Hudson River Climate Change Protection Act

Hudson River Climate Change Protection Act

This bill requires the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study the threat of sea-level rise and low-frequency precipitation events.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7220 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7220

 To require the Corps of Engineers to include study of the impacts of 
 sea-level rise and low-frequency precipitation events in addition to 
  the impacts of coastal hurricanes in certain studies, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2020

 Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York (for himself, Ms. Velazquez, and 
Mr. Espaillat) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Corps of Engineers to include study of the impacts of 
 sea-level rise and low-frequency precipitation events in addition to 
  the impacts of coastal hurricanes in certain studies, 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 ``Hudson River Climate Change 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF THE STUDY OF SEA-LEVEL RISE AND LOW-FREQUENCY 
              PRECIPITATION EVENTS IN CERTAIN CORPS OF ENGINEERS 
              STUDIES.

    In carrying out the examination and survey required under the Act 
of June 15, 1955 (Public Law 84-71; 69 Stat. 132), and the study and 
report required under the heading ``Corps of Engineers--Civil--
Investigations'' under title II of Division A of the Disaster Relief 
Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public Law 113-2), the Corps of Engineers 
shall--
            (1) immediately begin to include as an additional subject 
        of such examination and study the threat of sea-level rise and 
        low-frequency precipitation events and the impacts of sea-level 
        rise and low-frequency precipitation events on the environment, 
        communities, and ecosystem services; and
            (2) carry out such examination and study in accordance with 
        section 1001 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act 
        (33 U.S.C. 2282c).
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