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HCONRES 309 108th Congress House Environmental Protection Civil engineering Depressed areas Drainage Economics and Public Finance Federal aid to water pollution control Government Operations and Politics Infrastructure Intergovernmental fiscal relations Local finance Sewage disposal Sewage treatment Sewerage Urban affairs Urban areas Waste water treatment

Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the improvement of combined sewer overflow control programs.

Introduced: October 21, 2003 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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In committee
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Passed House
Passed Senate
Oct 22, 2003
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Oct 21, 2003
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Oct 21, 2003
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Declares that Congress should: (1) increase Federal funding and resources for combined sewer overflow control to levels sufficient to cover at least 80 percent of the costs incurred by financially distressed communities; (2) provide the Environmental Protection Agency with additional resources to improve nationwide tracking of progress in combined sewer overflow control programs; and (3) expressly authorize the Army Corps of Engineers to assist communities with assessment and design work associated with upgrades of combined sewer systems.
What's happening now October 22, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 5
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DeLauro, Rosa L.
Connecticut · Oct 21, 2003
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Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Oct 21, 2003
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McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Oct 21, 2003
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Pallone, Frank
New Jersey · Oct 21, 2003
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Oct 21, 2003
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Con. Res. 309: Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the improvement of combined sewer overflow control programs.. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HCONRES-309/
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"H. Con. Res. 309: Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the improvement of combined sewer overflow control programs.." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HCONRES-309/.
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H. Con. Res. 309, 108th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HCONRES-309/.
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