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HR 3768 115th Congress House Public Lands and Natural Resources Parks, recreation areas, trails Solid waste and recycling Water use and supply

Reducing Waste in National Parks Act

Introduced: December 19, 2017 Introduced by: Quigley, Mike Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Sep 20, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Sep 13, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Sep 13, 2017
Introduced in House
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Reducing Waste in National Parks Act

This bill directs each regional director of a region of the National Park System (NPS) to establish a program to recycle and reduce the use of disposable plastic bottles within each NPS unit located in its region.

Regional directors may eliminate the sale of water in disposable plastic bottles within their NPS units after having considered several specified factors.

Where an NPS unit is not offering water for sale in disposable plastic bottles, the superintendent of the unit may continue that practice, upon submission of an evaluation of those factors.

Each regional director who establishes and implements such a program shall develop for each affected NPS unit a proactive visitor education strategy to address visitor expectations of water availability and explain the rationale for the program.

What's happening now September 20, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 15
All 15 Democratic 14
Walz, Timothy
· Dec 19, 2017
 D
Garamendi, John
California · Nov 29, 2017
 D
Himes, James A.
Connecticut · Nov 28, 2017
 D
Lieu, Ted
California · Nov 21, 2017
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Nov 2, 2017
 D
Carbajal, Salud O.
California · Oct 31, 2017
 D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · Oct 26, 2017
 D
Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Oct 24, 2017
 D
Beyer, Donald S.
Virginia · Oct 23, 2017
 D
Barragán, Nanette Diaz
California · Sep 13, 2017
 D
Cleaver, Emanuel
Missouri · Sep 13, 2017
 D
Evans, Dwight
Pennsylvania · Sep 13, 2017
 D
Huffman, Jared
California · Sep 13, 2017
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Sep 13, 2017
 D
Khanna, Ro
California · Sep 13, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3768: Reducing Waste in National Parks Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-3768/
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