To require the Secretary of the Army to issue an environmental impact statement before the International Joint Commission implements any water regulation plan affecting the water levels of Lake Ontario or the St. Lawrence River.

Directs the Secretary of the Army to issue an environmental impact statement with respect to any water regulation plan affecting the water levels of Lake Ontario or the St. Lawrence River before the International Joint Commission implements such plan.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 926 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 926

 To require the Secretary of the Army to issue an environmental impact 
  statement before the International Joint Commission implements any 
water regulation plan affecting the water levels of Lake Ontario or the 
                          St. Lawrence River.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 2, 1999

  Mr. McHugh introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
 Committee on 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of the Army to issue an environmental impact 
  statement before the International Joint Commission implements any 
water regulation plan affecting the water levels of Lake Ontario or the 
                          St. Lawrence River.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT.

    Before the International Joint Commission implements any water 
regulation plan affecting the water levels of Lake Ontario or the St. 
Lawrence River, the Secretary of the Army shall issue an environmental 
impact statement under section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 
Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)) with respect to such plan.
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