[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5992 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5992

   To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to eliminate the 
 authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
  to deny or restrict the use of a defined area as a dredged or fill 
            material disposal site, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2010

Mr. Young of Alaska (for himself, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Chaffetz, and 
  Mr. Jones) 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 eliminate the 
 authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 
  to deny or restrict the use of a defined area as a dredged or fill 
            material disposal site, 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. PERMITS FOR DREDGED OR FILL MATERIAL.

    (a) Repeal.--Section 404(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act (33 U.S.C. 1344(c)) is repealed.
    (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall apply to a specification 
of a disposal site made under section 404 of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1344) after the date of enactment of 
this Act.
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