An original bill to study, control, and reduce the pollution of aquatic environments from plastic materials, and for other purposes.
Title I: Degradable Plastic Ring Carriers - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to require, within two years of this Act's enactment, if feasible, that plastic ring carriers (such as those on canned beverage six-packs) which are capable, when discarded, of becoming entangled with fish or wildlife be made of naturally degradable material.
Title II: San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge - Amends Federal law establishing the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge to expand the boundaries of such refuge to include specified additional lands, marshes, tidal flats, salt ponds, submerged lands, and open waters in the San Francisco Bay Area. Authorizes appropriations for such expansion.
House Incorporated this Measure in S.1986 as an Amendment.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Discharged by Unanimous Consent.
House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Discharged by Unanimous Consent.
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Discharged by Unanimous Consent.
House Committee on Energy and Commerce Discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
House Incorporated H.R.5117 in This Measure as an Amendment.
Message on House action received in Senate and held at desk: House amendments to Senate bill.
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendments by Voice Vote.
Senate agreed to the House amendments by Voice Vote.
Enacted as Public Law 100-556
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Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 100-556.
Became Public Law No: 100-556.