[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1220 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1220

To establish a temporary moratorium on the delineation of new wetlands 
      until enactment of a law that is the successor to the Food, 
    Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 13, 1995

  Mr. Latham introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
     Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on 
  Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a temporary moratorium on the delineation of new wetlands 
      until enactment of a law that is the successor to the Food, 
    Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, 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. TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON THE DELINEATION OF NEW WETLANDS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during the period 
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on the 
date of the enactment of a law that is the successor to the Food, 
Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990, the Secretary of 
Agriculture, the Secretary of the Army, and the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency may not delineate wetlands for purposes 
of carrying out subtitle C of title XII of the Food Security Act of 
1985 (16 U.S.C. 3821 et seq.) and section 404 of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344).
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