To improve the bill.

SA 1105. Mr. CORNYN (for Mr. Lee) proposed an amendment to the bill
S. 1057, to amend the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and
Control Act of 1998 to address harmful algal blooms, and for other
purposes; as follows:

Beginning on page 10, strike line 4 and all that follows
through page 12, line 15 and insert the following:

SEC. 7. HYPOXIA OR HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM OF NATIONAL
SIGNIFICANCE.

(a) Relief.--
(1) In general.--Upon a determination under subsection (b)
that there is an event of national significance, the
appropriate Federal official is authorized to make sums
available to the affected State or local government for the
purposes of assessing and mitigating the detrimental
environmental, economic, subsistence use, and public health
effects of the event of national significance.
(2) Federal share.--The Federal share of the cost of any
activity carried out under this subsection for the purposes
described in paragraph (1) may not exceed 50 percent of the
cost of that activity.
(3) Donations.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
an appropriate Federal official may accept donations of
funds, services, facilities, materials, or equipment that the
appropriate Federal official considers necessary for the
purposes described in paragraph (1). Any funds donated to an
appropriate Federal official under this paragraph may be
expended without further appropriation and without fiscal
year limitation.
(b) Determinations.--
(1) In general.--At the discretion of an appropriate
Federal official, or at the request of the Governor of an
affected State, an appropriate Federal official shall
determine whether a hypoxia or harmful algal bloom event is
an event of national significance.
(2) Considerations.--In making a determination under
paragraph (1), the appropriate Federal official shall
consider the toxicity of the harmful algal bloom, the
severity of the hypoxia, its potential to spread, the
economic impact, the relative size in relation to the past 5
occurrences of harmful algal blooms or hypoxia events that
occur on a recurrent or annual basis, and the geographic
scope, including the potential to affect several
municipalities, to affect more than 1 State, or to cross an
international boundary.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Appropriate federal official.--The term ``appropriate
Federal official'' means--
(A) in the case of a marine or coastal hypoxia or harmful
algal bloom event, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans
and Atmosphere; and
(B) in the case of a freshwater hypoxia or harmful algal
bloom event, the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency.
(2) Event of national significance.--The term ``event of
national significance'' means a hypoxia or harmful algal
bloom event that has had or will likely have a significant
detrimental environmental, economic, subsistence use, or
public health impact on an affected State.
(3) Hypoxia or harmful algal bloom event.--The term
``hypoxia or harmful algal bloom event'' means the occurrence
of hypoxia or a harmful algal bloom as a result of a natural,
anthropogenic, or undetermined cause.

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