HR 3548
116th Congress
House
Public Lands and Natural Resources
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Alaska Natives and Hawaiians
Aquatic ecology
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Computers and information technology
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Economic performance and conditions
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Executive Office of the President
Executive agency funding and structure
Genetics
Geography and mapping
Government information and archives
Great Lakes
BLUE GLOBE Act
Everywhere this bill has been
5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 17, 2020
Committee Hearings Held.
Nov 17, 2020
Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Discharged.
Jul 12, 2019
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife.
Jun 27, 2019
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jun 27, 2019
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Bolstering Long-Term Understanding and Exploration of the Great Lakes, Oceans, Bays, and Estuaries Act or the BLUE GLOBE Act
This bill addresses data collection and monitoring of the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts.
Specifically, the bill
- increases domestic and international coordination to enhance data management and monitoring of the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts;
- creates the Interagency Ocean Exploration Committee to promote the exploration and improved understanding of the oceans;
- revises the Ocean Policy Committee to the Committee on Ocean Policy;
- establishes a technology innovation task force to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing;
- requires the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a workforce development program, including to support undergraduate and graduate education in fields related to the advancement of the monitoring, collection, synthesis, and analysis of data regarding the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts;
- requires NOAA to ensure that a goal of its cooperative institutes is to advance or apply emerging technologies;
- requires NOAA to establish opportunities to engage indigenous, subsistence, and fishing communities to better understand their needs;
- institutes an ocean innovation prize to catalyze the rapid development and deployment of data collection and monitoring technology;
- reauthorizes several NOAA programs, including the Ocean Exploration Program;
- directs relevant federal agencies to measure the value and impact of industries related to the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts on the U.S. economy; and
- requires the National Academy of Sciences to assess the potential for an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Oceans.
What's happening now
Committee Hearings Held.