[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 275 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 275

 To establish a temporary moratorium on the Interagency Memorandum of 
 Agreement Concerning Wetlands Determinations 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 25 (legislative day, January 10), 1995

    Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Bond, Mr. Burns, Mr. Helms, Mr. 
  McConnell, Mr. Pressler, and Mr. Nickles) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish a temporary moratorium on the Interagency Memorandum of 
 Agreement Concerning Wetlands Determinations 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 INTERAGENCY MEMORANDUM OF 
              AGREEMENT CONCERNING WETLANDS DETERMINATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during 
the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on 
the date of enactment of a law that is the successor to the Food, 
Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-624), 
the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary 
of the Interior, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency may not carry out--
            (1) the Interagency Memorandum of Agreement Concerning 
        Wetlands Determinations for Purposes of Section 404 of the 
        Clean Water Act and Subtitle B of the Food Security Act (59 
        Fed. Reg. 2920) (referred to in this section as the 
        ``Memorandum of Agreement''); or
            (2) any method of delineating wetlands based on the 
        Memorandum of Agreement for purposes of carrying out subtitle C 
        of title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 3821 
        et seq.) or section 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
        Act (33 U.S.C. 1344).
    (b) Savings Provision.--Wetlands may be delineated based on a 
policy or practice in effect prior to the proposed effective date of 
the Memorandum of Agreement. This Act shall not constitute acceptance 
or approval of the policy or practice.
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