GovTrack’s Bill Summary We don’t have a summary available yet.
The bill’s title was written by the bill’s sponsor. H.R. stands
for House of Representatives bill. We don’t have a summary
available yet. The summary below was written by the
Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division
of the Library of Congress. The summary below was written by the
House Republican Conference, which is the caucus of Republicans
in the House of Representatives. This summary can be found at
http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/1/hr3650. According to a CRS report,
an adequate level of dissolved oxygen is necessary to support
most forms of aquatic life. While very low levels of dissolved
oxygen (hypoxia) can be natural, especially in deep ocean basins
and fjords, hypoxia in coastal waters is mostly the result of
human activities that have modified landscapes or increased
nutrients entering these waters. Hypoxic areas are more
widespread during the summer, when algal blooms stimulated by
spring runoff decompose to diminish