[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3049 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3049

 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
     from issuing or renewing certain national pollutant discharge 
                      elimination system permits.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 3, 2002

   Mr. Allen introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
     from issuing or renewing certain national pollutant discharge 
                      elimination system permits.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Potomac River Protection Act.''

SEC. 2. NPDES PERMITS FOR DISCHARGES INTO POTOMAC RIVER.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of 
the Environmental Protection Agency shall neither renew any permit of, 
nor issue any new permit to, any Federal agency or entity for any 
discharge under section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act 
(33 U.S.C. 1342) into any portion of the Potomac River that flows on or 
through land under the jurisdiction of the National Parks Service 
unless the new or renewed permit limits the quantity of pollutants 
permitted to be discharged to not more than 3 times the average 
quantity of pollutants permitted to be discharged by other permits 
issued under section 402 of that Act within Region III of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, as determined by the Administrator.
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