[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 120 (Tuesday, June 30, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4054-S4055]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2348. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to

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amendment SA 2301 proposed by Mr. Inhofe to the bill S. 4049, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end of subtitle B of title III, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. 320. PARTICIPATION IN POLLUTANT BANKING AND WATER 
                   QUALITY TRADING PROGRAMS.

       (a) Authority to Participate.--The Secretary of a military 
     department, and the Secretary of Defense with respect to 
     matters concerning a Defense Agency, when engaged in an 
     authorized activity that may or will result in the discharge 
     of pollutants, may make payments to a pollutant banking 
     program or water quality trading program approved in 
     accordance with the Water Quality Trading Policy dated 
     January 13, 2003, set forth by the Office of Water of the 
     Environmental Protection Agency, or any successor 
     administrative guidance or regulation.
       (b) Treatment of Payments.--Payments made under subsection 
     (a) to a pollutant banking program or water quality trading 
     program may be treated as eligible project costs for military 
     construction.
       (c) Discharge of Pollutants Defined.--In this section, the 
     term ``discharge of pollutants'' has the meaning given that 
     term in section 502(12) of the Federal Water Pollution 
     Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1362(12)) (commonly referred to as the 
     ``Clean Water Act'').
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