National Invasive Species Act of 1996
This bill became law
What it doesSummary introduced in house (Sep 28, 1996)
National Invasive Species Act of 1996 - Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 to mandate regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic nuisance species into the Great Lakes through ballast water. Authorizes education, technical assistance, and other measures to promote compliance. Mandates voluntary guidelines to prevent such introduction and spread in U.S. waters by ballast water and other vessel operations. Mandates education, technical assistance, and other measures to encourage compliance. Requires mandatory regulations if guideline compliance is inadequate. Provides for enforcement through civil and criminal penalties and revocation of clearance. Encourages negotiations with foreign governments to develop and implement an international program for preventing such introduction and spread. Allows a vessel to not conduct a ballast water exchange if the exchange would threaten the safety or stability of the vessel. Allows a vessel that does not, for that reason, conduct an exchange to discharge ballast in any harbor, except in the Great Lakes. Mandates a study and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of existing shoreside ballast water facilities used by crude oil tankers in the coastwise trade off Alaska in preventing such introduction and spread.
Mandates studies of Lake Champlain, the Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay, Honolulu Harbor, the Columbia River system, other estuaries of national significance, and other waters. Provides for making specified amounts available for research on aquatic nuisance species prevention and control in the Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coast, the Atlantic Coast, and the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary.
Establishes a clearinghouse of national data on ballasting practices and compliance with guidelines under this Act.
Mandates a ballast water management program for vessels of the Department of Defense and the Coast Guard.
Requires: (1) a ballast water management program to demonstrate technologies and practices to prevent aquatic nonindigenous species from being introduced into and spread through ballast water in U.S. waters; and (2) that the installation and construction of those technologies and practices be performed in the United States.
Modifies: (1) the composition and research priorities of the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force; and (2) zebra mussel demonstration program requirements.
Mandates research grants regarding environmentally sound methods for controlling the dispersal of aquatic nuisance species. Authorizes appropriations.
Requires research on environmentally sound methods for preventing and reducing dispersal between the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence drainage and the Mississippi River drainage through the Chicago River Ship and Sanitary Canal. Authorizes appropriations.
Requires the Task Force to encourage the development and use of regional coordination panels and similar entities in regions in addition to the Great Lakes and Western regions.
Provides for interstate (in addition to existing State) aquatic nuisance species management plans, allowing Indian tribes as well as States to participate.
Authorizes appropriations, including for research on the prevention, monitoring, and control of aquatic nuisance species in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
What just happenedOct 26, 1996
Became Public Law No: 104-332.
Who’s behind it
- Enrolled BillOct 3, 1996
- Committee Discharged SenateOct 3, 1996
- Engrossed in HouseSep 28, 1996
- Considered and Passed HouseSep 28, 1996
- Public LawOct 27, 1996
- Oct 26, 1996PresidentE40000
Became Public Law No: 104-332.
- Oct 26, 1996BecameLaw36000
Became Public Law No: 104-332.
- Oct 26, 1996PresidentE30000
Signed by President.
- Oct 26, 1996BecameLaw36000
Signed by President.
- Oct 18, 1996FloorE20000
Presented to President.
- Oct 18, 1996President28000
Presented to President.
- Oct 4, 1996Floor
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Oct 3, 1996Floor
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
- Oct 3, 1996Floor17000
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
- Oct 3, 1996Discharge
Senate Committee on Commerce discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee - Oct 3, 1996Committee14500
Senate Committee on Commerce discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee - Oct 3, 1996IntroReferral
Referred to the Committee on Commerce by unanimous consent.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee - Oct 3, 1996Discharge
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S12398-12401)
Environment and Public Works Committee - Oct 3, 1996Committee14500
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S12398-12401)
Environment and Public Works Committee - Oct 3, 1996IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works by unanimous consent.
Environment and Public Works Committee - Sep 30, 1996IntroReferral
Received in the Senate.
- Sep 28, 1996FloorH38900
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 4283.
- Sep 28, 1996FloorH38310
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Sep 28, 1996FloorH37100
On passage Passed without objection.
- Sep 28, 1996Floor8000
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
- Sep 28, 1996FloorH30200
Mr. Boehlert asked unanimous consent to discharge from committee and consider.
- Sep 28, 1996FloorH30000
Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H12146-12152)
- Sep 28, 1996DischargeH12300
Committee on Resources discharged.
Natural Resources Committee - Sep 28, 1996Committee5500
Committee on Resources discharged.
Natural Resources Committee - Sep 28, 1996DischargeH12300
Committee on Transportation discharged.
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee - Sep 28, 1996Committee5500
Committee on Transportation discharged.
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee - Sep 28, 1996IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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.
Natural Resources Committee - Sep 28, 1996IntroReferralH11100-A
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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.
- Sep 28, 1996IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 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.
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee - Sep 28, 1996IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Sep 28, 1996IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House