[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 517 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 517

   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

                            January 26, 2011

Mr. Young of Alaska (for himself, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Chaffetz, Mr. 
    Jones, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Carter, Mr. Poe of Texas, Mr. Broun of 
   Georgia, Mr. Latta, and Mr. Griffith of Virginia) 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Act (33 U.S.C. 1344(c)) is repealed.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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