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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 90
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-72
LONG ISLAND SOUND RESTORATION AND STEWARDSHIP
ACT
MAY 17, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BARRASSO, from the Committee on Environment and
Public Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 675]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred the bill (S. 675) to amend and reauthorize certain provi-
sions relating to Long Island Sound restoration and stewardship,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without
amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
The Long Island Sound Restoration and Stewardship Act reau-
thorizes EPA's Long Island Sound Program (section 119 of the
Clean Water Act) and the Long Island Stewardship Act (33 U.S.C.
1269 note; Public Law 109-359), until fiscal year 2023. The author-
izations support various projects to restore and preserve the Long
Island Sound and its ecosystems including; upgrades to wastewater
facilities, wetland protection and restoration, non-point source pol-
lution control and abatement projects. Long Island Sound, which
borders New York and Connecticut, is a 1,320 square mile estuary
of the Atlantic Ocean.
OBJECTIVES OF THE LEGISLATION
The objective of the legislation is to reauthorize the Long Island
Sound Restoration Act and the Long Island Stewardship Act.
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