Great Lakes and Fresh Water Algal Bloom Information Act

Great Lakes and Fresh Water Algal Bloom Information Act - Requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to create an online database of research and information on the causes and corrective actions being taken with regard to algal blooms in the Great Lakes, their tributaries, and other surface fresh waters. Requires NOAA to include relevant chemical, physical, and biological data that have been collected by an accredited university, association or organization, research group, federal agency, state, or local government in the United States or Canada.

Declares that this Act does not grant NOAA any new authority, including the authority to require submission of data.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5456 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5456

 To require the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
    Administration to create an electronic database of research and 
 information on the causes of, and corrective actions being taken with 
  regard to, algal blooms in the Great Lakes, their tributaries, and 
          other surface fresh waters, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 11, 2014

Mr. Latta (for himself, Mr. Ribble, Mr. Stivers, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. 
Peters of Michigan, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Murphy of Florida, and Mr. Gibbs) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
  Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on 
 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
    Administration to create an electronic database of research and 
 information on the causes of, and corrective actions being taken with 
  regard to, algal blooms in the Great Lakes, their tributaries, and 
          other surface fresh waters, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Great Lakes and Fresh Water Algal 
Bloom Information Act''.

SEC. 2. GREAT LAKES ALGAL BLOOMS INFORMATION DATABASE.

    (a) In General.--The Administrator of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration shall create an electronic database of 
research and information on the causes and corrective actions being 
taken with regard to algal blooms in the Great Lakes, their 
tributaries, and other surface fresh waters.
    (b) Contents.--The Administrator shall include in the database 
relevant chemical, physical, and biological data that have been 
collected by an accredited university, association or organization, 
research group, Federal agency, State, or local government in the 
United States or Canada.
    (c) Confidentiality.--In creating and making information available 
through the database, the Administrator shall protect confidentiality 
of information in accordance with all applicable United States laws and 
regulations.
    (d) Annual Report and Availability of Information.--The 
Administrator shall--
            (1) report to the Congress each year comprehensive findings 
        on information that was included in the database in the year 
        covered by the report, including information regarding 
        corrective actions being taken; and
            (2) make information in the database electronically 
        available to the public.
    (e) No New Authority.--This section shall not be construed to grant 
any authority to the Administrator, including any authority to require 
submission of data.
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