[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8049 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8049

  To require the Corps of Engineers to prohibit certain discharges of 
           water at Lake Okeechobee, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 14, 2020

   Mr. Mast introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Corps of Engineers to prohibit certain discharges of 
           water at Lake Okeechobee, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Poisoning Florida Act''.

SEC. 2. LAKE OKEECHOBEE DISCHARGE PROHIBITION.

    The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, 
shall prohibit discharges of water through the S-308 and S-80 lock and 
dam structures at Lake Okeechobee when the water exceeds the maximum 
concentration of microcystins recommended for recreational waters by 
the Environmental Protection Agency, as described in the notice titled 
``Recommended Human Health Recreational Ambient Water Quality Criteria 
or Swimming Advisories for Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin'' (84 
Fed. Reg. 26413) (or any successor water quality criteria), based on 
tests conducted by the Secretary, another Federal agency, or the State 
of Florida.
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