Onondaga Lake Watershed Improvement Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8579.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. WILLIAMS of New York, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 92, May 28, 2024, Page H3534):
  Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to Section 8 of Article I of the U.S. Constitution. The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out further improvement of Onondaga Lake, New York, and for the purposes of integrating research, education, planning and restoration of the watershed.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 28, 2024 ↗

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  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8579, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8579

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  July 29, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  363fd83f71197b3b95a897a47dbc1a978b70e8001ecd3f17ac5606a3b875f9dd

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of July 29, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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