[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1310 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1310

 To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify that fill 
                 material cannot be comprised of waste.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 4, 2009

Mr. Pallone (for himself, Mr. Reichert, Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. 
Woolsey, Mr. George Miller of California, Mrs. Tauscher, Mr. McNerney, 
  Mr. Stark, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Honda, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, Mr. 
Farr, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Berman, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Waxman, Ms. 
Watson, Ms. Harman, Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California, Mr. Filner, Mrs. 
 Davis of California, Ms. Lee of California, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Polis of 
   Colorado, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Murphy of Connecticut, Ms. Norton, Ms. 
    Corrine Brown of Florida, Mr. Meek of Florida, Mr. Wexler, Ms. 
 Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. 
    Abercrombie, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Rush, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Davis of 
Illinois, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. Chandler, Mr. Neal 
    of Massachusetts, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, Mr. 
 Tierney, Mr. Markey of Massachusetts, Mr. Capuano, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. 
 Sarbanes, Ms. Edwards of Maryland, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. 
    Kildee, Mr. Levin, Ms. Kilpatrick of Michigan, Mr. Conyers, Ms. 
 McCollum, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Clay, Mr. Carnahan, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Price 
 of North Carolina, Mr. Shuler, Mr. Miller of North Carolina, Ms. Shea-
 Porter, Mr. Hodes, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Rothman of New Jersey, Mr. Payne, 
 Mr. Holt, Mr. Sires, Mr. Engel, Mr. Bishop of New York, Mr. Ackerman, 
   Mr. Nadler of New York, Mr. Weiner, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Rangel, Mr. 
  Serrano, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Higgins, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Kucinich, Ms. 
  Sutton, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Wu, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. 
   Sestak, Mr. Patrick J. Murphy of Pennsylvania, Ms. Schwartz, Mr. 
 Kennedy, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Moran of Virginia, Mr. Connolly 
of Virginia, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Inslee, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Smith of 
 Washington, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Kirk, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. Wolf, 
   Mr. McHugh, Mr. Platts, Mr. Hall of New York, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. 
 Cooper, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. Braley of Iowa, Ms. Pingree of 
 Maine, Mr. Olver, and Mr. Himes) 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 clarify that fill 
                 material cannot be comprised of waste.

    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 ``Clean Water Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION OF FILL MATERIAL.

    Section 502 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 
1362) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(26) Fill material.--The term `fill material' means any 
        pollutant which replaces portions of the waters of the United 
        States with dry land or which changes the bottom elevation of a 
        water body for any purpose. The term does not include any 
        pollutant discharged into the water primarily to dispose of 
        waste.''.
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