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Committee reauthorizes National Estuary Program through 2031 and adds Mississippi Sound to list of estuaries of national significance
Summary
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee adopted an amendment in the nature of a substitute to HR 3962, the Estuaries Act, reauthorizing the EPA's National Estuary Program through 2031, adding the Mississippi Sound, and voting to report the bill to the House by recorded vote (57–2).
Representative Figures of Alabama, the lead sponsor in committee, described HR 3962 as a bipartisan reauthorization of the National Estuary Program and said it provides ‘‘long‑term certainty and stability for 28 estuaries of national significance,’’ including an addition of the Mississippi Sound. The committee adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute and, after a recorded vote,…
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