S.952 HABHRCA Reauthorization reported favorably

Via GovTrack.us:
The Snowe-sponsored 2009 HABHRCA Reauthorization [S.952] was ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably by the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for consideration by the full Senate.

S.952 is "a bill to develop and promote a comprehensive plan for a national strategy to address harmful algal blooms and hypoxia through baseline research, forecasting and monitoring, and mitigation and control while helping communities detect, control, and mitigate coastal and Great Lakes harmful algal blooms and hypoxia events."

According to the CRS summary:

Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments Act of 2009 - Amends the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to establish criteria for determining which states should serve on the Inter-Agency Task Force on Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia and to implement a nominations process to select representatives for such Task Force.