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: September 13, 2017 Introduced by: Quigley, Mike Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov

Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps

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Became law

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

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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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