[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1564 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1564

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide additional 
           protection to estuaries of national significance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 2007

Mr. Bishop of New York (for himself, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Baird, Mr. Payne, 
Ms. Shea-Porter, and Mr. Courtney) introduced the following bill; which 
   was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide additional 
           protection to estuaries of national significance.

    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 ``National Estuary Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. ESTUARY OF NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE.

    Section 101(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1251(a)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) and (7) as paragraphs 
        (7) and (8) respectively; and
            (2) inserting the following after paragraph (5):
            ``(6) it is the national policy that given the 
        environmental risk that a floating storage regasification unit 
        poses to an estuary, the construction or use of such a unit in 
        an estuary of national significance be prohibited.''.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL ESTUARY PROGRAM.

    Section 320(g) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1330(g)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Eligibility.--To be eligible to receive a grant under 
        this subsection, an applicant for a grant shall certify to the 
        Administrator that the applicant will not construct or use a 
        floating storage regasification unit on an estuary of national 
        significance. Such certification shall remain in effect subject 
        to paragraph (5).
            ``(5) Agency or court order.--A grant recipient under this 
        subsection may construct or use a floating storage 
        regasification unit on an estuary of national significance only 
        if the recipient is ordered to do so by a Federal agency or 
        court that has authority to issue such orders.''.
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