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112TH CONGRESS REPT.112-333
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM AND HYPOXIA RESEARCH AND
CONTROL AMENDMENTS ACT OF 2011
DECEMBER 16, 2011.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HALL, from the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
MINORITY VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2484]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 2484) to reauthorize the Harmful Algal
Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 to include a
comprehensive and integrated strategy to address harmful algal
blooms and hypoxia, to provide for the development and implemen-
tation of a comprehensive research plan and action strategy to re-
duce harmful algal blooms and hypoxia, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an
amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
CONTENTS
Page
I. A m endm ent ............................................................................................... 2
II. Purpose and Sum m ary ............................................................................. 8
III. Background and Need for the Legislation .............................................. 8
IV . H earing Sum m ary ....................................................................................... 11
V. Com m ittee Consideration .......................................................................... 11
V I. Com m ittee V otes ........................................................................................ 11
VII. Summary of Major Provisions of the Bill .................................................. 21
VIII. Com m ittee View s ........................................................................................ 22
IX. Com mittee Oversight Findings .................................................................. 25
X. Statement on General Performance Goals and Objectives ..................... 25
XI. New Budget Authority, Entitlement Authority, and Tax Expenditures 25
XII. Advisory on Earm arks ................................................................................ 25
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