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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to define &quot;oil and gas exploration, production, processing, treatment operation, or transmission&quot; as all field activities or operations associated with oil or gas exploration, production, or processing, or oil or gas treatment operations or transmission facilities. Includes in such definition activities necessary to prepare sites for oil or gas drilling and for the movement and placement of drilling equipment.</p>]]></text>
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