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Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act

Introduced: December 18, 2009 Introduced by: Collins, Susan M. Republican · Maine See on congress.gov
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Dec 18, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13461-13462)
Dec 18, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S13460)
Dec 18, 2009
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Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish a national mercury monitoring program that monitors: (1) long-term changes in mercury levels and important ancillary measures in the air; and (2) long-term changes in mercury and methyl mercury levels and important ancillary measures in the water and soil or sediments and in aquatic and terrestrial organisms.

Requires the Administrator to: (1) select multiple monitoring sites representing multiple ecoregions that include national parks, wildlife refuges, National Estuarine Research Reserve units, and other sensitive ecological areas that include long-term protection and in which substantive changes are expected from reductions in domestic mercury emissions; (2) establish and publish standardized measurement protocols for the program; and (3) establish a centralized database for environmental mercury data.

Establishes the Mercury Monitoring Advisory Committee to advise the Administrator on the establishment, site selection, protocols, and operation of the program.

What's happening now December 18, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S13461-13462)

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Sanders, Bernard
Vermont · Feb 2, 2010
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2913: Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-2913/
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