HJRES 145 · 93th Congress · Congress
A joint resolution to establish a Joint Committee on Environment and Technology.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Rules.(1973-01-09)
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Establishes a joint congressional committee which shall be known as the Joint Committee on Environment and Technology consisting of nineteen members of the Senate to be designated by the President of the Senate, and twenty-one Members of the House of Representatives to be designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Provides that no legislative measure shall be referred to the committee, and it shall have no authority to report any such measure to the Senate or to the House of Representatives. Makes it the duty of the committee to: (1) conduct a continuing comprehensive study and review of the character and extent of environmental and technological changes that may occur in the future and their effect on population, communities, and industries, including but not limited to the effects of such changes on the need for public and private planning and investment in housing, water resources (including oceanography), pollution control, food supplies, education, automation affecting interstate commerce, fish and wildlife, forestry, mining communications, transportation power supplies, welfare and other services and facilities; (2) study methods of using all practicable means…
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