[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 50 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 50

    To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the 
 Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to give priority 
consideration to selecting Pensacola and Perdido Bays as an estuary of 
             national significance, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 24 (legislative day, January 3), 2023

    Mr. Rubio (for himself and Mr. Scott of Florida) 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 amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require the 
 Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to give priority 
consideration to selecting Pensacola and Perdido Bays as an estuary of 
             national significance, 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 ``Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary 
of National Significance Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. PENSACOLA AND PERDIDO BAYS.

    Section 320(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 
U.S.C. 1330(a)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ``and Lower Columbia 
River, Oregon and Washington'' and inserting ``Lower Columbia River, 
Oregon and Washington; and Pensacola and Perdido Bays, Florida and 
Alabama''.
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