[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3366 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3366

    To require the Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps of 
 Engineers to use a certain definition for the term ``prior converted 
                  cropland'', and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 30, 2023

  Mr. Rounds (for himself, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Thune, Mr. Marshall, Mr. 
   Braun, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Cramer, and Mrs. Hyde-Smith) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps of 
 Engineers to use a certain definition for the term ``prior converted 
                  cropland'', 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 ``Farmers Freedom Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PRIOR CONVERTED CROPLAND.

    For purposes of the definition of the term ``waters of the United 
States'' under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 
et seq.) and exclusions from that term, including under section 328.3 
of title 33 and section 120.2 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations 
(and any successor regulations), the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency and the Secretary of the Army, acting through the 
Chief of Engineers, shall ensure that the term ``prior converted 
cropland'' has the meaning given the term in the final rule of the 
Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency entitled 
``The Navigable Waters Protection Rule: Definition of `Waters of the 
United States''' (85 Fed. Reg. 22250 (April 21, 2020)).
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