United States · Bill · S
S. 2779 (111th)
Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act
Introduced
16 November 2009
Last action
9 June 2010 · Committee
Status
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-707.
Sponsors
Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN], Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
24 March 2026
Summary
Upper Mississippi River Basin Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to establish a nutrient and sediment monitoring network for the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish guidelines for related data collection and storage activities; (2) inventory the sediment and monitoring efforts of governmental and nongovernmental entities for the purpose of creating a baseline understanding of overlap, data gaps, and redundancies; and (3) collaborate with other public and private monitoring efforts in establishing the monitoring program. Directs the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a water resources assessment of the Basin. Requires the Director of the USGS to establish: (1) a computer modeling program of nutrient and sediment sources in the Basin; and (2) an Internet-based system to distribute information about nutrient and sediment loss reduction projects and nutrient and sediment levels in the Upper Mississippi River and its tributaries.
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Timeline
16 November 2009
Introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Source: IntroReferral
16 November 2009
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
Source: IntroReferral
9 June 2010
Committee
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 111-707.
Source: Committee
Votes
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Versions
- Introduced in Senate · 16 November 2009 · Download file
Documents
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Sponsors
- Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] · D · Sponsor
- Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI] · D · Cosponsor
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Related records
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Sources
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/senate-bill/2779
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/111/s/2779
- us · 111-s-2779 · source updated 24 March 2026