H.R.894 - Ensuring Safe Facilities and Equipment for American Troops Overseas Act

To ensure the safety of expeditionary facilities, infrastructure, and equipment supporting United States military operations overseas. view all titles (2)

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  • Official: To ensure the safety of expeditionary facilities, infrastructure, and equipment supporting United States military operations overseas. as introduced.
  • Short: Ensuring Safe Facilities and Equipment for American Troops Overseas Act as introduced.

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Official Summary

2/4/2009--Introduced.Ensuring Safe Facilities and Equipment for American Troops Overseas Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense, in order to ensure the safe utilization by the Armed Forces of expeditionary facilities, infrastructure, and equipment supporting U.S. military operations overse

Official Summary

2/4/2009--Introduced.Ensuring Safe Facilities and Equipment for American Troops Overseas Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense, in order to ensure the safe utilization by the Armed Forces of expeditionary facilities, infrastructure, and equipment supporting U.S. military operations overseas, to certify to the congressional defense committees that:
(1) generally accepted industry safety standards are incorporated into military regulations establishing requirements for such facilities, infrastructure, and equipment;
(2) each contract or task or delivery order for the construction, installation, repair, maintenance, or operation of overseas expeditionary facilities incorporates such industry standards; and
(3) such standards apply in all current and future U.S. military operations overseas.

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03/02/11
H.R.894: Maternal Health Accountability Act of 2011 - U.S. ...

HR 894, The Maternal Health Accountability Act of 2011, is, Gaskin said, an important bill that women's health advocates should ask their representatives to support and for which Senate sponsorship needs to be found. ... Source: News Desk ... OpenCongr

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03/21/10
March 22, 2010 - Open CRS - CRS Reports for the People

Several bills (H.R. 248, H.R. 372, H.R. 479, H.R. 894, H.R. 1298, H.R. 1383, H.R. 1452, H.R. 4298, H.R. 5747, and S. 2624) would have added the calls to the federal do not call list, required additional reporting about the calls, ...

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03/13/10
Vote: Ensuring Safe Facilities and Equipment for American Troops ...

Vote: Ensuring Safe Facilities and Equipment for American Troops Overseas Act(HR 894) ... Text of Legislation: HR 894 IH. 111th CONGRESS. 1st Session. H. R. 894. To ensure the safety of expeditionary facilities, infrastructure, ...

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