S. House and Senate committee activities currently scheduled for this week.
Monday, November 2
- Environmental and Energy Study Institute briefing: Farming and Water Quality: Conservation Policies Working to Reduce Nutrient Loss (presenters include representatives of University of Illinois, Ohio Farm Bureau, Illinois farming community, City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and American Farmland Trust); 2:00 PM, room 203-02 Capitol Visitor Center (webcast live here).
Tuesday, November 3
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Subcommittee on Oversight and Subcommittee on Environment hearing on the "Renewable Fuel Standard: A Ten Year Review of Costs and Benefits;" 10:00 AM, room 2318 Rayburn House Office Building.
- House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial, and Antitrust Law hearing on H.R. 3438, the Require Evaluation before Implementing Executive Wishlists ("REVIEW") Act of 2015; and H.R. 2631, the Regulatory Predictability for Business Growth Act of 2015; 10:00 AM, room 2141 Rayburn House Office Building.
Wednesday, November 4
- House Agriculture Committee hearing on "American Agriculture and our National Security;" 10:00 AM, room 1300 Longworth House Office Building.
- House Interior Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Interior hearing on the Department of Interior stream protection rule; 2:00 PM, room 2247 Rayburn House Office Building.
- Senate Budget Committee hearing "to examine reforming the Federal budget process, focusing on a biennial approach to better budgeting;" 10:30 AM, room 608 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Thursday, November 5
- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management hearing on "Agency Progress in Retrospective Review of Existing Regulations;" 9:30 AM, room 342, Dirksen Senate Office Building.
- Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on "Wildfire: Stakeholder Perspectives on Budgetary Impacts and Threats to Natural Resources on Federal, State and Private Lands;" 10:00 AM, room 328A Russell Senate Office Building.
For more information, contact
Mark Gorman
, Policy Analyst at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
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NEMWI's Great Ships Initiative's Steve Gebhard teaches workshop participants about in-tank sample collection procedures during the IMO-GloBallast "Train-the-Trainer" program in mid-October
NEMWI Hosts "Train-the-Trainer" Ballast Water Workshop
The NEMWI's
Great Ships Initiative
(GSI) hosted a "Train-the-Trainer" workshop
in conjunction with the
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
GloBallast Partnerships Programme
f
rom October 19 to 21, 2015
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articipants received hands-on practical training on the sampling and analysis of ballast water collected from ships. Workshop participants included port state control officers and biologists from representative countries including Argentina, Bahamas, Chile, Colombia, Jamaica, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago. The workshop was held in Superior, Wisconsin, home of GSI's state-of-the-art ballast water management testing facility. Participants also boarded Algoma Central Corporation's MV Tim S. Dool, at the Holcim Dock in Duluth, Minnesota. This particular vessel is one of several fitted with ballast discharge sampling ports as part of the GSI's Ship Discharge Monitoring Project. Participants were given a tour and instructional briefing by the Tim S. Dool's Third Mate on the ship's ballast system and available apertures through which sampling could occur.
For more information contact
Allegra Cangelosi, Director, Great Ships Initiative at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
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NEMWI: Strengthening the Region that Sustains the Nation
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