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H.R. 2717: Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2015

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H.R. 2717: Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2015

114th Congress · introduced 2015-06-10 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2015-06-10 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-20] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2015

Plain summary

Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2015 This bill amends the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2009 to revise and reauthorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) and the National Science Foundation's (NSF) ocean acidification programs through FY2019. The scope of the Act is expanded to cover acidification in estuaries and the Great Lakes, not just oceans. Acidification is the decrease in pH of those waters and changes in their chemistry caused by chemical inputs, including carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The National Science and Technology Council's Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology must: (1) oversee the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies to address socioeconomic impacts resulting from ocean acidification, (2) ensure that agencies represented on the interagency working group on ocean acidification deliver data and information to support the Ocean Acidification Information Exchange and a data archive, and (3) establish an Ocean Acidification Advisory Board to provide advice to the subcommittee and the interagency working group and certain information to Congress and the public. The strategic plan for federal research and monitoring on ocean acidification must include: (1) modeling to determine impacts of acidification on marine food webs, and (2) research to understand related and cumulative stressors and other biogeochemical processes occurring in conjunction with ocean acidification. NOAA must establish data processing, storage, and archive facilities and procedures to provide for the long-term stewardship of environmental data, products, and information necessary for carrying out the Act.

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Official text

Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2015

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-20] · 18 cosponsors

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Jared Huffman (D-CA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Mike Thompson (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong114-hr2717 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114