Bill Details
S.781 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-27 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Introduced Date
2025-02-27
Policy Area
Environmental Protection
Committees
View committees (1)
Cosponsors
7
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This bill would extend federal programs that help restore and protect Long Island Sound. It renews two grant programs so they can keep supporting cleanup, conservation, habitat restoration, and other local projects from 2025 through 2029. The bill also makes a small technical change in the law to fix a paragraph numbering issue.
- It extends Long Island Sound grant funding authority from 2019–2023 to 2025–2029.
- It does the same for Long Island Sound stewardship grants, which support efforts to care for and improve the Sound.
- It includes a technical correction to the existing law, changing the numbering of one paragraph.
Official Summaries
Long Island Sound Restoration and Stewardship Reauthorization Act of 2025
This bill reauthorizes the Environmental Protection Agency's Long Island Sound programs through FY2029. The programs, which include a stewardship grant program, focus on conserving and restoring the estuary off the coast of New York and Connecticut.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 781 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 781
To reauthorize Long Island Sound programs, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 27, 2025
Mrs. Gillibrand (for herself, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Blumenthal, and Mr.
Murphy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works
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A BILL
To reauthorize Long Island Sound programs, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Long Island Sound Restoration and
Stewardship Reauthorization Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF LONG ISLAND SOUND PROGRAMS.
(a) Long Island Sound Grants.--Section 119(h) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1269(h)) is amended by striking ``2019
through 2023'' and inserting ``2025 through 2029''.
(b) Long Island Sound Stewardship Grants.--Section 11(a) of the
Long Island Sound Stewardship Act of 2006 (33 U.S.C. 1269 note; Public
Law 109-359) is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by
striking ``2019 through 2023'' and inserting ``2025 through 2029''.
(c) Technical Amendment.--Section 119(g) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1269(g)) is amended by redesignating
paragraph (4) as paragraph (3).
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