1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preserve Our Lakes and Keep Our Environment Safe Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) the Great Lakes are an invaluable national resource, containing one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water and 95 percent of the United States freshwater supply; (2) over 40,000,000 people depend on the Great Lakes for fresh drinking water; (3) the Great Lakes provide 56,000,000,000 gallons of water per day for municipal, agricultural and industrial use; (4) there are more than 3,500 species of plants and animals within the Great Lakes ecosystem; (5) hundreds of thousands of jobs, tied to the $7,000,000,000 recreational fishing and $16,000,000,000 recreational boating industries, directly depend on the Great Lakes; (6) currently, several million gallons per day of hazardous liquids are transported by pipeline across various points along the Great Lakes; (7) modeling studies by the University of Michigan in 2014 and 2016 have concluded that an oil spill originating from a pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac would present particularly severe consequences, potentially impacting over 700 miles of Great Lakes shoreline; (8) a joint NOAA–U.S. Coast Guard guidebook on oil spill response planning in marine environments states that, during the first 24 to 48 hours of open water exposure, most oil spills become difficult to recover, burn, or chemically disperse; (9) swift currents beneath the straits and waterways which connect the Great Lakes could rapidly disperse oil spill contaminants following a pipeline breach; (10) certain pipelines on the Great Lakes are located in close proximity to municipal drinking water collection intakes for millions of people