A invoice aiming to guard Florida’s waterways from dangerous algal blooms handed practically unanimously by Congress this week and can now head to the president’s desk.

The South Florida Clean Coastal Waters Act will for the primary time require a federal process drive to analysis algae blooms in Florida and make a plan to stop them.

According to U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., the Act amends the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act, which was reauthorized in 2018 by laws written by Mast and former Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.

The invoice directs a dangerous algal bloom process drive to analysis causes, penalties and potential options to algal blooms within the Greater Everglades area, together with how ongoing South Florida ecosystem restoration efforts are impacting the distribution of algal blooms, based on Mast.

The process drive will then be required to submit a plan to Congress for decreasing, mitigating and controlling Florida algal blooms.

The process drive for years targeted on growing reviews on algal blooms in areas just like the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. Never earlier than has there been a Florida-specific report.

“It’s an important task force. It’s great to have them brought into South Florida, and it’s a big deal for our area,” Mast instructed WPTV.

The process drive consists of teams like NOAA, the CDC and the Army Corps of Engineers.

“We had to work with people in other states to convince them that a lot of their problems have been fixed,” Mast stated. “We need a re-emphasis of this program in another place where it’s in more of a dire need of it.”

With a few largely algae-free summers behind us, Mast hopes that is yet another approach to hold that streak going, defending tourism, recreation, native economies and public well being.

“They don’t want to have to worry about their kids being poisoned. That’s what this is all about, minimizing that, bringing it to an end, making it so that it doesn’t happen,” Mast stated.

The invoice handed by the U.S. Senate unanimously.