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Introduced Session

SAFE Act Safeguarding America's Future and Environment Act This bill requires the President to establish an interagency National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy Joint Implementation Working Group to adopt the 2013 National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, which addresses the effects of extreme weather and climate change on fish, wildlife, and plants. After the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences releases a periodic scientific assessment required under the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the working group must use sound science to review and revise the strategy to incorporate new information and advances in the development of strategies to help fish, wildlife, and plants adapt. Each federal agency must integrate the strategy into agency plans, environmental reviews, and programs. The Department of the Interior must establish a National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center to assess and develop scientific information, tools, strategies, and techniques to support the working group and other interested parties in addressing the effects of extreme weather and climate change. Interior must establish an Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Sciences to advise the working group.

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Matt Cartwright (D)*,  Nanette Barragán (D),  Gerry Connolly (D),  Keith Ellison (D),  Anna Eshoo (D),  Dwight Evans (D),  Colleen Hanabusa (D),  Jared Huffman (D),  Ro Khanna (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Zoe Lofgren (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Jim McGovern (D),  Jerry McNerney (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Jimmy Panetta (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  Jared Polis (D),  Mike Quigley (D),  Louise Slaughter (D),  Paul Tonko (D),  Niki Tsongas (D),  Marc Veasey (D),  Timothy Walz (D), 

Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. (on 11/30/2017)

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