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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[H.R. 10639 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                               H. R. 10639

   To designate the Great Lakes Commission as a Regional Great Lakes 
                  Partnership, and for other purposes.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2026

 Mr. Walberg (for himself, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Huizenga, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. 
 Joyce of Ohio, Ms. Stevens, Mr. Barrett, and Ms. Scholten) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL

 
   To designate the Great Lakes Commission as a Regional Great Lakes 
                  Partnership, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Regional Great Lakes Partnership Act 
of 2026''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATING THE GREAT LAKES COMMISSION AS A REGIONAL GREAT 
              LAKES PARTNERSHIP.

    Section 10202(b) of the James M. Inhofe National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (16 U.S.C. 1468(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) The Great Lakes Commission (established 
                pursuant to the Great Lakes Basin Compact to which 
                Congress granted consent in the Act of July 24, 1968 
                (Public Law 90-419; 82 Stat. 414)), comprised of the 
                States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, 
                Wisconsin, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.''; and
            (2) in paragraph (4)--
                    (A) by striking ``A partnership established under 
                this section'' and inserting ``The partnership 
                designated under paragraph (3)(E)''; and
                    (B) by striking ``a Great Lake'' and inserting 
                ``the Great Lakes''.
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Regional Great Lakes Partnership Act of 2026

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